Leonard Weinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 318896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Weinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBERG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6857-3599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 334 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Power BI and the datafication of Danish higher education
Power BI is a Microsoft data visualization and business intelligence platform currently being used for higher education governance at a range of institutions. This study contributes to critical scholarship on the normative dimensions and politics of data visualizations, with particular attention to how dashboards co-shape user subjectivities and are intertwined with educational policies that use time as a means of enacting higher education govern…
From Smart Cities to Wise Cities: Studying Abroad in Digital Urban Space
This article analyzes the impact of experiential and inquiry-based learning exercises in a 2019 Toronto study abroad course on smart cities for first-year students. The course treated the city as a text to be read, analyzed, and unpacked. Students engaged with the disciplines of urban studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and surveillance studies in order to assess Toronto's smart city initiative while exploring firsthand how technology and …
Mental Health and the Self-Tracking Student
This article examines universities’ adoption of WellTrack—a self-tracking mobile phone application modeled on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques—as a solution to reported increases in the prevalence and severity of student mental health conditions. Drawing from a feminist materialist perspective that understands discourse and the material word as co-produced, this article argues that the app’s design, marketing, and reception are deeply inte…
Feminist Research Ethics and Student Privacy in the Age of AI
This article examines university researchers’ capture of student images on US college campuses for training facial recognition technology, and situates this project within universities’ broader historical alignment with militarism and racial injustice. It argues that feminist STS ethics provides a framework for not only challenging the ways that university research inquiry actively contributes to oppressive power structures, but also for reimagin…
The Rationalization of Leisure: Marxist Feminism and the Fantasy of Machine Subordination
Critical analyses of domestic technological culture have emphasized the impact of domestic technologies on intensifying women’s labor and reinforcing its privatization within the home, all the while being marketed as laborsaving devices. Drawing from the ways the marketing of domestic technologies framed the home as a space in need of technological administration, this article offers a Marxist feminist analysis of online surveillance during leisu…
The Rise and Fall of Italian Terrorism
Italian democracy may not be as fragile as many of its observers feared or imagined. It has lasted more than twice as long as the Fascist dictatorship that preceded it. Since the end of the Second World War, Italy's citizens and their political leaders have had to overcome massive problems of both state and society that their counterparts in more tranquil parts of Europe have not encountered. The particular problem to which this book is devoted i…
Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right
The National Front in France - from lunatic fringe to limited respectability, William Safran the three waves of West German right-wing extremism, Ekkart Zimmermann and Thomas Saalfeld the changing profile of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, Piero Ignazi ethnochauvinism, agrarian populism and neo-Fascism in Romania and the Balkans, Trond Gilberg Pamiat - Russian right-wing radicalism, Vladimir Krasnov the Israeli radical right - history, culture an…
Fascism, Populism and American Democracy
Hard right-wing politics is growing in popularity in America, marked by Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election, and it is worth questioning what this means for the American democratic system. This book seeks to explain the vulnerability of democracies to the appeal of right-wing politics through a contemporary case study of the US, and how democracies are possibly under threat from a conflict between popular attitudes and institutional paral…
The Transformation of Italian Communism
end of the cold war and the fall of the Soviet empire have had major consequences for Italian politics. Leonard Weinberg explores some of those consequences, focusing on the transformation of the Italian Communist party from a Leninist to a democratic party. He also discusses the relationship between the end of communism and the unfolding of the entire Italian system. The Transformation of Italian Communism two objectives. First, it calls the rea…
Transformation of Italian Communism
Fascism, Populism and American Democracy
The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare
The authors investigate the timing of insurgents' use of terrorism within the context of wider-scale warfare. Unlike the great wars found in modern history, the dominant form of warfare in recent years has become internal. The main actors are non-state groups seeking to replace an existing political order through violent means. Terrorism, especially indiscriminate attacks on unarmed civilians, has been an important component of these groups' tact…
