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  • 1
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    The Cambridge companion to Democracy in America (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316995761
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 474 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.2092
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    Keywords: Tocqueville, Alexis de / 1805-1859 / De la démocratie en Amérique ; Tocqueville, Alexis de ; Tocqueville, Alexis de ; Democracy / United States ; Demokratie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 ; Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 De la démocratie en Amérique ; Demokratie ; USA
    Abstract: This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for understanding the composition, reception, and contemporary legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America. Chapters by political theorists, intellectual historians, economists, political scientists, and community organizers explore the major intellectual influences on Tocqueville's thought, the book's reception in its own day and by subsequent political thinkers, and its enduring relevance for some of today's most pressing issues. Chapters tackle Tocqueville's insights into liberal democracy, civil society and civic engagement, social reform, religion and politics, free markets, constitutional interpretation, the history of slavery and race relations, gender, literature, and foreign policy. The many ways in which Tocqueville's ideas have been taken up - sometimes at cross-purposes - by subsequent thinkers and political actors around the world are also examined. This volume demonstrates the enduring global significance of one of the most perceptive accounts ever written about American democracy and the future prospects for self-government
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Mar 2022) , Introduction : revisiting democracy in America in the twenty-first century / Richard Boyd -- Tocqueville and the philosophy of the Enlightenment / Ryan Patrick Hanley -- Tocqueville's Dialogues / Aurelian Craiutu - Fugitive aristocracy : Tocqueville's search for remnants of the ancien r�egime / Richard Avramenko -- Tocqueville's conservatism and the conservative's Tocqueville / Richard Boyd -- Tocqueville and the political left in America : heeding a call for decisive action / Robert T. Gannett, Jr. -- Tocqueville and anti-Americanism / Alan Levine -- Democracy in the (other) America / Jose Antonio Aguilar Rivera -- Tocqueville in Japan and China : readings and questions / James T. Schleifer -- "Ideas for the intellect and emotions for the heart" : the literary dimensions of Democracy in America / Christine Dunn Henderson -- Tocquevillean association and the market / Rachael K. Behr and Virgil Henry Storr -- Tocqueville on the federal constitution / Jeremy D. Bailey -- Religion in Democracy in America / Carson Holloway -- Tocqueville's Puritans / Joshua Mitchell -- Tocqueville's American girls : women, manners, and the Engendering of democracy / Eileen Hunt Botting -- Picturing American democracy : Tocqueville, Morrison, and the "three races" / Lawrie Balfour -- Democracy in America in the twenty-first century : new challenges of diversity and inequality / Rogers M. Smith
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    American affective polarization in comparative perspective (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108823449
    Language: English
    Pages: 85 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements: Elements in American politics
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2020 ; Polarization (Social sciences) / United States ; Polarization (Social sciences) / Cross-cultural studies ; Right and left (Political science) / United States ; Political parties / United States ; Spaltung ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Polarisierung ; United States / Politics and government / 1989- ; USA ; USA ; Politik ; Polarisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Spaltung ; Geschichte 1990-2020
    Abstract: American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western publics. We conclude that American affective polarization is not extreme in comparative perspective, although Americans' dislike of partisan opponents has increased more rapidly since the mid-1990s than in most other Western publics. We then show that affective polarization is more intense when unemployment and inequality are high; when political elites clash over cultural issues such as immigration and national identity; and in countries with majoritarian electoral institutions. Our findings situate American partisan resentment and hostility in comparative perspective, and illuminate correlates of affective polarization that are difficult to detect when examining the American case in isolation
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    American affective polarization in comparative perspective (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108914123
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (85 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements: Elements in American politics
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    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2020 ; Polarization (Social sciences) / United States ; Polarization (Social sciences) / Cross-cultural studies ; Right and left (Political science) / United States ; Political parties / United States ; Spaltung ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Polarisierung ; United States / Politics and government / 1989- ; USA ; USA ; Politik ; Polarisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Spaltung ; Geschichte 1990-2020
    Abstract: American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western publics. We conclude that American affective polarization is not extreme in comparative perspective, although Americans' dislike of partisan opponents has increased more rapidly since the mid-1990s than in most other Western publics. We then show that affective polarization is more intense when unemployment and inequality are high; when political elites clash over cultural issues such as immigration and national identity; and in countries with majoritarian electoral institutions. Our findings situate American partisan resentment and hostility in comparative perspective, and illuminate correlates of affective polarization that are difficult to detect when examining the American case in isolation
