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An examination of how the Internet is used in American politics to inform, persuade, enlighten, and even confuse voters.

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An examination of how the Internet is used in American politics to inform, persuade, enlighten, and even confuse voters.

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They include rules governing elections and campaign finance, shifts in core political values among the public that are consistent with Republican philosophy, and fundamental social and economic changes in American society that are likely to increase the ranks of Republican voters.

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The second half of the book is devoted to a test of the various theories of party behavior using survey data from The Party Elite Study and from the 1980 and 1984 National Election Studies.

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The book analyzes the extent to which the recruitment into and the coherence of different elites have changed in Finland throughout the period of 19912011. This change has been characterized by important societal upheavals, such as two deep economic recessions and a phase of rapid economic growth.

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Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited

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In this book, a new general model of delayed transitions to democracy is proposed and used to analyze Mexico's transition to democracy.

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Her trajectoryfrom Southern belle debutante to Harvard Law School student and from political wife to presidential candidate and U.S. senatoris fascinating, and the deftness with which she has been able to deflect the criticisms thrown her way is instructive for women of both political parties and for politicians of both genders.

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Chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd describe and evaluate the strategies that South Africa pursued in its quest for racial equity. They draw on previously unpublished data, interviews with key officials, and visits to dozens of schools to describe the changes made in the education system.

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During wartime, embassies assume different roles and face various situations. An embassy might represent a belligerent state while being situated in an enemy, an allied, or a neutral state. This book offers an examination of how embassies work and cope during wartime, with a focus on the experiences of the British, American, and Indian embassies.

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During wartime, embassies assume different roles and face various situations. An embassy might represent a belligerent state while being situated in an enemy, an allied, or a neutral state. This book offers an examination of how embassies work and cope during wartime, with a focus on the experiences of the British, American, and Indian embassies.

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This is the first book to examine how Fulbright scholars-individuals almost certain to be movers and shakers in their own countries, if they weren't already before coming to America-from Iraq and Afghanistan view the U.S. interventions in their countries, the war on terror, the status of Islam, and other pressing issues of our day.

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Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the ongoingthough varieduse of regimes of exception in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. It identifies the implications of regimes of exception for democratic consolidation according to their use in practice.

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Looking at how emergencies in the past and present have shaped the development of democracy, the author argues that democracies must resist emergency's pull to focus on life's necessities (food, security, and bare essentials) because these tend to privatize and isolate citizens rather than bring us together on behalf of hopeful futures.

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Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For that reason, the government must be better prepared to respond to acts of terror. This title analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

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Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For that reason, the government must be better prepared to respond to acts of terror. This title analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

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The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policymakers. This book argues that this lack of conceptual preparation stems from two tendencies in conventional theorizing.

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An engaging, nontechnical discussion of the infectious diseases and other biological threats that pose the highest risk to humans, presented in the context of relevant environmental and sociological trends.

What biological agents should we truly be afraid of

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This edited collection addressses both theoretical issues and actual case studies of human rights violations in the African context.

Shepherd, a pioneer in African studies, provides a pathbreaking overview of the political economy of African human rights.

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Albert Nelson's study explores several important questions in this area: Does greater representation in fact result in proportionally greater influence in political parties and policy outcomes Nelson explains how these elements translate into practical political results in both legislatures and the power base provided by political parties.

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This book examines emerging defense technologies such as directed energy weapons, nanotech devices, and bioscience applications that have the potential to dominate international relations in the future, just as nuclear weapons and space infrastructure-assisted conventional weapons do now.

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This undergraduate text examines the implication for the US, EU, Japan, and the world of the rising political and economic influence of the BRIC countries.

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This undergraduate text examines the implication for the US, EU, Japan, and the world of the rising political and economic influence of the BRIC countries.