Politics and government Books

Book SynopsisDebates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatizedor at least, radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. Steven Davis passionately advocates that public land ought to remain firmly in the public's hands. He reviews empirical data and theoretical arguments from biological, economic, and political perspectives in order to build a case for why our public lands are an invaluable and irreplaceable asset for the American people.In Defense of Public Lands briefly lays out the history and characteristics of public lands at the local, state, and federal levels while examining the numerous policy prescriptions for their privatization or, in the case of federal lands, transfer. He considers the dimensions of environmental health; markets and valuation of public land, the tensions between collective values and individual preferences, the nature and perfo

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Book SynopsisThe transformation from an undifferentiated public to a surfeit of interest groups has become yet another distinguishing feature of the increasing polarization of American politics. Jill Edy and Patrick Meirick contend that the media has played a key role in this splintering. A Nation Fragmented reveals how the content and character of the public agenda has transformed as the media environment evolved from network television and daily newspapers in the late 1960s to today's saturated social media world with 200 cable channels. The authors seek to understand what happened as the public's sense of shared priorities deteriorated. They consider to what extent our public agenda has fallen apart as attention to news has declined, and to what extent we have been driven apart by changes in the issue agendas of news. Edy and Meirick also show how public attention is limited and spread too thin except in cases where a highly consistent news agenda can provoke a more focused public agenda.A Nat

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Book SynopsisThe transformation from an undifferentiated public to a surfeit of interest groups has become yet another distinguishing feature of the increasing polarization of American politics. Jill Edy and Patrick Meirick contend that the media has played a key role in this splintering. A Nation Fragmented reveals how the content and character of the public agenda has transformed as the media environment evolved from network television and daily newspapers in the late 1960s to today's saturated social media world with 200 cable channels. The authors seek to understand what happened as the public's sense of shared priorities deteriorated. They consider to what extent our public agenda has fallen apart as attention to news has declined, and to what extent we have been driven apart by changes in the issue agendas of news. Edy and Meirick also show how public attention is limited and spread too thin except in cases where a highly consistent news agenda can provoke a more focused public agenda.A Nat

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Book SynopsisIn 2010, Dilma Rousseff was the first woman to be elected President in Brazil. She was re-elected in 2014 before being impeached in 2016 for breaking budget laws. Her popularity and controversy both energized and polarized the country. In Women's Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil, dos Santos and Jalalzai examine Rousseff's presidency and what it means for a woman to hold (and lose) the country's highest power.The authors examine the ways Rousseff exercised dominant authority and enhanced women's political empowerment. They also investigate the extent her gender played a role in the events of her presidency, including the political and economic crises and her ensuing impeachment. Emphasizing women's political empowerment rather than representation, the authors assess the effects of women executives to more directly impact female constituencieshow they can empower women by appointing them to government positions; make policies that advance women's equality; and, through visibility

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Book SynopsisIn 2010, Dilma Rousseff was the first woman to be elected President in Brazil. She was re-elected in 2014 before being impeached in 2016 for breaking budget laws. Her popularity and controversy both energized and polarized the country. In Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil, dos Santos and Jalalzai examine Rousseff’s presidency and what it means for a woman to hold (and lose) the country’s highest power.The authors examine the ways Rousseff exercised dominant authority and enhanced women’s political empowerment. They also investigate the extent her gender played a role in the events of her presidency, including the political and economic crises and her ensuing impeachment. Emphasizing women’s political empowerment rather than representation, the authors assess the effects of women executives to more directly impact female constituencies—how they can empower women by appointing them to government positions; make policies

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Book SynopsisThe beautiful Caribbean basin is fertile ground for a study of capitalism past and present. Transnational corporations move money and labor around the region, as national regulations are reworked to promote conditions benefiting private capital.Globalizing the Caribbeanoffers a probing account of the region's experience of economic globalization while considering gendered and racialized social relations and the frequent exploitation of workers. Jeb Sprague focuses on the social and material nature of this new era in the history of world capitalism. He combines an historical overview of capitalism in the region with theoretical analysis backed by case studies. Sprague elaborates upon the role of class formation and the restructuring of local states. He considers both U.S. hegemony, and how various upsurges from below and crises occur. He examines the globalization of the cruise ship and mining businesses, looks at the growth of migrant labor and reverse flow of remittances, and descriTrade Review"Globalizing the Caribbean is a fundamental book for anyone who wants to understand the region’s current political economy. Not many books combine empirically strong research with positioning the Caribbean in global accumulation networks. Caribbean activists and scholars in Caribbean Studies, Political Economy, Geography and Sociology will find Jeb Sprague’s book a valuable contribution."—Caribbean Studies

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Book SynopsisThe beautiful Caribbean basin is fertile ground for a study of capitalism past and present. Transnational corporations move money and labor around the region, as national regulations are reworked to promote conditions benefiting private capital.Globalizing the Caribbeanoffers a probing account of the region's experience of economic globalization while considering gendered and racialized social relations and the frequent exploitation of workers. Jeb Sprague focuses on the social and material nature of this new era in the history of world capitalism. He combines an historical overview of capitalism in the region with theoretical analysis backed by case studies. Sprague elaborates upon the role of class formation and the restructuring of local states. He considers both U.S. hegemony, and how various upsurges from below and crises occur. He examines the globalization of the cruise ship and mining businesses, looks at the growth of migrant labor and reverse flow of remittances, and descriTrade Review"Globalizing the Caribbean is a fundamental book for anyone who wants to understand the region’s current political economy. Not many books combine empirically strong research with positioning the Caribbean in global accumulation networks. Caribbean activists and scholars in Caribbean Studies, Political Economy, Geography and Sociology will find Jeb Sprague’s book a valuable contribution."—Caribbean Studies

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Book SynopsisAfter the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a large cohort of women emerged to run for office. Their efforts changed the landscape of candidates and representation. However, women are still far less likely than men to seek elective office, and face biases and obstacles in campaigns. (Women running for Congress make twice as many phone calls as men to raise the same contributions.)The editors and contributors to Good Reasons to Run, a mix of scholars and practitioners, examine the reasons why women runand do not runfor political office. They focus on the opportunities, policies, and structures that promote women's candidacies. How do nonprofits help recruit and finance women as candidates? And what role does money play in women's campaigns?The essays in Good Reasons to Run ask not just who wants to run, but how to activate and encourage such ambition among a larger population of potential female candidates while also increasing the diversity of women running for office.Trade Review“How might more women in the United States run for and win political office? In this highly accessible and well-integrated edited volume, leading scholars in the field of women in politics provide answers. Drawing on original data, they explain how women can overcome obstacles to their candidacy and how women’s political ambition can be activated by taking into account race, class, and party affiliation. Good Reasons to Run also uncovers the new role that nonprofit organizations are playing in preparing women for public office and analyzes how money matters for women candidates. The insightful findings in this volume make it essential reading for anyone who believes that more women in politics is critical for our democratic future.”—Denise M. Walsh, University of Virginia“Good Reasons to Run fills a gap in the gender and politics literature by offering a comprehensive examination of women’s political ambition and the effectiveness of programs designed to recruit, train, and encourage female candidates to run for public office. The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume provide timely and essential guidance from an academic and practical perspective for organizations offering such programs as well as women who might consider a run for political office.”—Dianne Bystrom, Director Emerita, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University

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Book SynopsisAfter the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a large cohort of women emerged to run for office. Their efforts changed the landscape of candidates and representation. However, women are still far less likely than men to seek elective office, and face biases and obstacles in campaigns. (Women running for Congress make twice as many phone calls as men to raise the same contributions.)The editors and contributors to Good Reasons to Run, a mix of scholars and practitioners, examine the reasons why women runand do not runfor political office. They focus on the opportunities, policies, and structures that promote women's candidacies. How do nonprofits help recruit and finance women as candidates? And what role does money play in women's campaigns?The essays in Good Reasons to Run ask not just who wants to run, but how to activate and encourage such ambition among a larger population of potential female candidates while also increasing the diversity of women running for office.Trade Review“How might more women in the United States run for and win political office? In this highly accessible and well-integrated edited volume, leading scholars in the field of women in politics provide answers. Drawing on original data, they explain how women can overcome obstacles to their candidacy and how women’s political ambition can be activated by taking into account race, class, and party affiliation. Good Reasons to Run also uncovers the new role that nonprofit organizations are playing in preparing women for public office and analyzes how money matters for women candidates. The insightful findings in this volume make it essential reading for anyone who believes that more women in politics is critical for our democratic future.”—Denise M. Walsh, University of Virginia“Good Reasons to Run fills a gap in the gender and politics literature by offering a comprehensive examination of women’s political ambition and the effectiveness of programs designed to recruit, train, and encourage female candidates to run for public office. The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume provide timely and essential guidance from an academic and practical perspective for organizations offering such programs as well as women who might consider a run for political office.”—Dianne Bystrom, Director Emerita, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University

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Book SynopsisHow do public employees win and lose their collective bargaining rights? And how can public sector labor unions protect those rights? These are the questions answered in From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging. Dominic Wells takes a mixed-methods approach and uses more than five decades of state-level data to analyze the expansion and restriction of rights. Wells identifies the factors that led states to expand collective bargaining rights to public employees, and the conditions under which public employee labor unions can defend against unfavorable state legislation. He presents case studies and coalition strategies from Ohio and Wisconsin to demonstrate how labor unions failed to protect their rights in one state and succeeded in another.From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging also provides a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the economic, political, and cultural factors that both led states to adopt policies that reduced the obstacles to unionization and also

