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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781108823449
    Language: English
    Pages: 85 Seiten , Diagramme
    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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  • 2
    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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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781108415088
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Judenvernichtung ; Sklaverei ; Europa ; USA
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316761663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 248 pages)
    Series Statement: Problems of international politics
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    DDC: 325.73
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    Keywords: Border security ; Politische Theorie ; Grenze ; Gesellschaft ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; USA ; USA ; Grenze ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Elfter September ; Politische Theorie ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316841297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages)
    Series Statement: International African library 53
    Series Statement: International African library
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    DDC: 364.1532096761
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1986-2006 ; Gesellschaft ; Rape / Social aspects / Uganda ; Rape as a weapon of war / Uganda ; Conflict management / Uganda ; Justice, Administration of / Uganda ; Acholi (African people) / Uganda / Social conditions / 20th century ; Acholi (African people) / Uganda / Social conditions / 21st century ; Acholi ; Bürgerkrieg ; Vergewaltigung ; Menschenrecht ; Uganda ; Hochschulschrift ; Uganda ; Acholi ; Vergewaltigung ; Menschenrecht ; Bürgerkrieg ; Geschichte 1986-2006
    Abstract: Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities: that the primary moral imperative in the wake of wrongdoing was not punishment but, instead, the restoration of social harmony. Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, Holly Porter examines issues surrounding wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. This intricate exploration offers evidence of a more complicated and nuanced explanation of rape and its aftermath, suggesting a re-imagining of the meanings of post-atrocity justice, whilst acknowledging the role of sex, power and politics in all sexual experiences between coercion and consent. With its wide investigation of social life in northern Uganda, this provocative study offers vital analysis for those interested in sexual and gender violence, post-conflict reconstruction and human rights
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107129412 , 9781107568303
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 340 Seiten , Diagramme
    DDC: 306.2094
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    Keywords: Europapolitik ; Partizipation ; Politisches Handeln ; Politik ; Political culture / European Union countrires ; European federation ; Europe / Economic integation / Political aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General ; Europäische Integration ; Politisierung ; Europäische Union ; Europa ; Europäische Union. Mitgliedsstaaten ; European Union countries / Politics and government ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Integration ; Politisierung
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Theory and Methods: 1. Introduction: European integration and the challenge of politicisation Edgar Grande and Swen Hutter; 2. Exploring politicisation: design and methods Martin Dolezal, Edgar Grande and Swen Hutter; Part II. Mapping the Politicisation of European Integration: 3. The politicisation of Europe in public debates on major integration steps Edgar Grande and Swen Hutter; 4. Is the giant still asleep? The politicisation of Europe in the national electoral arena Edgar Grande and Swen Hutter; 5. Protesting European integration: politicisation from below? Martin Dolezal, Swen Hutter and Regina Becker; Part III. Driving Forces and Consequences of Politicisation: 6. Constitutive issues as driving forces of politicisation? Swen Hutter, Daniela Braun and Alena Kerscher; 7. The radical right as driving force in the electoral arena? Martin Dolezal and Johan Hellstrom; 8. Framing Europe: are cultural-identitarian frames driving politicisation? Edgar Grande, Swen Hutter, Alena Kerscher and Regina Becker; 9. Politicisation, conflicts and the structuring of the EU political space Simon Maag and Hanspeter Kriesi; 10. The euro crisis: a boost to the politicisation of European integration? Hanspeter Kriesi and Edgar Grande; Part IV. Conclusions: 11. Conclusions: the postfunctionalists were (almost) right Edgar Grande and Hanspeter Kriesi; Methodological appendix: measuring politicisation, benchmarks and data Swen Hutter
    Abstract: "Politicising Europe presents the most comprehensive contribution to empirical research on politicisation to date. The study is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms. Conceptually, the contributors develop and apply a new index and typology of politicisation. Empirically, the volume presents a huge amount of original data, tracing politicisation in a comparative perspective over more than forty years. Focusing on six European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) from the 1970s to the current euro crisis, the book examines conflicts over Europe in election campaigns, street protests, and public debates on every major step in the integration process. It shows that European integration has indeed become politicised. However, the patterns and developments differ markedly across countries and arenas, and many of the key hypotheses on the driving forces of change need to be revisited in view of new findings"--
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107100381 , 9781107496194
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 226 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Gesellschaft ; Nationalismus ; National characteristics ; Nationalism ; Identity (Psychology) Social aspects ; Group identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Nationalcharakter ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Schottland ; England ; England ; Schottland ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalcharakter
    Abstract: "We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been written explicitly on 'national identity' and a great deal less is solidly evidence-based. This book focuses on national identity in England and Scotland. Using data collected over twenty years it asks: does national identity really matter to people? How does 'national identity' differ from 'nationality' and having a passport? Are there particular people and places which have ambiguous or contested national identities? What happens if someone makes a claim to a national identity? On what basis do others accept or reject the claim? Does national identity have much internal substance, or is it simply about defending group boundaries? How does national identity relate to politics and constitutional change?"..
