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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd State in Myanmar
Book Synopsis"The State in Myanmar" is a totally revised and expanded and updated version of "The State in Burma" (1987), with additional chapters covering the last twenty years of Myanmar's political history. It attempts to explain the country's current politics in the light of the historical evolution of state-society relations in Myanmar since the pre-colonial kings, through the colonial era to the current, and third, post-colonial regime in this strategically important and little studied South East Asian nation. The book explains the dramatic and unpredicted collapse of the previous socialist regime and the attempts by new and old political forces to wrest control of the state from a revitalised and increasingly confident military government. Myanmar's state builders have applied varying ideas in their attempts to fashion a stable political order in an often fractious and far from unified nation and "The State in Myanmar" places those experiences in comparative perspective.Trade Review'a well researched, masterly presentation of political, economic and social developments in Burma. ... will no doubt become a standard reference work.' - The Round TableTable of ContentsContents Introduction The Precolonial State The Rationalisation of the State, 1825-1942 Politics under the Rationalised State, 1886-1942 Reasserting the State, 1962-87 The State Redux (1985-2007)
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New Clarion Press Consensus or Coercion?: The State, the People and
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New Clarion Press Consensus or Coercion?: The State, the People and
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Corporate Watch Targeting Israeli Apartheid: A Boycott,
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Muddy Pearl Nation in Transit: A Manifesto for Post-Brexit
Book SynopsisIn 2011, the borough of Thurrock in Essex stepped into the national spotlight when it came bottom of the national league table for life satisfaction. By 2015 that disaffection and anger had boiled over into political insurrection, and Thurrock led Britain out of the door of the EU with one of the highest 'leave' votes in the country. Starting from the underlying causes of the mass dissatisfaction that brought us to here, this book spells out a clear vision for what a post-Brexit Britain should look like. From unemployment to immigration, council estates to the banking industry, and local communities to the global environment, it takes a long, hard look at what really creates the conditions for people and communities to flourish and why we're just not feeling it as a nation. The answers combine radical political ideas with grass roots Essex reality; because if the solutions don't work for White Van Man then they probably won't work at all.
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Luath Press Ltd Tackling Timorous Economics: How Scotland's
Book SynopsisTimorous: adj, 1) shy, not bold 2) easily frightened. Economics: n, social science concerned with the production and consumption of goods and services. What is the best way to run a country? How long should a person be obliged to work every day? What will the economy look like after Brexit? In this new take on the Scottish economy, experts Trebeck, Boyd and Kerevan address how our economy can serve us, as opposed to the people serving the economy. They believe that current economic policies are not aligned with what we as people need in these times of rampant inequality and inequitable distribution, advocating an increased focus on the quality of Scotland’s economy. Using Scotland as an example for the economic workings of any country, Tackling Timorous Economics shows a better way of how economics could work for us.Trade Review…of interest well beyond Scotland’s borders … it will challenge you to reflect on your own views on big issues like inequality and economic policy. - W David McCausland, The ConversationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Our Economic System is broken. We need a new one. Katherine Trebeck Towards a ‘for everyone economy’? Katherine Trebeck Do we really want a more equal Scotland? Stephen Boyd No Timorous Beasties Here! George Kerevan
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Haus Publishing Commons and Lords: A Short Anthropology of
Book SynopsisThe Westminster Parliament is worth closer scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but on intellectual grounds because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork between 1998-2000 in the House of Lords and 2011-2013 in the House of Commons and constituencies, this Curiosity explains how relationships within the two Houses are utterly different from their surface appearances. The high social status of peers in the House of Lords gives the impression of hierarchy and, more specifically, patriarchy. In contrast, the Commons conjures assumptions of equality and fairness between members of the lower House. But observation of the everyday relationships within the two Houses reveals the opposite: while the Lords has an egalitarian and co-operative ethos, and women thrive in the upper House, the competitive and aggressive Commons is a far less comfortable place for women. Paradoxically MPs have to be both an individual, serving their constituents, and a symbol of a collective, their political party. The inevitable messiness of representative politics, and the disappointment it brings, are both the virtue and weakness of parliamentary democracy. Emma Crewe looks beneath the surface and uncovers its surprises and secrets.
