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Stjepan Radic, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization,1904-1928The name Stjepan Radic is as well known to Croatians as Sir John A. MacDonald is to Canadians. In 1904, Radic mobilized the peasantry to form a populist movement that resulted in the Croat Peasant Party. The CPP fought to reform Yugoslavia's centralist state...
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Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of EmancipationHow did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American...
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Bureaucracy in a Democratic State: A Governance PerspectiveHere, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working democracy, arguing that bureaucracy--often considered antithetical to fundamental democratic principles--can actually promote democracy. Drawing from both the empirical work of political scientists and the qualitative work of public administration...
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ChileIn a systematic review of the political experiences of Chile, this original, thought-provoking book proposes a significant new comparative framework for understanding the dynamics of political change and the conditions necessary for democratic stability.Author: Arturo ValenzuelaPublisher: Johns Hopkins University PressPublished: 12/19/1979Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Violent Environments: Social Bonds and Racial HubrisDo environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held...
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Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical WeaponsThe proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, and James J. Wirtz compare how military threats, strategic cultures, and organizations shape the way leaders intend...
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Liberal Peace, Liberal WarLiberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen IV attributes this peculiar restraint to a synergy between liberal ideology and the institutions that exist within...
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Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in AmericaA Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1995""Jonathan D. Rosenblum's history of this one strike reveals to us, in chapter and verse, the barbaric use of power by the corporate big boys. It is a stunning metaphor for labor's trouble today."--Studs Terkel (from a...
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The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871In this book Michael A. Gordon examines the causes and consequences of the tragic and bloody "Orange Riots" that rocked New York City in 1870 and 1871. On July 12 of both years, groups of Irish Catholics clashed with Irish Protestants marching to commemorate...
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Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military InterventionsOne of the most contentious issues in contemporary foreign policy--especially in the United States--is the use of military force to intervene in the domestic affairs of other states. Some military interventions explicitly try to transform the domestic institutions of the states they target; others...
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Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear RisksIn this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures, he believes, may...
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Interview Research in Political ScienceInterviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital need, offering hard-won advice for...
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Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience. Padraic Kenney argues that the postwar takeover was also a...
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Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985-2005In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In Playing the Market, he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single Market of 1986...
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The Working Class Majority: Multimedia Companion DiscIn the second edition of his essential book--which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008--Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also...
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Colonialism and Cold War: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945-49The disintegration of former colonial empires in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East after World War II profoundly affected the international balance of power, irrevocably altering the political map of the world. The United States was in a unique position to influence the outcome...
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The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South KoreaIn this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the...
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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack ObamaA ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945--the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to...
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Reputation and International PoliticsBy approaching an important foreign policy issue from a new angle, Jonathan Mercer comes to a startling, controversial discovery: a nation's reputation is not worth fighting for. He presents the most comprehensive examination to date of what defines a reputation, when it is likely...
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Myth of Ethnic War"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war...
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