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Princeton University Press The Darkened Light of Faith
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Important. . . . For Rogers, indicting the United States for not achieving Baldwin and King’s vision does not mean that racial equality is impossible. Rather, it remains a future to be fought for, albeit by drawing on elements of the past."---William P. Jones, Dissent"Provocative. . . . This illuminating work helps build a foundation of scholarship for understanding core ideas, ideological development, and necessary engagement in African American politics. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice Reviews *"By bringing African American political thought to the forefront of the American tradition, Rogers advances a hopeful but realistic view of American democracy that rejects the narrative that the country is fundamentally white supremacist while, at the same time, acknowledges the United States’ sins of slavery, segregation, and discrimination. . . . At a time when ridiculous and dangerous views about race are voiced in the public square, we need a sensible and hopeful one. The Darkened Light of Faith is such a voice."---Lee Trepanier, University Bookman"In an age when the canons of political thought are being critically reexamined and made more inclusive, this book is an essential resource to learn about what makes African American reflections on democracy and freedom rather distinctive – and how they could fruitfully reshape mainstream conversations." * Review of Democracy *
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Rowman & Littlefield Thirteen Cracks: Repairing American Democracy
Book SynopsisAmerica’s founders feared a president like Donald Trump. Through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they erected a fortified but constrained government to secure the benchmarks of our democracy and established the guardrails designed to protect it. But Trump pushed almost every one of the Framers’ safeguards to its limit—most held, but some broke under the weight of presidential abuses even the Framers did not foresee. Thirteen Cracks will be the first book to expose the most vulnerable areas in our democracy, explain in historical context how President Trump uniquely and outrageously exploited these weak spots, and propose a fix for each challenge. Historian Allen J. Lichtman argues that Trump has put us at a pivot point in our history, where the survival of American democracy is at stake. But this is also an historic opportunity to shore up the vulnerabilities and to strengthen our democracy.
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Johns Hopkins University Press What Universities Owe Democracy
Book SynopsisUniversities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues thatat a moment when liberal democracy is endangered and more countries are heading toward autocracy than at any time in generationsit is critical for today's colleges and universities to reestablish their place in democracy. Drawing upon fields as varied as political science, economics, history, and sociology, Daniels identifies four distinct functions of American higher education that are key to liberal democracy: social mobility, citizenship education, the stewardship of facts, and the cultivation of pluralistic, diverse communities. By examining these roles over time, Daniels explains where colleges and universities Trade ReviewThis is an exceptionally important, insistently reasonable, delightfully readable book.—The New York TimesAnyone concerned with higher education's role in the public good, especially researchers and practitioners, will find [What Universities Owe Democracy] well worth the read.—Higher EducationWhen the president of a major university publishes a deeply researched, closely reasoned, strongly argued powerful idea and call to the profession to respond to an urgent crisis in our national history, it is highly likely to become a classic in the literature of higher education. Ronald Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University (co-authoring with colleagues Grant Shreve and Phillip Spector), has accomplished that with this new book.—New England Journal of Higher Education[A] forceful argument for universities as change-makers. Daniels wants the American university and its graduates to find more ways to challenge power.—Simona Chiose, University of Toronto, Globe and MailDaniels makes an important contribution to not one but two urgent and topical subjects: the weakening of American self-governance and the overall role of higher education in countering that dangerous trend. One hopes that Daniels's sterling academic reputation, and that of his institution, leads to a wide readership.—Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University, Washington PostRonald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, makes a compelling case that American universities are failing to meet their civic duty.—Richard Haass, Project SyndicateDaniels recognizes that the public's willingness to support higher education's democratic mission depends on universities reengaging with the nation-state....Daniels's wager is that the end is not inevitable, that universities can reassert their centrality to the American liberal democratic project. I hope he's right.—Johann Neem, Public BooksThe fraying of democracy around the world that is the key premise of Ronald J. Daniels's important book, What Universities Owe Democracy....Daniels's book does two things that are desperately needed and that make it important reading for anyone working in or adjacent to higher education. First, it shows us how to contextualize the work we do in universities—and libraries, and as researchers and publishers....Second, it offers some direction of travel and an agenda in a moment when both feel urgently needed and in short supply.—Karin Wulf, The Scholarly Kitchen[Daniels] offers concrete, actionable and reasonable ideas for how universities can support liberal democratic values and goals. Students of the evolution of the university will learn much from reading this book....Compelling.—Joshua Kim, Inside Higher EdTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. American Dreams: Access, Mobility, Fairness2. Free Minds: Educating Democratic Citizens3. Hard Facts: Knowledge Creation and Checking Power4. Purposeful Pluralism: Dialogue across Difference on CampusConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Cornell University Press Pranksters vs. Autocrats
Book SynopsisThe Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The 2020 Brown Democracy Medal winner, Srdja Popovic, was a leader in the revolution that brought down the Miloševic regime in Serbia and he continues to help protestors around the world learn effective, sometimes humorous, nonviolent tactics. In 2020, he teamed up with Sophia A. McClennen to study the concept of dilemma actions, which offers a structured, strategic approach to fighting back against authoritarianism, as well as for defending democracy.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Brief History of the Dilemma Action 2. Core Components of Dilemma Actions 3. Laughtivism: The Secret Ingredient 4. A Proven Tactic Conclusion
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Yale University Press Polyarchy
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Democracy in America The Complete and Unabridged
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Cambridge University Press Political Technology
Book SynopsisExamining the practice of 'political technology', this book explores how Russia is no longer a democracy but an aggressive propaganda state which exports its problems globally. Andrew Wilson shows how many other countries have voluntarily adopted or developed similar technologies which now cross-fertilise and influence each other.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Russia: the home of political technology; 2. America: all that is solid melts into money; 3. Trump and after; 4. Globalisation: political technologists abroad; 5. Hungary: everything in the pot; 6. Ukraine: A surprisingly comfortable home for the black arts; 7. The post-Soviet playground; 8. China and India; 9. Does political technology work; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Double Glass Ceiling
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Oxford University Press Blood over Different Shades of Green
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OUP India Contested Knowledge Science Media and Democracy
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John Wiley & Sons Chieftaincy the State and Democracy
Book SynopsisJ. Michael Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of San Diego.
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Yale University Press An Open World
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Open University Press Education and the Struggle for Democracy
Book SynopsisDuring the past decade there has been a series of radical changes to the educational system of England and Wales. This book argues that any serious study of these changes has to engage with complex questions about the role of education in a modern liberal democracy. Were these educational changes informed by the needs and aspirations of a democratic society? To what extent will they promote democratic values and ideals? These questions can only be adequately addressed by making explicit the political ideas and the underlying philosophical principles that have together shaped the English educational system. To this end, the book provides a selective history of English education which exposes the connections between decisive periods of educational change and the intellectual and political climate in which it occurred. It also connects the educational policies of the 1980s and 90s to the political ideas of the New Right in order to show how they are part of a broader political strTrade Review"There have been a few fine books already on this topic...but damned few, and none with the calm detestation of this one with its long, careful historiography, the noble reclamation of the vocabulary of T H Green and R H Tawney, the steadiness once more to use such terms as equality, dignity, and the good society." - T.E.S. "Whatever the route, the debate Carr & Hartnett wishto promote can be welcomed." - British Educational Research JournalTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsIntroduction the politics of educational ideasEducation, politics and societyDemocratic theory and democratic education'Gentling the Masses': the nineteenth century origins of the English education tradition'Secondary Education for All': the struggle for democratic education in twentieth century EnglandThe battle of ideas and the rise of the New Right coalition in EnglandThe New Right offensive and the demise of democratic education in EnglandConclusiondemocratic education in the twenty first century References and BibliographyIndex.
