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Author | : Ivan Ermakoff |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2008-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822341642 |
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What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors’ miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds with group interests. Ivan Ermakoff argues that these explanations are either incomplete or misleading. Focusing on two paradigmatic cases of voluntary and unconditional surrender of power—the passing of an enabling bill granting Hitler the right to amend the Weimar constitution without parliamentary supervision (March 1933), and the transfer of full executive, legislative, and constitutional powers to Marshal Pétain (Vichy, France, July 1940)—Ruling Oneself Out recasts abdication as the outcome of a process of collective alignment. Ermakoff distinguishes several mechanisms of alignment in troubled and uncertain times and assesses their significance through a fine-grained examination of actors’ beliefs, shifts in perceptions, and subjective states. To this end, he draws on the analytical and methodological resources of perspectives that usually stand apart: primary historical research, formal decision theory, the phenomenology of group processes, quantitative analyses, and the hermeneutics of testimonies. In elaborating this dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, Ruling Oneself Out restores the complexity and indeterminate character of pivotal collective decisions and demonstrates that an in-depth historical exploration can lay bare processes of crucial importance for understanding the formation of political preferences, the paradox of self-deception, and the makeup of historical events as highly consequential.
Author | : Rinpoche Sakyong Mipham |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0767920651 |
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Sakyong Mipham, the leader of Shambhala, a global network of meditation and retreat centers, shows readers how to rule their own lives and live with confidence--even in their most frazzled moments.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Dalits |
ISBN | : 9788792241221 |
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"This book is a photographic journey through South Asia shedding light on an issue that is most often invisible or hidden: the systematic discrimination and exploitation of 250 million people known as Untouchasbles. They are regarded as unclean and impure and it is believed they can pollute people and things merely by touching them. This belief makes them outcasts."--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : P. Seib |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137010908 |
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In light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy makers. It analyzes the workings of real-time diplomacy and the opportunities for media-centered diplomacy programs that bypass governments and directly engage foreign citizens.
Author | : William Tronzo |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892369264 |
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The universe may well have begun with an immense act of fragmentation, "the big bang," that sent particles flying in all directions to perform spectacular acts of creation and destruction. The fragment, volatile and unpredictable, is not simply the static part of a once-whole thing but itself something in motion. Drawing upon art history, archaeology, literature, numismatics, philosophy, and film, this book explores the significance of the fragment and addresses the powerful drives that have impelled it into the cultural mainstream. Book jacket.
Author | : S. Erdem Aytaç |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108475221 |
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Using surveys, experiments, and fieldwork from several countries, this book tests a new theory of participation in elections and protests.
Author | : Melissa Nobles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2008-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139468189 |
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Intense interest in past injustice lies at the centre of contemporary world politics. Most scholarly and public attention has focused on truth commissions, trials, lustration, and other related decisions, following political transitions. This book examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. Nobles argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minority groups demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices. Similarly, state actors support apologies for ideological and moral reasons, driven by their support of group rights, responsiveness to group demands, and belief that acknowledgment is due. Apologies, as employed by political actors, play an important, if underappreciated, role in bringing certain views about history and moral obligation to bear in public life.
Author | : Michael Hechter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107042542 |
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This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and an ample supply of culturally appropriate collective goods. Governance is fair to the degree that rulers act according to the strictures of procedural justice. These twin conditions help account for the legitimation of alien rulers in organizations of markedly different scale. The book applies these principles to the legitimation of alien rulers in states (the Republic of Genoa, nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, and modern Iraq), colonies (Taiwan and Korea under Japanese rule), and occupation regimes, as well as in less encompassing organizations such as universities (academic receivership), corporations (mergers and acquisitions), and stepfamilies. Finally, it speculates about the possibility of an international market in governance services.
Author | : Zhiyu Shi |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789622018273 |
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Chinese democracy is collective democracy, argues Chi-yu Shih in Collective Democracy. Democratization in China does not purport to enhance individual human rights; rather, it aims to preserve and promote a sense of community. Democratization is both an assurance that no one will be left alone in the process of development and reform, and an attempt to avoid the building of self-centered boundaries by social members. Consequently, elections for people's deputies, officials, and village directors serve to consolidate the appearance of social consensus. In the nascent Chinese democracy, contends the author, the stress on human relations and the institutionalization of collective interests provide a potentially effective check on the historically familiar abuse of power.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
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