Michael Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 214449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Adler |
| SIGNATURE | ADLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8172-2237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1892 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Reconsidering archaeological garden hunting: A view from the northern U.S. Southwest
Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico
Our Work Will Continue: Geochemical Sourcing by XRF of Obsidian in the Collections of Helen Greene Blumenschein
Analysis of artifacts collected by the late Helen G. Blumenschein (HGB) provides a region-wide database for obsidian use between the Middle – Late Archaic and the Talpa phase in the Taos area of northern New Mexico, approximately 3000 B.C.E. to 1300 C.E. Using GIS to associate these artifacts with site locations from HGB’s records and the current site files maintained by the State of New Mexico allows us to verify locations of HGB’s work and to a…
Dynamics of obsidian procurement at Pot Creek Pueblo (LA 260), Northern New Mexico
The Alston Report on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK: A review
Insa Lee Koch: Personalizing the State: An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity
Bernardo Zacka: When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency
The Built Environment
The most intensively studied societies within Southwest archaeology—the Ancestral “Pueblos”—have been defined by their architecture. Stark village ruins of stone and adobe, some perched high in cliff settings, dot much of the region and are today its major tourist attractions. But as this chapter demonstrates, the architecture and built landscapes of the greater Southwest were vastly more diverse, ranging from the ephemeral wikiup-like structures…
Negotiating the Village: Community Landscapes in the Late Pre-Historic American Southwest
A New Leviathan: Benefit Sanctions in the Twenty‐first Century
This article highlights the spectacular growth of benefit sanctions in the United Kingdom which, at their peak, exceeded the number of fines imposed in the criminal courts. It proposes a three‐fold typology of monetary sanctions – punitive judicial sanctions, exemplified by court fines, regulatory administrative sanctions, exemplified by parking penalties, and disciplinary administrative monetary sanctions, exemplified by benefit sanctions – and …
Stepwise Progression: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Empirical Research on Law in the United States and the United Kingdom
The article distinguishes empirical research on law from other modes of legal enquiry. It charts the changing fortunes of empirical research on law in the United States and the United Kingdom and accounts for the differences between them. In both countries, the development has been uneven and intermittent rather than gradual and linear, with a number of important differences in trajectories, in particular: the number of growth spurts; their timin…
Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare state politics, policy and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Administrative Tribunals and Adjudication by Peter Cane
The 10 th Anniversary of the Journal
The idea of proportionality in dispute resolution
This article compares the ways in which the idea of proportionate dispute resolution has been dealt with in three recent reports: Lord Woolf's Reviews of the Civil Justice System (1995 Woolf, Rt Hon Lord. 1995. Access to justice: interim report, London: Lord Chancellor's Department [online]. Available from: http://www.dca.gov.uk/civil/reportfr.htm [Google Scholar] and 1996 Woolf, Rt Hon Lord. 1996. Access to justice: final report, London: Lord Ch…
Analysis of adobe wall composition at the Chaves‐Hummingbird Site, New Mexico, by diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry
This article investigates adobe wall construction materials utilized by prehistoric inhabitants of Chaves‐Hummingbird Pueblo, an ancestral Pueblo village located ̃20 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The walls were constructed with native clay‐rich soils some time between approximately 1275–1450 A.D. Samples were analyzed with a diffuse reflectance spectrophotometer from the near ultraviolet (NUV) through the visible (VIS) and into the near …
A Note from the Editors
Fairness in Context
This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, and André‐Jean Arnaud. It describes the author's original encounter and subsequent dialogue with Bureaucratic Justice , by Jerry L. Mashaw which transformed his thinking about administrative justice and shaped the…
Tribunal Reform: Proportionate Dispute Resolution and the Pursuit of Administrative Justice
The article considers some unresolved policy choices associated with the implementation of ‘proportionate dispute resolution’, one of the most interesting ideas in the Department of Constitutional Affairs' White Paper Transforming Public Services: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals , published in 2004. It attempts to put the White Paper into context by tracing the Government's concern with tribunal reform over the last 50 years. It briefly compare…
Computerizing the welfare state: An international comparison of computerization in social security
Although computer technology is central to the operation of the modern welfare state, there has been little analysis of its role or of the factors shaping the way in which it is used. Using data generated by expert informants from 13 OECD countries, this paper provides an indicative comparison of the aims of computerization in national social security systems over a 15-year period from 1985 to 2000. The paper seeks to identify and explain pattern…
The slow road to tribunal reform
