Encyclopedia of Sociology
DEMOCRACY account defends democracy by admitting its weak- ness: voting in elections is not a terribly effective system for ensu ...
DEMOCRACY Researchers in the 1970s and 1980s criticized pluralism for adopting a definition of democracy that was too satisfied ...
DEMOCRACY maintain a state and military administrative struc- ture capable of that task (Downing 1992). Friedman has shown that ...
DEMOCRACY decidedly uncivil’’ (Hall 1995). But democracy depends on civil society (Somers 1993). This view echoes Tocqueville’s ...
DEMOCRACY Liberal Democracy.’’ American Journal of Sociology 95:188–190. Gellner, Ernest 1994 Conditions of Liberty: Civil Socie ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS Olson, Mancur 1971 The Logic of Collective Action. Cam- bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Pateman, Ca ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS We might note, for example, that 20 percent of Norway’s population in 1997 was under the age of fifteen. In ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS Age Pyramid of Mexico Age Pyramid of Norway 1990 1997 Percentage Percentage Panel A Panel B 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS Age Pyramid of France 1 January 1962 Population (in 1,000s) 400 300 200 100 0 100 200 300 400 5 15 25 35 45 ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS Standardization using Death Rates and Population Distributions from Mexico (1990) and Norway (1997) Mexico N ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS Complete Life Table* for the United States, 1996 Exact Age x 1 qx (^) x1dx1Lx Tx ex 0 .00732 100,000 732 99, ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS Abridged Life Table for the United States, 1996 Exact Age x nDxnPxnqx (^) xndxnLx Tx ex (in 1,000s) 0 28,487 ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS and those contributed by individuals who die with- in that interval: nLx = [n.^ x+n] + [nax. ndx] (^7 ) Tx e ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS different from that within the corresponding in- terval of the life table population, then implicitly by usi ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS inadequate to be significantly misleading. For ex- ample, in some countries we have learned that as few as h ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS demographic parameters that ultimately can be used to better inform policy on a variety of issues. Two examp ...
DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS MARRIAGE, FERTILITY, AND MIGRATION MODELS Coale (1971) observed that age distributions of first marriages ar ...
DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION REFERENCES Allison, Paul D. 1984 Event History Analysis. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications. Bennet ...
DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION While demographers argue about the details of demographic change in the past 200 years, clearcut declines ...
DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION diseases such as malaria. Even relatively weak na- tional governments have instituted major improve- ment ...
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