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Wronged

Author : Lilie Chouliaraki
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550235
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Wronged written by Lilie Chouliaraki and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles over victimhood in public culture? In this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows how claiming victimhood is about claiming power: who deserves to be protected as a victim and who should be punished as a perpetrator. She argues that even though victimhood has long been used to excuse violence and hierarchy, social media platforms and far-right populism have turned victimhood into a weapon of the privileged. Drawing on recent examples such as the overturning of Roe v. Wade, movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as historical ones from the major wars of the twentieth century and the Civil Rights Movement, Wronged reveals why claims of victimization are so effective at reinforcing instead of alleviating inequalities of class, gender, and race. Unless we come to recognize the suffering of the vulnerable for what it is—a matter not of victimhood but of injustice—Chouliaraki powerfully warns, the culture of victimhood will continue to perpetuate old exclusions and enable further injuries.

On Expertise

Author : Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271093137
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book On Expertise written by Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a deep distrust of experts in America today. Influenced by populist politics, many question or downright ignore the recommendations of scientists, scholars, and others with specialized training. It appears that expertise, a critical component of democratic life, no longer appeals to wide swaths of the body politic. On Expertise is a robust defense of the expert class. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher examines modern and ancient theories of expertise through the lens of rhetoric and interviews some forty professionals, revealing how they understand their own expertise and how they came to be known as “experts.” She shows that expertise requires not only knowledge and skill but also, crucially, an acknowledgment by others—both specialists and laypeople—that one is a credible authority. At its heart, expertise is a rhetorical construct, and to be persuasive, experts must have the ability to apply their knowledge and skills rightly—in the right way, at the right time, to achieve the right end. Ultimately, Mehlenbacher argues that experts apply their technical knowledge effectively and win others’ trust through acting prudently and cultivating goodwill. Timely, practical, and sophisticated, On Expertise provides vital scaffolding for our understanding of expertise and its real-world application. This book is essential for beginning the work of rehabilitating the expert class amid a politics of extreme populism and anti-intellectualism.

Questioning Experts and Expertise

Author : Maria Baghramian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000702642
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Questioning Experts and Expertise written by Maria Baghramian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world. Scientific disinformation is rife, and expertise is badly needed to tackle highly complex social problems. This book brings together philosophers, sociologists and policy experts to discuss the nature, scope and limitations of expert advice in policy decisions. The chapters collected here address some of the most fundamental questions in the debate on the role of experts. They explore, among others, the definitions of expertise, the role of experts in modern democracies, the dilemma of choosing between equally competent and qualified experts who cannot agree, the objectivity of expert judgements, the relationship between experts and novices in polarised social settings and the conditions on the trustworthiness of experts. These explorations, by some of the best- known academics working in the field, highlight the complexities of the questions they address but also lay down a road map for addressing them. The chapters in this book were originally published in Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy.

Chaos Comes Calling

Author : Sasha Abramsky
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1645030458
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Chaos Comes Calling written by Sasha Abramsky and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered. Donald Trump’s November 2016 electoral victory was the beginning of four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and—ten months into a pandemic—an incitement to violence that led a mob of thousands to descend on the Capitol in Washington, DC. Fueled by suspicion, conspiracy, and bigotry, a faction of Americans had decided to seize control. But the biggest effect of this right-wing wave may not have been on our national politics, but on the local governments of communities around the country. In Chaos Comes Calling, Sasha Abramsky investigates the empowerment of the far-right over the past few years, stoked by the Trump presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic. He tells the parallel stories of two communities, Shasta County, California and Sequim, Washington, where toxic alliances of QAnoners, anti-vaxxers, Christian nationalists, militia supporters and other denizens of the far-right have worked to take control of the levers of power. The trajectories of both communities expose the stark divisions and extremism that have come to define our political landscape over the past decade, and offer revealing glimpses of what the future may hold. While Sequim ultimately recalibrated in 2021, returning to rationality, Shasta County has descended further into a climate of intolerance and toxic divisiveness. Chaos Comes Calling vividly captures both the regressive forces gaining momentum all over the country and the tireless efforts of citizens determined to organize against them.

The Tyranny of Experts

Author : William Easterly
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080901
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Tyranny of Experts written by William Easterly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations. In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.