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Open University Press Educational Research for Social Justice
Book SynopsisThis is a book for all researchers in educational settings whose research is motivated by considerations of justice, fairness and equity. It addresses questions such researchers have to face. Will a prior political or ethical commitment bias the research? How far can the ideas of empowerment or 'giving a voice' be realised? How can researchers who research communities to which they belong deal with the ethical issues of being both insider and outsider?The book provides a set of principles for doing educational research for social justice. These are rooted in considerations of methodology, epistemology and power relations, and provide a framework for dealing with the practical issues of collaboration, ethics, bias, empowerment, voice, uncertain knowledge and reflexivity, at all stages of research from getting started to dissemination and taking responsibility as members of the wider community of educational researchers.Theoretical arguments and the realities of practicalTrade Review"...insightful and thought-provoking, challenging readers'beliefs about educational practice." - Assessment in EducationTable of ContentsPart one: Introduction and contextTaking sides, getting changeResearch for social justice?some examplesPart two: Theoretical frameworks for practical purposesTruths and methodsFacts and valuespower/knowledgeLiving with uncertainty in educational researchEducational research for social justicea frameworkPart three: Practical possibilitiesGetting startedthe research processGetting justiceempowerment and voiceBetter knowledgeEducational research at largeAppendixReferencesIndex.
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Open University Press Democracy Third Edition
Book SynopsisIn praise of previous editions: "...brilliant introduction." - New Statesman and Society"From start to finish, Arblaster's book is stimulating and highly readable." - Times Higher Educational Supplement"...an ideal first book to place in the hands of a student embarking on the study of democracy." - Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics What is the meaning of democracy? Why has democracy provoked hostility in the past? Has the hostility entirely vanished? * How democratic are contemporary Western societies in reality and how might they be made more democratic? The revised and updated edition of this widely acclaimed survey takes account of the very different global context in which any discussion of democracy must now take place, including the mighty power of the multinationals vis-a-vis elected governments, the resurgence of the idea of an Islamic alternative to the Western democratic ideal, and the suggestion thTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsPreface to the third editionIntroductiondefining democracyPart one: HistoryThe invention of democracyThe re-emergence of democracyPopular politicsPart two: IdeasGovernment by the peopleMajority rule and its problemsEquality and the general interestRepresentation and 'direct' democracyConsent, freedom and debateConclusioncreating democracyNotesBibliographyIndex.
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World
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Cambridge University Press Power Crisis The SelfDestruction of a State Labor Party Australian Encounters
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Penguin Random House India Great March of Democracy
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Penguin Random House India Poles Apart
Book SynopsisIs there a predominant reason why India is not Pakistan? Many would likely point to the omnipresence of the military in the polity of the latter. While the interventionist attitude of the army in Pakistan easily explains the democratic shortfall in its history, the mirror opposite in India is rarely studied or credited.
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New York University Press Democracys Blameless Leaders
Book SynopsisA timely analysis of why abuses and atrocities occur, why leaders behave as they do, and how a more accountable system might be developedTrade Review"Mitchell provides an interesting typology of the various techniques that leaders use to deflect blame, and he writes with a certain acerbic flair" * Washington Post *"I highly recommend this book. Its strongest feature is the clarity of the theoretical argument made about why high officials in mature democracies will engage in self-interested blame management that obscures accountability and devolves punishment on those at the lowest rungs of power" -- Hank Jenkins Smith,co-author of Critical Masses and Critical Choices"Mitchell's incisive and compelling account of how atrocities are handled by 'working' democracies provides a promising foundation for how stronger and more efficient systems of accountability might be implemented." -- Kimberly A. Seida * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *"Although accountability lies at the heart of the ideal of democracy, leaders rarely accept blame for human rights violations. The Bush administration famously dismissed the abuses at Abu Ghraib as a result of & a few bad apples, deflecting blame to the individual soldiers involved, and denying any responsibility for the actions. This insightful book is essential reading for all scholars interested in agency and incentives in the use of violence." -- Kristian Skrede Gleditsch,author of All International Politics Is Local"Neil Mitchells provocative new book, Democracys Blameless Leaders, should be must reading for those concerned about the operation of democracy and the accountability of its leaders.In a series of probing case analyses of human right atrocities committed by those from the United States, Britain, and Israel over the decades, Mitchell deftly shows how leaders often escape accountability for such actions.To the extent that accountability occurs, the fall guy, an individual at a lower level of responsibility, not the leaders, takes the blame.His conclusions are equally revealingwhy democratic polities, whether parliamentary or presidential systems, often find it difficult hold their leaders more accountable for such actions." -- James M. McCormick,author of American Foreign Policy and Process"Using interesting and readable case examples, Mitchell argues that democratic leaders are not held accountable by their citizens for the human rights atrocities they permit in times of conflict. If blame is assigned, it goes to low-level soldiers, police, and prison guards, and even their punishments are usually insufficient. To understand why this is so and what can be done about it, read this book." -- David Cingranelli,co-author of Human Rights and Structural Adjustment"Highly recommended for lower-division undergraduates and above." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1 Introduction 2 The Theory of the Fall Guy 3 Evading Accountability 4 Amritsar 5 Dresden 6 Londonderry 7 Beirut 8 Baghdad 9 Baghdad to Basra 10 A Tale of a Few Cities: Better Leaders, Better Institutions, or a Better Audience? Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Oneworld Publications Overruled
Book SynopsisA testimony of how our government has undermined our democratic principles from a barrister who took the Prime Minister to courtTrade Review'Unflinching, brilliant.' -- TLS‘Overruled is a fascinating insider account of the complex and opaque British legal system, and a timely warning about the steady erosion of British democracy at the hands of unaccountable elites.’ -- Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen‘A compelling description of a barren political landscape… This is about the power of the people rather than the people in power.’ -- Michael Mansfield QC'[A] unique insight into what has gone wrong and how to begin the process of mending our constitution' -- Robert Verkaik * The Times *‘Sam Fowles has seen the way the UK constitution works – and doesn’t – up close. In this invigorating new book he brings his expertise to bear in asking whether UK democracy is in peril – and what we can do about it.’ -- Alex Dean, Prospect‘An incisive and vigorous investigation into how excessive executive power threatens democracy by sidestepping accountability and scrutiny. Enlivened by historical and courtroom anecdotes, this exploration of our unwritten constitution is easily accessible to all.’ -- Owen Bowcott, former legal affairs correspondent at the Guardian
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Goose Lane Editions The Legacy of Tiananmen Square
Book SynopsisWith the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question the decisions of the governing party are strictly forbidden. In this fascinating account, Cormier chronicles numerous failed attempts to bring democracy to China in the last century, starting with a handful of brave souls who tried to move China towards a constitutional monarchy at the turn of the century and peaking with the student uprising of 1989. Using historical research (including surprising transcripts from Party meetings) and candid interviews with many of the dissidents -- some now living in exile, others under house arrest in China -- Cormier tells the very human story of real people struggling for human rights and freedoms. The Legacy of Tiananmen Square was originally published in French as Les héritiers de Tiananmen. This updated edition was translated by Jonathan Kaplansky.
