Michael Weiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 108978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Weiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiner |
| SIGNATURE | WEINER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5682-4410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 129 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 536 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 127 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia
This chapter presents the causes of the ethnic conflict in Xinjiang and the internationalization of this conflict since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. Despite the focus on contemporary development, this region currently known as Xinjiang has experienced unrest and uprisings for centuries. Instead of resolving the enduring conflict between the Chinese state and the Uyghurs, who are advocating for greater political au…
Exit—The Gains and Losses of International Migration
A substantial number of highly skilled people from the Third World also entered the United States as a result of the passage of a new immigration act in 1965 that placed emphasis on US skilled manpower needs and upon the skills and educational levels of potential immigrants. Since World War II the world has witnessed a major shift in international migration, as people have migrated from the low-income countries of the developing world to the more…
The Aaspire practice-based guidelines for the inclusion of autistic adults in research as co-researchers and study participants
As interest in autism in adulthood grows, so does the need for methods to promote the inclusion of autistic adults in research. Our objective was to create practice-based guidelines for the inclusion of autistic adults, both as research team members and as study participants. We conducted an institutional ethnography of three closely related research partnerships that used participatory methods with autistic adults over the years 2006–2018. We us…
A National County-Level Assessment of U.S. Nursing Facility Characteristics Associated with Long-Term Exposure to Traffic Pollution in Older Adults
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution increases disease risk in older adults. Nursing facilities located near major roadways potentially expose older adults to traffic pollution. No studies, however, have described the association between nursing facilities and traffic pollution. We obtained data on facility- and census-tract-level characteristics of 15,706 U.S. facilities from the Medicare Nursing Home Compare datasets. We calculated dista…
Health Information Exchange Organizations and Their Support for Research: Current State and Future Outlook
Federal investment spurred health information exchange organization (HIO) development and maturation to provide third-party approaches to electronic health information exchange across disparate electronic health record (EHR) systems. By creating opportunities for data aggregation across multiple medical institutions, HIOs also spur research. Using data from a 2015 national web-based survey of HIOs (N = 64), we identified HIOs supporting or not su…
The Politics of South Asia
Political Parties and Political Development. (SPD-6)
Love's Empire
Although it is common in liberal and progressive circles to scoff at the idea that the Unites States is “exceptional”—a derision driven by an admirable suspicion of the chauvinistic connotations of the exceptionalist view—doing so obscures a significant reality. The United States is different, or at least rather unusual, in its social, cultural, and geo-strategic circumstances, especially when compared to the nations of Europe from which it draws…
Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a `Japanese rac…
The Internationalization of Japan
The Internationalization of Japan provides the English-speaking reader with the opportunity to hear what some of Japan's leading social scientists and other commentators have to say about the internationalization of their country as well as their country's impact overseas.The topic is of extreme importance now as the international community demands a greater Japanese contribution to international society as well as changes in Japan to facilitate …
Mental Health and Substance Use Characteristics of Flight Attendants Enrolled in an In-Patient Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Spirituality, Religiosity and Depressive Symptoms Among Individuals in Substance-Abuse Treatment
The study aims to examine the relationship between spirituality and religiosity, and depressive symptoms among 111 individuals undergoing inpatient substance-abuse treatment. Findings indicated that both dimensions of spirituality, the existential aspect and the relationship with God aspect, were significant predictors of depressive symptoms. The existential dimension of spirituality was inversely related to depressive symptoms, and the relatedne…
Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of a Spanish version of the Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia Scale
Zainichi Koreans in history and memory
In common with the other contributions to this volume, this chapter contains multiple foci: the historical formation of the present-day Korean community in Japan, with particular reference to settlement in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; historical memory – its commemoration and suppression – in relation to these two cities; and, set against the decades-long struggle for human rights, the efforts to establish a ‘Third Way’, a zainichi identity congruent …
Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity
Dysthymia among Substance Abusers: An Exploratory Study of Individual and Mental Health Factors
