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[2015]
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1 online resource (xxvii, 283 pages)
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There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks' self-immolations, Muslims' suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world power? What kind of struggle must they go through to maintain their identity, heritage, and rights? How does the government deal with this ethnic dissatisfaction...
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2016.
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"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose...
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©2010
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1 online resource
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Five years after his death in 1972, Paul Goodman was, characterized by anarchist historian George Woodcock as "the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation." In this, new PM Press initiative, Goodman's literary executor Taylor Stoehr has gathered, together nine core texts from his anarchist legacy to future generations.
Here will be, found the "utopian essays and practical proposals" that inspired the dissident youth of the Sixties,...
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2012
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1 online resource (55 pages)
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We Americans approach -- not a crossroads -- but a branching of our political road where several destinations are possible. One requires surrendering power to what has become our de-facto governing or ruling class. Another takes us to an expanded democracy where the gap between the 'have much' and the 'have little' has been greatly reduced. In between are byways that eventually will trend one way or the other. The choices will be selected, in the...
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The Internet is facilitating a generational transition among American political advocacy organizations. This book provides a detailed exploration of how 'netroots' advocacy groups - MoveOn.org, DailyKos.com, DemocracyforAmerica.com, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee - differ from 'legacy' peer organizations.
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2016.
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1 online resource
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The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016A bold call for a Canadian foreign policy that advances the basic freedoms that enable peace, stability, development, and security.What ends should a democratic country's foreign policy serve' Avoiding diplomatic disputes' Keeping allies happy' Promoting national and global security' While a qualified yes is the logical answer to all of these secondary questions, Two Freedoms argues for something more, something that...
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2013.
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1 online resource (xx, 319 pages) : charts.
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This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Benin. Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic, and the personalistic...
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2011
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1 online resource (324 p.) : ill.
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National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority as a case study, this book provides a thorough examination of minority nationalism and state-minority relations in Israel.
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c2008
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1 online resource (x, 588 p.)
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Nancy L. Rosenblum is the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government and chair of the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (Princeton) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and...
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In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader of this volume senses that Mill is being pulled in opposing directions: steadfastly committed to majority rule with minority rights while at the same time being just enough of an aristocrat to believe that the masses need exemplars to emulate. This edition...
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c2007
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viii, 205 p. ; 24 cm.
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John Brenkman is distinguished professor at the City University of New York and director of the U.S.-Europe Seminar at Baruch College. He has published widely on culture and political theory. He lives in New York and Paris.
Since 9/11, American foreign policy has been guided by grand ideas like tyranny, democracy, and freedom. And yet the course of events has played havoc with the cherished assumptions of hawks and doves alike. The geo-civil war...
13) Secret empires: how the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends
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The author explores a new form of political corruption involving a larger sums of money than ever before.
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2021.
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1 online resource (150 pages)
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'A must-read manifesto for border abolition' - gal-dem
Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows how oppressive borders must be resisted.
Laying bare the web of media myths that vilify migrants, Leah Cowan dives into the murky waters of corporate profiteering from borders by companies like...
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2017.
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1 online resource
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The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017As Sir John A. Macdonald intended, the federal government must be recognized as the nation's voice.Power. It is the capacity to inspire while encouraging and enabling change, and it matters. When handled in a positive way, power is the key to the state's ability to strengthen the nation and improve lives. But state power, John Boyko argues forcefully, works best when concentrated on a federal level, as Sir John A....
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2016
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1 online resource
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Libertarianism isn't about winning elections; it is first and foremost a political philosophy--a description of how, in the opinion of libertarians, free people ought to treat one another, at least when they use the law, which they regard as potentially dangerous. If libertarians are correct, the law should intrude into people's lives as little as possible, rarely telling them what to do or how to live. A political and economic philosophy as old as...
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©2010
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1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations
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The floodgates holding back anarchy are constantly under strain. The liberal would ease the pressure by diverting some of the water; the conservative would shore up the dykes, the totalitarian would construct a stronger dam.
But, is anarchy a destructive force? The absence of government may alarm the authoritarian, but is a liberated people really its own worst enemy-or is the true enemy of mankind, as the anarchists claim, the means by which he...
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[2017]
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1 online resource
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Michael Albert's latest work, Practical Utopia is a succinct and thoughtful discussion of ambitious goals and practical principles for creating a desirable society. It presents concepts and their connections to current society; visions of what can be in a preferred, participatory future; and an examination of the ends and means required for developing a just society. Neither shying away from the complexity of human issues, nor reeking of dogmatism,...
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1971
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1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations
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The nature of the military institution in Brazil, its relations with civilian governments up to 1964, and its use of power since the coup of that year are examined by Alfred Stepan. Throughout his study, while looking at the Brazilian experience, he tests and reformulates implicit and explicit models, propositions, and middle-range hypotheses in the literature of civil-military relations and in political development theory. Professor Stepan's analysis...
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c2012
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1 online resource (xii, 278 p.) : ill.
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Michael Laver is professor of politics at New York University. He is the coauthor of Multiparty Government: The Politics of Coalition in Europe. Ernest Sergenti is a consultant at the World Bank.
Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered....





