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Tables of Contents for Making Progress
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Foreword
xv
Daniel J. Evans
Introduction
xvii
C. Leigh Anderson
David A. Hennes
Section I---Defining, Measuring, and Implementing Progress
1
58
Progress and the Promise of Public Policy
3
26
J. Patrick Dobel
C. Leigh Anderson
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back: An Assessment of Progress in the Twentieth Century
29
14
Alex Inkeles
Making Progress in Implementation Scholarship: A Survey of the Literature
43
16
Janet W. Looney
Section II---The Domains of Progress
59
2
Part One: Progress in Ourselves---Introduction
61
98
Progress and Evolution
67
12
Martin Daly
Margo Wilson
The Meaning of Progress in the New Millennium
79
10
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Faith and the Future: Religion and the Problem of Progress in the New Millennium
89
12
Hubert Locke
Progress in Literature
101
12
Charles Johnson
Paradoxical Progress: Medical Advances and Moral Anxiety
113
12
Albert R. Jonsen
Young Children: The First Step in Progress
125
14
Richard N. Brandon
Progress and Education: Supporting the Realization of Human Aspirations
139
20
William Zumeta
Part Two: Progress in Our Relations with Others---Introduction
159
132
Achieving Progress in Solving Collective-Action Problems
165
26
Elinor Ostrom
Is There Cultural Progress?
191
28
Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
Ethnopolitical Warfare and Massacres: Is There Progress?
219
20
Daniel Chirot
Progress and Contentious Politics
239
8
Charles Tilly
NGOs, Development, and Human Rights: A Story of Progress and Policy
247
20
San C. Ng
Marc Lindenberg
Free Press, Profit Margins, and Democratic Governance: Is There a Fatal Flaw?
267
24
Margaret T. Gordon
Part Three: Progress in Our Material and Natural World---Introduction
291
118
Progress and the Natural Sciences: Issues and Perspectives
297
22
Scott L. Montgomery
Progress: An Economist's View
319
10
Robert Heilbroner
Perhaps Progress Really Is Our Most Important Product: A Feminist Contemplates the Twentieth Century
329
14
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Information Technology and Progress
343
28
Andrew C. Gordon
Tom Martin
Toward Eliminating Poverty from the World: Grameen Bank Experience
371
8
Muhammad Yunus
Progressing toward Environmental Sustainability
379
30
Alison Cullen
Christopher Bretherton
Bibliography
409
4
Index
413
8
Author Biographies
421