Political ideologies and movements Books
Liverpool University Press Nihilist Order: The Intellectual Roots of
Book SynopsisThe explosive combination of nihilist leanings together with a craving for totalitarianism was an ideal of philosophers, cultural critics, political theorists, engineers, architects and aesthetes long before it materialised in flesh and blood, not only in technology, but also in fascism, Nazism, bolshevism and radical European political movements. "The Nihilist Order", originally published in three hardcover volumes and now published in a consolidated paperback edition with an encompassing new Introduction, inspired excellent review endorsements, both amongst the academic and public spheres -- and has been heralded as a great achievement in European intellectual and cultural history.Trade ReviewA provocative and illuminating thesis on Totalitarianism. -- Isaiah BerlinA turning point in the research of European modernity. -- Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungOhana has convincingly shown that a complex cultural, ideological and psychological syndrome, linking nihilism to totalitarianism, represented a significant factor in the gathering storm which marked the early twentieth century. -- Saul Friedlander, author of "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 19391945"A major contribution to the understanding of the condition humain. -- Yehoshua Arieli, author of Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics of Federalism
Book SynopsisThis insightful and authoritative two-volume set examines the major issues and theories concerning federal political systems. The book covers the two main branches in the economics literature.The first branch, on competitive federalism focuses on the horizontal structure of federalism, as well as examining the jurisdictional competition between state and governments for mobile individuals and resources. The second branch focuses on fiscal federalism and examines the vertical structure of federalism, or the division of public services and taxing power between central and state governments.This comprehensive set also examines applications of the economic analysis of federalism in specific areas of the law, including: corporate law; antitrust law; environmental law; choice of law rules; contractual choice of law and public choice theory. It will be of interest to economic and legal scholars alike.Trade Review'A terrific collection of canonical federalism articles, along with a characteristically clear-headed Introduction by the editors. The volume will be very helpful to legal scholars, economists, and political scientists who teach courses on the increasingly dominant economic theories of federalism.' -- Michael S. Greve, American Enterprise Institute, US'The two Kobayashi-Ribstein volumes on economics of federalism contain a nicely structured collection of key papers that provide both needed background and illuminating applications of economic analysis to the basic legal issues that arise in a setting of multi-level government.' -- Wallace E. Oates, University of Maryland, College Park, USTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Bruce H. Kobayashi and Larry E. Ribstein PART I BASICS A Multiple Jurisdictions Are a Solution to the Public Good Problem 1. Charles M. Tiebout (1956), ‘A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures’ B Exit and Federalism 2. Richard A. Epstein (1992), ‘Exit Rights Under Federalism’ C Optimal Jurisdiction Size 3. Gordon Tullock (1969), ‘Federalism: Problems of Scale’ D Twin Dilemmas of Federalism: Free Riding, Spillovers, and Agency Costs 4. William H. Riker (1964), ‘The Origin and Purposes of Federalism’ and ‘The Maintenance of Federalism: The Administrative Theory’ E Conditions for Federalism 5. Edmund W. Kitch (1980), ‘Regulation and the American Common Market’ F Public Choice and Federalism 6. Jonathan R. Macey (1990), ‘Federal Deference to Local Regulators and the Economic Theory of Regulation: Toward a Public-Choice Explanation of Federalism’ PART II FISCAL FEDERALISM AND THE OPTIMAL STRUCTURE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR A Tests of the Tiebout Model 7. Edward M. Gramlich and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (1982), ‘Micro Estimates of Public Spending Demand Functions and Tests of the Tiebout and Median-Voter Hypotheses’ 8. Paul W. Rhode and Koleman S. Strumpf (2003), ‘Assessing the Importance of Tiebout Sorting: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990’ B Does Structure Matter? 9. Susan Rose-Ackerman (1981), ‘Does Federalism Matter? Political Choice in a Federal Republic’ 10. Dennis Epple and Alan Zelentiz (1981), ‘The Implications of Competition Among Jurisdictions: Does Tiebout Need Politics?’ C Vertical and Horizontal Competition 11. Albert Breton (1996), ‘A Retrospective Overview’ and ‘The Organization of Governmental Systems’ D Federalism, Development, and Self-Enforcing Federalism 12. Barry R. Weingast (1995), ‘The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development’ E Cooperative Federalism 13. Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (1997), ‘Rethinking Federalism’ F Optimal Taxation and Fiscal Instruments and Intergovernmental Grants 14. Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (1996), ‘Designing Tax Policy in Federalist Economies: An Overview’ G Leviathan and the Size of Government 15. Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan (1980), ‘Open Economy, Federalism, and Taxing Authority’ 16. Jonathan Rodden (2003), ‘Reviving Leviathan: Fiscal Federalism and the Growth of Government’ H Distribution 17. John Donahue (1997), ‘Tiebout? Or Not Tiebout? The Market Metaphor and America’s Devolution Debate’ 18. Dennis Epple and Thomas Romer (1991), ‘Mobility and Redistribution’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I LAW A Commerce Clause 1. Saul Levmore (1983), ‘Interstate Exploitation and Judicial Intervention’ B Uniform State Laws 2. Larry E. Ribstein and Bruce H. Kobayashi (1996), ‘An Economic Analysis of Uniform State Laws’ C The Choice of State Versus Federal Law 3. William F. Baxter (1963), ‘Choice of Law and the Federal System’ D Contractual Choice of Law and Forum 4. Erin O’Hara and Larry E. Ribstein (2000), ‘From Politics to Efficiency in Choice of Law’ PART II SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS A Corporate Law and the Race to the Top 5. Roberta Romano (1985), ‘Law as a Product: Some Pieces of the Incorporation Puzzle’ 6. Lucian Ayre Bebchuk (1992), ‘Federalism and the Corporation: The Desirable Limits on State Competition in Corporate Law’ B Antitrust and the Economics of Federalism 7. Frank H. Easterbrook (1983), ‘Antitrust and the Economics of Federalism’ C Environmental Regulation 8. Richard L. Revesz (2001), ‘Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis’ D Taxation 9. Daniel Shaviro (1992), ‘An Economic and Political Look at Federalism in Taxation’ E Welfare Reform 10. Charles C. Brown and Wallace E. Oates (1987), ‘Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System’ F Crime 11. Doron Teichman (2005), ‘The Market for Criminal Justice: Federalism, Crime Control, and Jurisdictional Competition’ Name Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks
