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For eight years the president of the United States was a born again Christian backed by well organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church state divide In Europe the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western style liberal democracy And even in polytheistic Asia the development of democracy has been hindered in some countries particularly China by a long history in which religion was tightly linked to the state Ian Buruma is the first writer to provide a sharp eyed look at the tensions between religion and politics on three continents Drawing on many contemporary and historical examples he argues that the violent passions inspired by religion must be tamed in order to make democracy work Comparing the United States and Europe Buruma asks why so many Americans and so few Europeans see religion as a help to democracy Turning to China and Japan he disputes the notion that only monotheistic religions pose problems for secular politics Finally he reconsiders the story of radical Islam in contemporary Europe from the case of Salman Rushdie to the murder of Theo van Gogh Sparing no one Buruma exposes the follies of the current culture war between defenders of Western values and multiculturalists and explains that the creation of a democratic European Islam is not only possible but necessary Presenting a challenge to dogmatic believers and dogmatic secularists alike Taming the Gods powerfully argues that religion and democracy can be compatible but only if religious and secular authorities are kept firmly apart

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Producing more effective governance is the greatest challenge that faces most Latin American democracies today a challenge that involves not only strengthening democratic institutions but also increasing governmental effectiveness Focusing on the post 1990 period this volume addresses why some policies and some countries have been more successful than others in meeting this dual challenge Two features of the volume stand out First whereas some analysts tend to generalize for Latin America as a whole this group of authors underscores the striking differences of achievement among countries in the region and illustrates the importance of understanding these differences The second feature is the range of expertise within the volume In addition to the volume editors the contributors are Alan Angell Daniel Brinks Fernando Henrique Cardoso Jos de Gregorio Alejandro Foxley Evelyne Huber Jos Miguel Insulza Juliana Mart nez Franzoni Patricio Navia Francisco Rodriguez Mitchell Seligson John Stephens Jorge Vargas Cullell and Ignacio Walker

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Organized thematically rather than country by country European Democracies is an introduction to the politics and governments of Western Central and Eastern Europe Considering the countries of Europe from both the supranational level of the European Union and the subnational level of regions this text employs a comparative approach to survey issues ranging from parties and policy to democratization and globalization These issues are illustrated with in depth examples from a variety of European countries as well as examples from politics in the United States Throughout Markus Crepaz and Jurg Steiner treat Europe as a single but diverse entity and ask students what European politics can teach them about politics in their own country

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When fourteen year old Hannah Salwen saw a homeless man at the same instant she spotted a man driving a glistening Mercedes she said Dad if that man had a less nice car that man there could have a meal Acting on her urge to do something Hannah s family made the extraordinary decision to sell their Atlanta mansion buy a house half its size and give half of the sale price to a worthy charity Their plan eventually took them across the globe and well out of their comfort zone In the end they learned that they had the power to change a little corner of the world Warm funny and deeply moving The Power of Half is the story of how one family grew closer as they discovered that half could be so much more

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This collection of essays interviews and case studies provides a multi faceted and nonpartisan account of government as it becomes more transparent collaborative and participatory Each chapter expresses the views of its prominent author and the book as a whole offers a persuasive argument for transparency and interactivity in government at all levels As a handbook for advocates of openness and e government Open Government provides a valuable mosaic of opinions from leading politicians journalists programmers professors and visionaries making it a must read particularly in light of current events and technologies Topics include The beautiful vision seamless access to government information that is remixable meaningful citizen interaction with government officials and improved government effectiveness through realtime data analysis and visualization Transparency in the U S and abroad solutions to bureaucratic indifference as well as government procurement biased towards proprietary closed source vendors Open semantic government using Web 2 0 technologies mashing up government data knowledge management via wiki and the open source approach to government Government 2 0 agenda for public participation reforming government procurement mandating the use of open standards and bringing citizens into the government process Open Government editor Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post Intelligencer who s covered politics in Washington state Iowa Florida and Washington D C He s a specialist in campaign finance and computer assisted reporting the practice of using data analysis to report the news

