Integrated Product and Process Design and Development or Structuring Politics

Integrated Product and Process Design and Development

Author: Edward B Magrab

Integrated Product and Process Design and Development (IP2D2) indicates, in the broadest sense, the overlapping, interacting, and iterative nature of all the aspects of the product realization process. Carefully organized, with sections on each major stage of the approach, Integrated Product and Process Design and Development: The Product Realization Process is the first complete treatment of this new direction in engineering. The book is designed to help you cultivate an attitude toward design that encourages creativity and innovation, while considering the equally important considerations of customer requirements and satisfaction, quality, reliability, manufacturing methods and material selection, assembly, cost, the environment, and scheduling. Extensively class tested in senior- and graduate-level engineering design courses at the University of Maryland, the book gives equal time to conceptual and practical aspects.

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Details the implementation of an integrated approach to the product realization process that is used to create competitively priced quality products in the shortest possible time. Magreb has used the text in his graduate and undergraduate mechanical engineering courses (U. of Maryland). Book-long problems, the drywall taping system and the steal frame joining tool, are from class projects. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis

Author: Sven Steinmo

This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a "historical institutional" approach to the study of politics. By bringing these pieces together, the volume highlights the methodological and theoretical foundations of this approach and illustrates the general contributions it has made to comparative politics. The essays demonstrate the potential of the approach to illuminate a broad range of issues such as how and why institutions change, how political ideas are filtered through institutional structures in the formation of specific policies, and how institutional structure can have unintended effects on the shaping of policy. Through these richly detailed pieces, the reader is provided not only a thorough understanding of the method of analysis but also an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the approach.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	List of contributors
1	Historical institutionalism in comparative politics	1
2	Labor-market institutions and working-class strength	33
3	The rules of the game: The logic of health policy-making in France, Switzerland, and Sweden	57
4	The movement from Keynesianism to monetarism: Institutional analysis and British economic policy in the 1970s	90
5	Political structure, state policy, and industrial change: Early railroad policy in the United States and Prussia	114
6	Institutions and political change: Working-class formation in England and the United States, 1820-1896	155
7	Ideas and the politics of bounded innovation	188
8	The establishment of work-welfare programs in the United States and Britain: Politics, ideas, and institutions	217
	Index	251