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Horowitz, Donald Leonard was born on June 27, 1939 in New York City. Son of Morris and Yetta (Hibscher) Horowitz.
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Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence is the first full-scale, comparative study of what the author terms the deadly ethnic riot—an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group. Serious, frequent, and destabilizing, these events result in large numbers of casualties. Horowitz examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. With its deep and thorough scholarship, incisive analysis, and profound insights, The Deadly Ethnic Riot will become the definitive work on its subject. Furious and sadistic, the riot is nevertheless directed against a precisely specified class of targets and conducted with considerable circumspection. Horowitz scrutinizes target choices, participants and organization, the timing and supporting conditions for the violence, the nature of the events that precede the riot, the prevalence of atrocities during the violence, the location and diffusion of riots, and the aims and effects of riot behavior. He finds that the deadly ethnic riot is a highly patterned but emotional event that tends to occur during times of political uncertainty. He also discusses the crucial role of rumor in triggering riots, the surprisingly limited role of deliberate organization, and the striking lack of remorse exhibited by participants. Horowitz writes clearly and eloquently without compromising the complexity of his subject. With impressive analytical skill, he takes up the important challenge of explaining phenomena that are at once passionate and calculative.
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(In recent years, the power of American judges to make soc...)
In recent years, the power of American judges to make social policy has been significantly broadened. The courts have reached into many matters once thought to be beyond the customary scope of judicial decisionmaking: education and employment policy, environmental issues, prison and hospital management, and welfare administration--to name a few. This new judicial activity can be traced to various sources, among them the emergence of public interest law firms and interest groups committed to social change through the courts, and to various changes in the law itself that have made access to the courts easier. The propensity for bringing difficult social questions to the judiciary for resolution is likely to persist. This book is the first comprehensive study of the capacity of courts to make and implement social policy. Donald L. Horowitz, a lawyer and social scientist, traces the imprint of the judicial process on the policies that emerge from it. He focuses on a number of important questions: how issues emerge in litigation, how courts obtain their information, how judges use social science data, how legal solutions to social problems are devised, and what happens to judge-made social policy after decrees leave the court house. After a general analysis of the adjudication process as it bears on social policymaking, the author presents four cases studies of litigation involving urban affairs, educational resources, juvenile courts and delinquency, and policy behavior. In each, the assumption and evidence with which the courts approached their policy problems are matched against data about the social settings from which the cases arose and the effects the decrees had. The concern throughout the book is to relate the policy process to the policy outcome. From his analysis of adjudication and the findings of his case studies the author concludes that the resources of the courts are not adequate to the new challenges confronting them. He suggests various improvements, but warns against changes that might impair the traditional strengths of the judicial process.
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Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. A groundbreaking work when it was published in 1985, the book remains an original and powerfully argued comparative analysis of one of the most important forces in the contemporary world.
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Horowitz, Donald Leonard was born on June 27, 1939 in New York City. Son of Morris and Yetta (Hibscher) Horowitz.
AB, Syracuse University, 1959. Bachelor of Laws, Syracuse University, 1961. Master of Laws, Harvard University, 1962.
AM, Harvard University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1968.
Law clerk United States District Court (eastern district), Pennsylvania, 1965-1966. Research associate Harvard University Center International Affairs, 1967-1969. Attorney Department Justice, Washington, 1969-1971.
Fellow Council on Foreign Rels./Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholars, 1971-1972. Research associate Brookings Institution, 1972-1975. Senior fellow Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies/Smithsonian, 1975-1981.
Professor law and political science Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, since 1980, Charles S. Murphy Professor, 1988-1993, James B. Duke professor, since 1994. Visiting professor Charles J. Merriam scholar University Chicago Law School, 1988. Visiting fellow Cambridge University, England, 1988.
Sticerd Distinguished visitor London School of Economics, 1998-2000, Centennial professor, 2001. Visiting scholar Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Law Faculty, 1991. Fulbright senior specialist, 2002.
Consultant Ford Foundation, 1977-1982. Member international advisory committee Office of the High Republican, Bosnia, 1998-1999. McDonald-Currie Memorial lecturer McGill University, Montreal, 1980.
Member Council on Role of Courts, 1978-1983. Opsahl lecturer Queen's University, Belfast, 2000. McDonald lecturer University Alberta, 2005.
Member Secretary of State Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, 2006-2008.
(In recent years, the power of American judges to make soc...)
( Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Dona...)
( Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the...)
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (vice president 2004-2007, president 2007-2010, International Studies Association Distinguished Scholar award, 2009).
Married Judith Anne Present, September 4, 1960. Children: Marshall, Karen, Bruce.