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The book addresses the hitherto neglected aspect of postcolonial and historical engagement with the creation and construction of Indian Muslim national identity before the partition of India in 1947 The author s main assertion challenging the conventional and postcolonial appraisals of the Indian national history is that the Indian Muslim particular identity and Muslim exceptionalism preceded the rise of Congress or Gandhian nationalism Using major theories of nationalism including works of Benedict Anderson Anthony D Smith John Breuilly Partha Chatterjee and others and analysis of literary political and religious texts produced by Indian Muslims Constructing Pakistan traces the varied Muslim responses to the post 1857 British ascendancy Hence overall this study provides a multilayered discussion of Indian Muslim nationalism from the rise of post 1857 Muslim exceptionalism to the beginnings of a more focused struggle for a nation sate in the 1940s In this dual act of retrieval and intervention a varied mixture of literary political and religious texts are employed to suggest that if the Muslim textual production of this time period is read within the realm of politics and not just within the arena of culture then the rise of Indian Muslim nationalism can be clearly traced within these texts and through their affective value for the Indian Muslims The author states that no such work exits either in the postcolonial field or in the field of area studies that combines close readings of the texts their reception and the politics of identity formation specifically related to the rise of Indian Muslim nationalism The author s main argument hinges on two important assumptions 1 After the rebellion it becomes extremely important for the Muslim elite to force the dominant British regime into a hegemonic view of the Muslims and 2 this forces the Muslim elite to develop a language of politics that must always invoke the people in order to enter the British system of privileges and dispensations Consequently the rise of early Muslim exceptionalism and its eventual specific nationalistic unfolding of which Pakistan was one outcome can then be read as political acts that long preceded the Indian national party politics The reason most Indian and European historians cannot trace a pronounced Muslim sense of separate identity before the 1940s is because they trace this identity either in the form of resistance or in the shape of party politics The early loyalism of the Muslim elite in such strategy remains unexplained as it does not fit the resistance model The book attempts to re read this loyalism as a sophisticated form of resistance that in the end makes the Muslim question central to the British politics of post rebellion era On the whole the book is a useful text for anyone interested in reading a more nuanced and theoretically innovative articulation of the complex nature of Indian Muslim nationalism and the eventual creation of Pakistan

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The partition of India 1947 some call it vivisection as Gandhi had has without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent Why did this partition take place at all Who was is responsible Jinnah The Congress party Or the British Jaswant Singh attempts to find an answer his answer for there can perhaps not be a definitive answer yet the author searches Jinnah s political journey began as an ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity Gopal Krishna Gokhale yet ended with his becoming the sole spokesman of Muslims in India the creator of Pakistan The Quaid e Azam How and why did this transformation take place No Indian or Pakistani politician Member of Parliament has ventured an analytical political biography of Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah about whom views necessarily get divided as being either Hagiographical or additional demonology The book attempts an objective evaluation Jaswant Singh s experience as a minister responsible for the conduct of India s foreign policy managing the country s defence concurrently had been uniformly challenging Lahore Peace process betrayed at Kargil Kandahar the Agra Peace Summit the attack on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and the Indian Parliament coercive diplomacy of 2002 the peace overtures reinitiated in April 2003 He asks where and when did this questionable thesis of Muslims as a separate nation first originate and lead the Indian sub continent to And where did it drag Pakistan to Why then a Bangladesh Also what now of Pakistan Where is it headed This book is special it stands apart for it is authored by a practitioner of policy an innovator of policies in search of definitive answers Those burning whys of the last sixty two years which bedevil us still Jaswant Singh believes that for the return of lasting peace in South Asia there is no alternative but to first understand what made it abandon us in the first place Until we do that a minimum a must we will never be able to persuade peace to return

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Ehsan Mehmood Khan | 2010/02/05
Jaswant Singh s Book titled Jinnah India Independence and Partition released on August 17 2009 sixty years after the partition of Indo Pak Subcontinent is an apt corrective by a top leader of an otherwise hard line BJP to the make believe history of partition It speaks aloud and somewhat truly about the Indian mindset in defining moments of the mid 20th century Without mincing his words Jaswant Singh has squarely put the blame for partition of India in 1947 on Jawaharlal Nehru Sardar Vallabhbhai...

