by Theodore Caplow

Leviathan Transformed is based on the premise that the nation state is a particular type of organization and therefore, like any other organization, its performance can be evaluated with reasonable objectivity. An international team of eminent social scientists examine the performance of Canada, France, Italy, Gemany, Spain, Bulgaria, and the United States. These nations pursue similar goals - union, justice, tranquility, defence, welfare, liberty - which, in one form or another, are common to all democracies. The authors offer a new, informative way of looking at these countries and detail the social and political conditions in each state.

"A penetrating, provacative analysis... Caplow lays out some rather remarkable insights about what has changed in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Gary Caldwell, co-author of Recent Social Trends in Quebec, 1960-1990.

"A very interesting contribution to the field of social reporting... it is a fresh and uncomplicated step toward portraying whole societies and comparing them by the use of basic constitutional values." -- Wolfgang Glatzer, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

More books by Theodore Caplow

The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Gude to Trends in America, 1900-2000
Sociologie Militaire
The Academic Market Place
Peace Games
Perverse Incentives - The Neglect of Social Technology in the Public Sector
Elementary Sociology
Recent Social Trends in the United States 1960-1990
The Sociology of Work
The Urban Ambience
Principles of Organization
Two Against One: Coalitions in Triad
Old Men Drunk and Sober
Toward Social Hope
Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change & Continuity
All Faithful People: Change & Continuity in Middletown's Religion
Managing an Organization
American Social Trends
Systems of War & Peace

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