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Exploring a specific type of sexual violence committed by a specific type of sexual offender, namely adult male on adult female stranger sexual violence, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of both the offences being committed and the offenders who commit them

Exploring a specific type of sexual violence committed by a specific type of sexual offender, namely adult male on adult female stranger sexual violence, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of both the offences being committed and the offenders who commit them.

Beyond Medicine -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Relative Decline Is Decline All the Same -- 1. Infant and Child Health in the United States and France -- 2. Workers' Health in the United States and Germany -- 3. After Work in the United States and Sweden -- Conclusion: Beyond Medicine -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Relative Decline Is Decline All the Same -- 1. Infant and Child Health in the United States and France -- 2. Workers' Health in the United States and Germany -- 3. After Work in the United States and Sweden -- Conclusion Beyond Medicine -- Notes -- Index

Common ideals, divergent nations -- Health insurance and the rise of private-practice medicine, 1915-1930 -- Health security, the state, and civil society, 1930-1940 -- Challenges and change during the Second World War, 1940-1945 -- Labor's quest for health security, 1945-1960 -- The choice of public or private, 1950-1970 -- Cost control moves to the fore, 1970-2000 -- Hospitals and the difficult art of health care reform, 1980-present -- Les jeux sont faits? : 2000-present

The study of politics has been profoundly influenced in the post-war era by the introduction of concepts and explanations that highlight the role of culturally determined norms and values in shaping the political process.This study examines three main perspectives from which the social sciences are discussed, and compares the divergent theories by which social, economic, and political phenomena may be explained. Rational-choice theory is contrasted with the structuralist and the culturalist perspectives. The controversy is then given substance through the introduction of three issues central t

''Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government'' introduces a new hypothesis concerning the formation and survival of coalition governments in Western European parliamentary democracies, the policy horizon hypothesis. Although the hypothesis itself is very simple, it implies a fundamental change in our understanding of how parliamentary systems function in the absence of a majority party. The book finds support for the hypothesis in a wide array of evidence, including findings based on a new survey of experts in West European political systems