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Liberty Fund Inc Virtue of Civility Selected Essays on Liberalism
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Liberty Fund Inc Federalism Liberty the Law
Book SynopsisAs diverse as the papers presented in this volume may seem at first glance, all of them touch on two characteristic themes of James Buchanan''s work: the respect for individual sovereignty and the threat of monopoly power on the rights of the individual. In his foreword, Hartmut Kliemt says, As opposed to more extreme and more utopian libertarians, (Buchanan) well understands that in our world it takes a state to defend the individual from the state. Buchanan, therefore, is not an anarchist but, rather, what may be called a ''reluctant anarchist'' who accepts both that the state is the greatest threat to individual sovereignty and that without some statelike monopoly, individual sovereignty cannot be protected. The twenty-six essays included in FEDERALISM, LIBERTY, AND THE LAW are grouped into these categories: the analytics of federalism; federalism and freedom; liberty, man, and the state; the constitution of markets; economists, efficiency, and the law; law, money, and crime. The central issue that unites the pieces in this volume is monopoly power and its control. As a libertarian, Buchanan sees government as the greatest threat -- and also the greatest protector -- of individual liberties.
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Liberty Fund Inc Government Failure and OverGovernment v 5
Book SynopsisArthur Seldon uses public choice economics research to support his theory of over-government. The term over-government was coined by Seldon and is defined as the failure of governments to govern well, leading the public to avoid government programs in favour of markets. Seldon explains how the results of government programs are always at odds with what the people would have chosen for themselves, because governments seek to impose taxes and legislature based on their own agendas. This increasing control and restraint by the government will continue to force people to abandon those ineffective programs for more open markets and other countries that support them. Seldon argues that government bureaucrats rely too heavily on unions, labour groups, and lobbyists and act in their own interest instead of opening those options up to the people they serve. Seldon purports that any government that continues to force its own views and desires on the unwilling public will lead to its own demise a
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Liberty Fund Inc Political Economy Concisely Essays on Policy That
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Liberty Fund Inc Political Economy Concisely
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Liberty Fund Inc Democracy Liberty
Book SynopsisWarns that an unfettered democracy would destroy the balance of interests in the community and thereby undermine the Constitution. This work focuses on democracy in Britain.Trade Review"Democracy and Liberty is the most thorough manual of conservative politics produced during the nineteenth century." -- Russell Kirk, 'The Conservative Mind'.
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Liberty Fund Inc Democracy and Liberty
Book SynopsisWarns that an unfettered democracy would destroy the balance of interests in the community and thereby undermine the Constitution. This work focuses on democracy in Britain.Trade Review"Democracy and Liberty is the most thorough manual of conservative politics produced during the nineteenth century." -- Russell Kirk, 'The Conservative Mind'.
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Liberty Fund Inc The American Democrat
Book SynopsisWhen ''The American Democrat'' was first published in 1838, Cooper''s position as America''s first major novelist obscured his serious contribution to the discussion of American principles and politics.
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Liberty Fund Inc The American Democrat
Book SynopsisWhen ''The American Democrat'' was first published in 1838, Cooper''s position as America''s first major novelist obscured his serious contribution to the discussion of American principles and politics.
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Cambridge University Press Romania Confronts its Communist Past
Book SynopsisReckoning with mass crimes perpetrated by an ideologically driven regime entails engaging in a thorough-going exploration of its utopian foundations. In the case of Romania, such an analysis requires an interpretation of the role of personality in the construction of a uniquely grotesque and unrepentant form of neo-Stalinist despotism. Of all the revolutions of 1989, the only violent one took place in Romania. Confronting its communist past therefore involves addressing the abuses committed by the communist regime up to its very last day, its failure to engage in Round Table-type agreements with democratic representatives, and the repression during the first post-communist years, a direct legacy of the old regime. This book shows how moral justice can contribute to a restoration of truth and a climate of trust in politics, in the absence of which any democratic polity remains exposed to authoritarian attack.Trade Review'Tismaneanu and Stan's Romania Confronts its Communist Past furnishes a signal contribution to our understanding of post-despotic justice and healing. Drawing on a profound understanding of the history and psychology of totalitarianism as well as a matchless grasp of the Romanian case, Tismaneanu and Stan shed light on why sound constitutions and decent economic performance are insufficient to consolidate robust democracy in societies previously rent by abusive rulers. Appearing at time when observers mull a post-truth and post-trust politics and when substantial portions of Western publics appear to be unlearning the lessons of twentieth-century nightmares, Romania Confronts its Communist Past reminds us that democracy's endurance rests on moral commitment and dedication to truth-telling no less than on workable institutions and technically competent officials.' Steven Fish, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Judging the past in post-traumatic societies: Romania in comparative perspective; 2. Romania before 2006; 3. Coming to terms with the past in Romania: the presidential commission; 4. Reactions to the condemnation and political re-arrangements after 2007; 5. The report's aftermath: interpretations, polemics, and policies; 6. Romania and the European framework of dealing with the communist past.
