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Leopold Kohr (1909–1994) was an Austrian philosopher who formulated the theory that small is beautiful. Although he is little known outside his home country, he had a profound impact on economic and political thought in the latter years of the twentieth century. Born in Oberndorf, Austria, he insisted …
Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontay (1872–1952) was a major figure in the Russian Socialist movement from the late nineteenth century to the Bolshevik Revolution (1917). Born in St. Petersburg in the noble Domontovich family of Ukrainian, Russian, and Finnish background, at age twenty-two she married her cousin Vladimir Kollontay, but …
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) is principally known as a revolutionary anarchist and is particularly regarded as an inspiration to green anarchists. He was born to a land-owning aristocratic family in Moscow, Russia, in 1842. He was educated at home and later the Moscow gymnasium before entering the prestigious Corps …
Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been an enormously influential text for all subsequent students of the nature and logic of scientific and social scientific inquiry. According to standard views, science is a rational, …
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that contains legally binding greenhouse gas emissions targets for industrialized (Annex 1) countries. Signatories committed to cutting their combined emissions of six key greenhouse gases to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012, with each country agreeing to its …
Government involvement and scholarly interest in labor policy have been consistently strong for several decades. The post–oil shock unemployment crisis of the 1970s, combined with the growing importance of the service versus the manufacturing sector in the industrialized world that followed, created conditions of economic hardship that, for …
A labor strike is a mass work stoppage by union members designed to disrupt business production or the provision of services. A strike normally takes place in response to a critical impasse in negotiations between a union and an employer in collective bargaining. Electing to withdraw one’s labor …
Labor unions are collective workers’ organizations, and their central purpose is to represent employee interests vis-à-vis employers and the state through collective bargaining and political action. While the earliest unions were formed to protect the interest of skilled trades and craft workers in the eighteenth century, these organizations …
Laicite is the French ideal of a secular society with a distinct separation between church and state. Laicite emphasizes individual religious freedom as well as organized religion free from state intervention and sponsorship. Laicite originates from the French Revolution (1789–1799), when the absolute monarchy collapsed along with the …
The apocryphal origin of the term laissez-faire is traced to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to Louis XIV in seventeenth-century France. Colber t, who believed in state wealth and regulation (turning France into “a nation of shopkeepers” according to English political economist Adam Smith), at one time asked a …
Language policy involves taking an official or authoritative stand about languages and the use of languages in a given territory or state. Language policy that legitimizes language X may be perceived by the users of language Y to disfavor their language. Therefore, there are usually political, social, economic, …
Anthropologists, social psychologists, and linguists have long known that language is not usefully thought of as a mechanism that conveys meaning all by itself. Meaning, political and otherwise, is always a function of the context from which it springs. It is as dependent on the various needs, desires, …
Harold Laski (1893–1950) was a twentieth-century British political theorist and the author of more than twenty books and thousands of articles. He was also a celebrated teacher at the London School of Economics and Politics, a prominent leader in the Labour Party, and a widely read public intellectual …
American political scientist Harold Dwight Lasswell (1902– 1978) was considered a great scholar and a terrific mentor, but his name was never a well-known one in his field. Lasswell joined the American Society of International Law in 1948. He was vice president of the organization from 1966 to …
Since the 1990s, globalization has become a buzzword in Latin American political science. Although it has many meanings, the term is generally employed as a met concept to explain a complex set of processes. These processes include the liberalization of trade; the emergence of new forms of social …
Latin America’s political economy has been marked by major swings from outward-oriented, liberal trade policies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to some of the most sustained efforts at import-substituting industrialization (ISI) in the mid-twentieth century, back to significant experiments in neoliberal, market-oriented reforms in the …
Latin American thinkers have always engaged themselves with the main intellectual currents emanating first from Europe and later from the United States, adapting them to their particular societies. After securing independence from Spain and Portugal, the region confronted the challenges associated with nation-building, while liberal and conservative parties, …
Latin America is composed of those twenty-one republics of the New World formed from the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Often former British, French, and Dutch colonies in or bordering on the Caribbean are included in the definition, although by culture and historical experience they are distinct. Because the …
Latino partisanship in the United States, as measured by voting behavior, has typically favored the Democratic Party by a two-to-one margin. This preference is due in part to Latinos holding a more positive image of the Democratic Party— specifically, as being more receptive to the needs of economically …
Latino partisanship in the United States, as measured by voting behavior, has typically favored the Democratic Party by a two-to-one margin. This preference is due in part to Latinos holding a more positive image of the Democratic Party— specifically, as being more receptive to the needs of economically …