Book SynopsisMarianna Klochko and Peter Ordeshook address an under-studied issue from rational choice theory - the common assumption that individual time preferences are exogenous and fixed. They then present empirical evidence to suggest that this is not the case, exploring a computer simulation model that allows for the evolutionary change of time preferences. This is done, moreover, in the context of social networks that are themselves endogenously determined.Beginning with the observation that individual time preferences are endogenous to social context, the authors develop a computer simulation of endogenous time preferences in social networks, the structure of which are themselves allowed to be endogenous. The core conclusion offered, aside from demonstrating the inter-relationship between time preference and network structure, is to show how social complexity can arise from even simple linear structures - a degree of complexity unlikely to be describable with close form analytic models. This volume, moreover, is an application of evolutionary game theory to our understanding of dynamic social processes.Economists concerned with networks, information, behavioral processes and evolutionary games, political scientists and sociologists interested in social networks, and students in all of these disciplines will find this illuminating book a welcome addition to their librariesTrade Review'Peter Ordeshook is an outstanding scholar and is addressing a very important question. As he points out on the first page of Chapter 1, social norms do exist and are adhered to, constitutions survive, people cooperate with others in some settings, but not in others. The topic of this book is very exciting and important - this is a real winner.' -- Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Cooperation and Time Discounting 2. Evidence of the Endogenous Determination of Discount Rates 3. The Evolutionary Perspective 4. Investment, Consumption and Change 5. A 3-Node Network: Part 1 6. A 3-Node Network: Part 2 7. Endogenous Networks: Part 1 8. Endogenous Networks: Part 2 9. Summary Bibliography Index
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Wits University Press Thinking freedom in Africa: Toward a theory of
Book SynopsisThis is a book of theory written from Africa. Its concern is the development of concepts for an understanding of emancipatory politics in Africa in particular, and in the Third World in general. ‘Politics’ here means consciousness, ideology, practice, choices and thought. The two core concepts which the book develops are the idea of ‘excess’ and that of ‘political sequence’. These are both made necessary by the underlying commitment to the axiom that ‘people think’ – that people are capable of thinking rationally beyond their interests as de?ned by their social location within a matrix of social relations regulated by the state. Drawing on the work of Alain Badiou and Sylvain Lazarus, the category of the sequence is used to provide an alternative to historicism in which ‘politics’ exists only as historical sequences which are discontinuous.These concepts are deployed variously in the history of anti-colonial and national liberation struggles and in contemporary experiences on the African continent. The book asserts that Africans, rather than having simply been the victims of modern history, have contributed to the universal history of humanity and continue to do so in original and inventive ways which provide important pointers for thinking human emancipation worldwide in the 21st century.Table of ContentsForeword by Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba; Preface; Acknowledgements; General Introduction: Politics is thought, thought is real, people think; Part One Understanding Subjective Political Sequences; From African History to African Historical Sequences; Theoretical Introduction: understanding historical political sequences; Chapter 1 From Saint Domingue to Haiti and the Politics of Equality: The Human Freedom Mode of Politics and its Afterlives 1791 - 1796, 1804 - 1960; Chapter 2 Are Those-who-do-not-count Capable of Reason? On the limits of historical thought; Chapter 3 The National Liberation Struggle Mode of Politics in Africa 1945 - 1975; Chapter 4 South Africa and the People's Power Mode of Politics 1984 - 1986; Chapter 5 From Emancipatory Nationalism to National Chauvinism in South Africa: 1973 - 2013; Chapter 6 Rethinking Militancy and Popular Politics; Conclusion to Part One: Understanding Fidelity to the South African Emancipatory Event: the Treatment Action Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo; Part Two Opening up the Thought of Politics in Africa Today - Exceeding the Limits of Sociology beyond Representation Theoretical Introduction: social representation, modes of rule and political prescriptions; Chapter 7 Marxism and the Politics of Representation: the 'agrarian question' and the limits of political economy; Chapter 8 Thinking beyond Representation, Acting beyond Representation: understanding worker subjectivities in South Africa toda; Chapter 9 Renaming the State in Africa today; Chapter 10 State Domains of Politics and Systemic Violence in Africa today; Chapter 11 Rethinking the Domain of Civil Society and its Politics; Chapter 12 Rethinking the Domain of Traditional Society and its Politics; Conclusion to Part Two: Toward a Politics of Solidarity; General Conclusion: Constituting the Domain of Freedom: thinking politics at a distance from the state; Bibliography; Index.