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Book SynopsisThe United States Congress appears to be in perpetual gridlock on environmental policy, notes Sara Rinfret, editor of the significant collection, Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? As she and her contributors explain, however, most environmental policy is not made in the halls of Congress. Instead, it is created by agency experts in federal environmental agencies and it is implemented at the state level. These individuals have been delegated the authority to interpret vague congressional legislation and write rulesand these rules carry the same weight as congressional law. Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? brings together top scholars to provide an explanation of rulemaking processes and regulatory policy, and to show why this context is important for U.S. environmental policy. Illustrative case studies about oil and gas regulations in Colorado and the regulation of coal ash disposal in southeastern states apply theory to practice. Ultimately, the essays in this volume advanTrade Review“Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? offers a new take on U.S. environmental policy with an unusual but essential focus on the regulatory process and analysis of how regulation works. Rinfret assembles essays from well-established and respected political scientists and newer scholars with unique perspectives to offer a fresh and original examination of environmental rulemaking via diverse case studies. Her book offers a thorough and clear introduction to the often obscure world of regulatory decision making, including such matters as inspections and enforcement of rules that rarely receive attention.” —Michael Kraft, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy“Anyone who reads Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? will gain a clear understanding of the importance of the regulatory process, from promulgating a regulation to ensuring its enforcement. Concise explanations of what regulations are and who is involved lay the foundation for the book. Written by prominent scholars in the environmental field, this book contains engaging examples that illustrate how politics, litigation, and federalism may confound or accelerate policies, including studies of the Endangered Species Act, oil and gas regulation in Colorado, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s involvement in coal ash management. A highly recommended gem of a book for anyone who wants to learn more about environmental policy.” —Denise Scheberle, Clinical Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado–Denver, and author of Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the past, present, and future of promoting racial equity in housing and neighborhoods

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Book SynopsisThere has been an increase in testimonies from women politicians who have been targets of violence and from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. The editors and contributors to ofGender and Violence against Political Actorsseek to understandhow gender influences both physical and psychological forms of violence andhow sexual violence affects both men and women. Chapters focus on theoretical approaches demonstrating how different disciplinary starting pointse.g., politics, violence and gendergive rise to different lenses. Essaysexamine violence carried out during conflict and peacetime, and relate to the continuum of violencephysical, sexual, psychological, and online. In addition, six country case studies reveal how different types of political actors have been targets of violence. Gender and Violence against Political Actorsends by providing various approaches to responding to the problem of gendered violence in politics while also evaluating policy responses. ContrTrade Review“This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides a systematic gendered analysis of political violence across different countries and political contexts. It is based on solid theories and concepts and provides a broad coverage of the forms of violence that harm women’s political participation. The rich case studies make the volume a rewarding read for scholars and students. The book is also highly recommendable as it provides suggestions for policy responses.”—Johanna Kantola, Professor of European Societies and Their Politics at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and author of Gender and the European Union“The editors and contributors to this book make broad contributions to our understanding of, and ability to conduct research about, gender and political violence. They examine various forms of violence—spanning physical to psychological violence—in diverse arenas, ranging from war to legislative chambers to political campaigns. This book’s broad theoretical scope, paired with case studies in highly diverse contexts and with policy attempts to address political violence, makes Gender and Violence against Political Actors an indispensable resource for scholars and students in all areas of gender politics.”—Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, and coauthor of Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens?“Whereas violence against women who take on political roles is as old as the witch hunts, it has only recently become the subject of systematic study. This book offers an important collection of perspectives from different subfields of political science that deepen and broaden our understanding of the phenomenon of gendered violence(s). Working with the notion of a continuum of violence spanning psychological and physical violence while attending to the gendered power relations that shape it, the editors and contributors highlight how multiple approaches are needed to fully explain and address violence against gendered political actors.”—Annick T. R. Wibben, Anna Lindh Professor of Gender, Peace, and Security at the Swedish Defence University

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Book SynopsisThere has been an increase in testimonies from women politicians who have been targets of violence and from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. The editors and contributors to ofGender and Violence against Political Actorsseek to understandhow gender influences both physical and psychological forms of violence andhow sexual violence affects both men and women. Chapters focus on theoretical approaches demonstrating how different disciplinary starting pointse.g., politics, violence and gendergive rise to different lenses. Essaysexamine violence carried out during conflict and peacetime, and relate to the continuum of violencephysical, sexual, psychological, and online. In addition, six country case studies reveal how different types of political actors have been targets of violence. Gender and Violence against Political Actorsends by providing various approaches to responding to the problem of gendered violence in politics while also evaluating policy responses. ContrTrade Review“This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides a systematic gendered analysis of political violence across different countries and political contexts. It is based on solid theories and concepts and provides a broad coverage of the forms of violence that harm women’s political participation. The rich case studies make the volume a rewarding read for scholars and students. The book is also highly recommendable as it provides suggestions for policy responses.”—Johanna Kantola, Professor of European Societies and Their Politics at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and author of Gender and the European Union“The editors and contributors to this book make broad contributions to our understanding of, and ability to conduct research about, gender and political violence. They examine various forms of violence—spanning physical to psychological violence—in diverse arenas, ranging from war to legislative chambers to political campaigns. This book’s broad theoretical scope, paired with case studies in highly diverse contexts and with policy attempts to address political violence, makes Gender and Violence against Political Actors an indispensable resource for scholars and students in all areas of gender politics.”—Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, and coauthor of Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens?“Whereas violence against women who take on political roles is as old as the witch hunts, it has only recently become the subject of systematic study. This book offers an important collection of perspectives from different subfields of political science that deepen and broaden our understanding of the phenomenon of gendered violence(s). Working with the notion of a continuum of violence spanning psychological and physical violence while attending to the gendered power relations that shape it, the editors and contributors highlight how multiple approaches are needed to fully explain and address violence against gendered political actors.”—Annick T. R. Wibben, Anna Lindh Professor of Gender, Peace, and Security at the Swedish Defence University

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Book SynopsisPolitical role models are people that voters form a connection with, and who provoke them to think differently about and engage with politics. Inspired Citizens examines the impact role models have in American politics through the lens of political psychology. Jennie Sweet-Cushman investigates how citizens, especially marginalized ones, can be influenced by the presence of political role models. She asks critical questions: Do role models increase political participation and strengthen American democracy? Do role models encourage candidate emergence? Sweet-Cushman develops Inspired Citizenship Theory to show that political role models can have motivating effects on one's political citizenship and may, in some case, insulate those who have been traditionally marginalized in American politics. Moreover, she asserts that citizens who have political role models possess very different political behaviors and attitudes than those who do not. Inspired Citizens also considers the often-confl

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Book SynopsisPolitical role models are people that voters form a connection with, and who provoke them to think differently about and engage with politics. Inspired Citizens examines the impact role models have in American politics through the lens of political psychology. Jennie Sweet-Cushman investigates how citizens, especially marginalized ones, can be influenced by the presence of political role models. She asks critical questions: Do role models increase political participation and strengthen American democracy? Do role models encourage candidate emergence? Sweet-Cushman develops Inspired Citizenship Theory to show that political role models can have motivating effects on one's political citizenship and may, in some case, insulate those who have been traditionally marginalized in American politics. Moreover, she asserts that citizens who have political role models possess very different political behaviors and attitudes than those who do not. Inspired Citizens also considers the often-confl

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Book SynopsisIn this new edition of Uneasy Partnership, Geoffrey Hale examines the interdependent relationship between Canadian governments and businesses, considering governments' multiple roles in the economy and their implications for the business environment.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Boxes and Figures 1. Business, Government, and the Politics of Mutual Dependence 2. State, Business and Society: The Political Roles of Government 3. The Economic Roles of Government 4. Canada’s Economic History: Government, Business, and the Politics of Development and Distribution 5. Corporate Power in Canada: Nature, Extent, and Limits 6. Canada’s Economic Structure: Diversity, Dynamism, and the Political Economy of Business-Government Relations 7. Federalism, Regionalism, and Provincial Diversity 8. Globalization, Trade, and Business 9. Canada’s Crown Corporations and the Changing Face of State Capitalism 10. The Political Marketplace: Interest Groups, Policy Communities, and Lobbying 11. The Evolving Political Economy of Business Taxation 12. Putting the "Capital" into Capitalism: The Political Economy of Canada's Evolving Capital-Market Policies 13. Growth, Equity and Sustainability: Pursuing Positive-Sum Policies in a Shrinking World Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRobert A. Wardhaugh chronicles Clark's contributions to Canada's modern state in Behind the Scenes, which reconstructs the public life and ideas of one of Canada's most important bureaucrats.Trade Review'Wardhaugh's biography is comprehensive, exhaustively reviewing the archival sources, well written and a pleasure to read... For anyone interested in the history and politics of mid-twentieth-century Canada, this is an essential read.' -- Colin Campbell; British Journal of Canadian Studies: vol 24:02:2011Table of ContentsContents Preface 3Chapter 1An Academic Mind, 1889-19229Chapter 2American Financier, 1922-193246Chapter 3Civil Servant, 1932-193586Chapter 4A New Boss, 1935-1939128Chapter 5Preparing For War, 1939-1940190Chapter 6Dark Days, 1940-1941231Chapter 7Mobilizing the Nation, 1941-1942269Chapter 8 Building a Brave New World, 1942-1943311Chapter 9Getting the Job Done, 1944-1945350Chapter 10The Postwar World and New Beginnings, 1946394Chapter 11The Trials of Prosperity, 1947-1949433Chapter 12The End of an Era, 1950-1952470Chapter 13Conclusion496Bibilography 512Endnotes 535