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Cambridge University Press Primary Elections in the United States
Book SynopsisThe direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the Progressive era in American history. In this book, the authors provide the most comprehensive treatment available on the topic and utilize new data on election outcomes, candidate backgrounds, incumbent performance and behavior, newspaper endorsements, and voters'' preferences. They begin by studying whether primary elections have achieved the goals set by progressive reformers when they were first introduced over a century ago. They then evaluate the key roles these elections have played in the US electoral systems, such as injecting electoral competition into the regions that are dominated by one of the two major parties, helping select relatively qualified candidates for office, and, in some cases, holding incumbents accountable for their performance. They conclude with studying the degree to which primaries are responsible for the current, highly polarized environment. Anyone interesteTrade Review'This is a wonderful, definitive study of American party primaries at the state and district level, going back a century. All the usual wrinkles are convincingly addressed - origins, history, competition, turnout, factions, candidate quality, polarization, reform options, and more. For all its messiness, the authors conclude, the system seems to work reasonably well.' David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Yale University, Connecticut'Hirano and Snyder's Primary Elections in the United States presents the most comprehensive, theoretically informed, and empirically rich analysis of the origins and consequences of primary elections yet attempted. It is a fundamental contribution to the literature on American party politics and will be the go-to source for anyone interested in learning how primaries have affected representation in the US.' Gary Jacobson, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents1. More democracy; 2. One-party dominance, 1880 to 1950; 3. Introduction of primaries and electoral competition, 1892 to 1950; 4. Primaries and party loyalty; 5. Primaries and the qualifications of nominees; 6. Voting behavior and primary elections, 1892 to 1950; 7. Primaries in a changing electoral environment, 1950 to 2016; 8. Primaries and candidate selection in the modern era; 9. Voting behavior and primary elections, 1950 to 2016; 10. Primaries and accountability in the modern era; 11. Primaries and polarization; 12. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Taking Liberty
Book SynopsisAt last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with these new political institutions. It is, essentially, a bringing together of two histories that have hitherto been told separately: one concerns the arrival of early democracy in the Australian colonies, as white settlers moved from the shame and restrictions of the penal era to a new and freer society with their own institutions of government; the other is the tragedy of indigenous dispossession and displacement, with its frontier violence, poverty, disease and enforced regimes of mission life.Trade Review'This is the first book to get to grips not only with how settlers in the Australian colonies gained powers of self-government, but how those powers were comprehended, experienced and resisted by Aboriginal Australians. Rigorously researched and compellingly narrated, this is one book that everyone with an interest in settler colonialism must read.' Alan Lester, University of Sussex and La Trobe University, Melbourne'Curthoys and Mitchell take issue with major trends in the field and aim at genres of narrative that have failed to capture the dialectics between settlers and indigenous communities. This is a fierce, unflinching case for rooting principles of equality and inclusion in deep, unsentimental genealogies of the nineteenth-century experience.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign'This is an important book. It is deeply learned. It compels a rethinking of political history as traditionally conceived, demanding a reckoning with the centrality of violence and the attempted erasure or coercion of Indigenous peoples to the development of democracy and colonial self-government both in Australia and the wider British settler empire. Chilling, heartbreaking, magisterial: this book is a game-changer.' Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University, Montreal'This landmark book traces a vital shift in the histories of liberty and unfreedom across the Australian colonies in the mid nineteenth century, for the first time interrogating how responsible government and the gaining of democratic rights and freedoms for settlers gave rise to violent and oppressive degrees unfreedom for Indigenous peoples. A must read for all historians of Australia and of settler colonialism.' Penelope Edmonds, University of TasmaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: how settlers gained self-government and indigenous people (almost) lost it; Part I. A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples: 1. Colonialism and catastrophe: 1830; 2. 'Another new world inviting our occupation': colonisation and the beginnings of humanitarian intervention, 1831–1837; 3. Settlers oppose indigenous protection: 1837–1842; 4. A colonial conundrum: settler rights versus indigenous rights, 1837–1842; 5. Who will control the land? Colonial and imperial debates 1842–1846; Part II. Towards Self-Government: 6. Who will govern the settlers? Imperial and settler desires, visions, utopias, 1846–1850; 7. 'No place for the sole of their feet': imperial-colonial dialogue on Aboriginal land rights, 1846–1851; 8. Who will govern Aboriginal people? Britain transfers control of Aboriginal policy to the colonies, 1852–1854; 9. The dark side of responsible government? Britain and indigenous people in the self-governing colonies, 1854–1870; Part III. Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People, 1856–c.1870: 10. Ghosts of the past, people of the present: Tasmania; 11. 'A refugee in our own land': governing Aboriginal people in Victoria; 12. Aboriginal survival in New South Wales; 13. Their worst fears realised: the disaster of Queensland; 14. A question of honour in the colony that was meant to be different: Aboriginal policy in South Australia; Part IV. Self-Government for Western Australia: 15. 'A little short of slavery': forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia 1856–1884; 16. 'A slur upon the colony': making Western Australia's unusual constitution, 1885–1890; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Europe TwentyFive Years On
Book SynopsisJoseph Weiler's The Transformation of Europe is one of the most influential works in the history of European studies. Twenty-five years after its original publication, this new collection of essays pays tribute to Weiler's legacy by discussing some of the most pressing issues in contemporary European Union law, policy and constitutionalism. The book does not intend to be a simple expression of intellectual esteem for Weiler's seminal work; instead, the collection honours it by critically engaging with some of its assumptions and theses. Overall, it shows how a study of 1991 can still be fundamental to the present and future of the EU, including the challenges of Brexit and Eurozone crises.Trade Review'Joseph Weiler's 'The Transformation of Europe' was a seminal article that placed previous developments in sharp perspective, and contained valuable insights on the future challenges facing the EU. The article has stood the test of time. This volume provides a fitting tribute to Weiler's article, with important contributions from prominent scholars in the field that reflect on Weiler's scholarship from a variety of perspectives.' Paul Craig, University of Oxford''The Transformation of Europe' had a decisive impact on the constitution of a smarter knowledge about European integration. It helped a generation of scholars to liberate themselves from the notion of a postwar new European order placed above the fray of inter-state relations and agonistic about political preferences and social conflicts, ideological differences and value choices. It made them aware of the amorphous, conflictive and precarious character of European integration. It reintroduced in the picture the tension inherent in a political project making the existence of states subject to their coexistence and it turned this tension into the normative core of the project. This book is an effort by the same generation of scholars to revisit 'The Transformation of Europe' in view of their own conceptions developed since and thanks to the publication of the piece. A superb exercise of self-reflection and reappropriation of knowledge. A unique way of rethinking Europe in our time.” Loïc Azoulai, Institut d'études politiques de Paris'Amongst the many possible definitions of a 'classic', two features frequently arise. A classic most often connects worlds or ideas that are generally seen as distinct, and it stands the test of time: It may be revisited, amended, possibly improved, but a classic always provides us with a lens through which we understand the world. Weiler's The Transformation of Europe certainly meets these criteria and, as such, deserves the attention it gets here from a group of distinguished scholars.' Renaud Dehousse, President, European University Institute, Florence'This outstanding collection of essays transforms the 'Transformation of Europe'. Marking the 25th anniversary of Joseph Weiler's famous essay by that name, the authors take stock of how the European Union has developed in the quarter century since the essay was published, showing how Weiler's then-revolutionary blending of legal and political analysis remains the most useful way to comprehend the EU. As European crises have proliferated, Weiler's analysis of the structural tensions in the European project has looked more and more prescient. Legitimacy remains in short supply; European values are under stress. But the authors - an all-star cast of EU experts with a new essay by Professor Weiler himself - explore the way forward from the EU's present state of crisis and self-doubt. This collection is a compelling addition to the reading list of everyone concerned with the past, present and future of the European Union.' Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values'This inspiring interdisciplinary, international and inter-generational collection of essays reinforces how Joseph Weiler's vivid writing and intriguing arguments energize the minds of scholars from diverse fields even today.' Karen J. Alter, Northwestern University, Illinois'What is the European construct and how to evaluate its current crisis? This book deserves a place of honor in the debate on the Union. … The authors of this book revisit Joseph Weiler's foundational analysis of the European Union and provide a key to the understanding of successes and failures of this experiment … [whilst also] capturing the essence of the European experiment. This work will likely influence public debate on the crisis of the Union. … A critical re-appraisal of an important book and, in the meantime, a diagnosis of the current crisis of the European Union. … A thoughtful and reasoned book about successes and failures of the European Union.' Sabino Cassese, Former Justice, Italian Constitutional CourtTable of ContentsTransformation of Europe J. H. H. Weiler; Introduction: the transformation of Europe twenty-five years after Miguel Maduro and Marlene Wind; 1. The transformation of Europe revisited: civilising interstatal relations Gráinne de Búrca; 2. Disequilibrium and disconnect: on Weiler's (still robust) theory of European transformation Peter L. Lindseth; 3. Joseph Weiler and the experience of law Julio Baquero Cruz; 4. The transformation of Europe in US legal academia and its legacy in the field of private law Daniela Caruso; 5. A European half-life? A retrospective on Joseph Weiler's The Transformation of Europe Neil Walker; 6. On the past and future of the transformation of Europe. Law, governance, rights and politics in the EU evolution Gianluigi Palombella; 7. Assessing the transformation of Europe: a view from political science R. Daniel Keleman and Alec Stone Sweet; 8. The Lisbon Treaty as a response to transformation's democratic skepticism Armin van Bogdandy; 9. Joseph Weiler, Eric Stein and the transformation of constitutional law Daniel Halberstam; 10. Perils of unity, promise of union Kalypso Nicolaïdis; 11. Unity and community: a tale of two monsters and one unanswered question Alexander Somek; 12. How transformative is the European project? Türküler Isiksel; 13. The transformation of Europe: loyalty lost, democracy lost? Franz C. Mayer; 14. The transformation of private law Hans W. Micklitz; 15. The transformation of Europe - and of selective exit twenty-five years after Marlene Wind; 16. Europe transformed. Exit, voice … and loyalty? Miguel Maduro; 17. The transformation of Europe revisited – the things that do not transform J. H. H. Weiler.
