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Post Intellectualism and the Our society’s institutional infrastructures — our democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishment — were all created as intellectual outgrowths of …
After National Democracy Rights The “imagined community” of the nation,which served as the affective basis for the post-French Revolution social contract, as well as its institutional counter-part, the welfare state, are currently …
Dictators Democracy and American Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, and Stalin’s Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces …
The China Fantasy Why When one is failing it is always easier to blame another. The U.S. an angry, occasionally unhinged, hegemon has proven itself far more dangerous to the peace, prosperity and stability of the planet. …
The Making of Minjung In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung (”common people’s”) movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the …
The Politics of Glamour When does a labor union cease to become the solution to individual worker struggles and start becoming the problem? Dr. David Prindle sets before the reader a titillating example of just such a case …
Democracy in Latin America This important new volume collects articles that evaluate different models of democracy, challenging the realities and myths of the practice of democracy in various countries throughout the region. …
Development Democracy and Welfare This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in …
Alexis de Toqueville Democracy An excerpt from the book-The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturallysuggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. Thissame state of society has, …
Sri Lanka Ethnic Fratricide Focusing on the historical events of post-independence Sri Lanka, S. J. Tambiah analyzes the causes of the violent conflict between the majority Sinhalese Buddhists and the minority Tamils. He …