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Book SynopsisDrawing on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing, Canada at a Crossroads emphasizes the social psychological barriers to transforming white settler ideologies and practices and working towards decolonization. After tracing settlers’ sense of group superiority and entitlement to historical and ongoing colonial processes, Denis illustrates how contemporary Indigenous and settler residents think about and relate to one another. He highlights how, despite often having close cross-group relationships, residents maintain conflicting perspectives on land, culture, history, and treaties, and Indigenous residents frequently experience interpersonal and systemic racism. Denis then critically assesses the promise and pitfalls of commonly proposed solutions, including intergroup contact, education, apologies, and collective action, and concludes that genuine reconciliation will require radically restructuring Canadian sociTrade Review"By examining Indigenous-settler relations on a local level Canada at a Crossroads offers a critique that is useful in imagining broader frameworks. It proves that contact on a local level is not enough to overcome the rigidity of group positions and the sense of superiority that underpins settler ideologies. To really overcome boundaries and build bridges, settlers need to address laissez-faire racism by working to understand the history of settler colonialism, Indigenous treaty rights and land claims of the region, and to address white supremacy and privilege." -- Alice Higgs * JACANZS *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Boundaries and Bridges in Indigenous-Settler Relations 1. Colonization and the Development of Group Positions: A Brief History of Indigenous-Settler Relations in the Rainy River District 2. Perceiving Group Relations, Constructing Group Positions: "It’s okay as long as the Indians know their place!" 3. Boundary Work and Group Positioning: How Perceptions of Boundaries Reproduce and Challenge Settler Colonial Relations 4. Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Group Positioning in Everyday Attitudes and Behaviours 5. The Alberton Group Home Controversy: "I have Native friends, but this is going too far" 6. Bridge Work: Beyond Group Positioning? 7. A Tenuous Balance: How Contact and Prejudice Coexist 8. Education, Group Positioning, and Ideological Refinement 9. Racial Contestation and the Residential School Apology 10. The Benefits and Challenges of Collective Action: "We can work together if we want to work together" Conclusion: Canada at a Crossroads Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDevoted to exploring elections as the central act in a democracy, Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters is animated by a set of three overarching questions: Why do some citizens vote while others do not? How do voters decide to cast their ballots for one candidate and not another? How does the context in which citizens live influence the choices they make? Organized into three sections focused on turnout, vote choice, and electoral systems, the volume seeks to provide novel insights into the most pressing questions for scholars of vote choice and voting behaviour. In addition to featuring several prominent Canadian scholars, the collection includes chapters by leading scholars from the United States and Europe.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Foreword 1 Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and Maxime Héroux-Legault Part I: Voter Turnout 2 Altruism, Participation, and Political Context Cindy D. Kam, Skyler J. Cranmer, and James H. Fowler 3 Behavioural Anomalies Explain Variation in Voter Turnout Christopher Dawes, Peter John Loewen, and Gabriel Arsenault 4 Civic Duty and Social Pressure as Causes of Voter Turnout Donald P. Green 5 The Preferences of Voters and Non-Voters in Canada (1988−2008) Jean-François Godbout and Mathieu Turgeon Part II: Vote Choice 6 The Economy and Federal Election Outcomes in Canada: Taking Provincial Economic Conditions into Account Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, and Bruno Jérôme 7 Who Responds to Election Campaigns? The Two-Moderator Model Revisited Patrick Fournier, Fred Cutler, and Stuart Soroka 8 Bureaucrats, Policy Attitudes, and Political Behaviour: A Reappraisal James C. Garand and Ping Xu Part III: Electoral Systems 9 How Electoral Systems Shape What Voters Think about Democracy Christopher J. Anderson 10 Party Strategies, Institutions, and Electoral System Effects Romain Lachat 11 When Do Voters Act Strategically? Institutional and Individual Variation in the Incidence of Strategic Voting in Democracies John Aldrich and Laura B. Stephenson 12 The Future of Election Studies and the Study of Elections Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and André Blais Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDisraeli: The Romance of Politics examines the relation between Disraeli's novels and his political career and illuminates both in a way not previously attempted.Trade Review'Highly recommended.' -- E.J. Jenkins Choice Magazine, vol 51:02:2013 'This truly interdisciplinary study illuminates the way that drama and narrative art infuse the practice of nineteenth-century politics.' -- Jane Stabler SEL Studies vol 55:04:2015 "O'Kell is at his most innovative when he reads Disraeli's explicitly political writing against the imaginative backdrop of the novels. [...] The result of this layered reading is that Disraeli's career in fact appears more plausible as its disparate elements are yoked together in an account which incorporates the different tones of his voice." -- Daisy Hay Times Literary Supplement, September 20, 2013 'Disraeli: The Romance of Politics is the most thorough study to date of the relationship between Disraeli's political and literary careers... O'Kell's book, already thorough and valuable, may yet come to acquire additional relevance, by highlighting the circuitous nature of routes to political power, and the tenacity of the adventurer.' -- Michael Flavin Canadian Journal of History vol 49: autumn 2014 'O'Kell has brought a remarkably fresh perspective to Disraeli's career... It is certainly a book that should stand as an example of how a genuinely cross-disciplinary approach to Victorian Studies in general, and 'the dynamics of political culture' in particular, can enliven the most studied of nineteenth-century topics.' -- I. Cawood The English Historical Review; September 2014 'The literary life of Benjamin Disraeli is the most important book to be published on this intriguing figure in at least a decade... For the Victorianist, O'Kell's magnum opus is an exemplar of interdisciplinary methodology and offers a refreshing re-interpretation of Disraeli's political life and literary works.' -- Rosemary Mitchell Journal of Victorian Culture, 19 June 2015 'Thoughtful, lucid, well-researched book... O'Kell throws new, important, and interesting light on $rdquo;The Chief$rduo;'. -- Richard Aldous Review19, August 2015 O'Kell's study is a fascinating and compelling portrait of one of Victorian Britain's most colourful figures... A book that is certain to set a precedent for years to come.' -- David G. Reagles Victorian Periodicals vol 48:02:2015 'Robert O'Kell's Disraeli: The Romance of Politics is a brilliant original book that illuminates Benjamin Disraeli's mind and temperament as no previous work has managed.; it threatens many other Disraeli biographies seem superficial.' -- Frederick Schweitzer Victorian Studies vol 57:01:2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. The Representative Affair 2. The Byronic Legacy 3. Virtues and Vanities 4. Henrietta: A Love Story 5. What Is He? The Crisis Examined 6. Prejudice 7. Vindication 8. "The Arts of a Designing Person": Disraeli, Peel, and Young England / Coningsby; or the New Generation 9. Sir Robert Peel and the Apotheosis of Young England 10. Sybil; Two Nations, or One?: Disraeli's Allegorical Romance 11. The Corn Law Debate of 1846 and the Politics of Protection 12. Tancred: Principles, Expediency and Trust 13. Leadership 14. On Top of the Greasy Pole: The Disestablishment Crisis of 1868 15. Lothair: The Politics of Love, Faith and Duty 16. "The Family Romance": Politics, Power and Love in Disraeli's Endymion 17. The Faery Queen, the "Arch Villain," and "the Mephistopheles of Statesmanship" 18. The Conquering Hero / Falconet Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPopular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada’s political, social, or cultural development were celebrated. The contributors to this volume capture the multiple and multi-layered meanings of belonging in the Canadian experience, investigate various attempts at shaping and re-shaping identities, and explore episodes of groups resisting or participating in the identity-formation process. By considering the small voices and those on the margins of Canada’s many commemorative anniveTable of ContentsIntroduction Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National Symbols 1. National Symbols and Commemorations: Analyzing the Loyalist Centennial and the Conventions nationales acadiennes in New Brunswick in the 1880s Denis Bourque, Bonnie Huskins, Greg Marquis, and Chantal Richard 2. Emblemizing Canada in the "Flag Debate" of 1895 Peter Price 3. Children of a Common Mother: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary Brandon Dimmel 4. Competing Pasts, Multiple Identities: The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation and the Politics of Commemoration Robert Cupido 5. Bilingualism and Biculturalism at the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation Robert J. Talbot 6. Canada’s Centennial Experience Helen Davies 7. A "labor of love in a community spirit": The Cape Breton Miners’ Museum and the Remaking of Historical Consciousness Meaghan Beaton 8. Federal Funding, Local Priorities: Urban Planning and Ontario’s Municipal Centennial Projects Christopher Los 9. Alternative Identities: The 1967 Centennial and the Campaign for a Better Canada Ted Cogan 10. Fit for Citizenship’: Scouting and the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 James Trepanier 11. A Continental Centennial: Situating Expo 67 within the Canadian-American Relationship Robyn E. Schwar 12. New Nationalism in the Cradle of Confederation: Prince Edward Island’s Centennial Decade Matthew McRae Conclusion

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Book SynopsisChristian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of King Aleksandar's dictatorship's program of forced nationalization in the interwar era.Trade Review'Nielsen's fine book has significantly advanced the discussion of the interwar state of Yugoslav in the twentieth century and of authoritarian politics throughout the region.' -- John Paul Newman Slavonic and East European Review vol 94:01:2016 'Making Yugoslavia is compelling read for specialists on Yugoslavia, interwar Europe, and national identity.' -- Nick Miller The Historian vol 78:04:2016 'Yugoslav between the two world wars is a relatively under-researched topic, so this is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature.' -- R.M. Hayden Choice Magazine vol 52:09:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Collapse of Constitutional Monarchy In Yugoslavia 1. National Ideology and the Formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 2. "A Tribal and Parliamentary Dictatorship": The 1920s in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes Part II: The Advent of the Alexandrine Dictatorship 3. Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Dictatorship's First Year Part III: Making Modern Yugoslavs out of "Tribalists" 4. Nationalist Workers of Yugoslavia, Unite!: Moulding Yugoslavs 5. Policing Yugoslavism: Surveillance, Denunciations, and Ideology in Daily Life Part IV: The Assassination of Aleksandar and the Strange Afterlife of His Dictatorship 6. The Return of "Democracy" 7. Epilogue and Conclusion: "Preserve My Yugoslavia": The Struggle Surrounding the Alexandrine Legacy