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Cornell University Press The Capitalist Dilemma in China's Cultural
Book SynopsisHow can capitalists' motivations during a Communist revolution be reliably documented and fully understood? Up to now, the answer to this question has generally eluded scholars who, for lack of nonofficial sources, have fallen back on Communist governments' official explanations. But the essays in this volume confirm that, at least in the case of the Communist revolution in China, it is finally possible to make new and fresh interpretations. By focusing closely on individuals and probing deeply into their thinking and experience, the authors of these essays have discovered a wide range of reasons for why Chinese capitalists did or did not choose to live and work under communism. The contributors to this volume have all concentrated on the dilemma for capitalists in China's Communist revolution. But their approach to their subject through archival research and rigorous analysis may also serve as a guide for future thinking about a variety of other historical figures. This approach is well worth adopting to explain how any members of society (not only capitalists) have resolved comparable dilemmas in all revolutions—the ones in China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, or anywhere else.
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Arc Medieval Press Medieval Imagery in Today's Politics
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Editorial A Contracorriente El movimiento obrero y las izquierdas en América
Book SynopsisEl movimiento obrero y las izquierdas son parte de la historia de America Latina. Casi no existen dimensiones de la sociedad, la economia, la politica, la cultura o el campo intelectual de la mayoria de los paises del subcontinente que puedan comprenderse sin la intervencion de alguno de estos dos actores. El enfoque relacional es aqui esencial. Anarquistas, socialistas, comunistas, sindicalistas revolucionarios, trotskistas, maoistas y guevaristas, entre otras, fueron expresiones politico-ideologicas cuya indagacion no puede alcanzarse genuinamente sin un abordaje global de las clases trabajadoras. El presente libro pretende ser una contribucion en este sentido. Constituye una aproximacion a las mas recientes elaboraciones en torno a estos topicos. Reune textos elaborados por calificados investigadores de una decena de paises, ofreciendo, de manera conjunta y comparativa, elementos que aportan a una vision global y renovada sobre el tema a partir de estudios de casos en los cuales se abordan problematicas comunes.
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University of Nevada Press Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The
Book SynopsisThe grazing rights battle between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the federal government, resulting in a tense, armed standoff between Bundy's supporters and federal law enforcement officers, garnered international media attention in 2014. Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens places the Bundy conflict into the larger context of the Sagebrush Rebellion and the long struggle over the use of federal public lands in the American West. Author John L. Smith skillfully captures the drama of the Bundy legal tangle amid the current political climate. Although no shots were fired during the standoff itself, just weeks later self-proclaimed Bundy supporters murdered two Las Vegas police officers and a civilian. In Eastern Oregon, other Bundy supporters occupied the federal offices of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, and one of them died in a hail of bullets.While examining the complex history of federal public land policies, Smith exposes both sides of this story. He shows that there are passionate true believers on opposite sides of the insurrection, along with government agents and politicians in Washington complicit in efforts to control public lands for their wealthy allies and campaign contributors. With the promise of billions of dollars in natural resource profits and vast tracts of environmentally sensitive lands hanging in the balance, the West's latest range war is the most important in the nation's history. This masterful exposé raises serious questions about the fate of America's public lands and the vehement arguments that are framing the debate from all sides.Trade ReviewWhat this author brings to the table is a deep understanding of Nevada history and the political rivers running through it. Unlike other writers [on this subject], he understands the state and the players as well as anyone." — Geoff Schumacher, author of Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia and Palace Intrigue and othersTable of Contents PROLOGUE Back Road to Gold Butte PART ONE We Join the Revolution Already in Progress PART TWO You Don't Need a Reason to Start a Revolution PART THREE Ghost Dancing Through Deseret PART FOUR Saddle Born PART FIVE The Senator from Searchlight PART SIX When the Cows Come Home…to Roost EPILOGUE Lonesome Bull Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Notes Index
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West Virginia University Press Remaking Appalachia: Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law
Book SynopsisA critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.Environmental law has failed spectacularly to protect Appalachia from the ravages of liberal capitalism, and from extractive industries in particular. Remaking Appalachia chronicles such failures, but also puts forth hopeful paths for truly radical change.Remaking Appalachia begins with an account of how, over a century ago, laws governing environmental and related issues proved fruitless against the rising power of coal and other industries. Key legal regimes were, in fact, explicitly developed to support favored industrial growth. Aided by law, industry succeeded in maximizing profits not just through profound exploitation of Appalachia's environment but also through subordination along lines of class, gender, and race. After chronicling such failures and those of liberal development strategies in the region, Stump explores true system change beyond law "reform." Ecofeminism and ecosocialism undergird this discussion, which involves bottom-up approaches to transcending capitalism that are coordinated from local to global scales.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Historical Beginnings: Appalachian Coal and the Coming of Industrial Capitalism 2. Foundations of Environmental Law: Classical Liberalism 3. Twentieth-Century Appalachia: Failed Development Models and Coal's Hegemony 4. Environmental Law: A Critically Flawed Paradigm 5. Modern Appalachia: Environmental Law's Failure and the Broader Regional Landscape 6. Systemic Economic and Socio-Legal Change: Theory, Practice, and Praxis 7. Remaking Appalachia: Strongly Ecologically Sustainable Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press The Perils of Populism