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139839174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 285 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 305.6/97094
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    Keywords: Muslim ; Integration ; Assimilation ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Öffentliche Einrichtung ; Rechtsstellung ; Politik ; Soziale Situation ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims. Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across several countries examine how people interact in their everyday work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration, discrimination, and political representation. Rather than assuming that each country has its own national ideology that explains such interactions, contributors trace diverse pathways along which institutions complicate or disrupt allegedly consistent national ideologies. These studies shed light on how Muslims encounter particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a fast-changing Europe.
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139939447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 272 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contesting international society in East Asia
    DDC: 327.5
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    Keywords: Social structure ; Social structure ; East Asia ; East Asia ; Foreign relations ; East Asia Foreign relations ; Ostasien ; Gesellschaft ; Internationalität
    Abstract: Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peoples should relate to the Western-dominated global international society makes the existence of East Asian international society essentially contested. While this regional-global social dynamic is present in many regions, it is particularly strong in East Asia. This book will appeal to audiences interested in developing English School theory, the study of East Asian international relations and comparative regionalism
    Abstract: Introduction : interrogating regional international society in East Asia / Barry Buzan and Yongjin Zhang -- International societies in pre-modern East Asia : a preliminary framework / Feng Zhang -- Imagining 'Asia' : Japan and 'Asian' international society in modern history / Shogo Suzuki -- An East Asian international society today? The cultural dimension / David C. Kang -- Regional and global forces in East Asia's economic engagement with international society / Mark Beeson and Shaun Breslin -- Outside-in and inside-out : political ideology, the English School and East Asia / Alice D. Ba -- East Asia and the strategic 'deep rules' of international/regional society / Yuen Foong Khong -- East Asia as regional international society : the problem of great power management / Evelyn Goh -- Social boundaries in flux : secondary regional organizations as a reflection of regional international society / Rosemary Foot -- Conclusion : the contest over East Asian international society / Barry Buzan and Yongjin Zhang
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511806247
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 265 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Contemporary European politics
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    DDC: 320.94
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Politik ; National characteristics, European ; Group identity / European Union countries ; Citizenship / European Union countries ; Gruppenidentität ; Politische Identität ; Europäische Union. Mitgliedsstaaten ; European Union countries / Politics and government ; European Union countries / Economic integration ; European Union countries / Social conditions ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Politische Identität ; Europäische Union ; Gruppenidentität ; Europa ; Gruppenidentität
    Abstract: Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and completed the single market, the euro, the Schengen passport-free zone, and, most recently, crafted an extraordinarily successful policy of enlargement. At the same time, these attempts to de-politicize politics, to create Europe by stealth, have produced a political backlash. This ambitious survey of identity in Europe captures the experiences of the winners and losers, optimists and pessimists, movers and stayers in a Europe where spatial and cultural borders are becoming ever more permeable. A full understanding of Europe's ambivalence, refracted through its multiple identities, lies at the intersection of competing European political projects and social processes
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9780511761249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
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    DDC: 973
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Gesellschaft ; Migration ; National characteristics, American ; Americanization ; Immigrants / United States / Social conditions ; Social integration / United States ; Assimilation (Sociology) / United States ; Nationalcharakter ; Akkulturation ; Einwanderung ; USA ; United States / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects ; USA ; USA ; Nationalcharakter ; Einwanderung ; Akkulturation
    Abstract: This book explores public opinion about being and becoming American, and its implications for contemporary immigration debates. It focuses on the causes and consequences of two aspects of American identity: how people define being American and whether people think of themselves primarily as American rather than as members of a panethnic or national origin group. Importantly, the book evaluates the claim – made by scholars and pundits alike – that all Americans should prioritize their American identity instead of an ethnic or national origin identity. It finds that national identity within American democracy can be a blessing or a curse. It can enhance participation, trust, and obligation. But it can be a curse when perceptions of deviation lead to threat and resentment. It can also be a curse for minorities who are attached to their American identity but also perceive discrimination
