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  • München BSB  (6)
  • Gunther, Richard  (2)
  • Htun, Mala  (2)
  • Mazal Holocaust Collection  (2)
  • Midlarsky, Manus I.
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (6)
  • Political Science  (6)
  • German Studies
  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511491023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 461 pages)
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    DDC: 304.6630904
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Genocide ; Genocide / History / 20th century ; Völkermord ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Völkermord ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: The Killing Trap, first published in 2005, offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international contexts and includes in his analysis the Jews of Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conflict in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a framework that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magnitude of genocide
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Preliminary considerations -- Purposes of the book -- The role of theory -- Research strategy -- Plan of the book -- 2. Case selection -- Excluded cases -- Three cases of genocide -- pt. II. Explaining perpetrators : theoretical foundations -- 3. Continuity and validation -- Continuity of the killing in three cases -- Validation -- 4. Prologue to theory -- Rational choice -- Utopianism -- Two historical cases -- 5. A theoretical framework -- The domain of losses and state insecurity -- Three types of realpolitik -- Realpolitik, property, and loss compensation -- The domain of losses, risk, and loss compensation -- Altruistic punishment -- pt. III. The theory applied -- 6. Threat of numbers, realpolitik, and ethnic cleansing -- The Irish famine -- Germans and Jews in Poland -- Muslims in Bosnia -- 7. Realpolitik and loss -- The Holocaust -- The Armenians -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 8. The need for unity and altruistic punishment -- Germany -- The Ottoman empire -- Rwanda -- Himmler and the necessity for cooperation -- Conclusion -- 9. Perpetrating states -- Italy : a genocidal trajectory -- Vichy France -- Romania
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. IV. Victim vulnerability : explaining magnitude and manner of dying -- 10. Raison d'état, raison d'église -- The Armenians -- The Holocaust -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 11. Cynical realpolitik and the unwanted -- The United States -- Great Britain and commonwealth countries -- Impact on the Holocaust -- 12. High victimization : the role of realpolitik -- Hungary -- The Netherlands -- 13. Inequality and absence of identification -- Inequality and absence of identification between perpetrators and victims -- Inequality and absence of identification among the victims -- On the possibilities of survival -- Equality and identification between Jews and non-Jews -- 14. On the possibility of revolt and altruistic punishment -- Łódź -- Warsaw -- Vilna -- Comparisons among the three ghettos -- Conclusion : the role of altruistic punishment
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. V. Exceptions -- 15. A dog of a different nature : the Cambodian politicide -- Variation in victimization -- Genocide of the Vietnamese -- The communist models -- Purges -- Summary comparisons -- 16. Dogs that didn't bark I : realpolitik and the absence of loss -- Bulgaria -- Finland -- Comparisons -- 17. Dogs that didn't bark II : affinity and vulnerability reduction -- Affinity and genocide -- Greeks in the Ottoman empire -- Jews in Eastern Europe -- Poland at the time of the Partitions -- Britain and Ireland -- Israel and intifada II -- The impact of war -- pt. VI. Conclusion -- 18. Findings, consequences, and prevention -- Similarities and differences -- Consequences of genocide -- Genocide prevention and the role of democracy -- Validation -- Coda
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  • 2
    ISBN: 0521810493 , 0521008794
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 219 S. , graph. Darst.
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2000 ; Family policy ; Family policy ; Family policy ; Sex role ; Sex role ; Sex role ; Familienpolitik ; Argentinien ; Chile ; Brasilien ; Argentinien ; Familienpolitik ; Geschichte 1970-2000 ; Chile ; Familienpolitik ; Geschichte 1970-2000 ; Brasilien ; Familienpolitik ; Geschichte 1970-2000
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    ISBN: 9780511615627
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2000 ; Family policy / Argentina ; Family policy / Brazil ; Family policy / Chile ; Sex role / Argentina ; Sex role / Brazil ; Sex role / Chile ; Familienpolitik ; Argentinien ; Brasilien ; Brasilien ; Argentinien ; Chile ; Brasilien ; Familienpolitik ; Geschichte 1970-2000 ; Chile ; Familienpolitik ; Geschichte 1970-2000 ; Argentinien ; Familienpolitik ; Geschichte 1970-2000
    Abstract: Abortion, divorce, and the family: how did the state make policy decisions in these areas in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the last third of the twentieth century? As the three countries transitioned from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. The results were often surprising: women's rights were expanded under military dictatorships, divorce was legalized in authoritarian Brazil but not in democratic Chile, and no Latin American country changed its laws on abortion. Sex and the State explores these patterns of gender-related policy reform and shows how they mattered for the peoples of Latin America and for a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in shaping private lives and gender relations everywhere
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Sex and the State in Latin America -- 2. Four Normative Traditions -- 3. Reforming Women's Rights Under Military Dictatorships -- 4. Church and State in the Struggle for Divorce -- 5. Completing the Agenda: Family Equality and Democratic Politics -- 6. Why Hasn't Abortion Been Decriminalized in Latin America? -- 7. Conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139175289
