Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreward -- Daniel J. Evans

Introduction -- C. Leigh Anderson and David A. Hennes

Defining, Measuring and Implementing Progress
Progress and the Promise of Public Policy -- J. Patrick Dobel and C. Leigh Anderson
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back: An Assessment of Progress in the Twentieth Century -- Alex Inkeles
Making Progress in Implementation Scholarship: A Survey of the Literature -- Janet W. Looney

The Domains of Progress
PROGRESS IN OURSELVES
Introduction -- Janet W. Looney
Progress and Evolution -- Martin Daly and Margo Wilson
The Meaning of Progress in the New Millennium -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Faith and the Future: Religion and the Problem of Progress in the New Millennium -- Hubert Locke
Progress in Literature -- Charles Johnson
Paradoxical Progress: Medical Advances and Moral Anxiety -- Albert R. Jonsen
Young Children: The First Step in Progress -- Richard N. Brandon
Progress and Education: Supporting the Realization of Human Aspirations -- William Zumeta

PROGRESS IN OUR RELATIONS WITH OTHERS
Introduction -- Janet W. Looney
Achieving Progress in Solving Collective-Action Problems -- Elinor Ostrom
Is There Cultural Progress? -- Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
Ethnopolitical Warfare and Massacres: Is There Progress? -- Daniel Chirot
Progress and Contentious Politics -- Charles Tilly
NGOs, Development and Human Rights: A Story of Progress and Policy -- San C. Ng and Marc Lindenberg
Free Press, Profit Margins, and Democratic Governance: Is There a Fatal Flaw? -- Margaret T. Gordon

PROGRESS IN OUR MATERIAL AND NATURAL WORLD
Introduction -- Janet W. Looney
Progress and the Natural Sciences: Issues and Perspectives -- Scott L. Montgomery
Progress: An Economistıs View -- Robert Heilbroner
Perhaps Progress Really is Our Most Important Product: A Feminist Contemplates the Twentieth Century -- Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Information Technology and Progress -- Andrew C. Gordon and Tom Martin
Towards Eliminating Poverty From the World: Grameen Bank Experience -- Muhammad Yunus
Progressing Toward Environmental Sustainability -- Alison Cullen and Christopher Bretherton