Book SynopsisFrom Donald Trump in the U.S. to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Narendra Modi in India, right-wing populist leaders have taken power in many parts of the world. While each country’s populist movement is distinct, they are united by several key features, including the presence of a boastful strongman leader and the scapegoating of vulnerable populations, especially immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and women. The Perils of Populism shows how a feminist lens can help diagnose the factors behind the global rise of right-wing populism and teach us how to resist the threat it presents to democracy. Featuring interdisciplinary essays about politics in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and India from a variety of acclaimed theorists and activists, the volume contributes to a rapidly expanding literature on gender and the far right. Together, these chapters offer a truly intersectional analysis of the problem, addressing everything from how populism has thrived in a “post-truth” era to the ways it appeals to working-class voters looking for an alternative to neoliberalism. Yet the authors also find reasons to be hopeful, as they showcase forms of grassroots feminist activism that challenge right-wing populism by advocating for racial and economic justice.Trade Review"This timely book makes a unique contribution to studies of right wing authoritarianism by applying a feminist and gender analysis to populism. The authors of these essays clarify how populism works and why it succeeds, using language that is both accessible and engaging. This is essential reading for all concerned about democracy’s survival in these perilous times." -- Urvashi Vaid * Co-Director of the 22nd Century Initiative, a project to defeat the right culturally and politically *"The Perils of Populism brings together various academic and activist positions to shed light on the global outreach of current populist movements and their gendered logics. Building on prior research on right-wing populism and gender, the contributions pursue a feminist perspective on right-wing populism(s), which also emphasizes the core role of neoliberal capitalism for its current blossoming, and considers feminist practices of resistance. A highly valuable reading for understanding the current trends in their complexity." -- Julia Roth * author of Occidental Readings, Decolonial Practices: A Selection on Gender, Genre, and Coloniality in the Americas *"This timely book makes a unique contribution to studies of right wing authoritarianism by applying a feminist and gender analysis to populism. The authors of these essays clarify how populism works and why it succeeds, using language that is both accessible and engaging. This is essential reading for all concerned about democracy’s survival in these perilous times." -- Urvashi Vaid * Co-Director of the 22nd Century Initiative, a project to defeat the right culturally and politically *"The Perils of Populism brings together various academic and activist positions to shed light on the global outreach of current populist movements and their gendered logics. Building on prior research on right-wing populism and gender, the contributions pursue a feminist perspective on right-wing populism(s), which also emphasizes the core role of neoliberal capitalism for its current blossoming, and considers feminist practices of resistance. A highly valuable reading for understanding the current trends in their complexity." -- Julia Roth * author of Occidental Readings, Decolonial Practices: A Selection on Gender, Genre, and Coloniality i *Table of ContentsIntroduction Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein 1. Fragile Democracies in a Post-Truth Era Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Valentine M. Moghadam, and Khadijah Costley White 2. Dispossession: Gender and the Construction of Us / Them Dichotomies Sabine Hark 3. Ascetic Masculinity and Right-Wing Populism in Hindu Nationalist India Amrita Basu 4. Hegemony as Capitalist Strategy: For a Neo-Marxian Critique of Financialized Capitalism Nancy Fraser 5. Feminism and the Anti-Trump Resistance L. A. Kauffman 6. Organizing for Power: The Grassroots Struggle for Inclusive Democracy Heather Booth, Jyl Josephson, and Scot Nakagawa Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press The Perils of Populism
Book SynopsisFrom Donald Trump in the U.S. to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Narendra Modi in India, right-wing populist leaders have taken power in many parts of the world. While each country’s populist movement is distinct, they are united by several key features, including the presence of a boastful strongman leader and the scapegoating of vulnerable populations, especially immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and women. The Perils of Populism shows how a feminist lens can help diagnose the factors behind the global rise of right-wing populism and teach us how to resist the threat it presents to democracy. Featuring interdisciplinary essays about politics in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and India from a variety of acclaimed theorists and activists, the volume contributes to a rapidly expanding literature on gender and the far right. Together, these chapters offer a truly intersectional analysis of the problem, addressing everything from how populism has thrived in a “post-truth” era to the ways it appeals to working-class voters looking for an alternative to neoliberalism. Yet the authors also find reasons to be hopeful, as they showcase forms of grassroots feminist activism that challenge right-wing populism by advocating for racial and economic justice.Trade Review"This timely book makes a unique contribution to studies of right wing authoritarianism by applying a feminist and gender analysis to populism. The authors of these essays clarify how populism works and why it succeeds, using language that is both accessible and engaging. This is essential reading for all concerned about democracy’s survival in these perilous