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Cambridge University Press A Democratic Bearing
Book SynopsisIn this rich analysis of the changing ideals of citizenship, Stephen K. White offers a path for the renewal of democratic life in the twenty-first century. Looking beyond passive notions of citizenship defined in terms of voting or passport possession, White seeks a more aspirational portrait, both participatory and inclusive, that challenges citizens, especially in the middle class, to confront power structures to achieve greater justice. Using the Tea Party and followers of Donald Trump as foils, he shows how these groups'' resentful and exclusivist conceptions of active citizenship undermine democratic aspirations. White explores how such deleterious influence might be effectively engaged by a robust counter-conception on the democratic left. The book makes this aspirational ideal conceptually clear, normatively compelling and aesthetically attractive.Trade Review'The volume requires an extensive understanding of political theory but is a rewarding read.' R. A. Harper, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Moral and theoretical sources; 2. Models of citizenship: virtual patriots and Tea Parties; 3. Models of citizenship: a democratic bearing; 4. Depth experience, faith and democratic life; 5. One path for critical political theory; 6. The consensus machine and 'no-saying'; 7. Suspicious conjectures and uneven injustice; 8. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Homicidal Ecologies
Book SynopsisWhy has violence spiked in Latin America''s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region''s uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational illicit political economies; the varied capacity and complicity of state institutions tasked with providing law and order; and organizational competition to control illicit territorial enclaves. These three factors inform the emergence of ''homicidal ecologies'' (subnational regions most susceptible to violence) in Latin America. After focusing on the contemporary causes of homicidal violence, the book analyzes the comparative historical origins of weak and complicit public security forces and the rare moments in which successful institutional reform takes place. Regional trends in Latin America are evaluated, followed by original case studies of Central America, which claims among the highest homicide rates in the world.Trade Review'A brilliant example of how careful social science research can illuminate the most pressing problems of our times, Homicidal Ecologies shows why democracy and the end of civil war didn't bring peace to Latin America. Rather than resulting from economic inequality or weak democratic institutions, homicidal violence soared along the routes of the Continental drug trade where cartels compete and the state is too weak or corrupt to rein them in.' Andreas Wimmer, author of Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Other Fall Apart'Latin America has the highest homicide rates in the world. Homicidal Ecologies offer a comprehensive portrait of violence in the region, and a broader theory of illicit markets, state capacity, and their responses to structural conditions and organizational incentives. It will prove indispensable not only to Latin Americanists but to students of violence and political development more generally. This book's importance cannot be overstated. It is a must-read.' M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University'Civil war and dictatorship have virtually vanished in Latin America. Yet in many parts of the region, violent death remains a part of daily life. Through awe-inspiring data collection and encyclopedic area expertise, Deborah J. Yashar provides a granular descriptive picture of Latin America's homicidal ecologies. She convincingly demonstrates that homicide levels have skyrocketed in zones where state weakness and corruption spawn deadly competition to control the transit of illicit goods.' Dan Slater, University of Michigan'Homicidal Ecologies is a pathbreaking account of the tragic surge in violence in post-civil war Central America. Yashar breaks new theoretical ground in explaining how criminal violence is related to illicit economies, state capacities, and organizational competition over territorial enclaves and transportation routes. This book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the deep societal roots of violence in Central America, and why some countries are more susceptible to it than others.' Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University, New York'In this eagerly anticipated book, Deborah J. Yashar takes up one of the most critical challenges facing Latin America today: how to understand the violence that has plagued the region after democratization. Showcasing Yashar's deep knowledge of Central America, Homicidal Ecologies explains this violence as the result of competition between organizations over the control of territory - an argument that is especially compelling because it draws on transnational, national, and subnational levels of analysis.' Kent Eaton, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Violence in third wave democracies; 2. Engaging the theoretical debate and alternative arguments; Part II. The Argument about Homicidal Ecologies: 3. Illicit economies and territorial enclaves: the transnational context and domestic footprint; 4. State capacity and organizational competition: strategic calculations about territory and violence; Part III. Divergent Trajectories in Central America: Three Post-Civil War Cases: 5. High violence in post-Civil-War Guatemala; 6. High violence in post-Civil War El Salvador; 7. Circumscribing violence in post-Civil War Nicaragua; Part IV. Looking Backwards and Forwards: 8. Concluding with states.