Joanne Minsky | 2009/12/02
Jaswant Singh has written a most exciting book on a subject that should have been a dry scholarly tome I only bought this book because I was following the story on the BBC web site Mr Singh was thrown out of the BJP for writing it Mr Singh makes clear that the British tried to keep India together and opposed Partition and believed that Pakistan was almost indefensible against the Russians and Hindustan which were the most likely enemies They decided that they would cut Hindustan loose and keep P...

patang | 2009/11/04
The book is well researched and eloquently written and brings the facts as never told so candidly by an Indian of Mr Jaswant Singh stature Rashid Zaidi

Amit Gupta | 2009/10/29
I decided to read the book after listening to all the controversy surrounding the book and the author I found this book most honest and objective in its presentation of the facts about how the idea of Pakistan came about and how vague the idea actually was Politicians including Jinnah Nehru Gandhi Patel etc made colossal mistakes though honest that resulted in unnatural and bitter partition of India Wonderful thing about this book is that the author throughout the book presents unbiased account...

Rakesh K Simha | 2009/09/12
Mohammed Ali Jinnah is painted as the villain of India s partition in 1947 the man who stabbed the Indians in the back and walked away with a fifth of the ancient country s landmass He s reviled as the traitor who created Pakistan which has ever since been a festering wound in India s nationhood But Jaswant Singh an aristocratic former Indian foreign minister shows there were several players more culpable the British the Congress Party leaders such as M K Gandhi and Muslim leaders carrying the t...

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How does the American public formulate its opinions about U S foreign policy and military engagement abroad War Stories argues that the media systematically distort the information the public vitally needs to determine whether to support such initiatives for reasons having more to do with journalists professional interests than the merits of the policies and that this has significant consequences for national security Matthew Baum and Tim Groeling develop a strategic bias theory that explains the foreign policy communication process as a three way interaction among the press political elites and the public each of which has distinct interests biases and incentives Do media representations affect public support for the president and faithfully reflect events in times of diplomatic crisis and war How do new media especially Internet news and more partisan outlets shape public opinion and how will they alter future conflicts In answering such questions Baum and Groeling take an in depth look at media coverage elite rhetoric and public opinion during the Iraq war and other U S conflicts abroad They trace how traditional and new media select stories how elites frame and sometimes even distort events and how these dynamics shape public opinion over the course of a conflict Most of us learn virtually everything we know about foreign policy from media reporting of elite opinions In War Stories Baum and Groeling reveal precisely what this means for the future of American foreign policy

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With a New ForewordIn So Damn Much Money veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests undermining effective legislation and discouraging the country s best citizens from serving in office Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our political system through the colorful story of Gerald S J Cassidy one of Washington s most successful lobbyists Superbly told it s an illuminating dissection of a political system badly in need of reform

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Lance Taylor | 2009/08/08
I ve only read about a quarter of the book so far but it is very intriguing If you are interested in what has happened to politics in D C and why the populous is not being represented properly I would highly suggest this book The writing is informed and flows very well

visionary | 2009/06/28
Checked this out of the library I m half way through and must order it from Amazon Interesting informative and fun to read I spent 50 years as an engineer and always wondered how people made the big bucks without producing anything This book tells me one method to use Become a sycophant and schmoozer I m heavily into politics now and find this book one of the best as an informant for me