times." -- Urvashi Vaid * Co-Director of the 22nd Century Initiative, a project to defeat the right culturally and politically *"The Perils of Populism brings together various academic and activist positions to shed light on the global outreach of current populist movements and their gendered logics. Building on prior research on right-wing populism and gender, the contributions pursue a feminist perspective on right-wing populism(s), which also emphasizes the core role of neoliberal capitalism for its current blossoming, and considers feminist practices of resistance. A highly valuable reading for understanding the current trends in their complexity." -- Julia Roth * author of Occidental Readings, Decolonial Practices: A Selection on Gender, Genre, and Coloniality in the Americas *"This timely book makes a unique contribution to studies of right wing authoritarianism by applying a feminist and gender analysis to populism. The authors of these essays clarify how populism works and why it succeeds, using language that is both accessible and engaging. This is essential reading for all concerned about democracy’s survival in these perilous times." -- Urvashi Vaid * Co-Director of the 22nd Century Initiative, a project to defeat the right culturally and politically *"The Perils of Populism brings together various academic and activist positions to shed light on the global outreach of current populist movements and their gendered logics. Building on prior research on right-wing populism and gender, the contributions pursue a feminist perspective on right-wing populism(s), which also emphasizes the core role of neoliberal capitalism for its current blossoming, and considers feminist practices of resistance. A highly valuable reading for understanding the current trends in their complexity." -- Julia Roth * author of Occidental Readings, Decolonial Practices: A Selection on Gender, Genre, and Coloniality i *Table of ContentsIntroduction Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein 1. Fragile Democracies in a Post-Truth Era Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Valentine M. Moghadam, and Khadijah Costley White 2. Dispossession: Gender and the Construction of Us / Them Dichotomies Sabine Hark 3. Ascetic Masculinity and Right-Wing Populism in Hindu Nationalist India Amrita Basu 4. Hegemony as Capitalist Strategy: For a Neo-Marxian Critique of Financialized Capitalism Nancy Fraser 5. Feminism and the Anti-Trump Resistance L. A. Kauffman 6. Organizing for Power: The Grassroots Struggle for Inclusive Democracy Heather Booth, Jyl Josephson, and Scot Nakagawa Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Jewish Lives under Communism: New Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe, Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead examining the ways in which Jews creatively seized opportunities to develop and express their identities, religious and secular, even under great duress. The volume shifts the focus from Jews being objects of Communist state policy (and from anti-Jewish prejudices in Communist societies) to the agency of Jews and their creativity in Communist Europe after the Holocaust. The examination of Jewish history from a transnational vantage point challenges a dominant strand in history writing today, by showing instead the wide variety of Jewish experiences in law, traditions and institutional frameworks as conceived from one Communist country to another and even within a single country, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. By focusing on networks across east-central Europe and beyond and on the forms of identity open to Jews in this important period, the volume begins a crucial rethinking of social and cultural life under Communist regimes. Table of ContentsContents Jewish Lives under Communism Kateřina Čapková, Kamil Kijek, and Stephan StachPeriphery and Center A New Life? The pre-Holocaust Past and post-Holocaust Present in the Life of Jewish Community of Dzierżoniów, Lower Silesia, 1945–50 Kamil Kijek Erased from History: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia Kateřina Čapková On the Borders of Legality: Connections between Traditional Culture and the Informal Economy in Jewish Life in the Soviet Provinces Valery DymshitsPerceptions of Jewishness From Friends to Enemies? The Soviet State and Its Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust Diana Dumitru ‘I was not like Everybody Else’: Soviet Jewish Doctors remember the Doctor’s Plot Anna Shternshis ‘After Auschwitz you must take your origin seriously’: Perceptions of Jewishness among Communists of Jewish origin in the early German Democratic Republic Anna Koch Jewish in Soviet Birobidzhan: Between Stigma and Cynicism Agata MaksimowskaTransnationalism An Alternative World: Jews in the German Democratic Republic, Their Transnational Networks, and a Global Jewish Communist Community David Shneer Soviet Yiddish Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Stalinist 1950s Gennady Estraikh Family Discourse, Migrations, and Nation-building in Poland and Israel in the Late 1950s Marcos SilberDissidents Three Jewish Social Networks: A (Non-)Encounter in Malakhovka Galina Zelenina The Opposition of the Opposition: New Jewish Identities in the Illegal Underground Public Sphere in Late Communist Hungary Kata Bohus Acknowledgements Index Notes on Contributors
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Necropower in North America: The Legal
Book SynopsisThis book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It works to characterize and analyze the particularities and relational differences of American and Canadian necropowers vis-à-vis their devices, subjectivities, necroempowered subjects, and production of spaces of death in their geographical and symbolic borderlands with the Third World: the US-Mexico border, indigenous lands, migrant and Black-American neighborhoods, and resource rich geographies. North American necropowers not only profit from death, but also conduct disposable populations to death throughout the region. The volume proposes a postcolonial perspective that characterizes the political power of North America as a necropower—or the sovereign power to make die. Each chapter therefore theorizes and analyzes the specificities of necropower, examining different necropolitics that range from asylum and migration restrictions to the economic exploitation and abandonment of deprived populations and policing of ethnic minorities, in particular Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples, and African