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Haus Publishing Cabinet's Finest Hour: The Hidden Agenda of May
Book SynopsisUsing the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. Eight months into the war defeat seemed to many a certainty. With the United States and Russia over a year away from entering the conflict, Britain found herself in a perilous and lonely position. The Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was pushing Churchill, his Prime Minister, to explore the possibility of a negotiated peace with Hitler, using Mussolini as a conduit. Ignored in Churchill's later account of the con--flict, the question before the War Cabinet was straightforward: should Britain fight on in the face of overwhelming odds, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives, or seek a negotiated peace? The minutes of these meetings reveal just how close Halifax came to convincing the Cabinet that negotiations should be sought.Trade ReviewAn exciting, though-provoking read, with profound contemporary as well as historical relevance Andrew Roberts; David Owen has thought deeply about these issues - and is always worth reading Dominic Lawson; Cabinet's Finest Hour is a fascinating read Bernard Donoughue
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Luath Press Ltd The Scottish Parliament: At Twenty
Book SynopsisBased on the research of a small advisory group formed of key figures in the Scottish Parliament, Jim Johnston and James Mitchell use their extensive experience of Scottish politics to discuss ideas about the Parliament’s future. Sir Paul Grice, Holyrood chief executive, is chairing the advisory group which includes members such as former PO George Reid, Caroline Gardner (Auditor General), Louise MacDonald (chief exec Young Scot), and Sarah Davidson (civil servant). Made up of a series of short essays, this book discusses vital issues such as public engagement, key challenges for the Parliament arising from issues such as Brexit, and what we can learn from the past. This book is truly essential read in this uncertain but exciting time for Scottish politics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 7 Open the Doors! EDWIN MORGAN 8 Foreword: KEN MACINTOSH MSP 11 Introduction: JIM JOHNSTON AND JAMES MITCHELL 13 1 Doing Right by the Common Weal BERNARD PONSONBY 23 Dear Scottish Parliament... Alicja Hertmanowska 32 2 A Building Which is More Than a Building GILLIAN BAXENDINE 33 Dear Scottish Parliament... 43 3 A Tale of Two Parliaments LEE BRIDGES 44 4 The MSP’s Role ALAN CONVERY AND DAVID PARKER 54 Dear Scottish Parliament... Claire Hossack 64 5 Parliament and Business: An Unfulfilled Relationship? MICHAEL CROW 65 Dear Scottish Parliament... Dionne Hossack 76 6 People-Powered Politics FIONA DUNCAN 77 7 Local Government and the Scottish Parliament: Parity of Esteem? ALISON EVISON 89 Dear Scottish Parliament... Ellie Gauld 99 8 Scrutiny and Transparency CAROLINE GARDNER 101 Dear Scottish Parliament... Emma Cook 112 9 Raising Taxes CHARLOTTE BARBOUR AND MORIA KELLY 113 10 Twenty Years of Devolution: Small Steps Towards Equality, But We Need Big Leaps TALAT YAQOOB 127 Dear Scottish Parliament... Etieno Essien 136 11 Some Questions on Sovereignty and Free Speech CHARLES ROBERT 137 Dear Scottish Parliament... Ewan Carmichael 149 12 A New Voice in the Land JIM WALLACE 150 Dear Scottish Parliament... Hope Teal 160 13 The Role of Law CHRISTINE O'NEILL 161 14 The Scottish Economy: Fiscal Challenges and Opportunities GRAEME ROY AND DAVID EISER 170 Dear Scottish Parliament... Quinn Muirhead 180 15 Principles and Practices of the Good Parliament: Babyleave, Institutional Resistance and Change SARAH CHILDS 181 Dear Scottish Parliament... Robyn Gibson 190 16 Look, Listen: This is Who We Are JAMES ROBERTSON 191 Conclusion: The Scottish Parliament in a Changing World JIM JOHNSTON AND JAMES MITCHELL 201 Appendix: A User’s Guide to the Scottish Parliament ELIZABETH CANTLIE AND ANDREW AITON 210 Contributor Biographies 219
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Haus Publishing An Extraordinary Scandal: The Westminster
Book SynopsisFeaturing interviews with the MPs, journalists and officials close to the centre of Britain's biggest political crisis since the Profumo Affair, this is the story of what really happened during the expenses scandal of 2009. Andrew Walker, the tax expert who oversaw the parliamentary expenses system, and Emma Crewe, a social scientist specialising in the institutions of parliament, bring a fascinating insider/outsider perspective to this account. Far from an apologia, An Extraordinary Scandal explains how parliament fell out of step with the electorate and became a victim of its own remote institutional logic, at odds with an increasingly open, meritocratic society. Charting the crisis from its 1990s origins - when Westminster began, too slowly, to respond to wider societal changes - to its aftermath in 2010, the authors examine how the scandal aggravated the developing crisis of trust between the British electorate and Westminster politicians that continues to this day. Their in-depth research reveals new insight into how the expenses scandal gave us a taste of what was to come, and where its legacy can be traced in the new age of mistrust and outrage, in which politicians are often unfairly vulnerable to being charged in the `court' of public opinion by those they represent.