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The 21st century Americanism survey; 3. Defining American identity in the 21st century; 4. Policy implications of multidimensional Americanism; 5. The myths and realities of identity prioritization; 6. Does 'becoming American' create a 'better' American?; 7. Immigrant resentment: when the work ethic backfires; 8. The politics of American identity
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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511844867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 331 pages)
    Series Statement: The World since 1980
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    DDC: 306.094/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1980-2008 ; Geschichte ; Technological innovations / Economic aspects / Europe ; Integration ; Politischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Europa ; Europäische Union. Mitgliedsstaaten ; Europe / Social conditions / 20th century ; Europe / Social conditions / 21st century ; European Union countries / Economic integration / History / 20th century ; Former communist countries / Relations / European Union countries ; European Union countries / Relations / Former communist countries ; Osteuropa ; Europa ; Europa ; Osteuropa ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1980-2008 ; Europa ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1980-2008 ; Europa ; Integration ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Geschichte 1980-2008
    Abstract: This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in particular, the overwhelming impact of the collapse of communism on every aspect of European life. Europe became safer and more united, and Central and Eastern Europe started on the difficult road to economic modernization. However, the western half of Europe also changed. European integration gained momentum. The single market and the common currency were introduced, and the Union enlarged from nine to twenty-seven countries. This period also saw a revolution in information and communication technology, the increasing impact of globalization and the radical restructuring of the political system. The book explores the impact of all of these changes as well as the new challenges posed by the economic crisis of 2008–9 and asks which way now for Europe?
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9780521761734 , 9780511516573 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 328 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780511516573
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.301
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Gewalt ; Soziale Kontrolle ; Politische Kontrolle ; Institution ; Organisation ; Kapitalismus ; Feudalismus ; Sozialordnung
    Abstract: This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 306 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence ; Darwin, Charles ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Geschichte ; Psychologie ; Weltkrieg (1914-1918) ; Aggressiveness / History ; Social Darwinism / History ; Biopolitics / History ; World War, 1914-1918 / Causes ; War / Psychological aspects / History ; Peace / Psychological aspects / History ; Theorie ; Biologie ; Friede ; Krieg ; Darwinismus ; Soziobiologie ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Darwinismus ; Gesellschaft ; Darwinismus ; Krieg ; Krieg ; Theorie ; Darwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Soziobiologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; Krieg ; Friede ; Krieg ; Friede ; Biologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918
    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Darwinian legacy.--2. The age of Spencer and Huxley.--3. Crisis in the west: the pre-war generation and the new biology.-- 4. 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914.--5. The first owrld war: man the fighting animal.--6. The survival of peace biology.--7. Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends.--8. Conclusion
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  • 15
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511807596
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 27
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    DDC: 959.7043
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Vietnamkrieg ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Social aspects ; Collective memory / Vietnam ; Ghosts ; Vietnamkrieg ; Geister ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Vietnamkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Geister
    Abstract: This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally
    Description / Table of Contents: Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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  • 17
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511211645
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
    DDC: 304.23094
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    Keywords: Politische Geografie ; Globalisierung ; Souveränität ; Nationalstaat ; Europa ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book looks at how internationalization has transformed political institutions and styles of governing.