Religion and the Radical Right in American Public Life
Religious movements and religious ideas have played important roles in the United States almost since the formation of the American republic. From those who sought to abolish slavery in the 19th century to the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 20th, Christian clergy and laymen claimed religious inspiration for their involvements. There is another side to this story, however. In addition to championing these progressive causes, Christian,…
Terrorism in an Era of Unconventional Warfare
Academic studies of terrorism and mass political violence have developed largely independently of one another. Insurgents, in contrast, have tended to incorporate terrorism tactics along with other types of unconventional warfare in their repertoire of action. This tendency has become more apparent among insurgents engaging in armed confrontations in the twenty-first century. In order to take account of this development, scholars and others inter…
The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the Nineties
Most studies of the radical right concentrate on movements in a single country, neglecting to some extent the international dimensions of right-wing extremism. Here, Merkl and Weinberg adopt a comparative perspective, concentrating on the revival of the right across a variety of countries
Coming Together or Growing Apart? Western Europe and the United States
Observers on both sides of the Atlantic believe that the United States and the major countries of Western Europe are growing apart in important ways. The view adopted here is quite the opposite. Instead, the assertion here is that the New World is coming to resemble the Old World, both in regard to the behavior of their fragmented political elites and the resentment-laden attitudes of their mass publics. What was once labeled “American exceptiona…
The Islamic State and American National Security
The beheading of hostages and other acts of barbarism carried out by Islamic Republic militants do not constitute sufficient cause for direct American military involvement in the multi-sided armed conflicts underway in Iraq and Syria (2014). Conventional measures of American national interest do not warrant the expenditure of such blood and treasure as seem necessary to affect the outcomes of these conflicts. The idealistic goal of democracy prom…
Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration
Journal Article Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration Get access Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration by Benedetta Berti. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $49.95. Leonard Weinberg Leonard Weinberg University of Nevada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 129, Issue 3, Fall 2014, Pages 542–544, https://do…
The End of Terrorism?
This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, however virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another. Likewise most of the individuals who embarked on ‘careers’ in terrorism over these same years now engage in other pursuits. The author argues that al-Qaeda an…
Democracy and Terrorism: Friend or Foe?
This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will also bring an end to terrorism. Where people enjoy the blessings of liberty, they will naturally find peaceful outlets for the expression of their political views…
End of Terrorism
Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil‐Military Relations – By Jason K. Dempsey
Women’s Involvement in Terrorism
An End to the Fourth Wave of Terrorism
It is widely believed that the current wave of religiously inspired terrorism will persist for the foreseeable future. Is this necessarily the case? This article asserts that this present wave may be cresting, much like previous waves in the modern history of terrorist violence. Further, the article goes on to forecast not an end to terrorism in general, but the likely emergence of still new manifestations of terrorist violence
Caregivers, School Liaisons, and Agency Advocates Speak Out about the Educational Needs of Children and Youths in Foster Care
Children in foster care comprise a population of students at great risk for school failure. The child welfare agency, schools, and home must all work together to provide the services and supports required to achieve better results. The purpose of this study was to conduct focus groups with participants from each sector to discuss their views on the educational problems and needs of students in foster care and their recommendations for what is nee…
Does democracy encourage terrorism
The question of the linkage of democratic forms of government with the incidence of terrorist violence is explored. Distinguishing between the presence of terrorist groups in a nation and violent terrorist events, and using multiple indicators of democratic development, evidence is presented clearly linking democracy with the presence of terrorist groups. Terrorist groups are less likely to be found in non‐democratic settings than in democratic o…
Terrorism and Democracy: Perpetrators and Victims
Most observers believe that the 'democratic rules of the game' provide a peaceful means for resolving political conflicts. This may be true but not all groups or even single individuals in democratic societies need play by these rules. This analysis uses two data sets: one that classifies most countries of the world based on how they were ruled in the mid-1980s, and the other on the frequency with which their nationals either perpetrated or were …