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Palgrave Macmillan Deliberating War
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de Gruyter Krieg Der Narrative
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Kontroverse Richtungsentscheidungen in der Politik
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Kohlhammer Ewiger Krisenherd
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Jugoslawien Und Seine Nachfolgestaaten 1943-2011:
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tredition Der tiefe Fall des Westens und die bitteren
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Duncker & Humblot Der Wert Des Staates Und Die Bedeutung Des
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Duncker & Humblot Quo Vadis Europa?: Gegenwarts- Und Zukunftsfragen
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Verlag Herder Mehr Gerechtigkeit!: Wir Brauchen Eine Neue
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Nomos Verlags GmbH Parlamentarismus
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V&R unipress GmbH Disput über den Totalitarismus: Texte und Briefe
Book SynopsisThis small edition allows a flashback to the origins of Hannah Arendt''s analysis of totalitarianism. The pieces of text removed by the author from the first English-language edition of the totalitarianism book, the answer to Eric Voegelin''s review and the correspondence with Voegelin from 1951 are helpful for anyone who wants to get to know and evaluate Arendt''s totalitarianism concept and its development in more detail. These documents and the related texts by Ursula Ludz, Ingeborg Nordmann and Michael Henkel help to clarify Hannah Arendt''s ideas about totalitarianism as a form of rule that are still subject to misunderstandings in the German discussion.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Borders and Margins: Federalism, Devolution and
Book SynopsisThe theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emerging from the deepening integration of the European Union in the early 1990s and the development of free trade agreements around the world. MLG enlarges the traditional approaches, namely those of neo-institutionalism and multinational federalism, by offering a better understanding of the role of the state, regions and provinces. The book analyses the changes that have taken place as well as those that might take place in the future.Table of ContentsPreface: Wyn Grant, University of WarwickIntroduction: Guy Lachapelle, Concordia University and Pablo Onate, Universidad de Valencia1. Multi-Level Governance and the Reconfiguration of Politics - New Regionalism, Federalism and the Devolution of Power in Comparative PerspectiveMichael Stein and Lisa Turkewitsch, University of TorontoAn Assessment of Multi-level Governance as an Analytical Concept Applied to Federations and Decentralised Unitary Systems:Germany versus the United KingdomYannis Papadopoulos, University of LausanneProblems of Democratic Accountability in Network and Multi-level GovernanceAlain G.-Gagnon, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM)Multi-level Governance and the Reconfiguration of Political Space2. Trust in Government in Multi-level Governance SystemsFrancisco Llera Ramo, Universidad del Pais VascoThe Rise and Fall of Institutional Trust in Spain Guy Laforest and Camille Brunelle-Hamman, Universite LavalTrust and Mistrust between Harper and Quebec3. The International Role and Responsibilities of Sub-state EntitiesDavid Criekmans, University of AntwerpThe Diplomatic Activities of Regional Sub-State Entities : Towards a Multi-Level Diplomacy?Stephane Paquin, Ecole nationale d'administration publique (ENAP) Multi-level Governance and International Trade Negotiations: the Case of Canada's Trade Agreements Joaquim Molins and Ivan Medina, Autonomous University of BarcelonaBusiness Associations and Multi-level Dynamics in Spain and the UK4. The Collective Actors and their Relations in Multi-lever Layered-out Systems: the Role of Political PartiesLori Thorlakson, University of AlbertaPolitical Parties and Party Systems in Multi-level Layered-out Systems: CanadaGuy Lachapelle, Concordia UniversityPolitical Parties as a Tool of Identity Paradiplomacy: the Case of the Parti Quebecois and the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity Juan Rodriguez and Astrid Barrio, Universidad de ValenciaPolitical Parties in Multi-level Spain: Organization, Influence and StrategiesKris Deschouwer, Free University of BrusselsThe Organization and Functioning of Parties in Multi-level Belgium5. The Parliamentary Representatives and the Decision-making ProcessPablo Onate, Universidad de ValenciaPolitical Careers in Spain: Movements between Political Arenas in a Multi-level SystemKlaus Stolz, Chemnitz University of TechnologyBringing Politicians back in: Political Careers and Political Class in Multi-level SystemsPeverill Squire, University of MissouriState Legislatures and the Policy Making Process in the United States
