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Uncertainty reigns in volatile political times. This book aims to provide a systemic model for understanding how political volatility throughout the U.S. history has had its root in the rise and fall of two competing racial and religious groupings.

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This collection examines the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, at the national level.

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Offers a data study of career-noncareer relations in US administrations with regard to the history of relations between careerists and political appointees. Interviews and comments from about 50 surveys also provide impressions about relations during the Reagan administration.

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This volume collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in Africa, connecting the historical period with the anticolonial present through a critical examination of what constitutes the anticolonial archive.

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This volume collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in Africa, connecting the historical period with the anticolonial present through a critical examination of what constitutes the anticolonial archive.

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Is American democracy being derailed by the United States Senate filibuster Is the filibuster an important right that improves the political process or an increasingly partisan tool that delays legislation and thwarts the will of the majority Are century-old procedures in the Senate hampering the institution from fulfilling its role on the eve of the 21st century

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Basing her analysis on extensive field studies she conducted in two diverse political cultures--a rural working-class community in Hawaii and a suburban upper-middle class community in Ohio--Buker begins by developing a model for interpreting narratives which builds upon structural analysis and philosophical hermeneutics.

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Contributors to this volume, from established democracies, new and restored democracies, and democracies facing destabilizing pressure, examine the extent to which electoral politics in their countries have been affected by the emergence of high-tech professional campaigns.

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Contributors to this volume, from established democracies, new and restored democracies, and democracies facing destabilizing pressure, examine the extent to which electoral politics in their countries have been affected by the emergence of high-tech professional campaigns.

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Argues that voters are eminently capable of playing an efficacious role in democratic politics and of routinely demonstrating the ability to evaluate competing stewards in a discriminating manner. This book offers a cognitively based model of voting and uses a normal vote approach to analyzing local-level election returns.

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An examination of the political manoeuvring of William Borah and Hiram Johnson, two of the post-war leaders of Republican progressivism to prevent U.S. entry into the League of Nations despite overwhelming bipartisan support.

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This authoritative study provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the current political, economic, and social situation in Portugal.

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Our society's institutional infrastructuresour democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishmentwere all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment.

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Our society's institutional infrastructuresour democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishmentwere all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment.

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This work challenges the view that post-Mao China has moved away from communist totalitarianism and that totalitarianism is an outdated paradigm for China studies. It evaluates the changes across the major empirical aspects of regime change - political, ideological, economic, legal and social.

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Offers overview of postcolonial intellectuals in Europe from the first half of the nineteenth century to present day.

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A comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of Europes colonial past in relation to present multicultural, cosmopolitan and/or neocolonial experiences, assessing political, cultural and mediatized transitions

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A comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of Europes colonial past in relation to present multicultural, cosmopolitan and/or neocolonial experiences, assessing political, cultural and mediatized transitions

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Six of America's most renowned, bestselling historians discuss how six of our most fascinating contemporary presidents used--and were changed by--power

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