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  • 18
    ISBN: 0511214332 , 0511216122 , 0511790864 , 9780511214332 , 9780511216121 , 9780511790867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 342 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Communication, society, and politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hallin, Daniel C Comparing media systems
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Mass media Political aspects ; Communication in politics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Communication in politics ; Mass media ; Political aspects ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Politieke communicatie ; Massamedia ; Overheidsbeleid ; Modellen ; Vergelijkend onderzoek ; Electronic books ; Europa ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables that have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development, the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist, and Liberal models; to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems; and to explore the force of change that are currently transforming them. It provides a key theoretical statement about the relation between media and political systems, a key statement about the methodology of comparative analysis in political communication, and a clear overview of the variety of media institutions that have developed in the West, understood within their political and historical context."--Jacket
    Abstract: Concepts and models -- Comparing media systems -- The political context of media systems -- Media and political systems, and the question of differentiation -- The three models -- The Mediterranean or polarized pluralist model -- The North/Central European or democratic corporatist model -- The North Atlantic or liberal model -- The future of the three models -- The forces and limits of homogenization.
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    ISBN: 9780511817373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 408 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-1999 ; Geschichte ; Romanies / Europe, Eastern / History ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Nationale Minderheit ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Gesellschaft ; Diktatur ; Staatssozialismus ; Roma ; Zigeuner ; Osteuropa ; Osteuropa ; Nationale Minderheit ; Roma ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1990-1999 ; Zigeuner ; Diktatur ; Nationale Minderheit ; Osteuropa ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Zigeuner ; Osteuropa ; Zigeuner ; Geschichte ; Osteuropa ; Roma ; Geschichte ; Staatssozialismus ; Roma
    Abstract: This 2001 book is an attempt by a social scientist to explain the predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethnic minority, and their relationship to the region's states and societies. Barany examines the Gypsies' socioeconomic and political marginality and policies toward them through seven centuries and in seven East European states. He illuminates the reasons why the Roma have consistently occupied the bottom of social, economic, and political hierarchies regardless of historical period or geographic location. Barany argues that the current nostalgia of many Gypsies for the socialist period is easy to understand, given the disastrous effect of the post-communist socioeconomic transformation on the Roma's conditions over the last decade. He explains the impact of Gypsy political mobilization, and the activities of international organizations and NGOs, on government policies. This pioneering multidisciplinary work will engage political scientists, sociologists and historians, as well as students of ethnic and racial studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: PART I. THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK -- 1. Regimes, States, and Minorities -- 2. Marginality and Ethnic Mobilization -- PART II. NONDEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS AND GYPSY MARGINALITY -- 3. The Gypsies in Imperial and Authoritarian States -- 4. The Roma under State-Socialism -- PART III. THE GYPSIES IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES -- 5. The Socioeconomic Impact of Regime Change: Gypsy -- Marginality in the 1990s -- 6. Romani Mobilization -- 7. The International Dimension: Migration and Institutions -- State Institutions and Policies toward the Gypsies -- 8. Romani Marginality Revisited -- Conclusion -- References
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    ISBN: 9781139106672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 220 pages)
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    Keywords: Politik ; Women and democracy / Europe ; Women's rights / Europe ; Feminism / Political aspects / Europe ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Europa ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Dänemark ; Frankreich ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Dänemark ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Großbritannien ; Frau ; Soziale Situation
    Abstract: Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to re-conceptualise the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. In her examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark, Siim presents research about Scandinavian social policy and makes an important and timely contribution to debates in political sociology, social policy and gender studies
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    ISBN: 9780511558764
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1989-1998 ; Geschichte ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Nationalism / Europe, Eastern ; Nationalism / Soviet Union / Republics ; Nationalism / Europe ; Politik ; Postkommunismus ; Nationalstaat ; Nationalismus ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Europa ; Sowjetunion ; Europe, Eastern / Politics and government / 1989- ; Former Soviet republics / Politics and government ; Europe / Politics and government / 20th century ; Osteuropa ; Europa ; Osteuropa ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte 1989-1998 ; Europa ; Nationalismus ; Nationalstaat ; Osteuropa ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Nationalstaat ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Postkommunismus