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Palgrave Macmillan Understanding Propaganda
Book SynopsisChapter 1 : Media(ted) Propaganda: Definitions, Infrastructure and Contexts.- Chapter 2 : Prime time Propaganda: Television and Hate.- Chapter 3: Popular Culture Hate, Violence and Entertainment.- Chapter 4: In the name of cow: Symbols as Propaganda.- Chapter 5: Digital Media Propaganda in the Diaspora.- Chapter 6: Disinformation, Internet Shutdown.
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Springer The Language of Politics and the Greek Paradigm
Book SynopsisPreface.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Contemporary Greek Politics: From the Transition to Democracy to the Revival of Authoritarianism.- Chapter 3 Methodological Frameworks.- Chapter 4 “From Dystopia to EUtopia” – Analyzing Election Campaigns on the Basis of Fear and Hope Affects.- Chapter 5 Mainstreaming Anti-Communist Propaganda.- Chapter 6 Populist Discourse and Discourses about Populism in Political Confrontation: Instrumentalizing Anti-Populism in Contemporary Greek Politics.- Chapter 7 From the Refugee Crisis to Greece’s Policy of Exclusion.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Political Representation in America
Book SynopsisLori Cox Han, PhD, is Professor of Political Science and Doy B. Henley Chair of American Presidential Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California, USA.Caroline Heldman, PhD, is a political scientist and Chair of the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies program at Occidental College in Los Angeles, USA.
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Oxford University Press Germany Europe and the Politics of Constraint
Book SynopsisThe process of European integration is marked both by continued deepening and widening, and by growing evidence of domestic disquiet and dissent. Against this background, this volume examines three key themes: the challenge to the power of member states - as subjects of European integration - to determine the course of the integrationist project and to shape European public policies; the increasing constraints in the domestic political arena experienced by member states as objects of European integration; and the contestation over both the ''constitutive politics of the EU'' and specific policy choices. These three themes - power, constraint and contestation - and their interdependence are explored with specific reference to contemporary Germany.The main findings call for a revision of the ''conventional wisdom'' about Germany''s Europeanization experience. First, while Germany continues to engage intensively in all aspects of the integration process, its power to ''upload'' - ''hard''Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the updating and re-evaluation of literature on the EU and the German political system. * Perspectives on Political Science *Table of ContentsLiving with Europe: Power, Constraint, and Contestation ; Europeanization in Context; Concept and Theory ; The Federal Executive: Bureaucratic Fusion versus Governmental Bifurcation ; The Bundestag: Institutional Incrementalism Behavioural Reticence ; ; The German Lander: From Milieu-Shaping to Territorial Politics ; Public Law: Towards a Post-National Model ; The Party System: Structure, Policy and Europeanization ; Interest Groups: Opportunity Structures and Organizational Capacity ; The Media Agenda: The Marginalization and Domestication of Europe ; Economic Policies: From Pace-Setter to Beleaguered Player ; ; Competition Policy: From Centrality to Muddling Through? ; Electricity and Telecommunications: Fit for the European Union? ; Social Policy: Transforming Pensions, Challenging Health Care? ; Environmental Policy: A Leader State under Pressure? ; Justice and Home Affairs: Europeanization as a Government-Controlled Process ; Foreign and Security Policy: On the Cusp Between Transformation and Accomodation ; Europeanization Compared: The Shrinking Core and the Decline of 'Soft' Power
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The University of Chicago Press WhiteCollar Government The Hidden Role of Class