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    The six-shooter state : public and private violence in American politics (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316515143 , 9781108454148
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 271 Seiten
    DDC: 303.60973
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    Keywords: Gewalt ; Politik ; Polizei ; Waffenrecht ; USA
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  • 5
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    The six-shooter state : the dual face of public and private violence in American politics (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108557740
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 271 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.60973
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    Keywords: Violence / Political aspects / United States ; Vigilantes / United States ; Police / United States ; Firearms ownership / United States ; Politik ; Waffenrecht ; Polizei ; Gewalt ; USA ; USA ; Politik ; Gewalt ; Polizei ; Waffenrecht
    Abstract: American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Sep 2018) , Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Jurisdictional Decoupling as Institutional Change; 3. Bandits, Elites, and Vigilantes in Antebellum Illinois; 4. Pinkertons and Police in Antebellum Chicago; 5. Racist Vigilantism as Reform in Reconstruction Louisiana; 6. The Violent Careers of American Gunfighters; 7. Conclusion, Index
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108557740
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    Fighting the US youth sex trade : gender, race and politics (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316649619 , 9781316510223
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 262 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baker, Carrie N. Fighting the US youth sex trade
    DDC: 306.74/5
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    Keywords: Child prostitution History ; Child trafficking History ; Child prostitution Prevention ; USA ; Jugend ; Prostitution ; Rasse ; Geschlechterrolle ; Politik ; Sexueller Missbrauch
    Abstract: "Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years. Fighting the U.S. Youth Sex Trade: Race, Gender, and Politics examines how politically and ideologically diverse activists joined together to change perceptions and public policies on youth involvement in the sex trade over time, reframing "juvenile prostitution" of the 1970s as "commercial sexual exploitation of children" in the 1990s, and then as "domestic minor sex trafficking" in the 2000s. Based on organizational archives and interviews with activists, Baker shows that these campaigns were fundamentally shaped by the politics of gender, race and class, and global anti-trafficking campaigns. The author argues that the very frames that have made these movements so successful in achieving new laws and programs for youth have limited their ability to achieve systematic reforms that could decrease youth vulnerability to involvement in the sex trade"--
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108225045
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  • 7
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    In Defense of Uncle Tom : Why Blacks Must Police Racial Loyalty (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107070042 , 9781107707160
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (376 pages)
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    DDC: 305.896/073
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    MG 70968
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1865-2014 ; Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) ; Diskriminierung ; Rechtsstellung ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Schwarze ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Diskriminierung ; Geschichte 1865-2014 ; USA ; Schwarze ; Rechtsstellung ; Geschichte 1865-2014 ; USA ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: 'Uncle Tom' is the most piercing epithet blacks can hurl at one another. It marks targets as race traitors, and that painful stain is often permanent. Much more than a slur, Uncle Tom is a vital component of a system of social norms in the black community that deters treachery. In this book, Brando Simeo Starkey provocatively argues that blacks must police racial loyalty and that those successfully prosecuted must be punished with the label Uncle Tom. This book shadows Uncle Tom throughout history to understand how these norms were constructed, disseminated, applied, and enforced. Why were Martin Luther King, Jr, Marcus Garvey, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and others accused of racial betrayal? In Defense of Uncle Tom answers this and other questions and insists that Uncle Tom is too valuable to discard. Because it deters treachery, this epithet helps build black solidarity, a golden tool in promoting racial progress
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  • 8
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    Radicals in America : the U.S. Left since the Second World War (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139027700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 355 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge essential histories
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    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Radikalismus ; Social movements / United States / History / 20th century ; Social movements / United States / History / 21st century ; Radicalism / United States / History ; Political activists / United States / History ; Dissenters / United States / History ; Liberalism / United States / History ; Right and left (Political science) / United States / History ; Kommunismus ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Sozialismus ; Indigenes Volk ; Pazifismus ; Feminismus ; USA ; United States / Politics and government / 1933-1945 ; United States / Politics and government / 1945-1989 ; United States / Politics and government / 1989- ; USA ; USA ; Sozialismus ; Kommunismus ; Feminismus ; Pazifismus ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Indigenes Volk ; Geschichte 1945-1989
