Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science
ISBN: 0691059152 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Frank R. Baumgartner, Beth L. Leech Publisher: Princeton University Press Number of Pages: 248
A generation ago scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system Today political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress the presidency and the judiciary Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system but because of changes in political science They review hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940s to today; examine the methodological and conceptual problems that have beset the field; and suggest research strategies to return interest-group studies to a position of greater relevanceThe authors begin by explaining how the group approach to politics became dominant forty years ago in reaction to the constitutional-legal approach that preceded it They show how it fell into decline in the 1970s as scholars ignored the impact of groups on government to focus on more quantifiable but narrower subjects such as collective-action dilemmas and the dynamics of recruitment As a result despite intense research activity we still know very little about how groups influence day-to-day governing Baumgartner and Leech argue that scholars need to develop a more coherent set of research questions focus on large-scale studies and pay more attention to the context of group behavior Their book will give new impetus and direction to a field that has been in the academic wilderness too long
This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist When Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000 he pledged that if his socialist party won power he would govern Spain in accordance with the principles laid out in Philip Pettit's 1997 book Republicanism which presented as an alternative to liberalism and communitarianism a theory of freedom and government based on the idea of nondomination When Zapatero was elected President in 2004 he invited Pettit to Spain to give a major speech about his ideas Zapatero also invited Pettit to monitor Spanish politics and deliver a kind of report card before the next election Pettit did so returning to Spain in 2007 to make a presentation in which he gave Zapatero's government a qualified thumbs-up for promoting republican ideals In this book Pettit and Jos Luis Mart provide the historical background to these unusual events explain the principles of civic republicanism in accessible terms present Pettit's report and his response to some of its critics and include an extensive interview with Zapatero himself In addition the authors discuss what is required of a political philosophy if it is to play the sort of public role that civic republicanism has been playing in Spain An important account of a rare and remarkable encounter between contemporary political philosophy and real-world politics this is also a significant work of political philosophy in its own right
ISBN: Binding: Kindle Edition Edition: 1 Author(s): Michael K. Rose Publisher: Number of Pages: 36
In the jungles of the planet Edaline a mysterious species known as the Squamata has long avoided the planet's human colonizers But as the only survivor of an apparent attack by the Squamata Sergeant Leonard Riley knows that the government's official version of events is untrue Now he must make a choice between protecting the government he once proudly served and exposing the lies and corruption of an oppressive regime Length: 10000 words40 pages
This stand-alone story serves as a prologue to the new science fiction adventure series Sullivan's War Sullivan's War: Book I - All Good Men Serve the Devil is now available
ISBN: 0674057813 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Sophia Rosenfeld Publisher: Harvard University Press Number of Pages: 368
Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics In 1776 Tom Paines vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution And today common sensethe wisdom of ordinary people knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debateremains a powerful political ideal utilized alike by George W Bushs aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obamas down-to-earth reasonableness But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenonThe story begins in the aftermath of Englands Glorious Revolution when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over Sophia Rosenfelds accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time Far from commonsensical the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise (20110413)
Political Ecologies: Essays in Environmental Science and Policy
ISBN: Binding: Kindle Edition Edition: Author(s): Adam D.C. Cherson Publisher: Greencore Books Number of Pages: 217
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Table of Contents
1) Summary of System and Method for Capturing and Sequestering Carbon 2) Rapid Site Selection and Performance Monitoring for Marine Reserves 3) Economic Growth and Environmental Protection 4) Energy Based System for Appraising the Non-Use Ecosystem Values 5) Structural Adjustment Deforestation and Population Growth 6) Theories of Intergenerational Equity 7) Environmental Ethics From Theory to Praxis 8) The United States and Biological Diversity 9) Public-Private Conservation: An Urban Case Study 10) Regime Shift and Diminished Biodiversity in Tree Species Composition in a New York City Forest: A 68 Year Study 11) Towards a New Environmental Tort Damages Regime 12) Intergeneration Equity and Family Structure: Exploring the Social Impact of Intestate Inheritance Laws in Louisiana and Puerto Rico 13) Assorted Blogs FDA and Food Labeling: 100909 Human Bio-Response to Acidification: 100609 Environmental Law Issues Facing NY City: 91609 Facing Tough Energy Decisions in NY State: 72809 List of Most Charismatic Endangered Species: 72609 What Should The New US Health Care System Look Like: 72409 Copenhagen Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD): 72409 Copenhagen: Most Favored Technology Transfer Nation Status: 72409 Traversing the International Climate Change