In March 2003 the Lord Chancellor announced that the government had accepted the main thrust of the Leggatt Review and that it had decided to establish a single tribunal service, which would be independent of ‘sponsoring departments’ and accountable to the Lord Chancellor’s Department (now the Department for Constitutional Affairs). This article describes the thinking that informed two of the main proposals in the Leggatt Review, analyses the res…
Combining Welfare‐to‐Work Measures with Tax credits: A New Hybrid Approach to Social Security in the United Kingdom
The changes described in this article reflect a shift in social security away from social insurance and towards a mixture of social assistance, occupational or private insurance and tax credits. It suggests that what is new and distinctive about UK social security policy is the way in which a new strategy has been forged by linking the New Deal, which provides job opportunities for people who are not in employment but can often only offer them lo…
Information Technology and the Governance of Social Security
Recent welfare state developments have emphasized the structure, administration and governance of service delivery. In critically examining these developments, this article advances a governmentality approach to the welfare state that highlights the significance of technology in contributing to the nature and practices of the welfare state. Based on a comparative study of computerization in the social security systems of 13 OECD countries, it dem…
A Socio‐Legal Approach to Administrative Justice
The first part of this article outlines two complementary approaches to enhancing administrative justice. Internal mechanisms, which can be put into place by government departments and public bodies themselves, are contrasted with external mechanisms, which result in the imposition on government departments and public bodies of principles enunciated by courts, tribunals, and ombudsmen. Lawyers are all too familiar with the external approach but t…
Discourse Power and Justice
1. Institutions, Actors and Trends in Imprisonment 2. Discourses and Discursive Struggles 3. Classification: The Core of the Prison System 4. Transfers and Careers: Reinforcing Classification 5. Regimes: Governors and the Marginalization of Other Professionals 6. Petitions to the Secretary of State Bureaucratic Accountability 7. The Prisons Inspectorate: Professional Accountability 8. The European Convention on Human Rights: Legal Accountability …
Large-scale integrative facilities in tribal societies: Cross-cultural and southwestern US examples
This paper combines both ethnographic and archaeological data in an examination of the construction and use of monumental architecture in formative cultures. We propose that our current archaeological interpretations of the evolution and function of large‐scale social integrative facilities, i.e. monuments, should be informed by a broader understanding of the organizational role played by social integrative facilities in modern as well as prehist…
Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare state politics, policy and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Ancestral pueblo population aggregation and abandonment in the North American Southwest
Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place
A New Leviathan: Benefit Sanctions in the Twenty‐first Century
This article highlights the spectacular growth of benefit sanctions in the United Kingdom which, at their peak, exceeded the number of fines imposed in the criminal courts. It proposes a three‐fold typology of monetary sanctions – punitive judicial sanctions, exemplified by court fines, regulatory administrative sanctions, exemplified by parking penalties, and disciplinary administrative monetary sanctions, exemplified by benefit sanctions – and …
A Socio‐Legal Approach to Administrative Justice
The first part of this article outlines two complementary approaches to enhancing administrative justice. Internal mechanisms, which can be put into place by government departments and public bodies themselves, are contrasted with external mechanisms, which result in the imposition on government departments and public bodies of principles enunciated by courts, tribunals, and ombudsmen. Lawyers are all too familiar with the external approach but t…
Exit, choice and loyalty: The impact of parental choice on admissions to secondary schools in Edinburgh and Dundee
This paper analyses the effects of parental choice on first‐year admissions to 20 non‐denominational secondary schools in Edinburgh and ten in Dundee. Although Dundee is a more working‐class city than Edinburgh, the take‐up of placing requests in Dundee was somewhat higher than in Edinburgh. There was a substantial increase in the take‐up of placing requests in both cities over the period 1982‐85 (from 13.5% to 21.0% of the S1 intake in Edinburgh…
Fairness in Context
This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, and André‐Jean Arnaud. It describes the author's original encounter and subsequent dialogue with Bureaucratic Justice , by Jerry L. Mashaw which transformed his thinking about administrative justice and shaped the…
Information Technology and the Governance of Social Security
Recent welfare state developments have emphasized the structure, administration and governance of service delivery. In critically examining these developments, this article advances a governmentality approach to the welfare state that highlights the significance of technology in contributing to the nature and practices of the welfare state. Based on a comparative study of computerization in the social security systems of 13 OECD countries, it dem…
The Changing Scale and Configuration of Mesa Verde Communities
Comparative demographic analyses of nine locations across the Northern San Juan region reveal highly variable population growth rates between A.D. 900 and 1300. We used both fixed and increasing site use life estimates to measure population density and to estimate the size of individual residential communities for the early Pueblo II through late Pueblo III periods. The results reveal that population density increased in the more agriculturally p…