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Book SynopsisOther Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of 1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent years.Table of ContentsPART ONE: HISTORIES AND (OTHER) DIPLOMACIES Chapter 1: Ra l Rodr guez, "Canada and Cuba: Historical Overview of the Political and Diplomatic Relations" Chapter 2: Don Munton, "Canadian Intelligence and Diplomacy in Cuba" Chapter 3: Asa McKercher, "Lifting the Sugarcane Curtain: Security, Solidarity, and Cuba's Pavilion at Expo 67" Chapter 4: Keith Bolender, "When Cuban-American Terrorism Came to Canada" Chapter 5: Maurice Demers and Michel Nareau, "From damnation to liberation: representing Cuba in Quebec in the second half of the twentieth century" PART TWO: CANADA AND CUBA IN THE SHADOW OF THE US: STRUCTURES AND ECONOMIES Chapter 6: Calum McNeil, "Trust and Affectivity in Contemporary Canada-Cuba-US Relations: Transcending the Past in Shaping the Future" Chapter 7: Luis Ren Fern ndez Tab o, "Canadian-Cuban Economic Relations: The Recognition and Respect of Difference" Chapter 8: John Kirk and Peter McKenna, "Canada-Cuba Relations Under Stephen Harper: Missed Opportunities (Again)" Chapter 9: Rosa L pez-Oceguera, "Canadian Foreign Policy and the Inter American System: Implications for Relations with Cuba" PART THREE: CONSTRUCTING CANADA AND CUBA Chapter 10: Olga Rosa Gonz lez Mart n, "Cuba in the Canadian media: to be or not to be?" Chapter 11: Catherine Krull and Jean Stubbs, "'Not Miami': The Cuban Diasporas in Toronto and Montreal, Canada" Chapter 12: Karen Dubinsky, "Taking Generation NGO to Cuba: Reflections of a Teacher"

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Book SynopsisThis contribution to the Canadian Government series continues the study of provincial government made, with varying approaches, by Frank MacKinnon for Prince Edward Island, Murray Beck for Nova Scotia, and Hugh Thorburn for New Brunswick.Professor Donnelly describes the political institutions of Manitoba, viewing them also in historical perspective and singling out the particular forces that have shaped them. He traces the development of the party system in Canada, its decline under the farmer-dominated Progressive governments of the twenties and under the coalitions that followed, and its resurgence under the Conservative government of Premier Roblin. (Canadian Government Series, No. 14)

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Book SynopsisEmpire and Nations was written in tribute to the accomplishments of Frederic Hubert Soward – teacher, scholar, and administrator – who for forty-two years served in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Throughout his career he has made significant contributions to international understanding and the study of international relations through his writings, public lectures, and participation in international organizations and conferences.The volume consists of essays by fourteen outstanding contributors, all of whom are former students or associates of Professor Soward. The essays have as their common subject the nations that evolved within the British Empire and found, or are finding, their place in the world. Papers written by John Conway, Harvey L. Dyck, G.P. de T. Glazebrook, Edward D. Greathed, John W. Holmes, R.A. MacKay, Norman A.M. MacKenzie, Kenneth A. MacKirdy, H. Blair Neatby, and Peter B. Waite develop the subject fro

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Book SynopsisSocialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a global scale, as well as the variety of socialist urbanisms and post-socialist urbanisms, and the range of ways in which globalization intersects with changes in socialist and post-socialist cities. Offering a unique international comparative focus, the book’s fourteen case studies from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa are grouped under three main themes: housing experiences and life trajectories, planning and architecture, and governance and social order. Featuring contributors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research foci, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms brings together a collection of essays on cities that are often overlooked in mainstream urban studies.Trade Review"What this volume does at its best is break the unifying banner of socialist modernity by uncovering how socialist and post-socialist modes of dwelling, planning, and governing unfold through everyday experiences, where "deeply rooted codes rather than formal rules" prevail. And it is exactly that balance between the global reach and at the same time local stories that one should be eager to discover when starting this exciting journey into socialist and post-socialist urbanisms." -- Vera Smirnova * Journal of Eurasian Geography and Economics *"Socialist urban legacies are an integral and vital part of the modern world, without which it would look different. Furthermore, these legacies are still in effect and reveal their traces in various spheres, sometimes the most unexpected ones. The authors’ efforts to analyse those influences ‘from around the socialist world’ (p. 3) is thus meaningful, timely, and promising." -- Mikhail Ilchenko * Antipode *"This book contributes original research on socialist and post-socialist urbanisms, which is necessary for anyone who strives to understand how past decisions still and very much influence present production of space and of spatial imaginations, within either a socialist or post-socialist context." -- Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Babes-Bolyai University * Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories 1. From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City Christina Schwenkel 2. From ABC to Post-Industrial Suburb: Living in a Vision Bo Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Aidan Allen) 3. The Rise and Fall of Collective Housing: Hanoi between Vision and Decision Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Nguyen Thanh Binh 4. Wrestling with the Soviet State: A Life History of Housing in Leningrad Thomas Borén and Michael Gentile Part 2: Planning and Architecture: Designing Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms 5. Only Visions: The Case of South City, Prague Steven Logan 6. Phnom Penh During and after Socialism: Permanence and Reshaping of the Urban Centrality Gabriel Fauveaud 7. Planning for “Renaissance”: Vanguard Urbanism in Addis Ababa Jesse McClelland 8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of Bucharest Laura Visan 9. The Paradox of Preserving Modernism: Heritage Debates at Alexanderplatz, Berlin Markus Kip and Douglas Young Part 3: Governance and Social Order 10. China’s “New” Socialist City: From Red Aesthetics to Standard Urban Governance Carolyn Cartier 11. Property Relations and the Politics of the Suburban Living Place in the Post-Communist City: Transition Stories from Tirana, Albania Marcela Mele and Andrew E.G. Jonas 12. Urban Natures in Managua, Nicaragua Laura Shillington 13. The Reshaping of Post-Socialist Hồ Chí Minh City: Leisure Practices and Social Control Marie Gibert and Emmanuelle Peyvel 14. Mapping Khujand: The Governance of Spatial Representation in Post-Socialist Tajikistan Wladimir Sgibnev Conclusion Douglas Young and Lisa B. Welch Drummond Contributors

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Book SynopsisConsidering the endurance of socialist spaces in contemporary, political, and cultural environments, this book investigates key aspects of socialist urbanism.Trade Review"What this volume does at its best is break the unifying banner of socialist modernity by uncovering how socialist and post-socialist modes of dwelling, planning, and governing unfold through everyday experiences, where "deeply rooted codes rather than formal rules" prevail. And it is exactly that balance between the global reach and at the same time local stories that one should be eager to discover when starting this exciting journey into socialist and post-socialist urbanisms." -- Vera Smirnova * Journal of Eurasian Geography and Economics *"Socialist urban legacies are an integral and vital part of the modern world, without which it would look different. Furthermore, these legacies are still in effect and reveal their traces in various spheres, sometimes the most unexpected ones. The authors’ efforts to analyse those influences ‘from around the socialist world’ (p. 3) is thus meaningful, timely, and promising." -- Mikhail Ilchenko * Antipode *"This book contributes original research on socialist and post-socialist urbanisms, which is necessary for anyone who strives to understand how past decisions still and very much influence present production of space and of spatial imaginations, within either a socialist or post-socialist context." -- Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Babes-Bolyai University * Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories 1. From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City Christina Schwenkel 2. From ABC to Post-Industrial Suburb: Living in a Vision Bo Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Aidan Allen) 3. The Rise and Fall of Collective Housing: Hanoi between Vision and Decision Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Nguyen Thanh Binh 4. Wrestling with the Soviet State: A Life History of Housing in Leningrad Thomas Borén and Michael Gentile Part 2: Planning and Architecture: Designing Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms 5. Only Visions: The Case of South City, Prague Steven Logan 6. Phnom Penh During and after Socialism: Permanence and Reshaping of the Urban Centrality Gabriel Fauveaud 7. Planning for “Renaissance”: Vanguard Urbanism in Addis Ababa Jesse McClelland 8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of Bucharest Laura Visan 9. The Paradox of Preserving Modernism: Heritage Debates at Alexanderplatz, Berlin Markus Kip and Douglas Young Part 3: Governance and Social Order 10. China’s “New” Socialist City: From Red Aesthetics to Standard Urban Governance Carolyn Cartier 11. Property Relations and the Politics of the Suburban Living Place in the Post-Communist City: Transition Stories from Tirana, Albania Marcela Mele and Andrew E.G. Jonas 12. Urban Natures in Managua, Nicaragua Laura Shillington 13. The Reshaping of Post-Socialist Hồ Chí Minh City: Leisure Practices and Social Control Marie Gibert and Emmanuelle Peyvel 14. Mapping Khujand: The Governance of Spatial Representation in Post-Socialist Tajikistan Wladimir Sgibnev Conclusion Douglas Young and Lisa B. Welch Drummond Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book is addressed to young Canadians interested in a career in the foreign service. It will appeal, too, to all those interested in the operation of the Canadian external service. M. Cadieux attempts to determine whether it is possible to discover any distinctive characteristics in the Canadian diplomat; and, since a Canadian diplomat is representative of his country, thereby to provide an approximate image of a Canadian.The Canadian diplomatic service, British in origin and tradition, has acquired, he finds, a distinctive quality through its empirical working methods. Its officers are no longer only symbols of Canadian political independence: with important and numerous tasks, they must demonstrate organizing ability and a sense of the practical. In their work they have come to be characterized by restraint in their actions and by anxiety to find workable solutions for problems as they arise.Since Canada is dual in its culture and federal in its constitution, sin

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Book SynopsisThis study has two objectives. The first is to explain the nature and historical roots of the problems facing Polish foreign policy in 1938–39 and the manner in which they were approached by the men who shaped and directed Polish diplomacy. The second is to illustrate the political interdependence in these years of Eastern and Western Europe. This interdependence hinged on the German problem. The attitude of France and Britain towards Poland and Eastern Europe as a whole was primarily a reflection of their policy towards Germany; at the same time, this policy was the decisive factor in the individual reactions of Germany's eastern neighbours to the threat of resurgent German power.As far as Poland was concerned, she not only had to strive to avert the danger of German revisionism, the realization of which would have made her a vassal of Berlin, but she also had to consider the possibility of Soviet expansion at her expense. This study is, however, primarily concerne