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Cambridge University Press Incomprehensible
Book SynopsisThe legal system is awash with excessive and incomprehensible information. Yet many of us assume that the unrelenting torrent of information pouring into various legal programs is both inevitable and unstoppable. We have become complacent; but it does not have to be this way. Incomprehensible! argues that surrendering to incomprehensibility is a bad mistake. Drawing together evidence from diverse fields such as consumer protection, financial regulation, patents, chemical control, and administrative and legislative processes, this book identifies a number of important legal programs that are built on the foundational assumption that ''more information is better''. Each of these legal processes have been designed in ways that ignore the imperative of meaningful communication. To rectify this systemic problem, the law must be re-designed to pay careful attention to the problem of incomprehensibility.Trade Review'Using a wide variety of legal fields, Wagner and Walker unpack how asymmetrical comprehension or information dictates a price point at which people will stop seeking to understand but instead pay a cost to have someone else understand for them.' Ashley Pearson, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law'I found this book well researched and meticulously referenced … I would recommend it for academic and government audiences, particularly those interested in regulatory reform.' David H. Michels, Canadian Law Library Review'This is a valuable read for students, academics, and practitioners.' F. E. Knowles, ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Part I. The Concept: 1. Introduction; 2. Modeling comprehension asymmetries; 3. The implications of comprehension asymmetries for the law; Part II. Application: 4. Comprehension asymmetries and consumer protection law; 5A. Comprehension asymmetries in financial regulation; 5B. Comprehension asymmetries in the law of patents; 5C. Comprehension asymmetries in chemical regulation; 6. Comprehension asymmetries in administrative process; 7. Comprehension asymmetries in legislative processes; Part III. System-Wide Reform: 8. A blueprint for reform; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Primary Elections in the United States
Book SynopsisThe direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the Progressive era in American history. In this book, the authors provide the most comprehensive treatment available on the topic and utilize new data on election outcomes, candidate backgrounds, incumbent performance and behavior, newspaper endorsements, and voters'' preferences. They begin by studying whether primary elections have achieved the goals set by progressive reformers when they were first introduced over a century ago. They then evaluate the key roles these elections have played in the US electoral systems, such as injecting electoral competition into the regions that are dominated by one of the two major parties, helping select relatively qualified candidates for office, and, in some cases, holding incumbents accountable for their performance. They conclude with studying the degree to which primaries are responsible for the current, highly polarized environment. Anyone interesteTrade Review'This is a wonderful, definitive study of American party primaries at the state and district level, going back a century. All the usual wrinkles are convincingly addressed - origins, history, competition, turnout, factions, candidate quality, polarization, reform options, and more. For all its messiness, the authors conclude, the system seems to work reasonably well.' David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Yale University, Connecticut'Hirano and Snyder's Primary Elections in the United States presents the most comprehensive, theoretically informed, and empirically rich analysis of the origins and consequences of primary elections yet attempted. It is a fundamental contribution to the literature on American party politics and will be the go-to source for anyone interested in learning how primaries have affected representation in the US.' Gary Jacobson, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents1. More democracy; 2. One-party dominance, 1880 to 1950; 3. Introduction of primaries and electoral competition, 1892 to 1950; 4. Primaries and party loyalty; 5. Primaries and the qualifications of nominees; 6. Voting behavior and primary elections, 1892 to 1950; 7. Primaries in a changing electoral environment, 1950 to 2016; 8. Primaries and candidate selection in the modern era; 9. Voting behavior and primary elections, 1950 to 2016; 10. Primaries and accountability in the modern era; 11. Primaries and polarization; 12. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Civil Sphere in Latin America
Book SynopsisSocial thinkers have criticized Latin American development as incomplete, backward, and anti-modern. This volume demonstrates that, while often deeply compromised and fragmented, Latin American civil spheres have remained resilient, institutionally and culturally, generating new oppositional movements, independent journalism, rebellious intellectuals, electoral power, and critical political parties. In widely different arenas, dissidents have employed the coruscating language of the civil sphere to pollute their oppressors in the name of justice. In the 1970s and 1980s, political thinkers heralded the resurrection of Latin American civil society, envisioning a new world of freedom and stability. Corruption, inequality, racism, and exclusion become pressing and urgent ''social problems'', not despite the promises of democracy, but because of them. The premise of this volume is that Latin American civil spheres are powerful, even as they are compromised, creating challenges to anti-civil culture and institutions that trigger social reform. It is the first of three volumes that place civil sphere theory in a global context.Trade Review'To conclude, The Civil Sphere in Latin America approaches the right questions in order to produce a theory of Latin America's civil sphere. It also approaches the right cases, showing the tension between a civil sphere and political, patrimonial, economic and public security dimensions in Latin America.' Leonardo Avritzer, European Journal of Cultural and Political SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: for democracy in Latin America Jeffrey C. Alexander and Carlo Tognato; Part I. Scandals and Civil Indignation: 1. The civil sphere in Mexico: between democracy and authoritarianism Nelson Arteaga and Javier Arzuaga; 2. Shaping solidarity in Argentina: the power of the civil sphere in repairing violence against women María Luengo; 3. Civil indignation in Chile: recent collusion scandals in the retail industry M. Angélica Thumala; Part II. Militancy, Civility, and Polarization: 4. La Joven Cuba: confrontation, conciliation, and the quest for the civil through blogging Liliana Martínez Pérez; 5. ¿La Clase Media en Positivo? The civil and uncivil uses of 'the Middle Class' in Venezuela, 1958–2016 Celso M. Villegas; 6. The civil life of the university: enacting dissent and resistance on a Colombian campus Carlo Tognato; Part III. Law, Order, and Solidarity: 7. Police officers in contradiction: anti-civility in the São Paulo state military police Mayumi Shimizu; 8. Citizenship and the established civil sphere in provincial Mexico Trevor Stack; Part IV. Commentary and Conclusion: Commentary: is civil society dangerous for democracy? New directions for civil sphere theory in Latin America Isabel Jijón; Conclusion: democracy and the civil sphere in Latin America Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino.
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and Goodness
Book SynopsisCitizens, political leaders, and scholars invoke the term ''democracy'' to describe present-day states without grasping its roots or prospects in theory or practice. This book clarifies the political discourse about democracy by identifying that its primary focus is human activity, not consent. It points out how democracy is neither self-legitimating nor self-justifying and so requires critical, ethical discourse to address its ongoing problems, such as inequality and exclusion. Wallach pinpoints how democracy has historically depended on notions of goodness to ratify its power. The book analyses pivotal concepts of democratic ethics such as ''virtue'', ''representation'', ''civil rightness'', ''legitimacy'', and ''human rights'' and looks at them as practical versions of goodness that have adapted democracy to new constellations of power in history. Wallach notes how democratic ethics should never be reduced to power or moral ideals. Historical understanding needs to come first to higTrade Review'Democracy and Goodness is an admirable exercise in argumentation, as refined in its theoretical perspective as it is expansive in its political scope. Ranging across ancients and moderns in an unabashedly 'historicizing' mode, Wallach intervenes decisively onto the contested terrain of contemporary democratic theory, retrieving an account of democratic ethics that is intrinsic to democracy as an ongoing activity in politics and history. On these terms, Wallach's book is a welcome provocation at a moment when principled and coherent conceptions of the relation between democracy, power, and goodness are in short supply.' Mary G. Dietz, Northwestern University, Illinois'Wallach argues on the opening page of this ambitious, erudite, and wide-ranging book, 'democracy' is often treated as self-evidently 'good'. Why - on the basis of what conceptualizations of democracy and goodness - have successive generations of self identified democrats believed that? And how should future democracies act so as to bring democracy and goodness closer together? Wallach argues that efficacious answers to the second question require the kind of critical political judgment that can be developed by answering the first one.' Daniela Cammack, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Historicizing democratic ethics; 2. Democracy and virtue in ancient Athens; 3. Representation as a political virtue and the formation of liberal democracy; 4. Civil rightness: a virtuous discipline for the modern Demos; 5. Democracy and legitimacy: popular justification of states amid contemporary globalization; 6. Human rights and democracy; Conclusion: political action and retrospection; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Institutional Reform
