《芬兰》将向读者讲述芬兰奇迹和荣誉背后那一个个鲜活的故事，引导读者徜徉在如诗如画的美丽国度中。芬兰，一个人口只有530万的北欧小国，却拥有“森林王国”、“欧洲绿色之肺”、“千岛之国”和“圣诞老人故乡”等诸多的美称。2000-2004提。芬兰连续四年被评为世界上腐败程度、廉洁程度最高的国家。在世界经济论坛公布的全球竞争力报告中，芬兰三度蝉联榜首。芬兰还是全球移动电话产品市场的头号，2003年诺基亚公司手机的发货量达1.8亿部，占全球市场份额的35％。是什么造就了芬兰的奇迹？是什么使得“小国寡民”的芬兰拥有如此之多的世界桂冠？
This study breaks new ground in investigating candidatebehavior in American electoral campaigns. It centers on a questionof equal importance to citizens and scholars: how can we producebetter political campaigns? First, Simon develops the idea ofdialogue as a standard for evaluating political campaigns. Second,he reveals that candidates' self-interest in winning leads toavoiding dialogue or substantive campaign discourse. Third, thetext demonstrates the beneficial effects produced by the littledialogue that actually occurs and finally, pinpoints the forcesresponsible for these rare occurrences.
In this work the authors present a general theory ofbureaucracy and use it to explain behaviour in large organizationsand to explain what determines efficiency in both governments andbusiness corporations. The theory uses the methods of standardneoclassical economic theory. It relies on two central principles:that members of an organization trade with one another and thatthey compete with one another. Authority, which is the basis forconventional theories of bureaucracy, is given a role, despitereliance on the idea of trade between bureaucracies. It is argued,however, that bureaucracies cannot operate efficiently on the basisof authority alone. Exchange between bureaucrats is hamperedbecause promises are not enforceable. So trust and loyalty betweenmembers of bureaucratic networks play an important part. Theauthors find that vertical networks promote efficiency whilehorizontal ones impede it.
Goran Palm – a well-known Swedish writer and poet – went to workincognito in one of the factories of LM Ericsson. He did this toobtain a better understanding of the life of the manual worker in alarge factory, and to gain from that understanding a more maturepolitical view. Going into a factory and joining a particular workgroup enabled the author to see beyond the monolithic idea of theworking class and to know and appreciate his fellow workers asindividuals. The writing is more literary than scientific, thelanguage is concrete, and portraits, satire and dialogue are mixedto provide a full and lively picture into which the development ofPalm's ideas is inserted. His particular concern is the worker'stendency to regard work as a depressing overture to the leisuretime constantly in his thoughts. This is what Palm means by TheFlight from Work.
In contrast to those who see the 1950s as essentially aconservative period, and who view the 1960s as a time of rapidmoral change, The Permissive Society points to the emergence of aliberalizing impulse during the Truman and Eisenhower years. Thebook shows how, during the 1950s, a traditionalist moral frameworkwas beginning to give way to a less authoritarian approach to moralissues as demonstrated by a more relaxed style of child-rearing,the rising status of women both inside and outside the home, theincreasing reluctance of Americans to regard alcoholism as a sin,loosening sexual attitudes, the increasing influence of modernpsychology, and, correspondingly, the declining influence ofreligion in the personal lives of most Americans.
This study of the emergence of machine politics in New YorkCity during the antebellum years sheds light on the origins of asystem that was the characteristic form of government in UnitedStates cities from the mid-nineteenth until well into the twentiethcentury. In contrast to previous explanations that have found theorigins of machine politics in immigrant culture and ethnicconflict, Professor Bridges shows that central elements of thesystem long predated a significant immigrant presence. Her analysisfocuses on two large-scale transformations in the Americanpolitical economy that occurred during these years:industrialization, which reorganized the social order and provokedconflict and change; and the extension of the franchise through theabolition of property barriers, which necessitated theincorporation of 'the many' into political life. It was this uniquecombination of circumstances, the author argues, that provided thecontext for the development of machine politics.