    Abstract: The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganisation of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event -- 2. Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union and its successor states: an institutionalist account -- 3. National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe -- 4. Nationalizing states in the old "New Europe" -- and the new -- 5. Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and "Weimar Russia" -- 6. Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples
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    ISBN: 9780511598401
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
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    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1500 ; Funde ; Politik ; Indians / Politics and government ; Political anthropology / America ; Social archaeology / America ; Indians / Antiquities ; Politik ; Entwicklung ; Indianer ; Gesellschaft ; Amerika ; America / Antiquities ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indianer ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Geschichte Anfänge-1500 ; Indianer ; Politik ; Geschichte Anfänge-1500
    Abstract: Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on the structure of particular polities: for example, how it might have led to the growth of social inequality, or to changing patterns of chiefly authority, or to state formation and expansion, or institutional specialisation. The work is a creative and substantial contribution to our understanding of the political dynamics in early state society, and will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. Factional divisions within the Aztec (Colhua) royal family / Rudolf van Zantwijk -- 10. Alliance and intervention in Aztec imperial expansion / Frederic Hicks -- 11. Political factions in the transition from Classic to Postclassic in the Mixteca Alta / Bruce E. Byland and John M.D. Pohl -- 12. Internal subdivisions of communities in the prehispanic Valley of Oaxaca / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- 13. Cycles of conflict: political factionalism in the Maya Lowlands / Mary E.D. Pohl and John M.D. Pohl -- 14. Political cosmology among the Quiche Maya / John W. Fox -- 15. Factions and political development in the central Andes / Terence N. D'Altroy -- 16. Factional competition and historical materialism / Glenn Perusek -- 17. Conclusions: moietal opposition, segmentation, and factionalism in New World political arenas / John W. Fox
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    ISBN: 9781139174268
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 333 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1994 ; Entwicklungsländer ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Staat ; Developing countries / Politics and government ; Developing countries / Social conditions ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Staat ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1800-1994
    Abstract: This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality, country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of 'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states, which should be disaggregated for meaningful comparative study, are best analysed as parts of societies. States may help mould, but are also continually moulded by, the societies within which they are embedded. States' capacities, further, will vary depending on their ties to other social forces. And other social forces will be capable of being mobilised into political contention only under certain conditions. Political contention pitting states against other social forces may sometimes be mutually enfeebling, but at other times, mutually empowering
    Description / Table of Contents: The state in society : an approach to struggles for domination / Joel S. Migdal -- Traditional politics against state transformation in Brazil / Frances Hagopian -- State power and social organization in China / Vivienne Shue -- Centralization and powerlessness : India's democracy in a comparative perspective / Atul Kohli -- States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa : the enduring contradictions of power / Catherine Boone -- Labor divided : sources of state formation in modern China / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Business conflict, collaboration, and privilege in interwar Egypt / Robert Vitalis -- A time and a place for the nonstate : social change in the Ottoman Empire during the "long nineteenth century" / Reşat Kasaba -- Peasant-state relations in postcolonial Africa : patterns of engagement and disengagement / Michael Bratton -- Engaging the state : associational life in sub-Saharan Africa / Naomi Chazan -- State power and social forces : on political contention and accommodation in the Third World / Atul Kohli and Vivienne Shue
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    ISBN: 9780511622298
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 343 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Nationalism / Europe ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Nationalismus ; Nationalbewegung ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Europe / Politics and government ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalbewegung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The historical impact of national movements in Europe has been dramatic and continues to be an issue of major importance. Leading historians discuss authoritatively European nationalism in its historical context. Nationalism is not of course a specifically European phenomenon, but for reasons of space and intelligibility coverage has been limited geographically. The aim is that the essays should attract readers interested in a historical problem which has been difficult to encompass theoretically and to deal with practically. A glance at what is being shown or written in the media with regard to national and ethnical issues demonstrates the validity of this aim, not only with regard to the multinational former Soviet Union or Yugoslavia in eastern Europe, but also (for example) to the 'four nations' of the British Isles or bi-national Belgium in the west