    Abstract: Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role as effective organizers in mass movements, fostering the imagination of alternative futures. Beginning with the Second World War, Radicals in America extends all the way down to the present, making it the first comprehensive history of radicalism to reach beyond the sixties. From the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, its coverage extends to the Battle of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street. Each chapter begins with a particular life story, including a Harlem woman deported in the McCarthy era, a gay Japanese-American opponent of the Vietnam War, and a Native American environmentalist, vignettes that bring to life the personal within the political
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Margin and Mainstream in the American Radical Experience -- War and Peace, 1939-1948 -- All Over this Land, 1949-1959 -- A New Left, 1960-1964 -- The Revolution Will Be Live, 1965-1973 -- Anticipation, 1973-1980 -- Over the Rainbow, 1981-1989 -- What Democracy Looks Like, 1990 to the Present -- Conclusion: Radicalism's Future
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  • 9
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    Neoliberalising old age (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107115187 , 9781107535541 , 9781316335666
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.260973
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    Keywords: Politik ; Aging Government policy ; Ageism ; Older people Social conditions ; Older people Services for ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik ; Altern ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Altern ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: "This book explores an issue central to the study of age and ageing: Do we wish to preserve old age as a discrete stage of life, to be protected by welfare policies specifically targeting 'the old'? Should old age be accorded a privileged status? This may recognise the needs of a particular age group with regard to health, income and social care. But by doing so, we support the inaccurate and possibly offensive definition of 'old age' as the stage of life beyond age 65 - a demarcation line which has no biological or cognitive significance, since human beings age at very different rates. Defining old age in this way may ghettoise and marginalise one group of people in society, encouraging prejudice against them via policies that 'single out, stigmatise and isolate the aged from the rest of society', in a way that can be seen as subtly ageist. On the other hand, should we dispense with age as a categorisation and work towards an 'age-irrelevant', 'age-neutral' or 'ageless' society - one in which individuals will be judged by the content of their character, rather than their chronological age? Is the concept of old age an outmoded relic from the past?"..
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    A nation of immigrants (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511777943 , 9780511858161 , 9780521517997 , 9780521734455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 335 pages) , graph. Darst.
    DDC: 304.8/73
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Immigrants / United States / History ; Einwanderer ; USA ; United States / Emigration and immigration / History ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Massachusetts welcomed those who shared the religious views of the founders but excluded those whose beliefs challenged the prevailing orthodoxy. Pennsylvania valued pluralism, becoming the most diverse colony in religion, language, and culture. This book traces the evolution of these three models of immigration as they explain the historical roots of current policy debates and options. Arguing that the Pennsylvania model has best served the country, the final chapter makes recommendations for future immigration reform. Given the highly controversial nature of immigration in the United States, this book provides thoughtful analysis, valuable to both academic and policy audiences
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. 'Gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines'; 3. 'A city upon a hill'; 4. 'The seed of the nation'; 5. Immigration and the formation of the republic; 6. Building a nation: 1830-1880; 7. The golden door: 1880-1917; 8. The triumph of restrictionism: 1882-1924; 9. Turning inward: 1924-1964; 10. 'A nation of immigrants': 1965-1994; 11. A nation of refuge; 12. The Pennsylvania model at risk: 1993-2009; 13. Looking ahead
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    Should race matter? : unusual answers to the usual questions (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139003650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 411 pages)
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    Keywords: Sklaverei ; Race relations ; Slavery ; Reparations for historical injustices ; Affirmative action programs ; Hate crimes ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Hate crime ; Wiedergutmachung ; Philosophie ; Quotierung ; USA ; USA ; Philosophie ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Wiedergutmachung ; Quotierung ; Hate crime
    Abstract: In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws and racial profiling. Arguing from premises that virtually everyone on both sides of the debates over these issues already accepts, Boonin arrives at an unusual and unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor conservative, color conscious nor color blind. Defended with the rigor that has characterized his previous work but written in a more widely accessible style, this provocative and important new book is sure to spark controversy and should be of interest to philosophers, legal theorists and anyone interested in trying to resolve the debate over these important and divisive issues
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Thinking in black and white; 2. Repairing the slave reparations debate; 3. Advancing the slave reparations debate; 4. One cheer for affirmative action; 5. Two cheers for affirmative action; 6. Why I used to hate hate speech restrictions; 7. Why I still hate hate speech restrictions; 8. How to stop worrying and learn to love hate crime laws; 9. How to keep on loving hate crime laws; 10. Is racial profiling irrational?; 11. Is racial profiling immoral?