Book SynopsisEight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Why is it that most politicians in America are so much better off than the people who elect them - and does the social class divide between citizens and their representatives matter? The author answers this question with a resounding - and disturbing - yes.Trade Review" 'Where you stand depends on where you sit' is a maxim seldom applied to the economic backgrounds of legislators. But Nicholas Carnes's eye-opening study shows social class and work experience to be key determinants in shaping how Congress and state legislatures write laws and shape policies." -Timothy Noah, author of The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It"
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The University of Chicago Press The Peoples Lobby Organizational Innovation the
Book SynopsisExamines the social origins of interest group politics in the USA. Between 1890 and 1925, a system centred on elections and party organizations was partially transformed by various interest groups including farmers, workers and women. This text analyzes organizational politics in three US states.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue 1: Partisan Politics: The Evil and the Remedy 2: Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change 3: The Experiment Station: Political Innovation and Diffusion among the States 4: Neither Friends Nor Enemies: Organized Labor and Partisan Politics 5: From Agrarian Protest to Business Politics 6: Politics without Party: The Organizational Accomplishments of Disenfranchised Women 7: Challenge and Crystallization: The Institutionalization of Reform in Three States 8: "The Menace of New Privilege" Coda: In Practice, in Theory Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Peoples Lobby Organizational Innovation and
Book SynopsisExamines the social origins of interest group politics in the USA. Between 1890 and 1925, a system centred on elections and party organizations was partially transformed by various interest groups including farmers, workers and women. This text analyzes organizational politics in three US states.
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The University of Chicago Press Governing With the News Second Edition The News
Book SynopsisThe ideal of a neutral, objective press has proven in recent years to be just that - an ideal. In Governing with the News, Timothy E. Cook goes far beyond the single claim that the press is not impartial to argue that the news media are in fact a political institution integral to the day-to-day operations of our government.Trade Review"Provocative and often wise.... Cook, who has a complex understanding of the relationship between governing and the news, provides a fascinating account of the origins of this complicity." - James Bennet, Washington Monthly; "Governing with the News addresses central issues of media impact and power in fresh, illuminating ways.... Cook mines a wealth of historical and organizational literature to assert that the news media are a distinct political institution in our democratic system." - Robert Schmuhl, Commonweal; "While we worry about the media's influence on politics, we rarely notice that journalists are political actors, part of the governing system, a means for raising issues and getting them advanced.... Cook's dead-on analysis is a model of engaged scholarship." - Jay Rosen, Nation"
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The University of Chicago Press Legislating in the Dark Information and Power in
Book SynopsisThe 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn't even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to digest so much information in such a short time. The answer? They aren't. With Legislating in the Dark, James M. Curry reveals that the availability of information about legislation is a key tool through which Congressional leadership exercises power. Through a deft mix of legislative analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Curry shows how congresspersons-lacking the time and resources to study bills deeply themselves-are forced to rely on information and cues from their leadership. By controlling their rank-and-file's access to information, Congressional leaders are able to emphasize or bury particular items, exploiting their information advantage to push the legislative agenda in directions that they and their party prefer.
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The University of Chicago Press Rendering unto Caesar The Catholic Church and the
Book SynopsisExamining the relationship between Church and state in Latin America, this book explains why Catholic leaders in some countries opposed dictatorial rule, and why many did not. Using evidence from 12 countries, it reveals the connection between religious competition and progressive Catholicism.
