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Deliberation Day (Revised)Two leading political thinkers offer an audacious proposal to energize the electoral process Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of cynical media manipulation that isAuthor: Bruce Ackerman, James S. FishkinPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 09/01/2005Pages:...
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Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth CenturyAttempting to understand the catalogue of horrors that has characterised much of twentieth-century history, Western scholars generally distinguish between violent revolutions of the "right" and the "left". Fascist regimes are assigned to the evil right, Marxist-Leninist regimes to the benign left. But this distinction...
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson"Trust Gore Vidal to teach us things we never learned in school. In Inventing a Nation, his quick wit flickers over the canonical tale of our republic's founding, turning it into a dark and deliciously nuanced comedy of men, manners, and ideas."--Amanda Heller, Boston...
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Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of VotersIn this authoritative study, three political scientists demonstrate that identification with political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots."Partisan Hearts and Minds is a profound breakthrough in our understanding of partisan loyalties and makes a major contribution to the...
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Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning TolerationTwo of Locke's most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays combined in an outstanding volume "The new standard edition of Locke for students of political theory. Dunn, Grant, and Shapiro combine authoritative historical scholarship and contemporary political theory to give...
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How Democratic Is the American Constitution?A Washington Post Book World Best Seller "Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talking about. And he thinks that the Constitution has something the matter...
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Children's Interests/Mothers' RightsWhy is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book--a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period...
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Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group ThinkingLiberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture. Partisans of the academic left, who hold our culture responsible for the evils of society,...
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The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra AffairWas the Iran-Contra affair caused by executive lawlessness or legislative folly? Or did it result instead from structural defects in our national security decision-making system? In this important new book, Harold Koh argues that the affair was not aberrational but symptomatic of a chronic...
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Who Votes?Elections are at the heart of the American political system, but in 1976 only 54 percent of the voting age population went to the polls. The question of who votes matters greatly to everyone involved in politics and to all those concerned about the...
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Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in Historical PerspectiveDistributed for the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.Author: Ronald N. SatzPublisher: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & LettersPublished: 01/19/1997Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 10.46h x 8.70w x 0.60dISBN: 9780299930226About the AuthorRonald N. Satz is Professor of American Indian History and Dean of...
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A Reckoning: Philippine Trials of Japanese War CriminalsAfter World War II, thousands of Japanese throughout Asia were put on trial for war crimes. Examination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of research, but Sharon W. Chamberlain is the first to offer an authoritative assessment of the legal proceedings convened...
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The Many Lives of Cy Endfield: Film Noir, the Blacklist, and ZuluCy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood, he was blacklisted in 1951 and fled to Britain rather than "name names" before HUAC, the U.S....
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American Diplomat in Bolshevik RussiaDiplomat DeWitt Clinton Poole arrived for a new job at the United States consulate office in Moscow in September 1917, just two months before the Bolshevik Revolution. In the final year of World War I, as Russians were withdrawing and Americans were joining the...
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Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Polandas Ukrainians After World War IIFollowing World War II, the communist government of Poland forcibly relocated the country's Ukrainian minority by means of a Soviet-Polish population exchange and then a secretly planned action code-named Operation Vistula. In Scattered, Diana Howansky Reilly recounts these events through the experiences of three...
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Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights After Mass ViolenceIn the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country's new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda's politics, economy, and society, and the country's accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine...
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Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive InterrogationMany Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to...
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Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaIn his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic...
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Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland ProgressiveDavid Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee and is positioned to pursue his priority concerns for...
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Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992This volume explores historical, political, social, diplomatic, and economic aspects of the Yugoslav idea--"Yugoslavism"--between the creation of the nation in 1918 and its dissolution in the early 1990s. The key theme that emerges is that Yugoslavism was a fluid concept, understood differently at different...
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