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    Where have all the liberals gone? : race, class, and ideals in America (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511490835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages)
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    DDC: 305.50973
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    Keywords: Herrnstein, Richard J. / Bell curve ; Gesellschaft ; Idealism, American ; Intelligence levels / Social aspects ; Equality / United States ; Socialism / United States ; Soziale Klasse ; Rasse ; Sozialstaat ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Rasse ; Soziale Klasse ; Sozialstaat
    Abstract: Professor James R. Flynn is renowned for his belief that the IQ gap between black and white Americans is not genetic, but environmental in origin. Flynn's controversial new book offers an alternative to the vision of American society popularized by Herrnstein and Murray in The Bell Curve and is a must-read for all those wanting to keep up to date with the IQ debate. It traces the history of American idealism from Jefferson to the followers of Leo Strauss; analyses the black marriage market, the case for affirmative action, the folly of Iraq, and the liberal failure of will; and concludes with a powerful defence of humane ideals and human autonomy. With its clear and attractive prose, social scientists, philosophers and the general public will find this a unique and exciting book that will rearm American idealism with new ideas
    Description / Table of Contents: Something beautiful is vanished -- The lost boys -- What Germany did that America has not -- Do we want affirmative action for whites only? -- Saving equality from the dustbin of history -- Jefferson and social democracy -- The America who would be king -- William James and Leo Strauss -- The status of the good life -- Choosing to be free
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    Post-broadcast democracy : how media choice increases inequality in political involvement and polarizes elections (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139878425
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 315 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1935-2005 ; Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Mass media / Influence ; Politik ; Massenmedien ; USA ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Politik ; Geschichte 1935-2005
    Abstract: The media environment is changing. Today in the United States, the average viewer can choose from hundreds of channels, including several twenty-four hour news channels. News is on cell phones, on iPods, and online; it has become a ubiquitous and unavoidable reality in modern society. The purpose of this 2007 book is to examine systematically, how these differences in access and form of media affect political behaviour. Using experiments and survey data, it shows how changes in the media environment reverberate through the political system, affecting news exposure, political learning, turnout, and voting behaviour
    Description / Table of Contents: ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Conditional political learning -- pt. 1: The participatory effects of media choice. ch. 3. Broadcast television, political knowledge, and turnout -- Appendix to ch. 3. Measuring political knowledge, NES 1952-1968 -- ch. 4. From low choice to high choice : the impact of cable television and Internet on news exposure, political knowledge, and turnout -- Appendix to ch. 4. Description of knowledge measures -- ch. 5. From low choice to high choice : Does greater media choice affect total news consumption and average turnout? -- pt. 2: The political effects of media choice. ch. 6. Broadcast television, partisanship, and the incumbency advantage -- ch. 7. Partisan polarization in the high-choice media environment -- Appendix to ch. 7. Using a selection model to simulate partisan vote strength in the full electorate ch. 8. Divided by choice : audience fragmentation and political inequality in the post-broadcast media environment
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    Collective preferences in democratic politics : opinion surveys and the will of the people (2003)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511610042
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages)
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    DDC: 303.3/8/0973
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    Keywords: Public opinion / United States ; Public opinion ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Politische Beteiligung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Politische Beteiligung
    Abstract: Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help better appreciate thepossibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people's voice
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    Contemporary voices of white nationalism in America (2003)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511610080
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
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    Keywords: White supremacy movements / United States ; Whites / United States / Interviews ; Racism / United States ; Hate groups / United States ; White nationalism ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Weiße ; Interview ; USA ; United States / Race relations ; United States / Ethnic relations ; United States / Social conditions / 1980- ; USA ; USA ; Weiße ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Interview
    Abstract: This book presents ten alarmingly candid interviews by some of the most prominent members of what co-editors Carol M. Swain and Russ Nieli warn is a growing White Nationalist movement. The ten people interviewed in this volume make statements that are sure to shock, amuse, challenge, and provoke the typical reader. Their remarks are of particular interest, Swain and Nieli believe, for understanding how the many race-conscious whites who lie outside the integrationist consensus on racial issues in America view developments that have taken place in the United States since the Civil Rights movement. If current trends continue, the authors predict, these ideas will become more common, especially as whites become a diminishing portion of the US population. They claim that the claims of white nationalists need to be aired in open, public forums, where they can be vigorously challenged and subjected to refutation