Comparison of Resource Utilization for Medicaid Dementia Patients Using Nursing Homes Versus Home and Community Based Waivers for Long-Term Care
BACKGROUND: Medicaid waiver home and community-based long-term care services (HCBS) may provide a partial solution to the escalating costs of long-term care. Persons with dementia can have complex caregiving needs; it is unknown whether their expenditures and resource utilization differ between community-based versus institutional settings. OBJECTIVE: To compare expenditures and resource utilization for Medicaid recipients with dementia who recei…
Patients' Health Literacy and Experience With Instructions: Influence Preferences for Heart Failure Medication Instructions
The finding that preferences varied with patients' experience using the instructions and cognitive abilities suggests instructions should accommodate diverse patient needs and abilities
Clinical Information Technology Capabilities in Four U.S. Hospitals: Testing a New Structural Performance Measure
BACKGROUND: Few tools exist to quantify the performance of a hospital's information system from a user perspective. OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to develop and evaluate a survey-based metric that assesses the automation and usability of a hospital's information system. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of 117 physicians and 3 chief information officers (CIOs) working in 2 community hospitals with historically low inves…
Moderating Effects of Coping on the Relationship Between Stress and the Development of New Brain Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis
Objective Many patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) report that stress can trigger disease exacerbations. Considerable research has supported a relationship between stress and both clinical exacerbation and the development of new brain lesions. However, these relationships are not always consistent either within patients or across patients, suggesting the presence of moderators. This study examined the hypothesis that coping moderates the subseq…
Political Demography, Demographic Engineering
Chapter 1. Global Demographic Trends and their Security Implications Chapter 2. Political Demography: A Deficit of Attention Chapter 3. Demography as Competition Chapter 4. Demography as Aggression? Chapter 5. Demographic Engineering: Settlement and Deportation Chapter 6. Population Unmixing Chapter 7. Diasporas: Whom do They Threaten? Chapter 8. Theories of International Migration and the Role of the State Chapter 9. International Migration as a…
Temporary Workers or Future Citizens: Japanese and U. S. Migration Policies
Migration Past, Migration Future: Germany and the United States
Essays by leading German and American historians and demographers describe how [the United States and Germany] have come to have the largest number of immigrants among the advanced industrial countries how their conceptions of citizenship and nationality differ and how their ethnic compositions are likely to be transformed in the next century as a consequence of migration fertility trends citizenship and naturalization laws and public attitudes. …
Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy: U.S. and German Policies toward Countries of Origin
This book contains 10 essays by various authors on the relationships between foreign policies and international migration movements. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the United States and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx from the former Yugoslavia Mexico the Caribbean and the former Soviet Union. Now faced with growing resistance to admitting foreigners into their countries both go…
The clash of norms: Dilemmas in refugee policies
Many of the policy dilemmas that have confronted UNHCR and other international humanitarian institutions are the consequence of having to choose among conflicting norms. These include the traditional legal mandates of UNHCR to provide protection and assistance to refugees outside their country of nationality, and to support the principle of non-refoulement , and other international norms including the protection of internally displaced persons, t…
The Macedonian Syndrome An Historical Model of International Relations and Political Development
This study was undertaken in an effort to use data from European history to develop a model that might prove useful for describing, explaining, and predicting the patterns of political development and international behavior of some of the newly independent states of Asia and Africa. My interest in exploring the experiences of several European states grew out of dissatisfaction with efforts to build development theories exclusively upon knowledge …
Security, Stability, and International Migration
At high national levels the issues of international migration and refugees capture the attention of state department heads cabinets and ministries of defense and affect internal security and external relations. Migration flows are affected by economic migration for better employment opportunities and by pushes due to domestic violence and persecution. Examples abound: the recent exodus of east Germans to the west; soviet Jewish settlement of the …
Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity
Political Integration and Political Development
The integration problems faced by new nations should be viewed as part of an historical process of political de velopment through which Western political systems have gone as well. It is during the transitional phase of political develop ment, as governments begin to assume or attempt to assume more functions, that integration problems become most acute. The most common integration problems involve problems of na tional identity, territorial cont…