Altruism and Fatalism: The Characteristics of Palestinian Suicide Terrorists
Over the last decade, the suicide method became one of the most prevalent tactics of Palestinian Terrorism in Israel. Who are these people, willing to sacrifice their lives in such an act, and what drives them to do such things? In our present analysis, we answer these questions, while relying on the concepts of altruistic and fatalistic suicide from Durkheim's typology of suicide behavior. Based on a newly established database compiled for this …
Terrorism and democracy: What recent events disclose
This paper is the second in a series of analyses which explore relationships between terrorism and democracy. In this instance, the authors use the Rand‐St Andrews Chronology of International Terrorism for 1994, as well as the US State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism collection of events for 1995. The authors use these data sets to determine if there is a linkage between the occurrence of terrorist attacks and the type of incumbent poli…
The Challenges of Conceptualizing Terrorism
This analysis begins by exploring various reasons that the concept of terrorism has evaded a widely agreed upon definition for so long despite the efforts of so many writers. Emphasis is placed on the difficulties associated with all "essentially contested concepts." In addition, the investigation calls attention to such problems as conceptual "stretching" and "traveling." In an effort to solve the difficulties, the inquiry attempts to determine …
Turning to Terror: The Conditions under Which Political Parties Turn to Terrorist Activities
At first view political parties and terrorist groups would seem to have little in common with one another.' For a long time parties have been celebrated, if not always by voters then certainly among political scientists, as indispensable components of a democratic political order, as institutions that afford the means by which economic and social differences in society may be resolved peacefully. Terrorist groups, by contrast, are regarded as org…
Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe
Far right-wing parties have gained dramatically in many West European countries since the early 1980s.Recent cross-national studies distinguish between neo-fascist parties, which are anti-democratic and anti-capitalist, and radical right-wing parties which combine antiimmigration appeals with pro-capitalist, neo-liberal economic positions, social conservatism, and a basic acceptance of representative democracy.While the former have been stagnant …
Caregivers, School Liaisons, and Agency Advocates Speak Out about the Educational Needs of Children and Youths in Foster Care
Children in foster care comprise a population of students at great risk for school failure. The child welfare agency, schools, and home must all work together to provide the services and supports required to achieve better results. The purpose of this study was to conduct focus groups with participants from each sector to discuss their views on the educational problems and needs of students in foster care and their recommendations for what is nee…
Elections and violence
No subject attracts political scientists more than elections do. Still, the intimate link with violence has scarcely been noticed. A sparse recent literature exists on how ballots may eliminate bullets in civil war settlements: questions concerning why ballots create occasions for bullets and the relationship between violence‐producing and violence‐reducing propensities of elections are ignored. This article aims to help fill the gap. It treats e…
Italian women terrorists
This paper seeks to assess the role of women in Italian terrorist groups. It is based on biographical information concerning 451 women who were active in such organizations between 1970 and 1984. The analysis suggests that there were a number of ways in which women terrorists differed from their male counterparts. These differences have to do with the time at which women became involved in terrorist activities, the routes they took prior to entry…
Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right
The National Front in France - from lunatic fringe to limited respectability, William Safran the three waves of West German right-wing extremism, Ekkart Zimmermann and Thomas Saalfeld the changing profile of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, Piero Ignazi ethnochauvinism, agrarian populism and neo-Fascism in Romania and the Balkans, Trond Gilberg Pamiat - Russian right-wing radicalism, Vladimir Krasnov the Israeli radical right - history, culture an…
The social and religious characteristics of suicide bombers and their victims
Using data collected by the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, the authors provide social profiles of Palestinian suicide bombers and their largely Israeli victims. In addition, drawing on a series of public opinion polls, the writers describe the reactions of Israeli citizens to the wave of suicide bombings the country has experienced since the beginning of the Al Aqsa intifada in the second half of 2000
Neo-Fascist and Far Left Terrorists in Italy: Some Biographical Observations
In recent years a good deal of concern has been expressed about the phenomenon of political terrorism in Italy. The mass media have directed our attention to spectacular acts of international terrorism committed on Italian soil by groups, largely from the Middle East, which have used the country as ateatroin which to stage their operations against targets of opportunity. Scholars and journalists have also drawn our attention to the problem of dom…