    Description / Table of Contents: White rights advocacy. Jared Taylor ; Reno Wolfe ; Michael Levin -- White nationalism and white separatism. Don Black ; David Duke ; Michael H. Hart -- White Christianity. Dan Gayman -- White supremacy and neo-Nazism. Matthew Hale ; Lisa Turner ; William Pierce
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    Media, markets, and democracy (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511613227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages)
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Marketing ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Democracy ; Freedom of the press ; Demokratie ; Massenmedien ; Presse ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Demokratie ; Presse
    Abstract: Government interventions in media markets are often criticized for preventing audiences from getting the media products they want. A free press is often asserted to be essential for democracy. The first point is incorrect and the second is inadequate as a policy guide. Part I of this book shows that unique aspects of media products prevent markets from providing for audience desires. Part II shows that four prominent, but different, theories of democracy lead to different conceptions of good journalistic practice, media policy, and proper constitutional principles. Part II makes clear that the choice among democratic theories is crucial for understanding what should be meant by free press. Part III explores international free trade in media products. Contrary to the dominant American position, it shows that Parts I and II's economic and democratic theory justify deviations from free trade in media products
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    Democracy and the media : a comparative perspective (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139175289
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 496 pages)
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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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    Transition of power : Britain's loss of global pre-eminence to the United States, 1930-1945 (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511496165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 403 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1945 ; Außenpolitik ; Außenpolitik ; Großmachtpolitik ; Großbritannien ; USA ; United States / Relations / Great Britain ; Great Britain / Relations / United States ; United States / Foreign relations / 1929-1933 ; United States / Foreign relations / 1933-1945 ; Great Britain / Foreign relations / 1910-1936 ; Great Britain / Foreign relations / 1936-1945 ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Außenpolitik ; USA ; Geschichte 1930-1945 ; USA ; Großmachtpolitik ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1930-1945
    Abstract: This book addresses one of the least understood issues in modern international history: how, between 1930 and 1945, Britain lost its global pre-eminence to the United States. The crucial years are 1930 to 1940, for which until now no comprehensive examination of Anglo-American relations exists. Transition of Power analyses these relations in the pivotal decade, with an epilogue dealing with the Second World War after 1941. Britain and the United States, and their intertwined fates, were fundamental to the course of international history in these years. Professor McKercher's book dissects the various strands of the two powers' relationship in the fifteen years after 1930 from a British perspective - economic, diplomatic, naval and strategic
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue: power and purpose in Anglo-American relations, 1919-1939 -- 1. The end of Anglo-American naval rivalry, 1929-1930 -- 2. The undermining of war debts and reparations, 1929-1932 -- 3. Disarmament and security in Europe and the Far East, 1932-1933 -- 4. The unravelling of cooperation, 1932-1933 -- 5. Moving away from the United States, 1933-1934 -- 6. Britain, the United States, and the global balance of power, 1934-1935 -- 7. From Abyssinia to Brussels via London, Madrid and Peking, 1935-1937 -- 8. Appeasement, deterrence, and Anglo-American relations, 1938-1939 -- 9. Belligerent Britain and the neutral United States, 1939-1941 -- Epilogue: Transition, 1942-1945
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    Identity and intolerance : nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xxxix, 422 pages)
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    Keywords: USA ; Nationalismus ; Nationalism / Germany ; Nationalism / United States ; Racism / Germany ; Racism / United States ; Xenophobia / Germany ; Xenophobia / United States ; Nativistic movements / United States ; Rassismus ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; Deutschland ; USA ; Deutschland ; USA ; Konferenzschrift 1994 ; Konferenzschrift 1994 ; Deutschland ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Rassismus ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; USA ; Deutschland ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Rassismus ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; USA Congress
    Abstract: In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether absent. Identity and Intolerance attempts to shift the focus toward comparison in order to show how German and American societies have historically confronted matters of national, racial, and ethnic inclusion and exclusion. This perspective sheds light on the specific links between the cultural construction of nationhood and otherness, the political modes of integration and exclusion, and the social conditions of tolerance and intolerance. The contributors also attempt to integrate the approaches offered by the history of ideas and ideologies, social history, and discourse theory