American communities.Table of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionPart I: Broadening The Theoretical Scope Of NecropowerChapter 2. The Management Of Death In North America: From The Necropolitical Governmentalization Of The State To The Rule Of LawChapter 3. From Gore Capitalism to snuff politics: necropolitics in the USA-Mexican BorderPart II. Spatializing Disposability and Lucrative Death in the US and CanadaChapter 4. The North American Race Apparatus: Management of Undesirable Lives in the United StatesChapter 5. Of Race As Space: Distinguishing Between Autonomous Bodies And Occupied Bodies In The Murder Of George FloydChapter 6. Getting away with murder: unpacking epistemic mechanisms of necropower and disposability in North AmericaChapter 7. Contested Necrocapitalism: Indigeneity Vs. Extractivism In Northern CanadaPart III. Producing Disposability And Lucrative Death In The Mexico-US Geographical and Political BordersChapter 8. The Emergence Of Necrosecurity: On The Extra-Legality Of The Rule Of Law And The Death Of The Willful SubjectChapter 9. Necropolitics and International Migration in Mexico
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De Gruyter Einführung in Die Theorien Von Karl Marx
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Tulika Books Marx, Gandhi and Modernity – Essays Presented to
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The Chinese University Press A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash
Book SynopsisThis book uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China's complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It describes and puts into critical context three versions of Western liberalism (those of F.A. Hayek, John Rawls, and John Dunn), three versions of Chinese liberalism (those of Yang Kuo-shu, Li Qiang, and Ambrose Y.C. King), two versions of modern Confucian humanism (those of T'ang Chun-i, and Henry K.H. Woo), and various versions of Chinese Marxism, including Kao Li-k'o's in the early 1990s and some of the recent New Left writings. It shows that all these Chinese political theories, not only Chinese Marxism, depend on a number of premises at odds with Western liberalism, especially epistemological optimism and an extravagantly optimistic concept of political practicability. It also argues that not only these Chinese theories but also Western liberalism have failed to offer adequate normative guidelines for the improvement of political life. This study uniquely combines a deep understanding of the history of Chinese thought with a strong grasp of modern philosophical trends and an innovative methodology for the description and criticism of political theories. It will be useful to students of modern Chinese intellectual history, of political philosophy, of political culture, of the comparative study of cultures, and of U.S.-Chinese relations.
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ISEAS Democracy in Indonesia: From Stagnation to
Book SynopsisIndonesia has long been hailed as a rare case of democratic transition and persistence in an era of global democratic setbacks. But as the country enters its third decade of democracy, such laudatory assessments have become increasingly untenable. The stagnation that characterized Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second presidential term has given way to a more far-reaching pattern of democratic regression under his successor, Joko Widodo. This volume is the first comprehensive study of Indonesia’s contemporary democratic decline. Its contributors identify, explain and debate the signs of regression, including arbitrary state crackdowns on freedom of speech and organization, the rise of vigilantism, deepening political polarization, populist mobilization, the dysfunction of key democratic institutions, and the erosion of checks and balances on executive power. They ask why Indonesia, until recently considered a beacon of democratic exceptionalism, increasingly conforms to the global pattern of democracy in retreat.
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Almuzara de la Desgracia de Ser Arabe
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Gedisa Analizar El Auge de la Ultraderecha
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Ediciones Paids Ibrica El antiEdipo AntiOedipus 23 Paidos Basica Basic
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Planeta Publishing Diario De UN Skin
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Netbiblo S.L. Trabajo Social En El Mbito de La Ley de
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Clarendon Press Public Moralists
Book SynopsisThis imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists, and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgements. Stefan Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of relation to an audience exhibited by social critics from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J. M. Keynes and F. R. Leavis.Dr Collini begins by situating the leading intellectuals in the social and political world of the Victorian governing classes. He explores fundamental values like `altruism'', `character'', and `manliness'', which are revealed as the animating dynamic of much of the politiTrade ReviewStefan Collini is a sophisticated, witty and thoughtful historian of ideas ... Collini is a fertile and gifted author ... His book on Matthew Arnold ... is a marvel of a compression and trenchant good sense ... [Public Moralists is] a superior book ... sets the mind spinning. * Sheldon Rothblatt, The Higher *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Governing Values: Leading minds: The world of the Victorian intellectual; The culture of altruism: Selfishness and the decay of motive; The idea of character: private habits and public virtues; Part Two: Public Voices: Their master's voice: John Stuart Mill as a public moralist; Manly fellows: Fawcett, Stephen, and the liberal temper; Part Three: Moral Sciences: Their title to be heard: professionalization and its discontents; An exclusively professional subject: the jurist as public moralist; Part Four: English Geneologies: From dangerous partisan to national possession: John Stuart Mill in English culture 1873-1933; The Whig interpretation of English literature: literary history and national identity; Index
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Clarendon Press Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Polish Beginnings of Western Marxism