Steve | 2009/06/12
The book does a good job of describing the changes that have occurred in American governance over the last 40 years It s possible though that using the Cassidy story as the backbone of the book was a mistake The point of view of a lobbyist is not nearly as important as the point of view of a typical Congressperson There s a book remaining to be written that describes how a Congressperson s point of view has changed since WWII Kaiser s book addresses this POV only indirectly

Marc Archer | 2009/05/11
This book opened my eyes to the corruption of OUR elected officials and who they really represent For years I felt in my gut that our leaders do not Legislate or represent those who may have voted for them Now I know what I kinda knew all along Read this book for a good eye opener WARNING It is not for the faint at heart

K Kim | 2009/04/12
This is a fascinating book and very entertaining to read Mr Kaiser is a very good writer considering this is his first book I saw him on Bill Moyers Journal and had to read his book Well done

Pursuit of Unity A Political History of the American South

   

Surveying the entire span of southern political history Michael Perman takes a revealing and wide ranging approach to the region s politics During the nineteenth century the South experienced nearly continuous political crisis from nullification through secession war and Reconstruction concluding with the disfranchisement campaigns at century s end The struggle for power took a different form in the twentieth century as the South s political class forged the Solid South and then maneuvered to perpetuate its control within the region and its influence within the nation But there was also continuity within this pattern of discord and crisis First southern politics generated to a degree not found elsewhere in the United States a remarkable array of unusual and colorful politicians such as John C Calhoun William Mahone James K Vardaman Huey Long George Wallace and Lyndon Johnson Even more significant was the lack of a competitive two party politics for the better part of the more than two centuries since the nation s founding For most of the nineteenth century the South s political system was characterized by the dominance of one party the Democrats and in the twentieth by the one party monopoly known as the Solid South This propensity toward one party politics differentiated the South and its political history from the rest of the country But since the passage of the momentous Voting Rights Act in 1965 one party politics has all but disappeared and along with it the South s pursuit of unity

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In this completely revised and updated edition including eight new chapters Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Colbert Report Politically Incorrect Real Time with Bill Maher and Michael Moore s TV Nation and The Awful Truth This volume investigates how and why these shows have been central locations for the critique of political and economic power and an important resource for citizens during numerous political crises In an age of Truthiness fake news and humorous political talk have proven themselves viable forms of alternative reporting and critical means for ascertaining truth and in the process questioning the legitimacy of news media s role as the primary mediator of political life The book also addresses the persistent claims that these programs have cynical effects and create misinformed young citizens demonstrating instead how such programming provide for an informed active and meaningful citizenship The new edition takes account of the many changes that have occurred in television and political culture since Entertaining Politics initial release

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This beautifully written ethnography follows the lives of two very different Japanese men entering political life in two very different communities One is the rural leader of a citizens referendum movement while the other hopes to succeed his father in a Tokyo ward assembly Fast paced and engrossing The Art of the Gut puts the reader behind the scenes to hear speeches attend campaign functions and eavesdrop on late night strategy sessions and one on one conversations In her groundbreaking analysis Robin M Le Blanc explores the the two men s differing notions of what is expected of a good man and demonstrates how the fundamental desire to be good men constrains their political choices even as it encourages both to become ethical agents The result is a vibrant and up to date picture of politics in Japan today that also addresses masculine gender expectations in a male dominated political world the connection between gendered identity and ethical being and the process by which men who are neither dominant nor marginal to their communities assert themselves both with and against power