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The University of Chicago Press Political Style The Artistry of Power
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes four dominant political styles: realist; courtly; republican; and bureaucratic. It examines political artistry in figures from antiquity to the modern day, and discusses the problems faced by each style, as well as the social and moral consequences of each style's success.
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The University of Chicago Press The Sound of Leadership Presidential
Book SynopsisWhy did Gerald Ford speak in public once every six hours during 1976? Why did no president spreak in Massachusetts during one ten-year period? Why did Jimmy Carter conduct public ceremonies four times more often than Harry Truman? Why are television viewers two-and-a-half times more likely to see a president speak on the nightly news than to hear him speak? The Sound of Leadership answers these questions and many more. Based on analysis of nearly 10,000 presidential speeches delivered between 1945 and 1985, this book is the first comprehensive examination of the ways in which presidents Truman through Reagan have used the powers of communication to advance their political goals. This communication revolution has produced, Roderick P. Hart argues, a new form of governance, one in which public speech has come to be taken as political action. Using a rhetorical appraoch, Hart details the features of this new American presidency by carefully examining when and where presidents spoke in pub
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The University of Chicago Press Numbered Voices How Opinion Polling Has Shaped
Book SynopsisThis study demonstrates that the way public opinion is measured affects the use that voters, legislators, and journalists make of it. It explores the history of public opinion in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present day in order to assess the workings of US politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Combative Politics The Media and Public
Book SynopsisFrom the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American public so often reject policies that seem to offer them exactly what they want? By the time a bill is pushed through Congress or ultimately defeated, we've often been exposed to weeks, months even years of media coverage that underscores the unpopular process of policymaking, and Mary Layton Atkinson argues that this leads us to reject the bill itself. Contrary to many Americans' understandings of the policymaking process, the best answer to a complex problem is rarely self-evident, and politicians must weigh many potential options, each with merits and drawbacks. As the public awaits a resolution, the news media tend to focus not on the substance of the debate but on descriptions of partisan combat. This coverage leads the public to believe
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The University of Chicago Press Combative Politics The Media and Public
Book SynopsisFrom the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American public so often reject policies that seem to offer them exactly what they want? By the time a bill is pushed through Congress or ultimately defeated, we've often been exposed to weeks, months even years of media coverage that underscores the unpopular process of policymaking, and Mary Layton Atkinson argues that this leads us to reject the bill itself. Contrary to many Americans' understandings of the policymaking process, the best answer to a complex problem is rarely self-evident, and politicians must weigh many potential options, each with merits and drawbacks. As the public awaits a resolution, the news media tend to focus not on the substance of the debate but on descriptions of partisan combat. This coverage leads the public to believe
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The University of Chicago Press Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan
Book SynopsisHere, the author analyzes the debate over subjectivity. He traces the arguments of intellectuals from various disciplines and viewpoints, and asserts that despite their stress on individual autonomy, they all came to define subjectivity in terms of deterministic historical structures.
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The University of Chicago Press Pivotal Politics A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking
Book SynopsisA study of American lawmaking showing that political parties are less important in legislative-executive politics than is commonly thought. The book argues that divided government has little effect on legislative productivity as gridlock occurs even in united legislative-executive governments.
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The University of Chicago Press The Practical Imagination The German Sciences of
Book SynopsisDrawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, this book sets out to illuminate the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during 19th-century Germany. Using information from many sources, it examines the learned disciplines of the time.
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The University of Chicago Press State Constitutional Politics Governing by
Book SynopsisGiven that amending the US Constitution has become all but impossible, the real battleground these days is the states, and Dinan outlines how that process works and how groups have been using it.
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University of Chicago Press Demos Assembled Democracy and the International
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the mutual influence of America and France as each nation became a modern state in the wake of their twin revolutions.