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the English-speaking reader to the thought of Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878-1911), the outstanding Polish philosopher and literary critic. Although practically unknown in the West, Brzozowski is an important but neglected forerunner of the intellectual tradition of `Western Marxism'', most commonly associated with Georg Lukács and Antonio Gramsci.Concentrating first on the early phase of Brzozowski''s thought, Professor Walicki goes on to analyse his ideas on the working class and its relation to the intelligentsia and contemporary working-class ideologies. Finally he deals with aspects of his thought which go beyond the Marxian problematic and round off the intellectual portrait of the man.Brzozowski''s anti-naturalistic approach resulted in a radical reinterpretation of Marxism which dealt with many of the problems of the revolt against positivism in European philosophy. Professor Walicki argues that the retrieval of the philosophical and humanist aspect of Marxism,Table of ContentsBiographical note; On some specific features of early Polish Marxism; `Scientific Marxism' and `Philosophy of action': The early phase of Brzozowski's thought; The critique of `Scientific Marxism'; Idealism as philosophy of action; The first outline of a new interpretation of Marxism; Marxism as an Anti-Engelsian `Philosophy of Labour': Knowledge, nature, and history; The ideal of autocreation; The encounter with the Russian `Neo-Marxists'; Beyond marxism: From anti-Engelsian Marxism to a re-evaluation of Marx's thought: New inspirations and confrontations; The further development of Brzozowski's `Philosophy of Labour'; Continuity and change in Brzozowski's thought; The intelligentsia and the working class: Different conceptions of the intelligentsia and its calling; The intelligentsia and revolution; The paradoxes of the intelligentsia; The working class, socialism, and syndicalism; The working class and the nation; Culture and Society: Individualism and sociologism; The social tasks of art and literary criticism; Sociological criticism and the critique of sociology; The illusion of consciousness; National cultures; Religion: From religious individualism to militant atheism; The greatness and weakness of Catholicism; Towards transcendence; Instead of a conclusion; Brzozowski's works
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Clarendon Press Human Welfare and Moral Worth
Book SynopsisThomas Hill, a leading figure in the recent development of Kantian moral philosophy, presents a series of essays that interpret and develop Kant''s ideas on ethics. The first part of the book focuses on basic concepts: a priori method, a good will, categorical imperatives, autonomy, and constructivist strategies of argument. Hill goes on to consider aspects of human welfare, and then moral worth--the nature and grounds of moral assessment of persons as deserving esteem or blame. He offers illuminating discussions of happiness, beneficence, personal values, conscience, moral desert, moral dilemmas, and feelings of regret. He is critical of Kant at many points, but he shows how many familiar objections miss the mark. Two previously unpublished essays challenge the views of other influential Kant scholars and defend alternative interpretations of Kant on beneficence, supererogation, and what it means to ''set oneself an end''. These clear and careful writings show moral, poltical, and socTrade ReviewThis collection brings together work of the calibre that has made Thomas E. Hill, Jr., a leader in the interpretation and development of Kant's ethics. Hill exhibits a rare combination of sensitivity to complex moral issues, insight into Kant's texts, and analytical incisivenss. In clear, jargon-free prose, these essays expertly draw the reader into the core of Kantian moral philosophy. * Ethics *Human Welfare and Moral Worth gives us plenty to think about ... the volume has the great virtue of defending positions that are subtle and reasonable as well as innovative and engaging. * Ethics *... splendidly produced volume. Thomas Hill has developed a distinctive line of Kant exposition and analysis which will repay close reading and careful consideration. Hill is an attentive and sensitive interpreter of Kant who takes Kant's major ethical writings as a starting point rather than an end point of argument. Hill is concerned to establish how Kant's practical philosophy engages with our lives and society and in an instructive and stimulating way. Hill is scholarly without being unduly scholastic. His project is to bring Kant's ideas alive by relating them to our contemporary moral and political dilemmas. In this I think he succeeds. * Kantian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Kantian Analysis: From Duty to Autonomy ; 2. Is Good Will Over-Rated? ; 3. Hypothetical Consent in Kantian Constructivism ; 4. Beneficence and Self-Love ; 5. Reasonable Self-Interest ; 6. Happiness and Human Flourishing ; 7. Meeting Needs and Doing Favors ; 8. Personal Values and Setting Ends ; 9. Four Conceptions of Conscience ; 10. Wrongdoing, Desert, and Punishment ; 11. Punishment, Conscience, and Moral Worth ; 12. Moral Dilemmas, Gaps, and Residues ; Bibliography, Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Democratization Theory and Experience Oxford Studies in Democratization
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Oxford University Press Libertarianism
Trade Reviewa highly accessible primer to libertarian thought ... Recommended. * R.J. Meagher, CHOICE *Table of ContentsTHE BASICS ; 1. What is libertarianism? ; 2. Why do we need to know about libertarianism? ; 3. What are the different kinds of libertarians? ; 4. Are libertarians right-wing conservatives? ; 5. Are libertarians left-wing liberals? ; 6. Is libertarianism a new political view? ; 7. How did libertarianism develop? ; 8. What are the moral foundations of libertarianism? ; THE VALUE OF LIBERTY ; 9. What do libertarians think liberty is? ; 10. Why do libertarians think liberty is important? ; 11. Do libertarians think liberty is the only value? ; 12. What is the <"presumption of liberty>"? ; 13. What rights do libertarians think we have? ; 14. Do libertarians think rights are absolute? ; 15. Do libertarians think the consequences matter? ; HUMAN NATURE AND ETHICS ; 16. Do libertarians believe everyone is selfish? ; 17. Do libertarians think everyone should be selfish? ; 18. Do libertarians have an overly optimistic view of human nature? ; 19. Are libertarians moral relativists or moral skeptics? ; 20. Are libertarians individualists? ; 