James C. Scott
Sign in to saveAlso known as James Scott, James Campbell Scott, Jim Scott, Scott, James
American political scientist and anthropologist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 December 1936
- Died
- 19 July 2024
- Works
- 117
Top works
- The workman's manual
- Against the Grain
- The Art of Not Being Governed
- Everyday forms of resistance
- In Praise of Floods
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 148
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,779x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,265x
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 67,662x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,810x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,815x
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Quotes
- “As we shall see with urban planning, revolutionary theory, collectivization, and rural resettlement, a whole world lying "outside the brackets" returned to haunt this technical vision.”
- “The state's increasing concern with productivity, health, sanitation, education, transportation, mineral resources, grain production, and investment was less an abandonment of the older objectives of statecraft than a broadening and deepening of what those objectives entailed in the modern world.”
- “An illegible society, then, is a hindrance to any effective intervention by the state, whether the purpose of that intervention is plunder or public welfare.”
- “A key characteristic of discourses of high modernism and of the public pronouncements of those states that have embraced it is a heavy reliance on visual images of heroic progress toward a totally transformed future.”
- “Redesigning the physical layout of a village is simpler than transforming its social and productive life. For obvious reasons, political elites–particularly authoritarian high-modernist elites–typically begin with the changes in the formal structure and rules.”
- “Changing the rules of regulations is simpler than eliciting the behavior that conforms to them.”
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