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Political Construction Sites

Author : Pal Kolsto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429966776
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Political Construction Sites written by Pal Kolsto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has provided scholars with tremendously rich material for the study of comparative nation building. Not since the decolonization of Africa in the 1960s have so many new states been established in one stroke in one region. The post-Soviet states, moreover, have all the necessary prerequisites for fruitful comparison: a number of similarities, but also significant differences in terms of size, culture, and recent history. In order to survive in the long run, modern states normally must have a population that possesses some sense of unity. Its citizens must adhere to some common values and common allegiance towards the same state institutions and symbols. This does not means that all inhabitants must necessarily share the same culture, but they should at least regard themselves as members of the same nation. Strategies to foster this kind of common nationhood in a population are usually referred to as 'nation building'. After a decade of post-Soviet nation building certain patterns are emerging, and not always the most obvious ones. Some states seem to manage well against high odds, while others appear to be disintegrating or sinking slowly into oblivion. To a remarkable degree the former Soviet republics have chosen different models for their nation building. This book examines the preconditions for these endeavors, the goals the state leaders are aiming at, and the means they employ to reach them. }

The Political Construction of Business Interests

Author : Cathie Jo Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018668
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Japan Under Construction

Author : Brian Woodall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520088153
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Japan Under Construction written by Brian Woodall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I would like to commend Professor Woodall for his in-depth look at the corrupt "dango" system that has plagued the public works market in Japan. Having spent the last ten years trying to pry open the closed Japanese public works market, I believe that this book lays out clearly the structural problems that block access for U.S. firms. I hope that this illuminating look at how the Japanese system operates will lead to further changes in Japan's public procurement system."--Senator Frank L. Murkowski "Woodall has done a wonderful job of getting behind the scenes to look at the preeminent sector where money flows to politicians. This is the richest and most subtle analysis of this industry to appear in English."--Ezra F. Vogel, author of "Japan as Number One" "An important contribution to our knowledge of Japan. Brian Woodall has dug up quite a bit of new factual information on this understudied industry."--Frances Rosenbluth, author of "Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan" and coauthor of "Japan's Political Marketplace"

Common Knowledge

Author : W. Russell Neuman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616117X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Common Knowledge written by W. Russell Neuman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs are determined largely by how we actively reinterpret the images, fragments, and signals we find in the mass media. For their study, the authors analyzed coverage of 150 television and newspaper stories on five prominent issues—drugs, AIDS, South African apartheid, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the stock market crash of October 1987. They tested audience responses of more than 1,600 people, and conducted in-depth interviews with a select sample. What emerges is a surprisingly complex picture of people actively and critically interpreting the news, making sense of even the most abstract issues in terms of their own lives, and finding political meaning in a sophisticated interplay of message, medium, and firsthand experience. At every turn, Common Knowledge refutes conventional wisdom. It shows that television is far more effective at raising the saliency of issues and promoting learning than is generally assumed; it also undermines the assumed causal connection between newspaper reading and higher levels of political knowledge. Finally, this book gives a deeply responsible and thoroughly fascinating account of how the news is conveyed to us, and how we in turn convey it to others, making meaning of at once so much and so little. For anyone who makes the news—or tries to make anything of it—Common Knowledge promises uncommon wisdom.

Blippi: At the Construction Site

Author : Editors of Studio Fun International
Publisher : Studio Fun International
ISBN 13 : 9780794446154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Blippi: At the Construction Site written by Editors of Studio Fun International and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YouTube sensation Blippi is at the construction site in this illustrated board book with four sound buttons that feature construction vehicles at work! Rumble! Clank! Clunk! The noises of a busy construction site come alive in this illustrated board book with four sound buttons. In Blippi: At the Construction Site, YouTube sensation Blippi is on the scene, driving an excavator, a dump truck, a backhoe, and a bulldozer. He’s so excited that he even invents a dance or two for some of his favorite vehicles—kids will want to get up and dance, too!

The Public City

Author : Philip J. Ethington
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520927469
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book The Public City written by Philip J. Ethington and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-07-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat American urban politics as the expression of social-group community experience. Instead, he maintains in The Public City, social-group identities of race, class, ethnicity, and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse.

Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia

Author : Pål Kolstø
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742541498
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia written by Pål Kolstø and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors analyse the preconditions for and processes of nation-building, while the new element is the focus on values in the largest post-Soviet state, Russia.

The Political Construction of Business Interests

Author : Cathie Jo Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379512
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Political Construction of Business Interests written by Cathie Jo Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments in countries with strong peak business associations, that help members form collective preferences and realize policy goals in labor market negotiations. Politicians, with incentives shaped by governmental structures, took the initiative in association-building and those that created the strongest associations were motivated to evade labor radicalism and to preempt parliamentary democratization. Sweeping in its historical and cross-national reach, the book builds on original archival data, interviews and cross-national quantitative analyses. The research has important implications for the construction of business as a social class and powerful ramifications for equality, welfare state restructuring and social solidarity.

Power and Architecture

Author : Michael Minkenberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782380108
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Power and Architecture written by Michael Minkenberg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state's political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the "invention" of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include "old" capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; "new" ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the "European" capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors' different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.

Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America

Author : Peter Lambert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601723
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America written by Peter Lambert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. The result is an original, fascinating contribution to an increasingly important field of study.

Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism

Author : Roger E. Kanet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317968662
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism written by Roger E. Kanet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on questions of identity that have confronted the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the communist system that had previously provided them with an identity. This development both facilitated and necessitated a reassessment of the now independent nations’ history, orientation, symbols and identity. In some cases, new states were created without a clear national identity, while in others the nation was regaining statehood, but not always within borders that had an historical association with the nation concerned. The multiethnic character of the space of the former Soviet Union and its erstwhile "satellites," and the long historical legacy of complex relations, boundary changes, population migration, and economic and social changes presented different challenges to the various nations and states concerned. The essays in this volume attempt to elucidate and understand the issues of ethnic and national identity and their relationship to the emerging statehood in various regions of the post-communist world. This study makes clear that some nation-states were far better prepared to handle these issues than others, and that the longer-term impact of the communist experience has varied. This book was previously published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers

Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported?

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191528919
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? written by Will Kymlicka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many post-communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are being encouraged and indeed pressured by Western countries to improve their treatment of ethnic and national minorities, and to adopt Western models of minority rights. But what are these Western models, and will they work in Eastern Europe? In the first half of this volume, Will Kymlicka describes a model of 'liberal pluralism' which has gradually emerged in most Western democracies, and discusses what would be involved in adopting it in Eastern Europe. This is followed by 15 commentaries from people actively involved in minority rights issues in the region, as practitioners or academics, and by Kymlicka's reply. This volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, and with the more general question of whether Western liberal values can or should be promoted in the rest of the world.

Building Downtown Los Angeles

Author : Leland T. Saito
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503632539
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Building Downtown Los Angeles written by Leland T. Saito and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban development trend across the nation, new construction led to the displacement of low-income and working-class racial minorities, as city officials targeted these neighborhoods for demolition in order to spur economic growth and bring in affluent residents. Responding to the displacement, there emerged a coalition of unions, community organizers, and faith-based groups advocating for policy change. In Building Downtown Los Angeles Leland Saito traces these two parallel trends through specific construction projects and the backlash they provoked. He uses these events to theorize the past and present processes of racial formation and the racialization of place, drawing new insights on the relationships between race, place, and policy. Saito brings to bear the importance of historical events on contemporary processes of gentrification and integrates the fluidity of racial categories into his analysis. He explores these forces in action, as buyers and entrepreneurs meet in the real estate marketplace, carrying with them a fraught history of exclusion and vast disparities in wealth among racial groups.

Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries

Author : Greg Simons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317067150
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries written by Greg Simons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing significance and visibility of relationships between religion and public arenas and institutions following the fall of communism in Europe provide the core focus of this fascinating book. Leading international scholars consider the religious and political role of Christian Orthodoxy in the Russian Federation, Romania, Georgia and Ukraine alongside the revival of old, indigenous religions, often referred to as 'shamanistic' and look at how, despite Islam’s long history and many adherents in the south, Islamophobic attitudes have increasingly been added to traditional anti-Semitic, anti-Western or anti-liberal elements of Russian nationalism. Contrasts between the church’s position in the post-communist nation building process of secular Estonia with its role in predominantly Catholic Poland are also explored. Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries gives a broad overview of the political importance of religion in the Post-Soviet space but its interest and relevance extends far beyond the geographical focus, providing examples of the challenges in the spheres of public, religious and social policy for all transitional countries.

The Political Construction of Brazil

Author : Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626373075
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Political Construction of Brazil written by Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big and bold book by a leading Brazilian public intellectual and scholar-practitioner. Whether or not one agrees with his conclusions, Bresser-Pereira reaches deep into the history of the turbulent twentieth century to set the terms for a new debate on Brazil¿s development in the twenty-first. --Matthew Taylor, American University Spanning the period from the country¿s independence in 1822 through early 2015, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira assesses the trajectory of Brazil¿s political, social, and economic development. Bresser-Pereira draws on his decades of first-hand experience to shed light on the many paradoxes that have characterized Brazil¿s polity, its society, and the relations between the two across nearly two centuries. Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is professor emeritus of politics and economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. In addition to his long academic career, he has served as Brazil¿s minister of finance, minister of federal administration and state reform, and minister of science and technology, and also as secretary of the government of the state of São Paulo.

The Global Construction of Gender

Author : Elisabeth Prügl
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231115612
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Global Construction of Gender written by Elisabeth Prügl and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender constructions do not stop at state boundaries. Global understandings of masculinity and femininity can emerge out of the matrix of international politics. Proposing an innovative conception of global politics by de-emphasizing state actors and instead analyzing competing transnational discourses, The Global Construction of Gender focuses specifically on people who work at home for pay. Prügl explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s in order to trace changing conceptions of gender over the course of this century. As Prügl relates, home-based workers, both urban and rural, engage in a broad array of activities: they "sew garments, embroider, make lace, roll cigarettes, weave carpets, peel shrimp, prepare food, polish plastic, process insurance claims, edit manuscripts, and assemble artificial flowers, umbrellas, and jewelry." These (mostly female) workers are widely recognized as underpaid and exploited. In investigating their plight, Prügl describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities, including that of the working mother as a social problem, the wage-earning worker as a male breadwinner, the crafts-producing woman as the symbol of Third World nationhood, the woman micro-entrepreneur as the heroine of structural adjustment, and the new androgynous home-based consultant/freelancer/teleworker as the exemplary worker of a flexibly organized global economy.

Political Communications in Greater China

Author : Gary D. Rawnsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135786755
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Political Communications in Greater China written by Gary D. Rawnsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the role played by political communications in a variety of media in defining and shaping identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and amongst overseas Chinese.