21. Are libertarians all atheists? ; ECONOMIC LIBERTY ; 22. What economic rights do libertarians think we have? ; 23. Are libertarians only concerned about economic issues? ; 24. Why do libertarians favor strong economic liberty and private property rights? ; 25. Do libertarians think property rights are absolute? ; 26. Why are libertarians so concerned about economic growth, prosperity, and wealth? ; 27. Why do libertarians want open markets and free trade? ; 28. Are libertarians just out to protect the interests of big business? ; 29. What do libertarians think about union rights? ; 30. Why do libertarians oppose socialism? ; 31. Why are libertarians against rent control and minimum wage increases? ; 32. Why don't libertarians want government to set prices? ; 33. Do libertarians oppose all regulation? ; 34. Why do libertarians think government regulation frequently makes things worse? ; 35. Do libertarians think markets always work? Do libertarians deny the existence of market failures? ; 36. Why do libertarians tend to oppose eminent domain laws? ; CIVIL RIGHTS ; 37. What do libertarians think about civil liberties? ; 38. What is the libertarian view of free speech? ; 39. What do libertarians think about abortion? ; 40. Are libertarians for or against capital punishment? ; 41. Why are libertarians in favor of drug decriminalization? ; 42. Why do libertarians support same-sex marriage? ; 43. Why do libertarians oppose the draft? ; 44. What do libertarians think we should do about historical and current racial injustice? ; 45. What do libertarians think about gun control? ; 46. What do libertarians think about mandatory national service? ; 47. What do libertarians think about gambling? ; 48. What do libertarians think about pornography? ; 49. Are libertarians soft on crime? ; SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE POOR ; 50. Do libertarians only care about the rich? ; 51. What is social justice? ; 52. Do most libertarians reject social justice? ; 53. Do all libertarians reject social justice? ; 54. What do libertarians think about economic equality? ; 55. What would libertarians do about the poor? ; 56. What do libertarians believe about foreign aid to the world's poor ; 57. Why don't libertarians favor an extensive welfare state? ; 58. How could social justice possibly be achieved without an extensive welfare state? ; 59. Do libertarians think all problems can be solved with charity? ; 60. Do libertarians think the poor are to blame for their own poverty? ; GOVERNMENT AND DEMOCRACY ; 61. How do libertarians define <"government>"? ; 62. Why do libertarians dislike <"big government>"? ; 63. Are libertarians anarchists? ; 64. Do libertarians think politicians are selfish and evil? ; 65. What is <"government failure>"? What is the libertarian view on it? ; 66. Do libertarians favor democracy? ; 67. Do libertarians think democracy makes us more free? ; 68. Why do libertarians tend to think voters are ignorant and irrational? ; 69. What is the libertarian view of civic virtue and good citizenship? ; 70. What do libertarians think about the Constitution? ; 71. Are libertarians nationalists or cosmopolitans? ; CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS ; 72. Why do libertarians want to open borders and open immigration? ; 73. Why do libertarians oppose interventionist foreign policy? ; 74. What would libertarians do about the war on terror? ; 75. Why do libertarians oppose the Transportation Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security? ; 76. What would libertarians do about pollution? ; 77. What would libertarians do about overfishing and overforesting? ; 78. What would libertarians do about the sick who cannot afford health care? ; 79. What would libertarians do about public schools? ; 80. What would libertarians do to fix the economy? ; 81. Are libertarians in favor of allowing organ sales? ; 82. Do libertarians think all taxation is theft and slavery? ; 83. How would libertarians reduce crime? ; 84. What would libertarians do about the financial crisis? ; 85. Do libertarians think markets will solve all problems? ; 86. Didn't libertarian housing policies cause the financial crisis? ; 87. What do libertarians think about campaign finance reform? ; POLITICS: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW ; 88. How much influence does libertarianism have in contemporary politics? ; 89. Is libertarianism a popular view? ; 90. Are Tea Party activists libertarians? ; 91. What organizations do libertarians support? ; 92. Did the United States begin as a libertarian country but move away from libertarianism? ; 93. Which country is the most libertarian? Is it the United States? ; 94. Which states in the US are the most and least libertarian? ; 95. What percentage of Americans are libertarian? ; 96. Are libertarians utopian? ; 97. Is libertarianism feasible? ; 98. Why are some libertarians trying to move to form their own private countries or take control of certain states? ; 99. Is the US becoming more or less libertarian? ; 100. Is the world becoming more or less libertarian?
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Oxford University Press Hollywood Left and Right
Book SynopsisIn Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells an important story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema - Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger - Hollywood Left and Right reveals how Hollywood''s engagement in politics has been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would imagine. As shown in alternating chapters, the Left and the Right each gained ascendancy in Tinseltown at different times. From Chaplin, whose movies almost always displayed his leftist convictions, to Schwarzenegger''s nearTrade Reviewan intriguing series of biographical studies. * Independent *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Movie Stars and Politics ; 1. The First Political Movie Star: Charlie Chaplin ; 2. The Man Who Brought Hollywood into the Republican Party: Louis B. Mayer ; 3. Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson ; 4. Hollywood and the Conservative Revolution: George Murphy and Ronald Reagan ; 5. Politics in Black and White: Harry Belafonte ; 6. Movement Leader, Grassroots Builder: Jane Fonda ; 7. Moses and the Red Tide: Charlton Heston ; 8. President Bulworth, or, Will Mr. Beatty Go to Washington? Warren Beatty ; 9. Governor Arnold and the New Age of Celebrity Politics: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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