On International Migration and International Relations
Scholars have yet to incorporate the phenomenon of growing conflict between states over population movements into their understanding of international migration and international relations. This article advances and analyzes three propositions: (1) relations between states are influenced by their actions or inactions vis-a-vis international migration; (2) governments affect international migration through their rules for the exit and entry of peo…
International Migration and Development: Indians in the Persian Gulf
As countries with great wealth low populations and labor shortages the gulf states rely heavily on imported labor to fuel the development process. They do not allow migrants to become citizens. This article examines the social economic and political effects of this strategy of development by exploring the role of Indians who with Pakistanis form the largest group of migrants to the Gulf states. The apparent impermanence of migration to these stat…
Bad Neighbors, Bad Neighborhoods: An Inquiry into the Causes of Refugee Flows
July 01 1996 Bad Neighbors, Bad Neighborhoods: An Inquiry into the Causes of Refugee Flows Myron Weiner Myron Weiner Myron Weiner is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Acting Director of the MIT Center for International Studies. He is the author of The Global Migration Crisis: Challenge to States and to Human Rights (HarperCollins, 1995), co-editor of Threatened Peoples, Threatened …
Discourses of race, nation and empire in pre-1945 Japan
The treatment of Japan's minority populations remains circumscribed by racial assumptions first articulated during the Meiji period, and subsequently reinforced by the construction of a Japanese national identity. In this article an attempt is made to analyse the interrelationship between nationalist, 'racial' and imperial discourses during the period 1868-1945 which facilitated the construction of this identity. In contrast to the voluminous lit…
The clash of norms: Dilemmas in refugee policies
Many of the policy dilemmas that have confronted UNHCR and other international humanitarian institutions are the consequence of having to choose among conflicting norms. These include the traditional legal mandates of UNHCR to provide protection and assistance to refugees outside their country of nationality, and to support the principle of non-refoulement , and other international norms including the protection of internally displaced persons, t…
Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a `Japanese rac…
The New Geopolitics of Central Asia and Its Borderlands
Part 1 Central Asia's catapult to independence: the new geopolitical order, Graham E. Fuller emerging political elites, Martha Brill Olcott the potential for political instability and regional conflicts, Boris Z. Rumer. Part 2 Forging new relations with Russia and the southern tier: Tajikistan's relations with Iran and Afghanistan, Muriel Atkin Azerbaijan's triangular relationship - the land between Russia, Turkey and Iran, Tadeusz Swietochowski …
The Political Consequences of Preferential Policies: A Comparative Perspective
Economic Development and Social Change in South India
The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics: Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
Contributors to the volume are established scholars in their fields and successfully focus on the pertinent issues with a good mix of facts, analysis, and theoretical orientation. The contributions are pertinent and valuable to students of comparative politics generally, as well as to specialists on the selected countries.-Choice
The Political Demography of Assam's Anti-Immigrant Movement
The political implications of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh to Assam India are considered. The author notes that Assamese middle classes feared the loss of political control when the central government called for elections after there was a marked increase in the number of migrants on the electoral rolls while Assamese and tribal cultivators reacted against land encroachments. The ensuing violent conflict is the most recent in a s…
The Politics of Scarcity. Public Pressure and Political Response in India
Ethics, National Sovereignty and the Control of Immigration
This paper examines the debate as to whether migration is a basic human right or if the claims of outsiders are superseded by the principle of national sovereignty – the moral obligation of states to do the best for their own citizens. In evaluating migration and refugees it focuses on issues of open borders, migration selectivity, the capacity of sovereign states to control entry, the claims of refugees, the relationship between sovereignty and …
The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
This volume comprises the work of some of the leading authorities in Southwest Asian and Middle Eastern studies concerning the state-initiated interventions to restructure the socio-political order in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. Weiner and Banuazizi's detailed introduction describes the unprecedented changes that followed the collapse of the old regimes. Each coup, and the resistance movement that followed, tore the already fragile political …
Peoples and states in a new ethnic order
(1992). Peoples and states in a new ethnic order? Third World Quarterly: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 317-333
Sons of the Soil. Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India
The Quest for Political Development
Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy
