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Author : Rodger Milton Govea
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Riot Contagion in Latin America, 1949-1963 written by Rodger Milton Govea and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429721277
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Assessing Democracy In Latin America written by Philip Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fifty years worth of data, Assessing Democracy in Latin America examines and compares the progress of Latin American countries toward democracy. The essays in this volume, all written by contributors to the Fitzgibbon Democracy Survey, focus their analyses on those factors most germane to the growth, maintenance, or failure of democratic systems. For example, in his initial chapter, Philip Kelly identifies two variables, mechanized agriculture and per-capita newspaper circulation, as the best statistical indicators of democracy in Latin America. Other contributors explore a variety of new topics such as the connection between democracy and environmental movements (Kathryn Hochstetler and Steven Mumme), political parties (John D. Martz), and social dynamics (Robert L. Peterson).Initiated in 1945 as a method of measuring and ranking Latin American democratic systems, the Fitzgibbon Democracy Surveys longevity and scope provide an unparalleled wealth of scholarly research. This volume offers what few others like it can: a longitudinally deep data set (eleven surveys over the past fifty years) and closely coordinated coverage of the complete range of Latin American countries by specialists assembled expressly for that purpose.
Author : Michael Potegal
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134759010
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Aggression written by Michael Potegal and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aggression usually involves a sequence of behaviors, reflecting escalations and de-escalations in the form or intensity of the actions taken, which play out over time. This book provides a context in which social and biological research on the aggressive behaviors of human and non-human subjects, interacting in dyads or groups, can be compared and integrated. Implicit in this juxtaposition is the major question of whether general principles governing the dynamics of aggression within and between episodes may be discerned. Aggressive behavior is described at different levels of analysis in humans and a number of other animal species. Three basic views of aggression dynamics become apparent: * The economic interpretation: Aggression will be escalated when it pays one of the combatants to do so or, more generally, when the potential benefits outweigh the risks. Decisions to escalate or de-escalate are part of a calculated "strategy", in one or another sense. This interpretation is formalized within game theoretic models as applied to animal conflicts and to international conflicts, within the chapters of this text. * The psychological process interpretation: Emphasis is placed on psychological/physiological processes within the individual. The chapters stress the importance of acute emotional states of anger and aggressive arousal and argue the role of peripheral sympathetic activation, while proposing a central neural mechanism. Children escalating their tantrums, adult humans and animals of other species intensifying their interpersonal conflicts, national leaders going to a war footing all appear to suffer a narrowing of attention and progressive failure of cognitive function under the intensifying stress of conflict. Perhaps these changes in attention, sensory and cognitive functions, and risk taking reflect a "commitment to aggression" which is necessary for organisms to engage in potentially dangerous and painful encounters. * The emergent process interpretation: Escalation emerges in a spontaneous and dynamic way as the actions of one participant elicit reactions from the other(s).
Author : Bruce M. Bagley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739194860
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century written by Bruce M. Bagley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the plethora of security concerns of the Americas in the 21st century. It presents the work of a number of prolific scholars and analysts in the continents of America. The book provides one of the only expansive applications of theory to a wide geographical area. It offers new perspectives and urges readers to take theory seriously through use. Within the Americas, we find a number of important issues that compose of this geographic security complex. Most important are the threats that supersede borders: drug trafficking, migration, health, and environment. These threats change our understanding of security and the state and region process of neutralizing or correcting these threats. This volume evaluates these threats within contemporary security discourse.
Author : Philip Kelly
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786425
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Checkerboards and Shatterbelts written by Philip Kelly and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography has always played a major role in world politics. In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North America and Eurasia and often forbidding internal terrain have given rise to a fascinating and unique geopolitical structure. Kelly uses the geographical concepts of "checkerboards" and "shatterbelts" to characterize much of South America's geopolitics and to explain why the continent has never been unified nor dominated by a single nation. This approach accounts for both historical relationships among South American countries and for such current situations as Brazil's inability to extend its authority across the continent from Atlantic to Pacific, its traditional competition with Argentina, its territorial expansion toward the continental heartlands, its encirclement by neighbors fearful of such expansion, and its recent rapprochement with Argentina. An important component of this book is the incorporation of the thinking and writing of South American geopolitical analysts, which leads to an interesting inventory of viewpoints on frontier conflicts, territorial expansion, industrial development, economic cooperation, and United States and European relations. Kelly's findings will be important reading for geographers, political scientists, and students and scholars of Latin American history.
