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The Legacies of Liberalism
Winner of the Barrington Moore Jr. Prize for the Best Book in Comparative and Historical Sociology from the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Best Book Award in the Comparative Democratization Section from the American Political Science Association Despite their many similarities, Central American countries during the twentieth century were characterized by remarkably different political regimes. In a comparative analysis of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua, James Mahoney argues that these political differences were legacies of the nineteenth-century liberal reform period. Presenting a theory of "path dependence," Mahoney shows how choices made at cruc...
Parteiensysteme in Zentralamerika
1. 1 Fragestellung Die vorliegende Studie fragt nach den Ursachen :fiir die Ausprägung der ganz unterschiedlichen Strukturen in den Parteiensystemen der Länder Zen 1 . tralamerikas: Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua und Costa Rica Den vier erstgenannten Ländern, die demselben geographischen area an gehören, kann ein hohes Maß an Gemeinsamkeit hinsichtlich ihrer histori schen Entwicklung, ihrer geographischen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und poli 2 tischen Struktur unterstellt werden . Sie verfügen über eine gemeinsame Kolonialgeschichte (Rausch 1983) und erlangten zusammen die Unabhängig keit von Spanien. Alle zentralamerikanischen Länder erlebten gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhun...
Interacting with Presence
The experience of using and interacting with the newest Virtual Reality and computing technologies is profoundly affected by the extent to which we feel ourselves to be really ‘present’ in computer-generated and -mediated augmented worlds. This feeling of 'Presence’, of “being inside the mediated world”, is key to understanding developments in applications such as interactive entertainment, gaming, psychotherapy, education, scientific visualisation, sports training and rehabilitation, and many more. This edited volume, featuring contributions from internationally renowned scholars, provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the topic of mediated presence - or ‘tele-...
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