Book SynopsisIn this ground breaking analysis, Terry M. Moe treats Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment that offers a rare opportunity to learn about the role of power in the politics of institutional reform. When Katrina hit, it physically destroyed New Orleans'' school buildings, but it also destroyed the vested-interest power that had protected the city''s abysmal education system from major reform. With the constraints of power lifted, decision makers who had been incremental problem-solvers turned into revolutionaries, creating the most innovative school system in the entire country. The story of New Orleans'' path from failure to revolution is fascinating, but, more importantly, it reveals the true role of power, whose full effects normally cannot be observed, because power has a ''second face'' that is hidden and unobservable. Making use of Katrina''s analytic leverage, Moe pulls back the curtain to show that this second face has profound consequences that stifle and undermine society''Trade Review'A groundbreaking contribution. By creatively leveraging Katrina's impact on New Orleans education reform as a natural experiment, Moe generates fresh insights into the role of power in sustaining poorly performing institutions and sheds new light on society's potential for problem-solving and real reform. A must-read.' Eric M. Patashnik, Brown University, Rhode Island'Beautifully written, rich in descriptive detail, and propelled by a singular idea, The Politics of Institutional Reform packs a punch. This isn't just a book about education reform. It is a book about all public policy all the time: about how vested-interest power prevents society from fixing its institutions - and how, when that power is swept away, reforms once deemed heretical can become commonplace.' William Howell, University of Chicago'Terry M. Moe uses the case of Hurricane Katrina to generate fundamental insights into the politics of institutional reform. Moe demonstrates how the 'second face of power' ordinarily allows vested interests to stifle major reform, and shows how institutional politics are transformed when their power is disrupted. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of institutional stability and change - and the challenge of fixing failing institutions.' Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley'Terry M. Moe uses a theorist's insight to cut through the clutter surrounding New Orleans' school transformation. As he shows, smart pragmatists like Paul Pastorek can do sensible things, but only when the guardians of the status quo lose their blocking power. The result is a novel and revealing analysis of how power shapes the prospects for institutional reform.' Paul Hill, Center for Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Power, vested interests, and the politics of institutional reform; 2. Before Katrina: the normal politics of reform; 3. After Katrina: reform with the lid off; 4. Protecting the revolution: toward a new normal; 5. Learning from Katrina.
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Cambridge University Press Learning from Loss
Book SynopsisThe Democrats'' decision to nominate Joe Biden for 2020 was hardly a fluke but rather a strategic choice by a party that had elevated electability above all other concerns. In Learning from Loss, one of the nation''s leading political analysts offers unique insight into the Democratic Party at a moment of uncertainty. Between 2017 and 2020, Seth Masket spoke with Democratic Party activists and followed the behavior of party leaders and donors to learn how the party was interpreting the 2016 election and thinking about a nominee for 2020. Masket traces the persistence of party factions and shows how interpretations of 2016 shaped strategic choices for 2020. Although diverse narratives emerged to explain defeat in 2016 - ranging from a focus on ''identity politics'' to concerns about Clinton as a flawed candidate - these narratives collectively cleared the path for Biden.Trade Review'Read this book for the first truly comprehensive and persuasive account of why Joe Biden won the 2020 Democratic primary. Masket also deftly explains how political parties are adapting to the modern media landscape, and how they can sometimes overreact based on stylized interpretations of the facts ('narratives') that may not match the more complicated reality. Masket shows why Biden's comeback win wasn't nearly as surprising as the conventional wisdom seemed to hold.' Nate Silver, editor-in-chief, FiveThirtyEight'Combining the sophistication of a political scientist with the readability of a political journalist, Seth Masket sets out to explore the stories Democrats have told themselves about their catastrophic loss to Donald Trump. He returns with a vividly detailed MRI scan of the Democratic mind. The party, he finds, is vexed less by ideological disagreements than by persistent tensions over identity politics, class, and race. If you want to understand what Democrats thought they learned in 2016, and why they bet everything on an old white guy in 2020, you need to read this book.' Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution'Seth Masket has written an engaging, illuminating and thought-provoking book, one that adeptly combines broad theoretical sweep with fine granular detail. This rigorous and original study sheds valuable light on timely - and timeless - debates in American politics.' Molly Ball, TIME national political correspondent and author of Pelosi'Seth Masket revisits The Party Decides with a fascinating and persuasive analysis of the 2016 and 2020 presidential nominations. This book will quickly become the go-to source for understanding when and how parties succeed or fail in choosing their presidential nominees.' Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution, co-author of One Nation After Trump and It's Even Worse Than It Looks'This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the long-term impact of the 2016 election on American party politics. Masket takes us into the heads of state party activists, showing how their perceptions of the 2016 result shaped nomination politics in 2020.' Julia R. Azari, Marquette University'Seth Masket has written a timely and important book on what was perhaps the most central question of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination: Why did 2016 turn out the way that it did? That question has dominated commentary for four years, but Masket focuses on it from a particularly important perspective: Why do Democrats think that Democrats lost a race that they thought they could win?' Hans Noel, Georgetown University'There's no better guide to the 2020 Democratic Party nomination process than Seth Masket. Learning from Loss shows how explanations for Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss - accurate or not - set the stage for activists' judgments of the 2020 candidates, paving the way for Joe Biden's nomination.' Matt Grossmann, Michigan State University'Catnip for election watchers and politics junkies, who will want to reread the book when the dust of 2020 settles.' Kirkus'Masket … delivers a meticulous and lucidly written analysis of how Democratic insiders came to believe Joe Biden should be the party's candidate in the 2020 presidential election.' Publishers Weekly'Seth Masket's masterful Learning From Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020 provides a wealth of useful insights for understanding the Democrats' likely trajectory over the coming years, as well as the strategic decisions progressives must grapple with as they seek to expand their influence on Democratic Party politics.' Jared Abbott, Jacobin'… Learning from Loss offers a compelling, highly readable account of recent Democratic Party history … will continue to interest scholars and students for many years to come.' Frances E. Lee, American Politics'Learning from Loss bridges multiple audiences … Packed with pithy quotations, the book will appeal to general-interest audiences beyond academia.' Perspectives on Politics'Learning from Loss makes an important contribution to the study of nomination politics, expertly weaving together existing research on parties and campaigns with Masket's own insights.' Daniel J. Lee, Political Science QuarterlyTable of Contents1. When the fools were right; 2. What we know about identity, ideology, and electability, and what we don't; 3. Interpreting loss; 4. When parties try to fix themselves; 5. The persistence of faction; 6. How narrative changes voters; 7. The invisible primary becomes visible.
