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Dilemma
About: Dilemma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250251 citations. The topic is also known as: Dilemna.
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15 Jun 1989
TL;DR: The first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence was provided by Jacobs as discussed by the authors, who considered what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk driving.
Abstract: In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk driving.
72 citations
TL;DR: Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma : Immigrants, social networks, and Institutional Fairness as discussed by the authors, is a book about the intersection of social networks and institutional fairness.
Abstract: Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma : Immigrants, Social Networks, and Institutional Fairness
71 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the definitional dilemma surrounding child maltreatment is analyzed and four interrelated purposes for definition are discussed: social policy, legal regulations, research, and case management, and a narrowing of the definition is recommended to develop greater compatibility between the definition of the problem and the service system solution.
Abstract: This article analyzes the definitional dilemma surrounding child maltreatment. Four interrelated purposes for definition are discussed: social policy, legal regulations, research, and case management. Following examination of the relationship between theoretical perspectives and attempts to define child maltreatment, major issues including who shall define, determining factors in definition, breadth of definition, and developmental level of the child are delineated. A narrowing of the definition is recommended to develop greater compatibility between the definition of the problem and the service system solution.
71 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Diminishing returns to problem-solving limited the ability of historical societies to resolve their challenges, and will limit contemporary societies to address global change.
71 citations
TL;DR: The main organizing political ideas or ideology of the current Ethiopian republic and the nature of its governance techniques in the face of domestic and international challenges with reference to the debate on "failing" or "fragile" states are discussed in this article.
Abstract: Eighteen years after the change of power and the ushering in of the second Ethiopian republic in 1991, the political process in Ethiopia has, according to most observers, rigidified and largely closed the space for representative democracy. This paper will look at the main organizing political ideas or ideology of the current Ethiopian republic and to the nature of its governance techniques in the face of domestic and international challenges with reference to the debate on “failing” or “fragile” states. The new “social contract” defined after 1991 and codified in the 1994 Constitution is precarious. Dissent and ethno-regional resistance to federal policies are dealt with mainly by coercion and discursive isolation. Oppositional forces voice the need for a rethinking of the organizing ideas and institutions of the second republic in order to enhance political consensus and a shared political arena, but get little response. The paper will sketch an interpretation of governance in Ethiopia, focusing on the dilemma of reconciling local and modernist political practices, and will discuss the status of “republican” ideas, in name important in Ethiopia but mostly absent in practice. Explicit debate of these ideas is usually sidelined – also in academic commentaries – in favour of a focus on the ethno-federal ideology of the Ethiopian state.
71 citations