Negotiations Impasse: 7909 Whither the Smart National Grid: 62909 Sustainable Psychoactive Substances: 62109 Waxman-Markey (ACESA) a Fake says Dr James Hansen: 61209 Carbon Price Market Failure and the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES)Draft: 43009 Chicken Little Re-Plucked: 42709 Waxman-Markey and REDD Blog Discussion: 42709 Lomborg: Dont Waste Time Cutting Emissions: 42509 American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Discuss: 41809 How Much Carbon Dioxide Per Person Per Nation: 4609 How to Adjust for National Population Changes in an International Carbon Cap System: 4609 Whither Kyoto and CDM: 32809 Of Defecits and Prosperity: 32209 FDA Approves Drug From Gene-Altered Goats: 32009 Carbon Dioxide Statistics: How Many Cars Off the Roads: 3109 What is a fair way of distributing the right to emit carbon among nations: 22809 Should We Be Focusing on the Fossil Fuel Producers: 22809 Are Environmentalists Trying to Keep the Developing World Poor: 22509 When Population Growth and Resource Availability Collide: 21309 Lithium Recycling and Sea Water Extraction: 2309 Baseline Electricity Generation for NY City: 12609 Environmental Economic Stimulus: 12409 Chrichton Lomborg and the Environmental Skeptics: 111408 Reparations for the Invasion of Eurasian Germs: 11208 How Should We Fight Charco Terrorism: 7608
Introduction to International Political Economy (5th Edition)
ISBN: 0205791387 Binding: Paperback Edition: 5 Author(s): David N. Balaam, Bradford Dillman Publisher: Longman Number of Pages: 608
Updated in a new 5th edition this book offers a complete and accessible overview of how politics and economics collide in a global context It surveys the theories institutions and relationships that characterize IPE and highlights them in a diverse range of regional and transnational issues The bestseller in the field Introduction to International Political Economy positions readers to critically evaluate the global economy and to appreciate the personal impact of political economic and social forces
Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion
ISBN: 0226306356 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Daniel S. Greenberg Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Number of Pages: 528
Each year Congress appropriates billions of dollars for scientific research In this book veteran science reporter Daniel S Greenberg takes us behind closed doors to show us who gets it and why What he reveals is startling: an overlooked world of false claims pork and cronyism where science money and politics all manipulate one another
Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 0739127985 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): William B. Allen Publisher: Lexington Books Number of Pages: 484
Generally critics and interpreters of Uncle Tom have constructed a one-way view of Uncle Tom albeit offering a few kind words for Uncle Tom along the way Recovering Uncle Tom requires re-telling his story This book delivers on that mission while accomplishing something no other work on Harriet Beecher Stowe has fully attempted: an in-depth statement of her political thought Heroeuvre in partnership with that of her husband Calvin constitutes a demonstration of the permanent necessity of moral and prudential judgment in human affairs Moreover it identifies the political conditions that can best guarantee conditions of decency Her two disciplinesphilosophy and poetryilluminate the founding principles of the American republic and remedy defects in their realization that were evident in mid-nineteenth century While slavery is not the only defect its persistence and expansion indicate the overall shortcomings In four of her chief works (Uncle Tom's CabinSunny Memories of Foreign LandsDred andOldtown Folks) Stowe teaches not only how to eliminate the defect of slavery but also how to realize and maintain a regime founded on the basis of natural rights and Christianity Further she identifies the proper vehicle for educating citizens so they might reliably be ruled by decent public opinion
Book one part one of Rethinking Uncle Tom explains Uncle Tom's Cabin within the context of the Stowes' joint project an articulation of the conditions of democratic life and the appropriate nature of modern humanism Book two parts one and two analyses how key elements of Calvin's thinking were conveyed by Stowe's works while distinguishing her thought from his and examines the importance of her "political geography" and the breadth of her thinking on cultural moral and political matters Parts three and four investigate the most mature elements of Stowe's political thought providing a close reading of Sunny Memoriesrevealing the full political pu
Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives (Asia in the New Millennium)
ISBN: 0813136423 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Number of Pages: 312
Westerners seem united in the belief that China has emerged as a major economic power and that this success will most likely continue indefinitely But they are less certain about the future of China's political system China's steps toward free market capitalism have led many outsiders to expect increased democratization and a more Western political system The Chinese however have developed their own version of capitalism Westerners view Chinese politics through the lens of their own ideologies preventing them from understanding Chinese goals and policies In Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives Fred Dallmayr and Zhao Tingyang bring together leading Chinese intellectuals to debate the main political ideas shaping the rapidly changing nation Investigating such topics as the popular "China Model" the resurgence of Chinese Confucianism and its applications to the modern world and liberal socialism the contributors move beyond usual analytical frameworks toward what Dallmayr and Zhao call "a dismantling of ideological straitjackets" Comprising a broad range of opinions and perspectives Contemporary Chinese Political Thought is the most up-to-date examination in English of modern Chinese political attitudes and discourse