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General Books publication date 2009 Original publication date 1922 Original Publisher Macmillan Subjects Public opinion Social psychology United States Political Science General Political Science Political Ideologies Democracy Political Science International Relations General Psychology Social Psychology Social Science Sociology General Social Science Media Studies Notes This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million Books com where you can select from more than a million books for free Excerpt CHAPTER III CONTACT AND OPPORTUNITY While censorship and privacy intercept much information at its source a very much larger body of fact never reaches the whole public at all or only very slowly For there are very distinct limits upon the circulation of ideas A rough estimate of the effort it takes to reach everybody can be had by considering the Government s propaganda during the war Remembering that the war had run over two years and a half before America entered it that millions upon millions of printed pages had been circulated and untold speeches had been delivered let us turn to Mr Creel s account of his fight for the minds of men for the conquest of their convictions in order that the gospel of Americanism might be carried to every corner of the globe 1 Mr Creel had to assemble machinery which included a Division of News that issued he tells us more than six thousand releases had to enlist seventy five thousand Four Minute Men who delivered at least seven hundred and fifty five thousand one hundred and ninety speeches to an aggregate of over three hundred million people Boy scouts deliveredannotated copies of President Wilson s addresses to the householders of America Fortnightly periodicals were sent to six hundred thousand teachers Two hund

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Richard Nusser | 2009/06/25
Anyone who seriously considers a career in today s journalism needs to become familiar with how Walter Lippmann approached that once hallowed calling It s not enough to be the first on the scene with a story no matter how important that story may be What s important is to have an informed opinion on what caused the event to happen and to be able to speculate with some authoritative references on how it will affect the future course of events What made Walter Lippmann s thoughts opinion and obser...

Alex M | 2008/11/23
Lippman is sadly under appreciated these days I hadn t even heard his name until the past year when while working on my dissertation I came across this book Written in lucid clear prose yet dealing with incredibly complex theoretical and philosophical issues Public Opinion argues that not only is there not really an agreed upon Public Opinion but that people rarely even understand what they think they know let alone what they can agree upon with other people Lippman persuasively demonstrates tha...

A B Mamo | 2008/11/02
Lippmann is great but the BN Publishing edition of this book is beyond terrible Misplaced or simply missing punctuation misspelled words no italics or boldface where they are needed random line breaks in the middle of sentences no indented paragraphs no margins on the pages haphazard footnotes you get the idea The content is worth four or five stars for all the reasons that other reviewers have mentioned but this printing is simply unreadable

Vincent | 2008/10/18
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Charles Seife | 2008/04/19
Cheaply produced and bound and the typesetting is shockingly poor There are no indents after paragraph breaks italics that were in the original are missing in this shoddy edition I have to purchase yet another copy because this fly by night publisher can t be bothered to typeset an out of copyright text properly

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Calhoun s most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete unabridged texts and in a single volume many for the first time since the 1850s These writings address such issues as states rights and nullification slavery the growth of the Federal judicial power and Calhoun s doctrine of the concurrent majority This selection presents twelve notable speeches letters and essays by Calhoun among them are his famous Fort Hill Address and his two great treatises on government A Disquisition on Government and the Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States

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In this book Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures and that democracy requires very special enabling conditions before it can be supported by a state conditions that require decades to evolve As a result attempts to export democracy through nation building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure

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Hiram Caton | 2006/05/15
Iraq s a mess A very costly mess over 200 billion and rising The loss of life and injury haven t been convincingly estimated It depends on whether the reports of harm done by depleted uranium particles are credible The DOD dismisses the reports but it takes the same view of the Gulf War Syndrome and the Nam Agent Orange sickness If the reports are true the moral burden is heavy Then there s opposition to the war by EU nations and in domestic U S politics Disagreement s the name of the political...

Reader 1 | 2005/12/25
The rapidly rising costs of America s efforts to produce democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan make it imperative for citizens to re examine the American policy of trying to bring democracy to other parts of the world This book argues that with some exceptions like Germany and Japan after World War II that policy of democratic nation building has been unsuccessful in the past it is unsuccessful today and is likely to be equally unproductive in the foreseeable future Democracy requires very special...

Herbert Gintis | 2005/12/14
According to the authors political democracy is rare and declining so the United States would do better to deploy its resources in supporting democracy at home rather than attempting to support the extension of democracy to other countries The reason they give for their position is that our species being a member of the small class of social primates is hierarchical and authoritarian by nature so only the most fortuitous confluence of circumstances is favorable to political democracy In essence...