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Cambridge University Press Ideological Representation Achieved and Astray
Book SynopsisIdeological congruence is the term generally used in comparative politics for the representative relationship between the general preferences of citizens and the perceived and stated position of government. This study provides a systematic comparative assessment of success and failure in achieving ideological congruence in nineteen developed parliamentary democracies from 1996 through to 2017. It then deconstructs the processes through which elections can connect citizens and governments into the three major stages: citizens'' votes in parliamentary elections; the conversion of those votes into legislative representation; the election of prime ministers by their parliaments and the appointment of cabinet ministers. Analyzing these three stages shows that average distance from the median citizen increases at each stage, with only a few remarkable recoveries once congruence begins to go astray.Table of Contents1. Elections and ideological congruence in parliamentary democracies; 2. The (rocky) paths to government congruence: three stages; 3. Party systems as contexts; 4. Incongruence at stage I: starting out on or off the path to ideological congruence; 5. Congruence failures at stage II: votes into seats – disproportionality and the distance of the median legislative party; 6. Forming governments: stage III failure – distance of the governments; 7. A special analysis problem at stage III: minority governments; 8. The costs of ideological congruence: achieving and achieved; 9. Representation in parliamentary democracies: when does congruence go astray?
£78.84
Cambridge University Press Power Diffusion and Democracy
Book SynopsisA new taxonomy of democratic architectures, which reconnects deliberation to the study of patterns of democracy. Whether readers are interested in satisfaction with democracy, income inequality, subnational architectures or geographic factors in institutional design, this book gives fresh insights based on a database encompassing sixty-one countries.Trade Review'Power Diffusion and Democracy is an enormously impressive work - a comparative masterpiece. It's a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated analysis of the political-institutional arrangements in more than sixty democracies. The authors convincingly link the concept of deliberation, which matches my own work on the politics of accommodation, to the framework of patterns of democracy. The wide and deep database, the various analytical perspectives and the important findings make this book an essential reading for anyone interested in the mechanisms of power diffusion in democracies.' Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego'… the book is of high interest for advanced students and scholars in the field of assessing democratic quality especially regarding power diffusion and deliberation. Further Bernauer's and Vatter's book will also be of interest to those interested in actor-centered institutionalism. Finally, the book is also recommended for scholars of other social science disciplines, as it draws on sociological aspects of inclusion, such as income equality and migrant integration.' Ingrid Heidlmayr-Chegdaly, DemocratizationTable of Contents1. Introducing power diffusion in democracies; 2. A theory of power diffusion, deliberation and democracy; 3. A taxonomy of power diffusion; 4. Performance; 5. Legitimacy; 6. Explaining power diffusion; 7. Convergence; 8. Subnational power diffusion; 9. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book brings together research on democratization processes and constitutional justice by examining the role of three generations of European constitutional courts in the transitions to democracy that took place in Europe in the twentieth century. Using a comparative perspective, the author examines how the constitutional courts during that period managed to ensure an initial full implementation of the constitutional provisions, thus contributing - together with other actors and factors - to the positive outcome of the democratization processes. European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy provides a better understanding of the relationship between transitions to democracy and constitutionalism from the perspective of constitutional courts.Trade Review'Biagi has produced a masterpiece of comparative law. His methodologically careful, crisply analytic study of constitutional courts in Europe deepens our understanding of the role of judicial review in democratic transition. He shows how courts transform politics while securing constitutional democracy.' Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago'Francesco Biagi has written an important book on the role of constitutional courts in transitions to democracy. The literature on the subject is abundant, but Biagi's book stands out because of its unique combination of an historical and interdisciplinary approach to highlight legal landmarks and substantive democratic achievements. His account of three generations of transitions is highly rewarding as it affords a wealth of both retrospective and prospective insights.' Michel Rosenfeld, Yeshiva UniversityTable of Contents1. Democratic transitions and constitutional courts; 2. The first generation: the case of the Italian Constitutional Court; 3. The second generation: the case of the Spanish Constitutional Court; 4. The third generation: the case of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic; 5. Comparing three generations; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Promoting Democracy Reinforcing Authoritarianism
Book SynopsisAppearing against the backdrop of Jordan''s remarkable levels of authoritarian stability and accounting for Jordan being one of the highest recipients of US and European ''democracy promotion'' funding, Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism examines what external ''democracy promoters'' actually do when they promote democracy. By examining why Jordanian authoritarianism is so stable, not despite but in part because of external attempts at ''democracy promotion'', Benjamin Schuetze demonstrates the depth of Orientalist attitudes among ''democracy promoters''. In highlighting the undermining of democratic values as they become circumscribed by the free market and security concerns, Schuetze suggests that although US and European policy in Jordan comes under the cloak of a universal morality which claims the surmounting of authoritarianism as its objective, its effect is not that different to traditional modes of imperial support for authoritarian regimes. As a result, this is a vivid illustration of what greater US and European policy presence in the Global South really means.Trade Review'Schuetze has produced a much-needed analysis of how US and EU 'democracy promotion' in Jordan buttresses authoritarian rule. Textured and layered, his work challenges ideas of a benevolent monarchy and well-intentioned external actors, providing us with important insights into the logics and limits of the 'reform game' in Jordan.' Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio University'Schuetze offers a theoretically-informed, practice-oriented, empirically rigorous expose of 'Western' promotion of certain aspects of procedural democracy in Jordan. In addition to projects oriented towards elections and civil society, respectively, he investigates neoliberal economic models and security collaboration, placing political aid in the context of global power structures and ideologies.' Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond'Western democracy promotion programs in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have been state of the art for decades. In this important study, Schuetze blows the lid off by examining what democracy promotion actually does. Based on a wealth of interviews and striking observational evidence, Schuetze frames democracy promotion policies as intimately tied to monarchical absolutism in Jordan.' Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve University, OhioTable of ContentsPreface: in Jordan 'reform is not a strange word'; 1. 'Democracy promotion' and moral authority; 2. Who's afraid of politics?; 3. Supporting, mobilising for, and ignoring Jordanian elections; 4. The Jordanian civil society market; 5. Break on through to the other side; 6. Securing Jordan; 7. Imperial coercion, liberal intervention and the rise of populist politics; Sources and bibliography.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press The Arab Winter
Book SynopsisComparing the experiences of different countries before, during, and after the Arab Spring, this is a broad but focused account of how societies, including those of Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, and Tunisia, handled the challenge of democratic consolidation.Trade Review'Stephen J. King's very insightful and timely study sheds important light on what followed the 2011 uprisings in six Arab countries. He has picked exactly the right cases for comparative analysis aimed at identifying generalizable patterns and scope conditions for authoritarian breakdown and the different paths that followed. The chapters on each country are rich and informative, but King explains as well as describes. His thesis that challenges associated with democratic consolidation bear much of the responsibility for the failure of most Arab Spring revolutions is both welcome and persuasive.' Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan'In his valuable new book, Stephen J. King offers a new take on the trajectories of the Arab Uprising states. While most analyses have focused on authoritarian breakdown, King focuses on the requisites of democratic consolidation: consensus via pacts on key issues. This enables a deeper understanding of the variation in post-uprising trajectories between the one case of relative consolidation, Tunisia, and authoritarian restoration or state failure elsewhere.' Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St Andrews'King tells this story in five well-researched chapters with a short conclusion. His book should be an instant classic in comparative politics and would be suitable for undergraduate courses on Middle East politics.' S. Waalkes, ChoiceTable of ContentsTable of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Tunisia; 2. Egypt; 3. Libya; 4. Yemen; 5. Broken states: Iraq, Syria and ISIS; 6. Summary and conclusions; Index.
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