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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the prevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real American constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in political life.Frank Coleman makes a persuasive case that the real roots of the American political system are in Hobbes, and not, as is usually thought, in Locke. He shows that a Hobbesian interpretation fits the transactional, bargaining, or conflict-management nature of American politics pointed out by all the empirical political scientists, although this viewpoint is incompatible with the leading philosophical interpretations of American constitutionalism.In so far as the American system and its rationale are Hobbesian, they are thereby incapable of resolving social conflicts and of pursuing any common good. The leading theories, particularly the reformist theories, are unable to absorb the teachings of empirical political science – and

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Book SynopsisThe period of the union between the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada which preceded the general federation of the British North American provinces in 1867 is a fruitful field of investigation for students of Canadian politics and history, for from it stem many of our political traditions. Professor Cornell in the present study has been concerned with the question of how far the parties of that time were already identifiable and continuing groups. He has examined the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for all the sessions from 1841 to 1866, recording the votes of each member in all divisions that involved important issues, and  from this careful and extensive study he has been enabled to draw some definite conclusions about the alignment of members and groups in the assembly.The analysis proceeds not only by way of narrative but also by means of many charts and tables showing the votes of individual members on certain key issues from assembl

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Book SynopsisWith this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres.Trade Review'A very worthwhile book which should be widely read.' -- Frederick Jones British Journal of Canadian Studies vol 29:02:2016 'Characterized by fine scholarship, this book will be useful to many interested in issues of religion in the public sphere.' -- S.C. Pearson Choice vol 52:03:2014Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Contributing Authors Introduction Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa, Classics and Religious Studies) and Solange Lefebvre (Universite de Montreal, Theology and Religious Sciences), Religion in the Public Sphere: An Introduction Part I - The Public Private Divide Chapter 1 Paul Bowlby (Saint Mary's University, Political Science), Canadian Social Imaginaries: Re-examining Religion and Secularization Chapter 2 Lori G. Beaman, Between the Public and the Private: Governing Religious Expression Chapter 3 Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa, Religious Studies), Regional Differences and Continuities at the Intersection of Culture and Religion: A Case Study of Immigrant and Second Generation Young Adults in Canada Part II - Private Life Chapter 4 Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Philosophy and Religious Studies), Maintaining and Nurturing an Islamic Identity in Canada-Online and Offline Chapter 5 Yolande Cohen (Universite de Montreal, History) and Yann Scioldo-Zurcher (National Centre for Scientific Researches), Maghrebi Jewish Migrations and Religious Marriage in Paris and Montreal, 1954-1980 Chapter 6 Nancy Nason-Clark (University of New Brunswick, Sociology), Talking about Domestic Violence and Communities of Faith in the Public Sphere: Celebrations and Challenges Part III - The Public/Private Continuum Chapter 7 Solange Lefebvre, Beyond Religious Accommodation in the Workplace. A Philosophy of Diversity Chapter 8 Margarita A. Mooney (Yale University, Sociology), Religion and the Incorporation of Haitian Migrants in Montreal Chapter 9 Kamala Elizabeth Nayar (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, South Asian Studies), The Intersection of Religious Identity and Visible Minority Status: The Case of Sikh Youth in British Columbia Chapter 10 Paul Allen (Concordia University, Theological Studies), Curricular Heresy: Theological Religious Studies and the Assessment of Religious Pluralism in Canada Part IV - Public Life Chapter 11 Clark Banack (York University, Political Science), Conservative Christianity, Anti-Statism and Alberta's Public Sphere: The Curious Case of Bill 44 Chapter 12 Pascale Fournier (University of Ottawa, Law, Professor and Vice-Dean) and Erica See (University of Ottawa, Law, Doctoral Student), The "Naked Face" of Secular Exclusion: Bill 94 and the Privatization of Belief Chapter 13 Phillip Connor (Pew Research Centre, Forum on Religion & Public Life, Research Associate) and Matthias Koenig (University of Gottingen, Sociology/Sociology of Religion), Religion and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants Across Canada Conclusion Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman

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Book SynopsisOrganized into three sections focused on turnout, vote choice, and electoral systems, the volume seeks to provide novel insights into the most pressing questions for scholars of vote choice and voting behavior.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Foreword 1 Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and Maxime Héroux-Legault Part I: Voter Turnout 2 Altruism, Participation, and Political Context Cindy D. Kam, Skyler J. Cranmer, and James H. Fowler 3 Behavioural Anomalies Explain Variation in Voter Turnout Christopher Dawes, Peter John Loewen, and Gabriel Arsenault 4 Civic Duty and Social Pressure as Causes of Voter Turnout Donald P. Green 5 The Preferences of Voters and Non-Voters in Canada (1988−2008) Jean-François Godbout and Mathieu Turgeon Part II: Vote Choice 6 The Economy and Federal Election Outcomes in Canada: Taking Provincial Economic Conditions into Account Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, and Bruno Jérôme 7 Who Responds to Election Campaigns? The Two-Moderator Model Revisited Patrick Fournier, Fred Cutler, and Stuart Soroka 8 Bureaucrats, Policy Attitudes, and Political Behaviour: A Reappraisal James C. Garand and Ping Xu Part III: Electoral Systems 9 How Electoral Systems Shape What Voters Think about Democracy Christopher J. Anderson 10 Party Strategies, Institutions, and Electoral System Effects Romain Lachat 11 When Do Voters Act Strategically? Institutional and Individual Variation in the Incidence of Strategic Voting in Democracies John Aldrich and Laura B. Stephenson 12 The Future of Election Studies and the Study of Elections Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and André Blais Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOther Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of 1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent years.Table of ContentsPART ONE: HISTORIES AND (OTHER) DIPLOMACIES Chapter 1: Raul Rodriguez, "Canada and Cuba: Historical Overview of the Political and Diplomatic Relations" Chapter 2: Don Munton, "Canadian Intelligence and Diplomacy in Cuba" Chapter 3: Asa McKercher, "Lifting the Sugarcane Curtain: Security, Solidarity, and Cuba's Pavilion at Expo 67" Chapter 4: Keith Bolender, "When Cuban-American Terrorism Came to Canada" Chapter 5: Maurice Demers and Michel Nareau, "From damnation to liberation: representing Cuba in Quebec in the second half of the twentieth century" PART TWO: CANADA AND CUBA IN THE SHADOW OF THE US: STRUCTURES AND ECONOMIES Chapter 6: Calum McNeil, "Trust and Affectivity in Contemporary Canada-Cuba-US Relations: Transcending the Past in Shaping the Future" Chapter 7: Luis Rene Fernandez Tabio, "Canadian-Cuban Economic Relations: The Recognition and Respect of Difference" Chapter 8: John Kirk and Peter McKenna, "Canada-Cuba Relations Under Stephen Harper: Missed Opportunities (Again)" Chapter 9: Rosa Lopez-Oceguera, "Canadian Foreign Policy and the Inter American System: Implications for Relations with Cuba" PART THREE: CONSTRUCTING CANADA AND CUBA Chapter 10: Olga Rosa Gonzalez Martin, "Cuba in the Canadian media: to be or not to be?" Chapter 11: Catherine Krull and Jean Stubbs, "'Not Miami': The Cuban Diasporas in Toronto and Montreal, Canada" Chapter 12: Karen Dubinsky, "Taking Generation NGO to Cuba: Reflections of a Teacher"

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Book Synopsis Born in Ireland in 1822, Timothy Warren emigrated to New Brunswick in 1849 and quickly became involved in the life and politics of the city of Saint John and the colony. As founder and editor of the newspaper the Freeman, he came lay spokesman for the large, mainly lower-class Irish Catholic population in Saint John, supporting its attempts to alleviate the poverty and harshness of life in New Brunswick and voicing its desire to be accepted as a responsible part of the community. Although Anglin shared his countrymen’s resentment of the British presence in Ireland, he saw Britain’s role in North America as a positive one. Both as a newspaperman and later as a practicing politician he pressed for the constitutional and non-violent redress of grievances. His Irish background and sympathies coupled with his moderate political stance and strongly middle class outlook made him an effective mediator between the Irish Catholics in New Brunswick and the rest of the community.&n

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Book SynopsisFor Vincent Massey, youth was a period of protest and emerging public fame. He broke with his strong family traditions of Methodist piety and American ties. He became known as a patron of the arts, innovator, politician, and diplomat.This volume begins with his prosperous Victorian childhood and carries through days as a student and wartime officer. He plans Hart House, which becomes a cultural centre. Promised a cabinet post, he runs for Parliament and is defeated. Instead, he is sent to Washington as Canada’s first minister there, and achieves brilliant success. He is prominent in educational circles; he helps to reorganize the Liberal party, presses for progressive policies, and flirts with the idea of replacing Mackenzie King.The book ends in 1935 as he sails to London as his country’s high commissioner. He considers it his first major job. In between he writes poetry—usually light, sometimes venom-tipped. He acts, and directs plays. He sponsors a

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Book SynopsisAristocrat, democrat, diplomat, cultural advocate, anglophile, fiercely proud Canadian—Vincent Massey was a complex, sometimes enigmatic figure. This finely crafted portrait of Massey’s middle and later years, drawn extensively from its subject’s diaries and papers, recalls a life of deep commitment to the service of his country and its culture.From 1935 to 1946 he served as Canada’s high commissioner to London, a role for which he was perfectly suited: his love of English traditions and values was exceeded only by his intense Canadian patriotism. He served well. The courage and generosity of Vincent and Alice Massey made them favourites with Canadian servicemen in Britain during the war years. His familiarity with, and enthusiasm for, all royal ritual was invaluable to the Canadian delegations during the ceremonies surrounding the coronation of George VI. His proud representation of Canada’s cultural accomplishments opened British doors to many