Women’s Involvement in Terrorism
An End to the Fourth Wave of Terrorism
It is widely believed that the current wave of religiously inspired terrorism will persist for the foreseeable future. Is this necessarily the case? This article asserts that this present wave may be cresting, much like previous waves in the modern history of terrorist violence. Further, the article goes on to forecast not an end to terrorism in general, but the likely emergence of still new manifestations of terrorist violence
Italian Communism in Crisis: A Study in Exit, Voice and Loyalty
Achille Occhetto's proposal to transform the Italian Communist Party (PCI) into a postcommunist leftist party provides an opportunity to test Hirschman's theory of organizational loyalty. Party members were given the choices of remaining loyal to a reconstituted party, voicing approval or disapproval over this proposal, or exiting the party. The hypotheses that exit and voice varied together and that a particular kind of loyalty inhibited exist w…
Cultural differences in the behavior of terrorists
(1994). Cultural differences in the behavior of terrorists. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-18
Political parties and the formation of terrorist groups
Where do modern terrorist group come from? How do they begin? This article establishes that most often they emerge from political parties. An effort is made to identify the relevant types of parties and the internal party dynamics which may have led to terrorist activity. Also, it is asserted that party‐terrorist group links are most likely to occur in nations whose political systems are going through episodes of regime transformation
Data daze
Problems with the critical studies approach to the study of terrorism
Keywords: critical theorystate centricdeath squadsa-historicalterrorism definitionsproblem-solvingUnited Nationsinterviews with terroristsself-absorption
Terrorism and the shape of things to come
(1999). Terrorism and the shape of things to come. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 11, The Future of Terrorism, pp. 94-105
Leaders and followers in Italian terrorist groups
(1989). Leaders and followers in Italian terrorist groups. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 156-176
Petition-Signing in the 1968 Election
URING the early stages of the 1968 presidential election campaign, spokesmen for many national news media suggested that the facility with which supporters of George Wallace were able to get enough petition signatures to have his name placed on the ballot in state after state was a reflection of broadly based popular enthusiasm, especially in the North.'However, evidence from ear- lier social science research indicates that an individual who sign…
Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration
Journal Article Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration Get access Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration by Benedetta Berti. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $49.95. Leonard Weinberg Leonard Weinberg University of Nevada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 129, Issue 3, Fall 2014, Pages 542–544, https://do…
The Cost of Terrorism: The Relationship Between International Terrorism and Democratic Governance
After Al Qaeda's destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, many democracies reacted to the event, and to international terrorism in general, by passing laws restricting civil liberties and political rights, raising questions about the balance between security and liberty. Such laws have produced alarms among civil libertarians, worldwide. Are the alarms justified? In this article we analyze the relationship between the yearly nu…
Petition-Signing in the 1968 Election
URING the early stages of the 1968 presidential election campaign, spokesmen for many national news media suggested that the facility with which supporters of George Wallace were able to get enough petition signatures to have his name placed on the ballot in state after state was a reflection of broadly based popular enthusiasm, especially in the North.'However, evidence from ear- lier social science research indicates that an individual who sign…
Reactive Violence and the American Frontier: A Contemporary Evaluation
Reactive Violence and the American Frontier: A Contemporary Evaluation
Nonstate Nations in International Politics: Comparative System Analyses
Patterns of neo‐fascist violence in Italian politics
This paper explores the characteristics and meaning of Fascist violence in Italy during the two major crisis periods that appear to have stimulated it. The pattern of Fascist attacks during the post‐World War I era is compared to acts of Neo‐Fascist violence from the late 1960s through the early 1970s. Substantial differences are disclosed with respect to the targets the Fascists chose to assault in the two eras. Much of the initial wave of Fasci…
Italian women terrorists
This paper seeks to assess the role of women in Italian terrorist groups. It is based on biographical information concerning 451 women who were active in such organizations between 1970 and 1984. The analysis suggests that there were a number of ways in which women terrorists differed from their male counterparts. These differences have to do with the time at which women became involved in terrorist activities, the routes they took prior to entry…
