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Examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. This book discusses what is required of a political philosophy if it is to play the sort of public role that civic republicanism has been playing in Spain.

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Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors. -- .

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Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors. -- .

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In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics of all. Democracy from this standpoint does not entail liberal consensus-building but rejects hierarchical forms of authority, supplanted by ongoing political resistance by the people to obtain freedom and equality.

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Human rights and dtente inextricably intertwined during Carters years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for dtente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of dtente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.

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Human rights and dtente inextricably intertwined during Carters years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for dtente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of dtente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.

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This book offers a cross-national analysis of judicial decisions and legislative action in three religiously pluralistic Western democraciesthe United States, France, and the Netherlandsthat shows how each balances individual rights with communal bonds and adheres to or retreats from human rights norms for women and religious practices.

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Examines executive-legislative relations in five major policy areas: war powers, intelligence, arms control, diplomacy, and trade. The authors offer a fresh analysis of the sources and consequences of conflict between the President and Congress as well as constructive suggestions for strengthening each branch's comparative advantages.

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Tells one red state American's story about what it's like to live in the blue states - one laugh-out-loud anecdote after another. This book discusses the Southern fixation on the Civil War, otherwise known as the "War of Northern Aggression," obsession with church attendance, and affinity for chain restaurants.

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In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on an increased political prominence, due largely to such controversial issues as abortion, the separation of church and state, and civil rights.

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Riccards has written a unique account of the creation of and early experience with the US presidency. Several brief chapters discuss the man and his popularity among the American people, the condition of the executive and bureaucracy before Washington became president, and events and policies that occupied the first president.

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This book analyses the decision-making structures and procedures for EU military, police and civilian crisis management missions throughout the world.

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While newly liberated American blacks were relatively free to participate in the nation's political life during the decade following the Civil War, with the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal protection, constitutional guarantees quickly were curtailed.

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This book deconstructs the 2016 campaign appeals of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to disenfranchised and polarized publics at opposite ends of the political spectrum through a rhetoric of divisive partisanship grounded in antipolitics. These ultimately contributed to the defeat of Hillary Clinton and a decline in American democratic discourse.

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The right to keep and bear arms was considered a fundamental, individual right in the original 14 states (the 13 colonies and Vermont) from the pre-Revolutionary period through the adoption of the federal Bill of Rights in 1791.

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A Right to Offend explores the most important cases of conflict over the last two decades, including the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the incident of the Danish cartoons. It provides unique insight into the increasingly threatened atmosphere in which freedom of speech operates and how it continues to inform journalism and the media.

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A Right to Offend explores the most important cases of conflict over the last two decades, including the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the incident of the Danish cartoons. It provides unique insight into the increasingly threatened atmosphere in which freedom of speech operates and how it continues to inform journalism and the media.

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Synthesizing the strategies, self-contradictions, shifts, influences, and patterns in Reagan's economic discourse, Kiewe and Houck conclude that Reagan's economic discourse heavily influenced his views and rhetoric on foreign policy, national defense, the environment, and other issues--Reagan saw the world through economic lenses.