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Book SynopsisThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field. Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international set of scholars addressing key issues concerning globalization, social movements, and citizenship The majority of chapters are new, including those on environmental politics, international terrorism, security, corruption, and human rights Revises and updates all previously published chapters to include new themes and topics in political sociology Provides an overview of scholarship in the field, with chapters working independently and collectively to examine the full range of contributions to political sociology Offers a challenging yet accessible and complete reference guide for students and scholars Trade Review“Overall, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociologyis a well-conceived and well executed volume that demonstrates the breadth and depth of scholarship in the field.” (Mobilization, 1 June 2014)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction xxi Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash and Alan Scott PART I APPROACHES TO POWER AND POLITICS 1 Marxist Approaches to Power 3 Bob Jessop 2 Weber and Political Sociology 15 Peter Breiner 3 Durkheim and Durkheimian Political Sociology 27 Kenneth Thompson 4 Foucaultian Analysis of Power, Government, Politics 36 Barry Hindess 5 Historical Institutionalism 47 Edwin Amenta 6 Sociological Institutionalism and World Society 57 Evan Schofer, Ann Hironaka, David John Frank and Wesley Longhofer 7 Studying Power 69 John Scott 8 Comparative Political Analysis: Six Case-Oriented Strategies 78 Charles C. Ragin and Garrett Andrew Schneider PART II STATES AND GOVERNANCE A. Formation and Form 9 Theories of State Formation 95 Gianfranco Poggi 10 State 107 Desmond King and Patrick Le Gale`s 11 Political Legitimacy 120 David Beetham 12 Political Corruption 130 Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci B. Governance and Political Process 13 Parties and Interest Intermediation 144 Herbert Kitschelt 14 Interest Groups and Pluralism 158 David Knoke and Xi Zhu 15 Elections 168 Jeff Manza C. Violence and States 16 War 180 Antoine Bousquet 17 Terrorism 190 Jeff Goodwin 18 Globalization and Security 204 Didier Bigo 19 Incarceration as a Political Institution 214 Sarah Shannon and Christopher Uggen PART III THE POLITICAL AND THE SOCIAL A. States and Civil Society 20 Culture, State and Policy 229 Brian Steensland and Christi M. Smith 21 Civil Society and the Public Sphere 240 Larry Ray 22 Trust and Social Capital 252 Arnaldo Bagnasco 23 The Media and Politics 263 John B. Thompson B. The Politics of Identity and Action 24 Imagined Communities 273 Alan Finlayson 25 Gender, Power, Politics 283 Jonathan Dean 26 Class, Culture and Politics 294 Mike Savage 27 The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity 305 Aletta J. Norval 28 Race and Politics 315 John D. Skrentny and René Patnode 29 Nationalism: Its Role and Significance in a Globalized World 325 John Schwarzmantel 30 Religion and Political Sociology 336 Valérie Amiraux 31 Body Politics 347 Roberta Sassatelli C. Citizenship 32 Citizenship and Welfare: Politics and Social Policies 360 Sven Hort and Göran Therborn 33 Citizenship and Gender 372 Ruth Lister 34 Post-national Citizenship: Rights and Obligations of Individuality 383 Yasemin Nuhog˘lu Soysal PART IV DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION A. Social Movements 35 Protest and Political Process 397 David S. Meyer 36 Global Social Movements and Transnational Advocacy 408 Valentine M. Moghadam 37 Global Governance and Environmental Politics 421 Brenda Holzinger and Gabriela Kütting 38 Rural Social Movements 431 Marc Edelman B. Structures of Participation 39 Towards a Political Sociology of Human Rights 444 Kate Nash 40 Democratization 454 Dietrich Rueschemeyer 41 Feminism and Democracy 466 Judith Squires 42 Democracy and Capitalism in the Wake of the Financial Crisis 478 Colin Crouch References 491 Index 565

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Book SynopsisOptions for Britain II: Cross Cutting Policy Issues - Changes and Challenges offers an assessment of the last decade of British public policy that cuts across policy areas, such as measuring public sector performance, the role of the state, regulation, and Britain's relationship with the EU. Provides evidence to show what has and has not worked in the Options For Britain II project Sets out key choices both for Britain''s electorate and the next incoming government, regardless of its political make up Questions how public policy has changed over the last ten years, addresses the most important current challenges, and provides options for an incoming government to address them Accompanies Options For A New Britain, the follow up to its influential predecessTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Introduction (Adam Coutts and Varun Uberoi). 1. Options for Britain: Measuring and Managing Public Services Performance (Christopher Hood). 2. The Future of the State (Matthew Flinders). 3. Social Justice and Inequality in the UK: Eradicating Child Poverty? (Peter Kenway). 4. Social Mobility: Concepts, Measures and Policies (Jo Blanden). 5. The Tax System under Labour (Paul Johnson). 6. Regulation, Equality and the Public Interest (Shamit Saggar). 7. Gender Analysis of Transfer Policies: Unpicking the Household (Fran Bennett). 8. Options and the Lack of Options: Healthcare Politics and Policy (Scott L. Greer). 9. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy: Retrospect and Prospect (Alan Hughes). 10. Information Exchange between Government and Citizens (Helen Margetts). 11. Options for Britain: Europe (Patrick Diamond and Roger Liddle). 12. Global Poverty and Inequality: A Brief Retrospective and Prospective Analysis (Michael Woolcock). Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of Bosnian state practices since the Dayton Peace Agreement. Jeffrey presents new and significant theories, based on extensive fieldwork in Bosnia, which advance understanding of state building. Provides a major contribution to recent academic debates as to the nature of the state after violent conflict, and offers invaluable insights into state building Introduces the idea of state improvisation, where improvisation refers to a process of both performance and resourcefulness Uses the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu to explore how powerful agencies have attempted to present a coherent vision of Bosnia and Herzegovina following the conflict 1992-5 Advances our understanding of the Bosnian state by focusing on the practices of statecraft fostered in the post-Dayton era Research based on four periods of residential fieldwork in Trade Review“I really enjoyed the book. It provides an empirically-rich, methodology-cally-rigorous and conceptually-grounded account of the state ‘in action’. It should prove to be essential reading for all those social scientists interested in the state but will also provide inspiration for all those interested in political geography, understandings of power and notions of performance.” (Cultural Geographies, 27 December 2013) Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Series Editors’ Preface x Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 States, Performance and Improvisation 4 1.2 Towards a Political Anthropology of the Bosnian State 7 1.3 Critical Geopolitics and Qualitative Research Strategy 13 1.4 Structure of the Book 16 2 The Improvised State 20 2.1 The State Idea 22 2.2 Performance and Performativity 26 2.3 Improvisation: Performed Resourcefulness 32 2.4 Improvising the State 38 3 Producing Bosnia and Herzegovina 41 3.1 Fault Line 44 3.2 Barrier 50 3.3 The Balkan Vortex 62 3.4 The General Framework Agreement for Peace 67 3.5 Conclusion 70 4 Performing Brèko District 72 4.1 Brèko District and Arbitration 75 4.2 Stability: Getting the Job Done 85 4.3 Security: Constructing Legality 91 4.4 Neutralization: Making People Think 97 4.5 Conclusion 102 5 Gentrifying Civil Society 107 5.1 Building Civil Society 111 5.2 Social Capital: The Autonomy of Civil Society 115 5.3 Cultural Capital: ‘Don ’ t Just Ask for Another Copy Machine!’ 118 5.4 Beyond Gentrified Civil Society: Roma and Mjesne Zajednice 123 5.5 Conclusion 129 6 Enacting Justice 132 6.1 Spaces of Justice 134 6.2 Contesting the State 139 6.3 Enrolling Civil Society 145 6.4 Conclusion 153 7 Becoming European 156 7.1 Europeanization and the State 158 7.2 Nested Balkanism 162 7.3 Conclusion 166 8 Conclusion 169 References 179 Index 197

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Book SynopsisThis critical engagement with Doreen Massey's ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking she has helped to shape. It seeks to mark and take forward her compelling contributions to geographical theorizing and political debate. High profile contributors include Lawrence Grossberg, Chantal Mouffe, JamiePeck and Jane Wills The global reach and significance of Massey's work recommends this volume to a diverse readership Provides an agenda for work on spatial politics and critical geography Sets out the contours of a human geography informed by Doreen Massey's work Trade Review“It’s all to the good, then, that here we have a group of scholars who seem to have been long doing so successfully, taking Massey’s work in new and exciting directions, and we have eighteen excellent examples of how to do it.” (Antipode , 1 September 2013) Table of ContentsList of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Foreword xiv Series Editors' Preface xix Acknowledgements xx Introduction: 'There is no point of departure': The Many Trajectories of Doreen Massey 1 David Featherstone and Joe Painter Part One: Space, Politics and Radical Democracy 19 1 Space, Hegemony and Radical Critique 21 Chantal Mouffe 2 Theorising Context 32 Lawrence Grossberg 3 Power-Geometry as Philosophy of Space 44 Arun Saldanha 4 Spatial Relations and Human Relations 56 Michael Rustin 5 Space, Democracy and Difference: For a Post-colonial Perspective 70 David Slater Part Two: Regions, Labour and Uneven Development 85 6 Spatial Divisions and Regional Assemblages 87 Allan Cochrane 7 Making Space for Labour 99 Jamie Peck 8 The Political Challenge of Relational Territory 115 Elena dell'Agnese Interlude: Your Gravitational Now 125 Olafur Eliasson Part Three: Reconceptualising Place 133 9 Place and Politics 135 Jane Wills 10 A Global Sense of Place and Multi-territoriality: Notes for Dialogue from a 'Peripheral' Point of View 146 Rogério Haesbaert 11 A Massey Muse 158 Wendy Harcourt, Alice Brooke Wilson, Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau 12 A Physical Sense of World 178 Steve Hinchliffe Part Four: Political Trajectories 189 13 Working with Doreen Downunder: Antipodean Trajectories 191 Sophie Bond and Sara Kindon 14 Doreen Massey: The Light Dances on the Water 204 Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 15 Place, Space and Solidarity in Global Justice Networks 213 Andrew Cumbers and Paul Routledge 16 The Socialist Transformation of Venezuela: The Geographical Dimension of Political Strategy 224 Ricardo Menéndez 17 Place Beyond Place and the Politics of 'Empowerment' 235 Hilary Wainwright 18 'Stories So Far': A Conversation with Doreen Massey 253 Edited by David Featherstone, Sophie Bond and Joe Painter References 267 Index 289

