2008 Johns Hopkins University Press

Almost thirty years have passed since Latin America joined democracy's global "third wave," and not a single government has reverted to what was once the most common form of authoritarianism: military rule. Behind this laudable ...

2008 Johns Hopkins University Press

This latest edition of this acclaimed text examines four themes vital to building market-oriented democracies in Latin America: the development of democratic institutions, globalization's impact, socio-political integration, and market reforms. Within these broad themes, the ...

2008 Johns Hopkins University Press

The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. This book examines the responses of forest communities to changing forest values, changing federal policy, timber ...

2008 Johns Hopkins University Press

How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the ...

2007 Johns Hopkins University Press

This book will become the authoritative work. It brings the complicated and intense political, legal, historical, and economic issues into an easily understandable context. One has to appreciate the courage of the author to tackle ...

2006 Johns Hopkins University Press

Jacob Bernoulli's "Ars Conjectandi", published posthumously in Latin in 1713 by the Thurneysen Brothers Press in Basel, is the founding document of mathematical probability. Here, Edith Dudley Sylla offers the first complete English translation of ...

2004 Johns Hopkins University Press

Bank loans are the main source of credit for businesses across Latin America, so understanding what determines the depth, cost, and volatility of bank credit is crucial to designing strategies that ensure financial stability and ...

2004 Johns Hopkins University Press

2004 Johns Hopkins University Press

In an era of limited research resources and limitless research needs, demonstrating the worth of any research discipline to policymakers and administrators is a prerequisite for obtaining future funding and making an impact in policy ...

2003 Johns Hopkins University Press

Some countries develop illegal drugs industries, and others do not. Discerning the distinguishing characteristics - social, economic and political - of countries with these industries forms the subject of this study. The author, Francisco E. ...

2003 Johns Hopkins University Press

The eighth edition of Programs in Aid of the Poor, incorporating new data from the 2000 U.S. census, will continue to serve instructors who want an up-to-date overview of current federal programs addressing poverty in ...

2003 Johns Hopkins University Press

For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, ...

2000 Johns Hopkins University Press

Legal scholar Alan Watson presents a comprehensive overview of legal change in the Western world. Watson explains why and how such change occurs in mature systems, in underdeveloped systems, and when legal systems of different ...

1999 Johns Hopkins University Press

Freeman's "The Benefits of Environmental Improvement: Theory and Practice", published in 1979, examined the relationship between benefits and environmental decision-making and the problems involved in measuring the values of environmental changes. The years following the ...

1996 Johns Hopkins University Press

Revised and updated, the third edition of Golub and Van Loan's classic text in computer science provides essential information about the mathematical background and algorithmic skills required for the production of numerical software. This new ...

1995 Johns Hopkins University Press

Industrial restructuring in the Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs) has become very important. Existing strategies may no longer deliver employment or income growth in many of the Asian NIE´s labor-intensive industries. The complex proces of ...