Looking Backwards to the Future: Parental choice and education policy
Why Is a Kiva? New Interpretations of Prehistoric Social Integrative Architecture in the Northern Rio Grande Region of New Mexico
Building upon Watson Smith's (1952) well-known article that asks "when is a kiva?" this paper utilizes both published and unpublished archaeological data from the northern Rio Grande region to investigate the roles played by socially integrative architecture (kivas) between A.D. 750 and 1500. Traditionally, the dichotomy between pithouse and kiva has rested upon temporal and architectural criteria. Functional implications of structure use (i.e., …
Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico
Parents, professionals and special educational needs policy frameworks in England and Scotland
English The research reported in this article investigates the extent to which parents of children with special educational needs (SEN) were involved in the process of assessment and recording (Scotland) or statementing (England) as active citizens, or whether they continued to occupy the passive role of service client. This article analyses competing SEN policy frameworks in England and Scotland, and explores the position of parents and professi…
A Tale of Two Cities: The impact of parental choice on admissions to primary schools in Edinburgh and Dundee
Section 28A of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 gives parents in Scotland the right to choose the schools which they wish their children to attend. As of 1982, parents can make a ‘placing request’ for a school other than the school to which their child is allocated by the local authority, and the request must be granted unless one of a small number of statutory grounds for refusal applies. Before this date, local authorities were free to operate…
Specialization in the European Coal and Steel Communtiy
Specialization in the European Coal and Steel Communtiy
The idea of proportionality in dispute resolution
This article compares the ways in which the idea of proportionate dispute resolution has been dealt with in three recent reports: Lord Woolf's Reviews of the Civil Justice System (1995 Woolf, Rt Hon Lord. 1995. Access to justice: interim report, London: Lord Chancellor's Department [online]. Available from: http://www.dca.gov.uk/civil/reportfr.htm [Google Scholar] and 1996 Woolf, Rt Hon Lord. 1996. Access to justice: final report, London: Lord Ch…
Special educational needs and competing policy frameworks in England and Scotland
This paper explores a range of policy frameworks in play in the field of special educational needs and their relationship with procedural fairness and substantive justice. Drawing on analysis of post-1993 English and Scottish policy documents, dominant motifs in special educational needs policy are identified. It is argued that in both England and Scotland, there is a shift away from a policy framework based on professional control. Legal and bur…
Technical Solutions to Social Problems: Some Implications of a Computer-Based Welfare Benefits Information System
Technical experts frequently prescribe simple technical 'solutions' to complex social problems. In this article, the authors describe an experimental project which was designed to increase the take-up of means-tested benefits. The project incorporated a computer-based information system which provided individuals who supplied details of their financial and other household circumstances with personalized information about their entitlement to a wi…
Dynamics of obsidian procurement at Pot Creek Pueblo (LA 260), Northern New Mexico
Combining Welfare‐to‐Work Measures with Tax credits: A New Hybrid Approach to Social Security in the United Kingdom
The changes described in this article reflect a shift in social security away from social insurance and towards a mixture of social assistance, occupational or private insurance and tax credits. It suggests that what is new and distinctive about UK social security policy is the way in which a new strategy has been forged by linking the New Deal, which provides job opportunities for people who are not in employment but can often only offer them lo…
From Mainframes to Micros: Computer Applications for Anthropologists
During the past 30 years, anthropologists have shifted their computer applications from large mainframe computers with relatively limited memory and mass storage capabilities to highly portable microcomputers with large memory and mass storage characteristics. Thus, computers are now critical components for field-work as well as for subsequent data analysis and write-up. Additionally, computers are becoming integral parts of classroom and laborat…
Poverty and the Development of Anti-Poverty Policy in the U.K
Was Homer Acquainted with the Bible
The Emperor Julian and the Jews
This study explores the Emperor Julian's actions in regards to the Jews, especially his advances toward rebuilding the Jewish Temple. It offers the reader an insight into an aspect of Julian's reign not often examined by Christian historians
A Specimen of a Commentary and Collated Text of the Targum to the Prophets. Nahum
Jews of Medieval England
Specialization in the European Coal and Steel Communtiy
Specialization in the European Coal and Steel Communtiy
Elasticities of Demand for U.S. Exports: A Reply
[1] Adler, F. M., The Relationship between the and Price Elasticities of Demand for United States Exports, this REVIEW, LII (Aug. 1970), pp. 313-319. [2] Banca D'Italia, Elasticita di domanda e di prezzo nel cominercio estero dei principali paesi industriali, Rome, 1970. Salvatore Leonetti is the author. An abridged version appeared in the Bank of Italy's Bolletino, XXV (Jan.-Feb. 1970). [3] Houthakker, H. S. and S. P. Magee, Income and Price Ela…
Randomized controlled trial of the treatment of moderate hypertension
Using the Computer to Estimate Entitlement: A Feasibility Study