The Second Greatest Disappointment

Author : Karen Dubinsky
Publisher : Between The Lines
ISBN 13 : 1896357237
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Second Greatest Disappointment written by Karen Dubinsky and published by Between The Lines. This book was released on 1999 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and wide-ranging work on the history of the North American honeymoon, and, of necessity, the tourist industry at Niagara Falls. Dubinsky charts the growth of Niagara Falls as a tourist destination from the 1850s to the 1960s and explains how it acquired its reputation as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Ultimately, the author asks: Of all the ways to promote a waterfall, why honeymoons? Winner of the 2000 Albert B. Corey prize from the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best book in Canadian-American history.

How Autocrats Attack Expertise

Author : Richard L. Abel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003835139
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book How Autocrats Attack Expertise written by Richard L. Abel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of Trump’s assault on truth and his populist attacks on expertise, as well as scientific and legal opposition to them. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Pandering to populists, autocrats attack professional expertise in an Orwellian world, where “ignorance is strength” and where, as Hannah Arendt wrote, people “believe everything and nothing.” Trump sought to inflame xenophobia by blaming China for the pandemic and closing U.S. borders, then declaring victory and, when that proved premature, wrongly blaming the number of tests for escalating cases. He sought to muzzle government scientists and denounced those who defied or evaded his directives as members of the “deep state,” preferring to rely on inexpert buddies. He elevated obscure scientists who promoted quack cures and opposed effective preventive measures while sidelining the few reputable experts, who nevertheless courageously resisted political interference. In addition to these, as this book documents, independent scientists, scientific journals and professional associations also outspoken, often more so. Even the pharmaceutical industry sought to preserve the integrity of a federal bureaucracy that assured the public the drugs they consumed were safe and efficacious. Following Trump’s numerous efforts to distort and undermine expertise, this book describes and evaluates the resilience of scientific and legal defenses of truth. This definitive account and analysis of the Trump’s populist rejection of truth and expertise will appeal to scholars, students and others with interests in politics, populism and the rule of law and, more specifically, to those concerned with resisting the threat that autocracy poses to liberal democracy.

The Montana State Constitution

Author : Professor Emeritus Larry Elison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199877807
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Montana State Constitution written by Professor Emeritus Larry Elison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montana's state constitution was created during the early 1970s. Progressive, innovative and pragmatic, it combines a strong concern for individual rights, personal liberty, and individual dignity while seeking to keep government open and responsive to the will of the people of Montana. It also stresses rights to a clean and healthful environment. The Montana State Constitution is the first reference guide to offer an in-depth analysis of the state's constitutional history. In it, Larry Elison and Fritz Snyder provide the text of the constitution, its meaning, and its legal interpretations. It is an excellent research tool for those interested in Montana's constitutional history and case law, and it includes a comprehensive bibliographic essay dealing with available primary and secondary research sources. Previously published by Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with standardization of content organization in order to facilitate research across the series, this title, as with all titles in the series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.

Looking Back at Law's Century

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718428
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Looking Back at Law's Century written by Austin Sarat and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns about a hyperlegalistic society, from philosophical idealism to the implementation of democracy, the rule of law, and the idea of human rights throughout the world. At the same time, law maintained its status as the key language of governance in the United States, the most "legal" of all countries, which has succeeded in making its version of the state a point of reference around the globe.

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Policies in OECD Countries From Interventionism to Regulatory Governance

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264177434
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Policies in OECD Countries From Interventionism to Regulatory Governance written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulatory Policies in OECD Countries documents the "state of play" in the regulatory policy agenda in OECD countries, and identifies the key challenges facing regulatory practitioners in the future.

The Experts' War on Poverty

Author : Romain D. Huret
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712179
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Experts' War on Poverty written by Romain D. Huret and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to light for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government, academic institutions, and think tanks. Their efforts to create a policy bureaucracy to support federal socio-economic action spanned from the last days of the New Deal to the late 1960s when President Richard M. Nixon implemented the Family Assistance Plan. Often toiling in obscurity, this cadre of experts waged their own war not only on poverty but on the American political establishment. Their policy recommendations, as Huret clearly shows, often militated against the unscientific prejudices and electoral calculations that ruled Washington D.C. politics. The Experts' War on Poverty highlights the metrics, research, and economic and social facts these social scientists employed in their work, and thereby reveals the unstable institutional foundation of successive executive efforts to grapple with gross social and economic disparities in the United States. Huret argues that this internal war, coming at a time of great disruption due to the Cold War, undermined and fractured the institutional system officially directed at ending poverty. The official War on Poverty, which arguably reached its peak under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was thus fomented and maintained by a group of experts determined to fight poverty in radical ways that outstripped both the operational capacity of the federal government and the political will of a succession of presidents.