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The University of Chicago Press The Congressional Endgame Interchamber
Book SynopsisCongress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate and must find ways to resolve their disputes. In the current landscape of party polarization, this contentious process has become far more chaotic, leading to the public perception that the House and Senate are unwilling or unable to compromise and calling into question the effectiveness of the bicameral system itself. With The Congressional Endgame, Josh M. Ryan offers a coherent explanation of how the bicameral legislative process works in Congress and shows that the types of policy outcomes it produces are in line with those intended by the framers of the Constitution. Although each bargaining outcome may seem idiosyncratic, the product of strong leadership and personality politics, interchamber bargaining outcomes in Congress are actua
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The University of Chicago Press The Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining
Book SynopsisCongress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate and must find ways to resolve their disputes. In the current landscape of party polarization, this contentious process has become far more chaotic, leading to the public perception that the House and Senate are unwilling or unable to compromise and calling into question the effectiveness of the bicameral system itself. With The Congressional Endgame, Josh M. Ryan offers a coherent explanation of how the bicameral legislative process works in Congress and shows that the types of policy outcomes it produces are in line with those intended by the framers of the Constitution. Although each bargaining outcome may seem idiosyncratic, the product of strong leadership and personality politics, interchamber bargaining outcomes in Congress are actua
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The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in
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The University of Chicago Press Political Participation and Government Regulation
Book SynopsisExploring how government works and how voters and their elected representatives make decisions, this text responds to the media's negative portrayal of the cynical political atmosphere in America, suggesting that elected officials actually do tend to vote according to their constituents' interests.
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The University of Chicago Press The Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If unilateralism is so tempting and so effective, Christenson and Kriner ask, why is it so rare? The key dynamics, they show, are less in other branches of government but in politics and public opinion. Christenson and Kriner unify strands of presidency research that have been treated by too many as competitors and even as opposites, and the book will make a crucial contribution."--Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College "American democracy only works if the populace controls those who they elect. There is no more fundamental question then whether citizens can in fact exert such control. Yet, for more than one hundred years, scholars and pundits have worried about an imperial presidency that evades institutional and popular checks. This seminal book offers remarkable evidence that the public--with the help of the Congress and the courts--do in fact hold the president accountable. In that sense, democracy can work and has worked. Alas, the book also points to concerns of responsiveness to a narrow base. In so doing, Christenson and Kriner not only resolve a hundred-year-old puzzle but also set an agenda for the next generation of scholarship on American democracy."--James N. Druckman, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: An Imperial Presidency? Chapter 2: How Americans Think about Unilateral Action Appendix to Chapter 2 Chapter 3: Congressional Pushback in the Public Sphere Appendix to Chapter 3 Chapter 4: Rethinking the Role of the Courts Appendix to Chapter 4 Chapter 5: A Popular Check on Unilateralism Appendix to Chapter 5 Chapter 6: Pathways of Political Constraint Chapter 7: Democratic Decline? Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If unilateralism is so tempting and so effective, Christenson and Kriner ask, why is it so rare? The key dynamics, they show, are less in other branches of government but in politics and public opinion. Christenson and Kriner unify strands of presidency research that have been treated by too many as competitors and even as opposites, and the book will make a crucial contribution."--Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College "American democracy only works if the populace controls those who they elect. There is no more fundamental question then whether citizens can in fact exert such control. Yet, for more than one hundred years, scholars and pundits have worried about an imperial presidency that evades institutional and popular checks. This seminal book offers remarkable evidence that the public--with the help of the Congress and the courts--do in fact hold the president accountable. In that sense, democracy can work and has worked. Alas, the book also points to concerns of responsiveness to a narrow base. In so doing, Christenson and Kriner not only resolve a hundred-year-old puzzle but also set an agenda for the next generation of scholarship on American democracy."--James N. Druckman, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: An Imperial Presidency? Chapter 2: How Americans Think about Unilateral Action Appendix to Chapter 2 Chapter 3: Congressional Pushback in the Public Sphere Appendix to Chapter 3 Chapter 4: Rethinking the Role of the Courts Appendix to Chapter 4 Chapter 5: A Popular Check on Unilateralism Appendix to Chapter 5 Chapter 6: Pathways of Political Constraint Chapter 7: Democratic Decline? Notes References Index
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