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Book SynopsisThe Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2010. Contains analytical articles and keynote contributions written by leading experts in their respective fields covering political, economic and legal issues Includes the JCMS Annual Review Lecture, by Loukas Tsoukalis Includes State of the Union article by President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek The most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for those engaged in teaching and research or who are simply interested in the European Union Specially commissioned articles by David Marsh on the turbulence in the eurozone and William E. Paterson on Germany as the ''reluctant hegemon'' in the European Union Includes an invaluable guide to EU documents Table of ContentsEditorial: 2010, Kill or Cure for the Euro? (Nathaniel Copsey and Tim Haughton) 1. State of the Union (Jerzy Buzek) 2. The JCMS Annual Review Lecture (Loukas Tsoukalis) 3. Faltering Ambitions and Unrequited Hopes (David Marsh) 4. The Reluctant Hegemon? (William E. Paterson) 5. Spain's EU Presidency (Paul M. Heywood) 6. The 2010 Belgian Presidency of the EU (Edith Drieskens) 7. Governance and Institutions (Desmond Dinan) 8. Internal Market (James Buckley and David Howarth) 9. Justice and Home Affairs (Jörg Monar) 10. Legal Developments (Fabian Amtenbrink) 11. Relations with the Wider Europe (Richard G. Whitman and Ana E. Juncos) 12. Relations with the Rest of the World (David Allen and Michael Smith) 13. The EU Economy: The Eurozone in 2010 (Dermot Hodson) 14. Economies of Member States Outside the Eurozone (Richard Connolly) 15. Chronology: The European Union in 2010 (Fabian Guy Neuner) Index.

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Book SynopsisNegotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on identity. Explores the various instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day This volume is singularly wide in its breadth, covering sixteenth-century Aztec heraldry and Sahagún''s Universal History of the Things of New Spain, to eighteenth-century notions of culture, nineteenth-century theatre, turn-of-the-century degeneration theory, and contemporary literature and culture. The book's interdisciplinary approach combines literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropology A broad geographical scope covers MexicoTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Introduction (Eleni Kefala). Part I: Found in Translation 1. Translating the Nahuas: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún's Parallel Texts in the Construction of Universal History of the Things of New Spain (Victoria Ríos Castaño). 2. Genealogies and Analogies of ‘Culture' in the History of Cultural Translation - on Boturini's Translation of Tlaloc and Vico in Idea of a New General History of Northern America (John Ødemark). 3. The ‘Acculturation' of the Translating Language: Gregory Rabassa and Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Anna Fochi). Part II: Appropriations and the Rhetoric of Self-Definition 4. Claiming Ancestry and Lordship: Heraldic Language and Indigenous Identity in Post-Conquest Mexico (Mónica Domínguez Torres). 5. The Role of Degeneration Theory in Spanish American Public Discourse at the Fin de Siècle: Raza Latina and Immigration in Chile and Argentina (Michela Coletta). 6. (Mis)appropriating Europe: the Argentine Gaze in Ricardo Piglia's Artificial Respiration (Emilse Hidalgo). Part III: Liminality and the Politics of Identity 7. Transatlantic Crossings: Don Álvaro as a Threshold (Christina Karageorgou-Bastea). 8. Transatlantic Deficits; or, Alberto Vilar at the Royal Opera House (Roberto Ignacio Díaz). 9. A European Enclave in an Alien Continent? Enduring Fictions of European Civilisation and Indigenous Barbarism in Argentina Today (Leslie Ray). 10. McOndo, Magical Neoliberalism and Latin American Identity (Rory O'Bryen). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume, marking the eightieth anniversary of the journal The Political Quarterly, contains a selection of articles from eight decades of progressive writing and provides both a fascinating window on the past and a stimulus to thought and action in the present. Afree-thinking platform for the leading voices of the progressive tradition in British politics Spans eight decades of progressive writing from voices which still have something to say to us now Aims to bridge the divide between thought and action and to provide an intellectual foundation for practical reform and for progressive politics Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Preface (Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright). 1. The Founding of The Political Quarterly (William Robson). 2. The Dilemma of Modern Socialism (J. M. Keynes). 3. The Choice before the Labour Party (R. H. Tawney). 4. Economics in the Modern World (G. D. H. Cole). 5. Utopia and Reality (Leonard Woolf). 6. Notes on the Anglo-Saxon Character (Kingsley Martin). 7. A Plague on All Your Isms (Barbara Wootton). 8. The Economic Aims of the Labour Party (Hugh Gaitskell). 9. The Future of British Politics: an American View (Samuel H. Beer). 10. Parties, Pressure Groups and the British Political Process (R. T. McKenzie). 11. Democracy and Ideology (Bernard Williams). 12. The Woman's Vote: What Has it Achieved? (Margaret Cole). 13. The Reform of Government (William A. Robson). 14. Socialism or Social Democracy? The Choice for the Labour Party (John P. Mackintosh). 15. The Character of a Moderate (Socialist) (Bernard Crick). 16. Democracy in the Age of Science (Anthony Wedgwood Benn). 17. Beyond Social Democracy (David Marquand). 18. Representative Democracy and Its Limits (Paul Hirst). 19. The Future of Political Biography (Ben Pimlott). 20. Modern Conservatism (David Willetts). 21. Britain in the European Union: A Way Forward (Shirley Williams). 22. Defining British National Identity (Bhikhu Parekh). 23. State and Market: Towards a Public Interest Test (Gordon Brown). 24. A Sovietological View of Modern Britain (Ron Amann). 25. What Will Follow the Demise of Privatised Keynesianism? (Colin Crouch). Index.

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Book SynopsisWith the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essays demonstrate how academics then and now have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. This is the first historiographical treatment of a long-neglected period, ranging from early treatments to the most recent scholarship Features review essays on the era, including the legacy of progressivism in an age of normalcy, the history of American foreign relations after World War I, and race relations in the 1920s, as well as coverage of the three presidential elections and a thorough treatment of the causes and consequences of the Great Depression An introduction by the editor provides an overview of the issues, background and historical problems of the time, and the personalities at play Trade Review“Anyone interested in the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era will find this volume an indispensable resource. Impressively thorough, and panoramic in scope, it is a model of historiographical scholarship.” (Expofairs, 15 September 2015) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Katherine A.S. Sibley Part I The Background of Progressivism 7 1 The Wilson Legacy, Domestic and International 9 Christopher McKnight Nichols 2 Progressivism in an Age of Normalcy: Women’s Rights, Civil Service, Veterans’ Benefits, and Child Welfare 34 John F. Fox, Jr. 3 US Foreign Relations under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover: Power and Constraint 53 Alex Goodall Part II Warren G. Harding and the Early 1920s 77 4 Harding Biographies 79 Justin P. Coffey 5 The Front Porch Campaign and the Election of Harding 94 Richard G. Frederick 6 The Harding Presidency: Scandals, Legacy, and Memory 112 Phillip G. Payne 7 The Opposition: Labor, Liquor, and Democrats 132 Kristoffer Shields 8 No Immigrants or Radicals Need Apply: Varieties of Nativism in 1920s America 151 Alexander Pavuk 9 New Technologies, Communication, and Mass Consumption 170 Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett Sullivan Part III Calvin Coolidge and His Era 191 10 The Biographical Legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 Presidential Election 193 Jason Roberts 11 From “Coolidge Prosperity” to “Voluntary Associationalism”: Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, and America’s Political Economy in the Republican-Era 1920s 212 Daniel Michael Du Bois 12 Country and City, 1921–1933: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, Urbanization and Suburbanization, and the Middletown Study 232 Scott A. Merriman 13 Native Americans: Experiences and Culture 251 Mary Stockwell 14 Military Interventions in the Coolidge Administration: Latin America and Asia 270 Theodore J. Zeman 15 Race Relations and the Consequences of the Great Migration 291 Carol Jackson Adams 16 Eugenics, Immigration Restriction, and the Birth Control Movements 313 Ruth Clifford Engs 17 Popular Culture during the “Jazz Age” and After 338 Jennifer Frost 18 Sports and Pastimes in the 1920s 358 Martin C. Babicz Part IV Herbert Hoover and His Era 377 19 Hoover Biographies and Hoover Revisionism 379 Brian E. Birdnow 20 The Election of 1928 397 Nicholas Siekierski and Richard G. Frederick 21 The Economic Historiography of the Great Depression (1929–1933) 417 Daniel A. Schiffman 22 The Worsening of the Great Depression: Hoovervilles, Farm Troubles, Bank Crises 444 Derek S. Hoff 23 Hoover’s Vision and His Response to the Great Depression: Voluntary Efforts; Public Works; the Gold Standard; the RFC; the Farm Board; Hoover’s Reputation 465 Glen Jeansonne 24 Herbert Hoover’s Diplomacy Toward Latin America 484 Paul Kahan 25 Ironies of Character: Hoover’s Foreign Policy with Asia 502 Michael E. Chapman 26 Women and Minorities 522 Nancy Beck Young Part V In Retrospect 543 27 Historians’ Views of the Republican Era: Was Roosevelt an Entirely New Turn? 545 Justus D. Doenecke Index 567

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Book SynopsisThe Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks' path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world RevealsTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface vii Contributors viii Introduction 1Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner Part I The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective 19 1 Exploring the Greek Needle’s Eye: Civilizational and Political Transformations 21Johann P. Arnason 2 Transformations of Democracy: Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective 47Peter Wagner Part II Ways of Polis-making: Grasping the Novelty of the Political 69 3 To Act with Good Advice: Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere 71Egon Flaig 4 Democracy and Dissent: the Case of Comedy 99Lucio Bertelli 5 Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece 126Jonas Grethlein 6 Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens 144Harvey Yunis 7 Law and Democracy in Classical Athens 163Adriaan Lanni 8 Democracy and Political Philosophy: Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement 181Ryan K. Balot 9 Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens 205Elizabeth A. Meyer Part III Changing a Way of Life: Democracy’s Impact on Polis Society 225 10 The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life 227Sara L. Forsdyke 11 The Demos’s Participation in Decision-making: Principles and Realities 260Claude Mossé 12 Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece 274Robin Osborne 13 Democracy and War 298Lawrence A. Tritle Part IV Political Concepts and Commitments 321 14 Perfecting the “Political Creature”: Equality and “the Political” in the Evolution of Greek Democracy 323Kurt A. Raaflaub 15 Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche’s Understanding of the Greek Polis 351Tracy B. Strong 16 The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients 371Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner Index 389