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    Making race and nation : a comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511810480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages)
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    Keywords: Race discrimination / Case studies ; Race relations / Case studies ; Ethnizität ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Brasilien ; Südafrika (Staat) ; USA ; Brazil / Race relations ; South Africa / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; Südafrika ; USA ; Brasilien ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Brasilien ; Ethnizität ; Südafrika ; USA ; Brasilien ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Südafrika ; Ethnische Beziehungen
    Abstract: Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and culture, but were fundamentally shaped by impediments and efforts to build national unity. In South Africa and the United States, ethnic or regional conflicts among whites were resolved by unifying whites and excluding blacks, while Brazil's longer established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race
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    Impersonal influence : how perceptions of mass collectives affect political attitudes (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139175074
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 334 pages)
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Mass media and public opinion ; Beeinflussung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Wahrnehmung ; Massengesellschaft ; Massenmedien ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Politische Einstellung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Massenmedien ; Wahrnehmung ; Beeinflussung ; Massengesellschaft ; Politische Einstellung ; Massengesellschaft ; Öffentliche Meinung
    Abstract: People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life. In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes beyond simply providing examples of how impersonal influence matters in the political process to provide a micro-level understanding of why information about distant and impersonal others often influence people's political attitudes and behaviors. Impersonal Influence is worthy of attention both from the standpoint of its impact on contemporary politics, and because of its potential to expand the boundaries of our understanding of social influence processes, and media's relation to them. The book's conclusions do not exonerate media from the effects of inaccurate portrayals of collective experience or opinion, but they suggest that the ways in which people are influenced by these perceptions are in themselves, not so much deleterious to democracy as absolutely necessary to promoting accountability in a large scale society
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    Violence and childhood in the inner city (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
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    Keywords: Violence / United States ; Inner cities / United States ; Children and violence / United States ; Violence in children / United States ; City children / United States ; Urban youth / United States ; Bekämpfung ; Innenstadt ; Jugendkriminalität ; USA ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Innenstadt ; Jugendkriminalität ; Jugendkriminalität ; Bekämpfung
    Abstract: The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban ghettos less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent and others do not, and why violence is more prevalent in some areas. Both biological and psychological characteristics of individuals are considered. The authors also discuss how the urban environment, especially the street culture, affects childhood development. They review a variety of intervention strategies, considering when it would be appropriate to use them and towards whom they should be targeted. Drawing upon ethnographic commentary, laboratory experiments, historical reviews, and program descriptions, this book presents a variety of opinions on the causes of urban violence and the changes necessary to reduce it
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    Statehouse democracy : public opinion and policy in the American states (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511752933
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    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 269 pages)
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    Keywords: Public opinion / United States / States ; State governments / United States ; Regierung ; Bundesstaaten ; Öffentliche Meinung ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Bundesstaaten ; Regierung ; Öffentliche Meinung
    Abstract: The importance of public opinion in the determination of public policy is the subject of considerable debate. Whether discussion centres on local, state or national affairs, the influence of the opinions of ordinary citizens is often assumed yet rarely demonstrated. Other factors such as interest group lobbying, party politics and developmental, or environmental, constraints have been thought to have the greater influence over policy decisions. Professors Erikson, Wright and McIver make the argument that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion, and they show how the institutions of state politics work to achieve this high level of responsiveness. They analyse state policies from the 1930s to the present, drawing from, and contributing to, major lines of research on American politics. Their conclusions are applied to central questions of democratic theory and affirm the robust character of the state institution
    Description / Table of Contents: Democratic states -- Measuring state partisanship and ideology -- Accounting for state differences in opinion -- Public opinion and policy in the American states -- State parties and state policy -- Legislative elections and state policy -- Political culture and policy representation -- Partisanship, ideology and state elections -- State opinion over time -- Conclusions: democracy in the American states