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 496 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Democracy ; Medien ; Demokratie ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Politischer Wandel ; Massenmedien ; Politisches System ; Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Demokratie ; Medien ; Vergleich ; Massenmedien ; Politischer Wandel ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Massenmedien ; Politisches System ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This book presents a systematic overview and assessment of the impacts of politics on the media, and of the media on politics, in authoritarian, transitional and democratic regimes in Russia, Spain, Hungary, Chile, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Its analysis of the interactions between macro- and micro-level factors incorporates the disciplinary perspectives of political science, mass communications, sociology and social psychology. These essays show that media's effects on politics are the product of often complex and contingent interactions among various causal factors, including media technologies, the structure of the media market, the legal and regulatory framework, the nature of basic political institutions, and the characteristics of individual citizens. The authors' conclusions challenge a number of conventional wisdoms concerning the political roles and effects of the mass media on regime support and change, on the political behavior of citizens, and on the quality of democracy
    Description / Table of Contents: The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, a multilevel perspective / Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther -- The media and politics in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and José Ignacio Wert -- Institutional incapacity, the attentive public, and media pluralism in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz -- Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary, from Stalinism to democratic consolidation / Miklós Sükösd -- The modernization of communications, the media in the transition to democracy in Chile / Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel -- Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democrarcy / Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo -- The United States, news in a free-market society / Thomas E. Patterson -- Japan, news and politics in a media-saturated democracy / Ellis S. Krauss -- The Netherlands, media and politics between segmented pluralism and market forces / Cees van der Eijk -- Great Britain, the end of news at ten and the changing news environment / Holli A. Semetko -- Germany, a society and a media system in transition / Max Kaase -- The political impact of the media, a reassessment / Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780511558351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte ; Race ; Physical anthropology ; Eugenics / Great Britain / History ; Eugenics / United States / History ; Racism / Great Britain / History ; Racism / United States / History ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Begriff ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Great Britain / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Rassismus ; Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rasse ; Begriff ; Wissenschaft ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rassismus ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; USA ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Großbritannien ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; USA ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Rassenfrage ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1914-1945
    Abstract: This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Anthropology , Constructing a British identity , Colors into races , A transition to modern British anthropology , The founding fathers , Mummies, bones and stones , The shift in British archaeology , A British glimpse at race relations , American diversity , Haunted sentinels , European skulls and the primitive mind , The Boasians , American physical anthropology , The politics of coexistence , Dionysia in the Pacific , Biology , In search of a biology of race , NewGenics , The statistician's fable , Race crossing in Jamaica , A Canadian in London: rigid Reginald Ruggles Gates , The limit of traditional reform , A racist liberal: Julian Huxley's early years , Herbert Spencer Jennings and progressive eugenics , A conservative critique: Raymond Pearl , Bridging race formalism and population genetics , Mitigating racial differences , Lancelot Hogben , "Africa view"--Huxley's changing perspectives , J.B.S. Haldane: a defiant aristocrat , Medicine and eugenics: expanding the environment , Eugenics reformed , Politics , Confronting racism: scientists as politicians , 1933--Early hesitations , Britain--Race and Culture Committee , We Europeans , The American scene , An international interlude , The Paris Congress , The population committee , Out of the closet
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    ISBN: 9781139173902
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages)
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    Keywords: Politik ; Elite (Social sciences) / Political activity / Latin America ; Elite (Social sciences) / Political activity / Europe, Southern ; Democracy ; Demokratisierung ; Politische Elite ; Elite ; Stabilität ; Lateinamerika ; Latin America / Politics and government ; Europe, Southern / Politics and government ; Lateinamerika ; Südeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lateinamerika ; Demokratisierung ; Stabilität ; Politische Elite ; Südeuropa ; Demokratisierung ; Stabilität ; Politische Elite ; Lateinamerika ; Elite ; Südeuropa ; Elite
    Abstract: A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : elite transformations and democratic regimes / Michael Burton, Richard Gunther, and John Higley -- Spain : the very model of the modern elite settlement / Richard Gunther -- Elite settlements and democratic consolidation : Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela / John A. Peeler -- Mexico's elite settlement : conjecture and consequences / Alan Knight -- Elite unification and democratic consolidation in Italy : a historical overview / Maurizio Cotta -- The role of civil-military pacts in elite settlements and elite convergence : democratic consolidation in Uruguay / Charles Guy Gillespie -- Patterns of elite negotiation and confrontation in Argentina and Chile / Marcelo Cavarozzi -- Elites in an unconsolidated democracy : Peru during the 1980s / Henry Dietz -- Brazil's political transition / Thomas Bruneau -- Redefining the Portuguese transition to democracy / Lawrence S. Graham
    Description / Table of Contents: The Dominican case / Peter M. Sanchez -- Elites and democratic consolidation in Latin America and southern Europe : an overview / Michael Burton, Richard Gunther, and John Higley
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