Public lands management in the West: citizens, interest groups, and values

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (06) ◽  
pp. 35-3264-35-3264
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
The West ◽  
Public Lands Management

Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Mark Daniel Barringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. viii, 238. $29.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 276-277
Author(s):  
Robert K. Fleck
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
Private Provision ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
History Of

In this well written book, Mark Barringer provides an interesting and detailed history of commercial enterprises in Yellowstone National Park. The book has great value to scholars concerned with the management of public lands, the roles that interest groups (park employees, concessioners, tourists, and environmentalists) have played in the history of Yellowstone, and the difficulties in designing contracts for the private provision of goods and services on public lands.

Human Rights under State Socialism

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lane
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
The One

The paper is in four parts. The first outlines the debate that has occurred in the West about whether human rights, and about what human rights, are desirable and possible in socialist states. In the second it is contended that the normative approach to rights in socialist states has been influenced but not determined by the theory and practice of the USSR. Human rights under Marxism–Leninism are ambiguously defined: there is an unresolved tension between individual (and group) rights, on the one hand, and class and collective rights on the other. Socialist states, it is claimed, have different units, types of claims and priorities of rights. In the third section, it is argued that the Soviet model of rights has a particular correspondence with Russian culture. Its impact on other socialist countries (Poland is considered, as an illustration) depends on the internal social structure (the strength of interest groups) and the degree of legitimacy of the state. Finally, some prognostications are offered concerning the dynamics and likely developments of rights claims under socialism.

Gandhi, Ambedkar and British policy on the communal award

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujay Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian People ◽  
National Movement ◽  
British Policy ◽  
Western Democracies

It has now become a fashion among many historians, notably from the West, to denounce Gandhi’s fast and the Poona Pact of 1932 as a great betrayal of the ‘Untouchables’. This view essentially overlooks the constant effort of British imperialism to divide the Indian people into a number of special-interest groups at loggerheads with each other and so weaken the National Movement. This paper weighs the critics’ assertions in the light of the British Government’s own statements and those of the leaders of the Depressed Castes. It is also forgotten that the Poona Pact greatly increased Depressed Castes’ representation; and that no separate electorates have been ever established in Western democracies to avoid majoritarian rule.

scholarly journals Regulating Off-Road: The California Desert and Collaborative Environmentalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-343
Author(s):  
Keith Makoto Woodhouse
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
The West ◽  
Road Racing ◽  
Federal Administration ◽  
National Environmental

Historians often understand the 1970s and 1980s in terms of a declining New Deal order, in which an antistatist right as well as a conflicted relationship between public interest movements and administrative authorities undermined the notion of an effective federal government. Nowhere was the erosion of federal administration seemingly more apparent than in the West. An examination of the regulation of off-road racing in the California desert, focusing on everyday administration rather than on elections and lawsuits, reveals how federal agencies actually worked more collaboratively and productively with different interest groups than familiar narratives about these polarized decades would suggest. Contrary to depictions of federal agencies as administrating from afar, and of environmental organizations as overly litigious and out of touch, regulatory work in the California desert happened locally and through relationships shaped by new laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act.

scholarly journals Britain, industry and perceptions of China: Matthew Boulton, ‘useful knowledge’ and the Macartney Embassy to China 1792–94

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine Berg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Global History ◽  
The West ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
British Industry ◽  
Skilled Personnel ◽  
British Embassy

Global history has debated the emergence of a divergence in economic growth between China and the West during the eighteenth century. The Macartney Embassy, 1792–94, the first British embassy to China, occurring as it did at the end of the eighteenth century, was an event which revealed changing perceptions of China and the Chinese by different British interest groups from government, trade, industry and enlightened opinion. Many histories of the embassy recount failures of diplomacy and cultural misconception, or divergent ideas of science. This article examines attitudes of British industry to the embassy through the part played in its preparations by the Birmingham industrialist, Matthew Boulton, and revealed in correspondence in the Matthew Boulton Papers. The article uncovers debate among different interest groups over the objects and skilled personnel to be taken on the embassy. Were the objects purveyors of trade or tribute, or of ‘useful knowledge’ and ‘industrial enlightenment’?

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