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    The retreat of scientific racism : changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511558351
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    Reasoning and choice : explorations in political psychology (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511720468
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
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    DDC: 303.3/8
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    Keywords: Public opinion / United States ; Political psychology ; Politische Psychologie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Politische Psychologie
    Abstract: Drawing on a multitude of data sets and building on analyses carried out over more than a decade, this book offers a major new theoretical explanation of how ordinary citizens figure out what they favour and oppose politically. Reacting against the conventional wisdom, which stresses how little attention the general public pays to political issues and the lack of consistency in their opinions, the studies presented in this book redirect attention to the processes of reasoning that can be discerned when people are confronted with choices about political issues. These studies demonstrate that ordinary people are in fact capable of reasoning dependably about political issues by the use of judgmental heuristics, even if they have only a limited knowledge of politics and of specific issues
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    States and collective action : the European experience (1988)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511598630
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (232 pages)
    Uniform Title: Works
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    DDC: 306/.2
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    MD 7300
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    Keywords: Politik ; Collectivism ; Corporate state / Europe ; State, The ; Kollektivismus ; Korporativer Staat ; Europa ; Europe / Politics and government ; USA ; Europa ; Westeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Kollektivismus ; Europa ; Korporativer Staat ; Westeuropa ; USA
    Abstract: It has become something of an orthodoxy of contemporary sociology that modern democratic industrial societies are essentially alike, and that they are confronted by uniform challenges, whether industrial (strikes and demonstrations), social (the 'crisis of the welfare state'), or political. In this important collection of studies Professor Birnbaum asserts, however, that the very existence of differentiation, challenge such a hypothesis. Linking historical and sociological investigation, Birnbaum argues that it is only through divergent state-formation that regional and national state variations in, for example, industrial conflict, policing or ideological configuration can be explained. His analysis of the influence of each type of state upon the development of various collective action and mobilisation processes establishes the crucial importance of the state as a quasi-independent variable
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    Work and politics : the division of labor in industry (1982)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511571572
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in modern political economies
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    DDC: 306/.36
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1982 ; Geschichte ; Work / History ; Division of labor / History ; Industrial sociology / History ; Social conflict / History ; Soziale Klasse ; Industriesoziologie ; Klassentheorie ; Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Kapitalismus ; Arbeiter ; Industrie ; Arbeitsteilung ; USA ; Arbeitsteilung ; Kapitalismus ; Geschichte 1700-1982 ; Arbeiter ; Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Industriesoziologie ; Klassentheorie ; Soziale Klasse ; USA ; Industrie
    Abstract: Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration
    Description / Table of Contents: Workers and world views -- The structure of the labor market -- Careers at work -- Interests, conflicts, classes -- The end of Fordism?
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511571572
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    Change in public bureaucracies (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511983771
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 251 pages)
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    DDC: 302.3/5
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    MF 7300
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    Keywords: Public administration ; Local finance ; Organizational change ; Bureaucracy ; Verwaltung ; Bürokratie ; Organisation ; USA ; USA ; Verwaltung ; Organisation ; Bürokratie ; Organisation
    Abstract: This book examines in detail the process of change in 240 city, county and state public bureaucracies responsible for local finance administration. Using the longitudinal method of analysis, the data show organizational structures to be much less stable than conventional stereotypes have suggested. Variables such as organizational leadership, claims to domain, and survival (as opposed to replacement or reorganization) were found to mediate environmental effects on bureaucracies. The book also discusses traditional theories of bureaucracy, theories emphasizing the importance of environment for organizational theory is possible. The concluding chapter draws extensive theoretical implications from the empirical findings of the study
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Preface , Introduction , Issues in organizational theory , Organizational research , The concept of organizational structure , Some effects of leadership , Organizational domains , The process of bureaucratization , Implications , Appendixes , Questionnaire items used in constructing variables , Cities, counties, and states covered in 1966 and 1972 surveys of finance agencies , Notes , Bibliography , Index
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511983771
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