The Booth Site: A Late Archaic Campsite. Walter E. Klippel. Missouri Archaeological Society Research Series, No. 6, Columbia, Missouri, 1969. iii + 73 pp., 23 figs., 1 table. No price given.

A trench excavated into the waterlogged fringe of the Lamoka Lake site in central New York state yielded cultural stratigraphic zones with abundant artifacts and food remains. A peaty layer resting upon Late Archaic beach or streamside deposits produced late Middle Woodland (Kipp Island phase) ceramics and stone implements. Discoveries of wood, fruit pits, and nuts in the same layer as well as rich congeries of animal bones indicate that the archaeological potential of the Lamoka Lake site is not exhausted.

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Authoritarian Rule of Law

10.1093/oso/9780198814412.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jens Meierhenrich

Keyword(s):

Rule Of Law ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

The Political ◽

Science Literature ◽

Hybrid Regimes ◽

Authoritarian Rule ◽

Legal Origins ◽

Comparative Historical Analysis ◽

Society Research

What for many years was seen as an oxymoron—the notion of an authoritarian rule of law—no longer is. Instead, the phenomenon has become a cutting edge concern in law-and-society research. In this concluding chapter, I situate Fraenkel’s theory of dictatorship in this emerging research program. In the first section, I turn the notion of an authoritarian rule of law into a social science concept. In the second section, I relate this concept to that of the dual state and both to the political science literature on so-called hybrid regimes. Drawing on this synthesis, the third section makes the concept of the dual state usable for comparative-historical analysis. Through a series of empirical vignettes, I demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Fraenkel’s institutional analysis of the Nazi state. I show why it is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the legal origins of dictatorship, then and now.

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Predictors of Mental Health after the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland

Brain Sciences ◽

10.3390/brainsci11050544 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 544

Author(s):

Piotr Długosz

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Survey Method ◽

Hierarchical Regression ◽

Secondary Effects ◽

Research Material ◽

Polish Society ◽

On Line ◽

Line Survey ◽

Psychological Features ◽

Society Research

The aim of the article is to determine the predictors of mental health among Polish society. Research was conducted after the first wave of the pandemic. Due to such an approach, it was possible to determine whether the secondary effects of the pandemic have impacted on mental health, in addition to socio-demographic and psychological factors. In order to gather the research material, the CAWI on-line survey method was applied and carried out within the framework of the Ariadna Research Panel on a sample of 1079 Poles, aged 15 and over. The FCV-19S scale, which is used to measure the fear of COVID-19 was applied in the measurement. It is a verified diagnostic instrument used to measure mental health across a range of countries. The results of a hierarchical regression analysis have shown that the factors which increase the level of fear of COVID-19 are demographic, social and psychological features, as well as attitudes towards the pandemic. The results of research indicate the significance of social context in the analysis, and contribute to the explanation of the effects of disasters and cataclysms.

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