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This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions.

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Based upon analysis of existing theoretical literature and current political practice, this book addresses both the use of marketing and its impact upon democracy.

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Based upon analysis of existing theoretical literature and current political practice, this book addresses both the use of marketing and its impact upon democracy.

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Edited by two preeminent scholars, this book provides coverage of the policy issues related to the increasingly diverse treatments, practices, and applications of psychedelics.

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This book explores happiness research and liberal theory. It treats four American novelists as political thinkers through close textual analysis of their novels. This book concludes that friendship is the real basis of happiness and that it is an alternative to the individualistic pursuit of happiness.

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The Question of Political Community seeks to divert the thinking of political community from assumptions of calculability, unity, and boundedness by elaborating a notion of sameness that does not presuppose difference and a notion of difference that does not presuppose identity.

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The Question of Political Community seeks to divert the thinking of political community from assumptions of calculability, unity, and boundedness by elaborating a notion of sameness that does not presuppose difference and a notion of difference that does not presuppose identity.

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Examines how and when politicians play the race card and then manage to plausibly deny doing so. This book analyzes the causes, dynamics, and consequences of racially loaded political communication.

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The Real Donkey is a collection of political essays written by the Reverend Dr. Robert Carol Emerson from 2001 until 2007 for The York Town Crier, his local weekly independent newspaper in Southeastern Virginia. The essays articulate the need for a more active role for all levels of government and seeks to empower the readers to hold firm to the vision of creating a More Perfect Union.

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The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a post-Christian society.

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This is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulatory design that have emerged in each area examined.

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This is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulatory design that have emerged in each area examined.

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What does political science tell us about important real-world problems and issues And to what extent does and can political analysis contribute to solutions This is the challenge addressed by leading political scientists in this original text which will be essential reading for students and scholars alike.

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Compiles overviews of the diverse existing research in religion and political behavior. A critical essay surveys the literature and argues that the political role of religion varies in structuring political behavior under different circumstances.

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Lumumba-Kasongo examines those forces that contributed to the fate of multiparty democracy in Africa. Lumumba-Kasongo challenges the existing paradigms on democracy and development, so the book is of considerable interest to scholars and policy makers involved with African politics and socio-economic development.

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Brings together four schools of institutional analysis - rational choice, organizational, historical, and discursive institutionalism - to examine the rise of neoliberalism. It examines neoliberalism's rise on three continents and explores changes in macroeconomic policy, labor markets, taxation, banking, and health care.

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A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, this title traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies.

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From the President of the American Enterprise Institute, the follow-up to the hugely influential The Battle: a candid assessment of how mainstream America can take the philosophy of free enterprise and translate it into political action--restoring b

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The genesis of President Clinton's plan for health security.