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Social Problems and Social JusticeModern society is beset by a vast range of problems - such as poverty, homelessness and terrorism - that cause immense suffering for a significant number of people. These social problems both reflect and contribute to wider inequalities; consequently, in order to develop a...
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Campus Diversity: The Hidden ConsensusMedia, politicians, and the courts portray college campuses as divided over diversity and affirmative action. But what do students and faculty really think? This book uses a novel technique to elicit honest opinions from students and faculty and measure preferences for diversity in undergraduate...
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Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative PoliticsAlthough comparative politics is conventionally seen as the study of politics across countries, the field has a longstanding and increasingly prominent tradition in national contexts; focusing on subnational units, institutions, actors and processes. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the substantive, theoretical,...
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Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisan Divide on Environmental IssuesThis Element explores the growing party divisions on the environment in the United States. It draws upon quantitative and qualitative data from several decades of national and state politics. The study contributes theory to the party position change literature, showing that interest groups change...
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Migration and Integration: The Case for Liberalism with BordersMigration and Integration clarifies and proposes answers for all of the politically toxic questions associated with large-scale migration from the Global South to the Western liberal democracies. Driven by the conviction that the Alt-Right is using the issues of migration and integration effectively to...
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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 2 Volume Hardback SetThe Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late eighteenth century to the present. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their...
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Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of ImpairmentThe UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the US all have one thing in common: regulatory frameworks which treat workers with psychosocial disabilities less...
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War Over Words: Censorship in India, 1930-1960Censorship has been a universal phenomenon through history. However, its rationale and implementation has varied, and public reaction to it has differed across societies and times. This book recovers, narrates, and interrogates the history of censorship of publications in India over three crucial decades...
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Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian RevolutionLiberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seemed relatively secure. Lucidly written and accessible, this book offers an important yet neglected Russian aspect to the history of political liberalism....
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On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear WarIn 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of...
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Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes AmericaWhy do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among American political elites, the way we communicate on Facebook uniquely facilitates psychological polarization among the American...
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Health Policy in Asia: A Policy Design ApproachAuthor: M. Ramesh, Azad S. BaliPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/09/2021Pages: 250Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781108483537Review Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2022About the AuthorRamesh, M.: - M. Ramesh is UNESCO Chair on Social Policy Design in Asia at the National University of Singapore....
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Street Citizens: Protest Politics and Social Movement Activism in the Age of GlobalizationWhat are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features? To what extent can street citizens be seen as a force driving social and political change? Through analyses of original survey data on activists themselves, Marco Giugni and Maria T....
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Singapore: Identity, Brand, PowerContemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through...
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Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan IndiaA big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providing employment and commanding a huge budget becomes 'unimplementable' in a region bedeviled by high levels of poverty and...
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The Six-Shooter State: Public and Private Violence in American PoliticsAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private...
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Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and MaintainedProblems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of...
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Politics Beyond Black and White: Biracial Identity and Attitudes in AmericaThe US is transforming into a multiracial society: today one-in-six new marriages are interracial and the multiple-race population is the fastest-growing youth group in the country. In Politics Beyond Black and White, Lauren D. Davenport examines the ascendance of multiracial identities and their implications...
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Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human RightsThe first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt, the authors...
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The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision MakingThis book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of law and uses the model to document the...
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