Author : Martin K. Dimitrov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107276799
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Why Communism Did Not Collapse written by Martin K. Dimitrov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in 1989–91, and the five regimes that survived the fall of the Berlin Wall: China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea and Cuba. The essays offer a theoretical argument that emphasizes the importance of institutional adaptations as a foundation of communist resilience. In particular, the contributors focus on four adaptations: of the economy, of ideology, of the mechanisms for inclusion of potential rivals, and of the institutions of vertical and horizontal accountability. The volume argues that when regimes are no longer able to implement adaptive change, contingent leadership choices and contagion dynamics make collapse more likely.
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Total Pages : 822 pages
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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phil Kelly
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804799504
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Classical Geopolitics written by Phil Kelly and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geopolitics is the study of how the projection of power (ideological, cultural, economic, or military) is effected and affected by the geographic and political landscape in which it operates. Despite the real world relevance of geopolitics, a common understanding of what classical geopolitics is and how it works still lies beyond the reach of both researchers and practitioners. In Classical Geopolitics, Phil Kelly attempts to build a common theoretical model, incorporating a host of variables that reflect the complexity of the modern geopolitical stage. He then analyzes thirteen pivotal but widely differing historical events stretching from the Peloponnesian War to World War II, from the fall of the British and Soviet empires to the contemporary diplomacy of South America. Through this analysis, Kelly tests the efficacy of his model as a comprehensive geopolitical analytical tool that can be used across a broad spectrum of geopolitical contexts and events.
Author : M. Aaltola
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230622100
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Western Spectacle of Governance and the Emergence of Humanitarian World Politics written by M. Aaltola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the patterns of co-option and collaboration between the ethical and political traditions of the humanitarianism in various world political spectacles: September 11th, Iraq and Afganistan, Darfur, SARS and Avian Flu, and US transformational HIV/AIDS diplomacy.
Author : Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191558214
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology written by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged in ongoing research and training programs that have advanced quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology presents and synthesizes these developments. The Handbook provides comprehensive overviews of diverse methodological approaches, with an emphasis on three major themes. First, specific methodological tools should be at the service of improved conceptualization, comprehension of meaning, measurement, and data collection. They should increase analysts' leverage in reasoning about causal relationships and evaluating them empirically by contributing to powerful research designs. Second, the authors explore the many different ways of addressing these tasks: through case-studies and large-n designs, with both quantitative and qualitative data, and via techniques ranging from statistical modelling to process tracing. Finally, techniques can cut across traditional methodological boundaries and can be useful for many different kinds of researchers. Many of the authors thus explore how their methods can inform, and be used by, scholars engaged in diverse branches of methodology.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Abstracts on Police Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international abstracting service covering police science, the forensic sciences and forensic medicine.
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Total Pages : 830 pages
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Download or read book Criminology & Penology Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An international abstracting service covering etiology of crime and juvenile delinquency, the control and treatment of offenders, criminal procedures and the administration of justice." Abstracts of journal articles and monographs. Covermaterial from psychiatric literature as well as from criminological sources.
Author : Mika Aaltola
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030546020
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling written by Mika Aaltola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary Western democracies. They include not only severe polarization in domestic politics, but also efforts by external autocratic powers to co-opt the increasingly digitalized political processes in the West. The discussion on democratic vulnerability and regression has rarely been historically and theoretically reflective. The aim is to fill this relative void by drawing on classical sources to inform about the political anxieties and agitations of our present time as the Western world moves towards new critical elections. The key concept of the analysis, a Thucydidean brink, refers to a critical point where the attraction felt towards an outside geopolitical competitor becomes stronger than the political affinity felt towards one’s domestic political opponent. As political polarization, societal decomposition and the collusive tendencies grow in strength, political factions and political candidates in western societies can be(come) drawn to autocratic actors. Perhaps most alarmingly, the resulting nexus between democracies and autocracies can further intensify mutual regression and form downwards-sloping spirals that are not ultimately under any strategic control. This book draws from the experiences of recent elections in major Western democracies to illustrate the widening and deepening underlying regressive tendency.
Author : Jerry Valentine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Coup Contagion in Time and Space written by Jerry Valentine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University Microfilms International
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Reference Guide to Latin America and the Caribbean written by University Microfilms International and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mika Aaltola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136650156
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares written by Mika Aaltola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction to pandemic scares. By evaluating anxiety and the political response to pandemics as a legitimisation of the modern state and its ability to protect its citizens from infectious disease, Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares examines the connection between international health governance and the emerging Western liberal world order. The case studies, including SARS, Bird Flu and Swine Flu, provide an understanding of how the world order, global health governance and people’s bodies interact to produce scares and panics. Aaltola introduces an innovative new concept of ‘politosomatics’ based on the relationship that links individual stress, strain, and fear with global circulations of power to evaluate increasingly global bio-political environments in which pandemics exist. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of International Relations, Global Health, International Public Health and Global Health governance.
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book World Focus written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
