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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)
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions
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    DDC: 306.2092
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    MC 6552
    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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  • 2
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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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    MG 70329
    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
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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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    DDC: 306.0973
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    MG 70329
    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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    Frenemies : how social media polarizes America (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108459952
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 316 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Parallel Title: Äquivalent
    DDC: 302.23/1
    RVK:
    MG 70150
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    AP 15965
    Keywords: Facebook (Firm) ; Facebook (Electronic resource) ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General / bisacsh ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General ; Social media History 21st century ; Polarization (Social sciences) History 21st century ; Right and left (Political science) History 21st century ; Ideology History 21st century ; Politische Kommunikation ; Online-Community ; Politik ; Facebook ; Social Media ; Polarisierung ; USA ; USA ; Social Media ; Politik ; USA ; Social Media ; Facebook ; Online-Community ; Politische Kommunikation ; Polarisierung
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    Frenemies : how social media polarizes America (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108472531
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 316 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: First published
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    MG 70150
    Keywords: Facebook (Firm) ; Facebook (Electronic resource) ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General / bisacsh ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General ; Social media History 21st century ; Polarization (Social sciences) History 21st century ; Right and left (Political science) History 21st century ; Ideology History 21st century ; Politische Kommunikation ; Online-Community ; Politik ; Social Media ; Polarisierung ; Facebook ; USA ; USA ; Social Media ; Politik ; USA ; Social Media ; Facebook ; Online-Community ; Politische Kommunikation ; Polarisierung
    Abstract: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature"...
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    The politics of borders : sovereignty, security, and the citizen after 9/11 (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316761663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 248 pages)
    Series Statement: Problems of international politics
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    DDC: 325.73
    RVK:
    LB 74610
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    MD 4300
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    RU 10912
    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
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Nov 2017)
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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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    MG 70950
    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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  • 8
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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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  • 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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    MG 10920
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    MS 2700
    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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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316335666
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  • 10
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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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    American identity and the politics of multiculturalism (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139028967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 322 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Ethnische Identität ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA
    Abstract: The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and multiculturalism emerged as a new ideological response to this dilemma. This book uses national public opinion data and public opinion data from Los Angeles to compare ethnic differences in patriotism and ethnic identity and ethnic differences in support for multicultural norms and group-conscious policies. The authors find evidence of strong patriotism among all groups and the classic pattern of assimilation among the new wave of immigrants. They argue that there is a consensus in rejecting harder forms of multiculturalism that insist on group rights but also a widespread acceptance of softer forms that are tolerant of cultural differences and do not challenge norms, such as by insisting on the primacy of English.
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    Should race matter? : unusual answers to the usual questions (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139003650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 411 pages)
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    Keywords: Philosophie ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Wiedergutmachung ; Quotierung ; Hate crime ; USA
    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.
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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
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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    Where have all the liberals gone? : race, class, and ideals in America (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511490835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 336 pages)
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    Keywords: Herrnstein, Richard J. ; Intelligenzquotient ; Intelligenzniveau ; Rasse ; Ungleichheit ; USA
    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.
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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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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139878425
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    Black crescent : the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511802768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 385 pages)
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    DDC: 305.6/97/0899607
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    BE 8607
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schwarze. USA ; Sklaverei ; African Americans / History ; Africans / America / History ; Muslims / America / History ; Islam / America / History ; Africans / America / Religion ; African Americans / Religion ; Muslims, Black / America / History ; Slavery / America / History ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Muslim ; Schwarze ; Amerika ; USA ; United States / Race relations ; America / Race relations ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Muslim ; Ethnische Beziehungen
    Abstract: Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots
    Description / Table of Contents: Ladinos, Gelofes, and Mandingas -- Caribbean crescent -- Brazilian sambas -- Muslims in New York -- Founding mothers and fathers of a different sort : African Muslims in the early North American South -- Breaking away : Noble Drew Ali and the foundations of contemporary Islam in African America -- The nation -- Malcolm
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    Collective preferences in democratic politics : opinion surveys and the will of the people (2003)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511610042
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 370 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/8/0973
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    MG 70120
    Keywords: Öffentliche Meinung ; Politische Beteiligung ; USA
    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 | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511610080
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 298 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/034073
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    MG 70330
    Keywords: Weiße ; Rassismus ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Nationalismus ; USA
    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.
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    African-American children at church : a sociocultural perspective (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511500060
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 228 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/25/08996073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Kind ; Religiöses Verhalten ; USA
    Abstract: African-American Children at Church explores African-American socialization beliefs and practices, based on findings of a unique, four-year long study in a Baptist church in Salt Lake City, Utah. By combining the ethnographic approaches of anthropology with the detailed naturalistic observations of developmental psychology, Dr Haight provides a rich description of actual socialization practices along with an interpretation of what those patterns mean to the participants themselves. Based on extensive interviews with successful African-American adults involved with children, this book begins with the exploration of adults' beliefs about socialization issues focusing on the role of religion in the development of resilience. Drawing from naturalistic observations of adult-child interaction, the book then describes actual socialization contexts and practices that help to nurture competencies in African-American children. The text focuses on Sunday School and includes narrative practices and patterns of adult-child conflict and play.
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    Making race and nation : a comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511810480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 390 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassismus ; Widerstand ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA ; Südafrika ; Brasilien ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    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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    Identity and intolerance : nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139052672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxix, 422 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 305.8/00943
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    MC 7400
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    Keywords: Nationalismus ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; Rassismus ; Deutschland ; USA ; Konferenzschrift 1994 ; Konferenzschrift 1994
    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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    Statehouse democracy : public opinion and policy in the American states (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511752933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 269 pages)
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    Keywords: Regierung ; Bundesstaaten ; Öffentliche Meinung ; USA
    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.
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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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    ISBN: 9780511558351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8
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    MC 7400
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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
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