Neo-Fascist and Far Left Terrorists in Italy: Some Biographical Observations
In recent years a good deal of concern has been expressed about the phenomenon of political terrorism in Italy. The mass media have directed our attention to spectacular acts of international terrorism committed on Italian soil by groups, largely from the Middle East, which have used the country as ateatroin which to stage their operations against targets of opportunity. Scholars and journalists have also drawn our attention to the problem of dom…
Leaders and followers in Italian terrorist groups
(1989). Leaders and followers in Italian terrorist groups. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 156-176
Political parties and the formation of terrorist groups
Where do modern terrorist group come from? How do they begin? This article establishes that most often they emerge from political parties. An effort is made to identify the relevant types of parties and the internal party dynamics which may have led to terrorist activity. Also, it is asserted that party‐terrorist group links are most likely to occur in nations whose political systems are going through episodes of regime transformation
Turning to Terror: The Conditions under Which Political Parties Turn to Terrorist Activities
At first view political parties and terrorist groups would seem to have little in common with one another.' For a long time parties have been celebrated, if not always by voters then certainly among political scientists, as indispensable components of a democratic political order, as institutions that afford the means by which economic and social differences in society may be resolved peacefully. Terrorist groups, by contrast, are regarded as org…
Award Recipients
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Terrorism and changes in political party systems
The subject to which this essay is devoted concerns the relationship between conventional party politics and the formation of terrorist groups. Using several collections of aggregate data, this study examines the effect of changes in party politics from the 1960s to the 1970s on the appearances of terrorist groups in many nations. Changes in the number of parties in the system, fluctuations in their electoral performances and in their parliamenta…
Reaction to the comments of rapoport, Crenshaw and Zulaika
A response to Miller and Hewitt
Cultural differences in the behavior of terrorists
(1994). Cultural differences in the behavior of terrorists. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-18
Does democracy encourage terrorism
The question of the linkage of democratic forms of government with the incidence of terrorist violence is explored. Distinguishing between the presence of terrorist groups in a nation and violent terrorist events, and using multiple indicators of democratic development, evidence is presented clearly linking democracy with the presence of terrorist groups. Terrorist groups are less likely to be found in non‐democratic settings than in democratic o…
Italian neo-fascist terrorism: A comparative perspective
Right‐wing violence in Italy has displayed characteristics that set it apart from the violent operations of rightist groups active in the other Western democracies. In the Italian case the violence has been protracted, stretching from the immediate postwar period to our own time. For the most part, it has been aimed at Communists and other leftists rather than racial or ethnic minorities. And it has appeared in a variety of forms, ranging from st…
The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy. Roberto Franzosi
Italian Communism in Crisis: A Study in Exit, Voice and Loyalty
Achille Occhetto's proposal to transform the Italian Communist Party (PCI) into a postcommunist leftist party provides an opportunity to test Hirschman's theory of organizational loyalty. Party members were given the choices of remaining loyal to a reconstituted party, voicing approval or disapproval over this proposal, or exiting the party. The hypotheses that exit and voice varied together and that a particular kind of loyalty inhibited exist w…
On responding to right-wing terrorism
Terrorism and democracy within one country: The case of Italy
(1997). Terrorism and democracy within one country: The case of Italy. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 98-108
The Transformation of Italian Communism
The Revival of Right-Wing Extremism in the Nineties
Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe
Far right-wing parties have gained dramatically in many West European countries since the early 1980s.Recent cross-national studies distinguish between neo-fascist parties, which are anti-democratic and anti-capitalist, and radical right-wing parties which combine antiimmigration appeals with pro-capitalist, neo-liberal economic positions, social conservatism, and a basic acceptance of representative democracy.While the former have been stagnant …
Terrorism and democracy: What recent events disclose
This paper is the second in a series of analyses which explore relationships between terrorism and democracy. In this instance, the authors use the Rand‐St Andrews Chronology of International Terrorism for 1994, as well as the US State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism collection of events for 1995. The authors use these data sets to determine if there is a linkage between the occurrence of terrorist attacks and the type of incumbent poli…
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