Governing the Transatlantic Conflict Over Agricultural Biotechnology

Author : Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113419093X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Governing the Transatlantic Conflict Over Agricultural Biotechnology written by Joseph Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This key text analyzes the EU-US conflict over GMOs and uses it to explore the governance of new technology. Although a lot has been written about the subject, this book discusses aspects of the case that are rarely, if ever, reported and examined.

Polarized by Degrees

Author : Matt Grossmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009063464
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Polarized by Degrees written by Matt Grossmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes – from shifting relations between social groups and evolving language and behavior norms to the increasing value of a college degree. These transformations have polarized the nation's political climate and ignited a perpetual culture war. In a sequel to their award-winning collaboration Asymmetric Politics, Grossmann and Hopkins draw on an extensive variety of evidence to explore how these changes have affected both major parties. They show that the Democrats have become the home of highly-educated citizens with progressive social views who prefer credentialed experts to make policy decisions, while Republicans have become the populist champions of white voters without college degrees who increasingly distrust teachers, scientists, journalists, universities, non-profit organizations, and even corporations. The result of this new “diploma divide” between the parties is an increasingly complex world in which everything is about politics – and politics is about everything.

Covid-19 and Global Inequalities

Author : Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003857078
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Covid-19 and Global Inequalities written by Victor Jeleniewski Seidler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath. Following the virus in real time, it explores the fears, risks and responses to the global pandemic, and how it has shaped our everyday lives against the backdrop of social and political upheaval, and the looming climate crisis. Social theorist and moral philosopher, Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, discusses fundamental questions of inequality and injustice regarding race, class and gender brought to the fore by the visibility of varying risk levels, vulnerabilities and protections provided by legislative measures against the virus. This interdisciplinary analysis scrutinises values, ethics, responsibilities and uncertain futures formed by the global health crisis, and evaluates media and communications strategies, government responses and political communications at domestic and international levels. Seidler shares critical insights into the cultural history of pandemics, highlighting lessons to be learned from anticipating, preparing for and enduring moments of crisis. Perceiving how the pandemic and climate emergency are interwoven, the book concludes with an urgent call to rebuild sustainable economic, political and ecological imaginations. This wide-reaching volume will appeal to a broad academic readership in environmental studies, sociology, philosophy, health studies, cultural studies, gender studies, media and communication.

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in the United States 1999

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264173986
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in the United States 1999 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents an integrated assessment of regulatory reform in framework areas such as the macroeconomic context, the quality of the public sector, competition policy and enforcement, and integration of market openness principles in regulatory processes.

Socialist Economies and the Transition to the Market

Author : Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134903596
Total Pages : 879 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Socialist Economies and the Transition to the Market written by Ian Jeffries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993-05-27 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provides a detailed account of each of the socialist countries and an analysis of the various problems they have met in the long transition to market economies, each of which is very different.

Some Choice

Author : George J. Annas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195118322
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Some Choice written by George J. Annas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a passionate critique of the shallowness of choice rhetoric used to camouflage critical personal and public policy issues in contemporary debates in American medicine. Our public discourse on life and death, from health care to medical research, and from risky behavior to assisted suicide, is dominated by the market model of consumerism augmented by appeals to individual freedom. In fact, however, in most cases there is no real choice left for individuals to make; the important choices have been made by others, and the illusion of choice fosters complacency. Knee-jerk libertarianism leads to a superficial consumer culture and life choices valued only by their monetary value. Some Choice uses the cases of cloning, drive-through deliveries, emergency medicine, genetic privacy, human experimentation, tobacco control, and physician-assisted suicide, among others, to suggest ways in which we can break through our vapid and superficial public discourse on life and death issues and begin to engage in a public dialogue that enriches our lives and society rather than cheapens them. George Annas is one of the most widely recognized names in current bioethics debates. His goal in this new book is to help open a national and international dialogue that sees the search for universal human rights as valuable, and international cooperation to define, protect, and promote them as central to life.