The Political Economy of Aging: The State, Private Power and Social Welfare. By Laura Katz Olson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 272. $25.00, cloth; $12.50, paper.)

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1049-1049
Author(s):  
Bette Hill Hughes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Private Power

The Political Economy of Aging: The State, Private Power, and Social Welfare.

1984 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Robert B. Hudson ◽  
Laura Katz Olson ◽  
Stephen Crystal
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Private Power

Michal Kravel-Tovi, When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xiii + 310 pp.

2020 ◽  
pp. 332-334
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American Law ◽  
Private Matter

“The personal is political” is a slogan associated with mid-20th-century American feminism. This slogan was a challenge to conventional thinking regarding what was domestic and what was public, and what were the “proper” spheres of women and men. In somewhat analogous fashion, whereas American law and ideology assume that religion is a private matter, in Israel, Judaism has a formal public standing. At the same time, its scope and legitimate hold on individuals is continually contested. Conversion—whereby state-empowered religious authorities accept someone as Jewish—yields a dense intertwining of individual behavior and engagement with “the political.”...

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