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Book SynopsisA collection of Bernard Crick''s writings comprising everything he ever wrote for The Political Quarterly from the late 1950s to 2008 - newly re-edited and with an Introduction, the collection reveals the intellectual and political development, as well as the wit and style, of one of the most intriguing public intellectuals of the postwar period. Includes articles, reviews, all assignable commentaries, and the first chapter of his abandoned history of the Political Quarterly journal, from the late 1950s to 2008 The earliest pieces coincide with his beginnings as a new lecturer at the LSE, follows his ideas, insights and preoccupations through his years as author of the classic In Defence of Politics and his biography of Orwell, to his later work with the Home Office on citizenship and articles written in the last year of his life. Explores how a person universally described in his 2008 obituaries as ambitious, self-centred and persTable of ContentsPreface: Stephen Ball Introduction: Stephen Ball Part I: Articles and book chapters, 1960 to 2009 1 Socialist Literature in the 1950s (1960) 2 The Campus and the Caucus (1962) 3 What Should the Lords Be Doing? (1963) 4 Prospects for Parliamentary Reform (1965) 5 The Future of the Labour Government (1967) 6 A Time to Reason (book chapter, 1970) 7 The 1970s in Retrospect (1970) 8 Social Trends and Statistical Services (Reports and Surveys, 1971) 9 The Strange Death of the American Theory of Consensus (1972) 10 Paying for the Parties (1975) 11 The Character of a Moderate (1976) 12 Some Socialist Books (Reports and Surveys, 1977) 13 A Meditation on Socialism and Nine Theories (1980) 14 The Future of the Labour Party (1983) 15 The Observer (1985) 16 The Fundamental Condition of Labour (1987) 17 The State of Our Civil Liberties (1989) 18 The English and the British (book chapter, 1991) 19 Ambushes and Advances: the Scottish Act 1998 (1995) 20 Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times (1997) 21 Still Missing: A Public Philosophy? (1997) 22 Introduction to Citizens: Towards a Citizenship Culture (book chapter, 2001) 23 Justifications of Violence (2006) 24 Do We Really Need Britannia? (2007; as book chapter, 2009) 25 The Four Nations: Interrelations (2008) Part II: Reviews, 1957 to 2008 1950s Fabian International Essays, edited by T. E. M. McKitterick and Kenneth Younger (1957) The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (1958) The House of Lords and Contemporary Politics: 1911–1957, by P. A. Bromhead; La Chambre des Lords au XXe Siècle: 1911–1949, by Michel Bouissou (1958) Oppression and Liberty, by Simone Weil; The Human Condition, by Hannah Arendt (1959) 1960s Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology, by Ernest Gellner (1960) Social Principles and the Democratic State, by S. I. Benn and R. S. Peters; British Conservatism, 1832–1914, by R. B. McDowell; The Analysis of Political Systems, by Douglas V. Verney (1960) The Logic of Social Enquiry, by Quentin Gibson; Understanding Human Society, by Walter Goldschmidt (1960) American Foreign Policy, by Louis J. Halle; A New History of the United States, by William Miller; Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere; The Coming of the New Deal, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (1961) The Politics of Upheaval, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr (1961) The Art and Practice of Diplomacy, by Sir Charles Webster (1962) Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study of 1763 to 1774, by George Rudé (1962) The Appeasers, by Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott (1963) Futuribles: Studies in Conjecture, edited by Bertrand de Jouvenel; The Pure Theory of Politics, by Bertrand de Jouvenel (1964) Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt (1964) Paths of American Thought, edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr, and Morton White; The First New Nation, by Seymour Martin Lipset; American Aspects, by D. W. Brogan; Party and Society: Voting Behaviour in Anglo-American Democracies, by Robert R. Alford; Interest Groups in American Society, by Harmon Zeigler (1964) Men and Work: The Autobiography of Lord Citrine (1965) English History: 1914–1945, by A. J. P. Taylor (1966) The Politics of Financial Control, by Gordon Reid (1967) Four Essays on Liberty, by Isaiah Berlin (1969) 1970s On Violence, by Hannah Arendt; Violence, by Jacques Ellul; Why Men Rebel, by Ted Robert Gurr (1971) Kingsley: The Life, Letters and Diaries of Kingsley Martin, by C. H. Rolph (1973) Contemporary Thought and Politics, by Ernest Gellner (1974) Gollancz: The Story of a Publishing House, 1928–1978, by Sheila Hodges (1978) 1980s Understanding the United Kingdom: The Territorial Dimension in Government, by Richard Rose; The Territorial Dimension in United Kingdom Politics, edited by Peter Madgwick and Richard Rose; The English World: History, Character and People, edited by Robert Blake (1983) The Diary of Beatrice Webb, edited by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie. Volume One 1873–1892, Glitter Around and Darkness Within. Volume Two: 1892–1905, All the Good Things of Life.Volume Three: 1905–1924, The Power to Alter Things. Volume Four: The Wheel of Life (1986) Englishness: Politics and Culture, 1880–1920, edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd (1986) Making Trouble: Autobiographical Explorations and Socialism, by James D. Young (1988) 1990s National Curriculum History Working Group: Final Report; The British Isles: A History of Four Nations, by Hugh Kearney; Britain: A Plural Society. Report of a Seminar; Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, edited by Raphael Samuel, 3 vols; Games with Shadows, by Neal Ascherson; The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy, by Tom Nairn; The Divided Kingdom, by John Osmond (1990) The Future of Northern Ireland, edited by John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary; Interpreting Northern Ireland, by John Whyte; Inequality in Northern Ireland, by David Smith and Gerald Chambers; Northern Ireland since 1945, by Sabine Wichert; Northern Ireland: Politics and the Constitution, edited by Brigid Hadfield; The Northern Ireland Question: Myth and Reality, edited by Patrick J. Roche and Brian Barton (1992) Britons: Forging the Nation 1701–1837, by Linda Colley; Myths of the English, edited by Roy Porter (1993) Harold Laski: A Life on the Left, by Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman MP; Harold Laski: A Political Biography, by Michael Newman (1993) Political Thought in Ireland since the Seventeenth Century, edited by D. George Boyce et al.; Northern Ireland: The Choice, by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden; De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow, by Tim Pat Coogan; Straight Left: An Autobiography, by Paddy Devlin; Heresy: The Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland, by Desmond Fennell; Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History, by R. F. Foster; Ireland Today: Anatomy of a Changing State, by Gemma Hussey; In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland, by Fionnuala O Connor; Northern Ireland: Sharing Authority, by Brendan O’Leary et al. (1994) Citizens and Subjects, by Tony Wright; Politics in an Anti-Political Age, by Geoff Mulgan (1994) Townscape with Figures: Farnham—Portrait of an English Town, by Richard Hoggart (1995) Humour and History, edited by Keith Cameron (1995) The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 1776–1826, edited by James Morton Smith (1995) Postmodernism, Reason and Religion, by Ernest Gellner; Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove, by Ernest Gellner (1996) Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, by Erich Goldhagen (1997) Second Class Ticket: The Neglect of State Education, by P. W. Turner (1997) The History of Government, by S. E. Finer. Volume 1: Ancient Monarchies and Empires. Volume 2: The Intermediate Ages. Volume 3: Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State (1998) Liberty before Liberalism, by Quentin Skinner (1998) 2000s Integrity in the Public and Private Domains, edited by Alan Montefiore and David Vines; The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy, by Jeffrey Goldsworthy; The Politics of Nationhood: Sovereignty, Britishness and Conservative Politics, by Philip Lynch; Orwell’s Politics, by John Newsinger; British Social Attitudes, 16th Report: Who Shares New Labour Values?, edited by Roger Jowell et al. (2000) Augmenting Democracy: Political Movements and Constitutional Reform during the Rise of Labour, 1900–1924, by Andrew Chadwick (2000) Forward to Basics—Back from the Brink: Can Humanity Rescue Itself?, by J. M. Ross (2001) The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics, by John Dunn (2001) The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, by Jonathan Rose (2002) The Red Flag and the Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881–1924, by Paul Ward (2002) Identity of England, by Roger Colls; Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940–2000, by Richard Weight (2003) Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain, by Tariq Modood (2006) The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict, by Geoff Dench et al. (2006) Comrades: A World History of Communism, by Robert Service (2008) The Scots and the Union, by Christopher Whatley; The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707, by Michael Fry; The Union of 1707: Why and How, by Paul Henderson Scot (2008) Part III: Commentaries, 1974 to 1981 Untitled (1974) ‘Talk of Coalition’ (1974) ‘Opening the Crossman Diaries’ and ‘The Crisis’ (1975) ‘Pandora’s Box, Sovereignty and the Referendum’ (1975) ‘Joint Editorship’ and ‘The Referendum That Was’ (1975) ‘“The Good Causes”, a New Series’ and ‘Lament for India’ (1975) ‘Freedom and the Labour Party’ (1976) ‘House and Nation’ and ‘Northern Ireland’ (1976) ‘The Death Wish’ (1977) ‘Jubilee?’, ‘Penguin’, ‘Porn’ and ‘Parliament’ (1977) ‘The Education Service’ (1977) ‘Political Education, Elections and the Media’ (1978) ‘Political Reviews’ (1978) ‘Euro-Communism’ (1978) ‘Ten Years in Ulster’ (1979) ‘Political Broadcasting’ (1979) ‘The Two Islands’ (1980) ‘William Robson, 1895–1980’ (1980) ‘Perspectives on Unemployment’ (1981) Part IV: Seventy Serious Years, 1998 Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Index

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