International migration has risen rapidly to the top of the agenda for both foreign and domestic U.S. policy. As a foreign policy challenge migration has joined a list of critical global issues that includes the environment population and the international economy....This volume was commissioned to help identify policy guidelines for these urgent and growing challenges. The chapters were first used as background for an American Assembly program h…
The Political Economy of Industrial Growth in India
The deceleration of industrial growth in India since the mid-sixties has opened up a debate over industrial policy as the new government of Rajiv Gandhi has attempted to replace many bureaucratic controls by market processes. A central issue is whether the deceleration is due primarily to inadequate investment in key sectors of the economy (a point on which there is considerable agreement) or whether resources have also been inefficiently employe…
Ethics, National Sovereignty and the Control of Immigration
Myron Weiner, Ethics, National Sovereignty and the Control of Immigration, The International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, Special Issue: Ethics, Migration, and Global Stewardship (Spring, 1996), pp. 171-197
Sons of the Soil. Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India
India's Political Problems: The Longer View
India's Political Problems: The Longer View
C ONSIDERING THE number and severity of the problems facing India in 1947 when independence was achieved, it is somewhat remarkable that the Indian government survived at all. Partition of the subcontinent, the refugee problem, religious tensions, a communist insurrection, wars in Kashmir and Hyderabad, the assassination of Gandhi, and the general dislocation involved in the transfer of power all strained the energies, resources, and imagination …
Struggle Against Power: Notes on Indian Political Behavior
I NDIA'S experiment with democratic institutions is still only an experiment. Although India adopted a parliamentary system when she achieved independence in 1947 and has thus far been able to maintain her democratic institutions with much more success than some other newly independent Asian nations, no observer can have complete confidence in their stability. Indians have had to adjust from the role of natives in a country occupied by an imperia…
The Next Step in Case Studies
India's Political Future
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Party Politics in India
Changing Patterns of Political Leadership in West Bengal
HE PROCESS BY WHICH a new leadership is emerging in many parts of Asia 1 provides one key to understanding the dynamics of social and political change. With the achievement of independence new leaders emerge with new interests and demands. How well these fragile democracies will be able to withstand the pressures exercised by new leaders and new groups is one of the fundamental questions of our times. It is the purpose of this article to explore …
State Politics in India: Report on a Seminar
Research Article| June 01 1961 State Politics in India: Report on a Seminar Myron Weiner Myron Weiner Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Memorandum (Institute of Pacific Relations, American Council) (1932) 1 (4): 35–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/3023558 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
The Politics of Developing Areas
Violence and Politics in Calcutta
Violence, non-violent civil disobedience, and mass demonstrations have been a part of Indian politics since independence; indeed, even before 1947. Occasionally these outbursts are truly spontaneous, and, when they are, they may be accounted for by the hypothesis that more discontent exists in Indian society than has been expressed by organized groups. But such anomic movements have been rare in India since 1947, although mob violence during the …
India's Third General Elections
IN FEBRUARY 1962 nearly 114,000,000 voters took part in India's third general elections since independence. A new parliament was elected along with thirteen state assemblies.* In the parliamentary election the Congress Party was again returned to power with 353 seats compared to 132 for the opposition. In 1957 Congress won 371 seats and in 1952, 363. In the recent elections to the state assemblies, Congress won a clear majority in every state exc…
The Struggle for Equality in India
The Politics of Scarcity. Public Pressure and Political Response in India
Economic Development and Social Change in South India
India and Pakistan: A Political Analysis, by Hugh Tinker ; The Evolution of India and Pakistan, 1858-1947, by C. H. Philips, H. L. Singh, B. N. Pandy
The Politics of Scarcity: Public Pressure and Political Response in India, by Myron Weiner
Traditional Role Performance and the Development of Modern Political Parties: The Indian Case
Politics and Social Change: Orissa in 1959
On Dealing with the Communist World. George F. Kennan
Political Integration and Political Development
The integration problems faced by new nations should be viewed as part of an historical process of political de velopment through which Western political systems have gone as well. It is during the transitional phase of political develop ment, as governments begin to assume or attempt to assume more functions, that integration problems become most acute. The most common integration problems involve problems of na tional identity, territorial cont…
The Origin and Development of Political Parties
Studying Politics Abroad: Field Research in the Developing Areas
Political Parties and Political Development
Indian Voting Behavior: Studies of the 1962 General Elections
The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India . Lloyd I. Rudolph , Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
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