    Description / Table of Contents: The British Isles : Celt and Saxon / Victor Kiernan -- The making of the French nation / Douglas Johnson -- The national question in Italy / Adrian Lyttelton -- The roots of the national question in Spain / Simon Barton -- Shifting nationalism : Belgians, Flemings and Walloons / Louis Vos -- The nation in German history / Walter Schmidt -- Nationalism and nation-state in Germany / Heinrich August Winkler -- The national identity of the Austrians / Ernst Bruckmüller -- The Czechs / Arnošt Klíma -- The national question in Hungary / Emil Niederhauser -- The union of Dalmatia with northern Croatia : a crucial question of the Croatian national integration in the nineteenth century / Miṙjana Gross -- The national question in Poland in the twentieth century / Jerzy Tomaszewski -- Finland : from Napoleonic legacy to Nordic co-operation / Matti Klinge
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    ISBN: 9780511551604
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 421 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies 79
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    Keywords: NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization) / History ; NSZZ "Solidarność" ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1989 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Power (Social sciences) ; Elite (Social sciences) / Poland ; Sozialismus ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Intellektueller ; Polen ; Poland / Social conditions / 1945- ; Poland / Politics and government / 1945-1980 ; Poland / Politics and government / 1980-1989 ; Polen ; Sozialismus ; Gesellschaft ; NSZZ "Solidarność" ; Polen ; Politik ; Polen ; Intellektueller ; Polen ; Gesellschaft ; Polen ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1989
    Abstract: The Solidarity movement of the early 1980s not only triggered a transformation in Polish society, it forced a fundamental reconsideration of the nature of socialism throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Seen as one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century, Michael Kennedy develops a theoretical conception of Soviet-type societies by analysing Solidarity's significance. He explains the background to the nature of the conflict between Solidarity and the authorities and considers the implications of Solidarity's struggle for the theory of the Soviet-type system's reproduction and transformation. Then, the internal constitution of Solidarity in terms of gender and, in particular, cross-class alliances is examined, which is followed by the implications of his analysis both for understanding perestroika in the Soviet Union and more generally for reformulating a critical sociology of Soviet-type societies
    Description / Table of Contents: The historical genealogy of Solidarity -- The nature and causes of Solidarity -- The Solidarity movement as emancipatory praxis -- Solidarity, modernization and class -- Solidarity, culture and civil society -- A theory of power relations in Soviet-type society -- Professionals, power and prestige -- Engineers in Solidarity -- Physicians in Solidarity -- Critical sociology and Soviet-type society
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    ISBN: 9780511598630
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    Pages: 1 online resource (232 pages)
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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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    ISBN: 9780511598302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 502 pages)
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    Keywords: State, The ; Politische Theorie ; Demokratie ; Staatslehre ; Gesellschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Staat ; Staat ; Gesellschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Demokratie ; Staatslehre ; Politische Theorie
    Abstract: Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist democracies have been mostly propounded from one of three major theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a particular aspect of the state: the 'pluralist', which emphasises its democratic aspect: the 'managerial', which emphasises its bureaucratic elements: and the 'class', which focuses on its capitalistic aspect. Each of these theoretical perspectives has contributed something to our understanding of the state, but each also has its limitations. In this book, Alford and Friedland evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each perspective and present a new, synthetic framework for a more comprehensive theory of the state. Impartially reviewing the major historical and empirical works within each theoretical tradition, they reveal how empirical study has been shaped by theoretical assumptions. They agree that each perspective has a distinctive 'power' to understand part of the reality of the modern state, although it is powerless to explain other parts. In each case, the part that can be explained is the perspective's 'home domain', or the aspect of the state that it emphasises, while other aspects are either rejected or reinterpreted. The authors argue that the state cannot be adequately understood unless full account is taken of each of these home domains, and they suggest how the contributions of each perspective to the explanation of its own domain can be integrated into a new, and more powerful, theory
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