As reported elsewhere we have developed a computer program which, on the basis of information about a family’s financial and household circumstances derived from a single application form, assesses that family’s entitlement to virtually all the statutory and discretionary means-tested benefits available in the County of Midlothian. The program lists the name and calculates the amount of each benefit to which the family is entitled and states wher…
Technical Solutions to Social Problems: Some Implications of a Computer-Based Welfare Benefits Information System
Technical experts frequently prescribe simple technical 'solutions' to complex social problems. In this article, the authors describe an experimental project which was designed to increase the take-up of means-tested benefits. The project incorporated a computer-based information system which provided individuals who supplied details of their financial and other household circumstances with personalized information about their entitlement to a wi…
Poverty and the Development of Anti-Poverty Policy in the U.K
Legal Foundations of the Welfare State
A Tale of Two Cities: The impact of parental choice on admissions to primary schools in Edinburgh and Dundee
Section 28A of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 gives parents in Scotland the right to choose the schools which they wish their children to attend. As of 1982, parents can make a ‘placing request’ for a school other than the school to which their child is allocated by the local authority, and the request must be granted unless one of a small number of statutory grounds for refusal applies. Before this date, local authorities were free to operate…
Exit, choice and loyalty: The impact of parental choice on admissions to secondary schools in Edinburgh and Dundee
This paper analyses the effects of parental choice on first‐year admissions to 20 non‐denominational secondary schools in Edinburgh and ten in Dundee. Although Dundee is a more working‐class city than Edinburgh, the take‐up of placing requests in Dundee was somewhat higher than in Edinburgh. There was a substantial increase in the take‐up of placing requests in both cities over the period 1982‐85 (from 13.5% to 21.0% of the S1 intake in Edinburgh…
An appraisal of HIV antibody test counselling of injecting drug users
One-hundred and nine injecting drug users entering a methadone detoxification programme underwent HIV antibody test counselling. Approximately 80% of men and women were concerned because of sharing injection equipment ('works') in the previous year, although other reasons for considering an HIV antibody test, such as sexual contact with drug users and concern for sexual partners, was also given. Two-thirds of both men and women decided to be test…
Large-scale integrative facilities in tribal societies: Cross-cultural and southwestern US examples
This paper combines both ethnographic and archaeological data in an examination of the construction and use of monumental architecture in formative cultures. We propose that our current archaeological interpretations of the evolution and function of large‐scale social integrative facilities, i.e. monuments, should be informed by a broader understanding of the organizational role played by social integrative facilities in modern as well as prehist…
From Mainframes to Micros: Computer Applications for Anthropologists
During the past 30 years, anthropologists have shifted their computer applications from large mainframe computers with relatively limited memory and mass storage capabilities to highly portable microcomputers with large memory and mass storage characteristics. Thus, computers are now critical components for field-work as well as for subsequent data analysis and write-up. Additionally, computers are becoming integral parts of classroom and laborat…
Prisoners' rights: A litmus test for a civilised society
For some years now, the Scottish prison system (like the English prison system) has been described as being in a state of crisis. Various explanations for this have been put forward but, as Cavadino and Dignan (1992) point out, there is something rather paradoxical about describing a situation which has lasted so long as a crisis rather than 'business as usual'. However, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines a crisis as 'the point in the …
Patterns of hospital care for patients with HIV infection and Aids
OBJECTIVE--The aims were to describe the use of inpatient resources by patients with HIV infection and patients with AIDS; to examine trends in service use over time; and to provide data for planners concerned with service provision for HIV infection. SETTING--An inner London health district reporting 9% of AIDS cases nationally. DESIGN--Data on survival times and inpatient and day care use of resources were derived from existing patient records …
Why Is a Kiva? New Interpretations of Prehistoric Social Integrative Architecture in the Northern Rio Grande Region of New Mexico
Building upon Watson Smith's (1952) well-known article that asks "when is a kiva?" this paper utilizes both published and unpublished archaeological data from the northern Rio Grande region to investigate the roles played by socially integrative architecture (kivas) between A.D. 750 and 1500. Traditionally, the dichotomy between pithouse and kiva has rested upon temporal and architectural criteria. Functional implications of structure use (i.e., …
The Sociology of Social Security
Discourse, power, and justice: Towards a New Sociology of Imprisonment
Land Tenure, Archaeology, and the Ancestral Pueblo Social Landscape
Ancestral pueblo population aggregation and abandonment in the North American Southwest
Looking Backwards to the Future: Parental choice and education policy
Political science (32 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Law (27 works) · Law (18 works) · Geography (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Economics (14 works) · History (14 works) · Politics (14 works)