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Conservatives are busy trying to save the world. The world is going to heck in a handbasket, and liberals are trying to figure out whether to hold angry peace rallies or celebrate the environment by leaving their signs on the grass for productive people to clean up. If only they knew how many trees and bunny rabbits were murdered on 9/11 by people unconcerned with carbon emissions. Liberals like to declare every conservative on the planet to be either...
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Con esta nueva publicación, muy en el espíritu de nuestro Grupo de estudios interdisciplinario sobre paz, conflicto y posconflicto (JANUS), marcamos el acento sobre un hecho fundamental: cómo cualquier proceso político, económico, social y aún afectivo, la paz tiene sus olvidos y olvidados.
Contrario al maniqueísmo radical de algunos sectores reaccionarios que le presentan a la opinión pública la imagen de una paz "perfecta", y quienes no...
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Treinta personas, no todos especialistas pero sí comprometidas con el Chile que queremos, son convocados a "redactar" el articulado de una nueva Constitución.
El resultado expresa los anhelos de la mayoría y la urgencia de las transformaciones necesarias para un nuevo contrato social que los recoja.
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During the Nixon administration impeachment process, in August, 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice deemed it necessary to have, for its own use, a document outlining the historical and legal aspects of impeachment; thus this document. Impeachment is a seldom-visited aspect of American political life; encountered only twice in the past, during the administrations of Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon. (And, 24 years later, Bill Clinton.) This is a...
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Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces in voter turnout. Given the province's economic reliance on oil revenues, a symbiotic relationship also developed between government and the oil industry....
6) Redes y jerarquías, Volumen 1: Participación, representación y gobernanza local en América Latina
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Este libro propone un análisis de las experiencias de gobernanza en Venezuela, Nicaragua, México y Brasil para hallar respuesta a diversos aspectos como el resultado del encuentro entre nuevas iniciativas de participación y viejos mecanismos políticos jerárquicos, qué tan genuinamente novedosas son estas experiencias, qué significados adquieren estas experiencias desde la perspectiva de los actores, cuáles son los circuitos de representación...
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Robert Adcock is a visiting lecturer in political science at Stanford University. Mark Bevir and Shannon C. Stimson are professors of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena. What caused this change?...
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This collection of philosophical, political, and personal readings about the twin themes of freedom and responsibility is designed for use within a wide range of composition classes. Shorter and more accessible works will serve early composition courses, and more complex works, will serve well in more advanced composition courses. Authors include Susan B. Anthony, Marcus Aurelius, Clarence Darrow, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Waldo Emerson,...
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Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in the collection of essays that is Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Self-Determination in Jackson Mississippi.
Undeterred by the uncertainty, anxiety and fear brought about by the steady deterioration of the neoliberal order...
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Aportes y recomendaciones sobre democracia, asuntos políticos nacionales e internacionales, elaborados por los alumnos del Doctorado en Ciencia Política y profesores de la PUCP en el V Seminario de Reforma del Estado. Se destaca la participación de connotados investigadores internacionales como Dieter Nohlen y Steve Levitsky.
La paradoja entre crecimiento y desarrollo social sigue vigente, así como las tensiones entre el modelo económico y el...
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America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that patriotic spirit, hundreds of writers, artists, scientists, and political and community leaders have come together since the 2016 presidential election to offer their impassioned letters to America in a project envisioned and published by the online journal...
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A punto de cumplir dos años, el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador merece una evaluación rigurosa. Es lo que con agudeza y frialdad hace en estas páginas un grupo de académicos, atentos observadores de nuestra vida pública: Cordera y Provencio subrayan la falta de estrategia económica ante la crisis; Hernández Licona lamenta el desmantelamiento de los programas sociales; Woldenberg pasa revista a las pulsiones antidemocráticas del gobierno;...
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Technology, politics and entertainment have, merged to the point of confusion. Politactics, is a book from the Everyday Analysis collective, is a set of conversations about how to sift through this organized, but disordered mess and create a framework which could enact change against political and corporate hegemony. An internationalist collection of essays, articles, responses and letters, the book argues that we need a 'politactical' mindset in...
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A stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot our democracy.
The presidential election of 2016 highlighted some long-standing flaws in American democracy and added a few new ones. Across the political spectrum, most Americans do not believe that democracy is delivering on its promises of fairness, justice, shared prosperity, or security in a changing world. The nation cannot even begin to address climate change and...
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A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for "socialism, American style"
It's a strange day when a New York Times conservative columnist is forced to admit that the left is winning, but as David Brooks wrote recently, "the American left is on the cusp of a great victory." Among Americans under thirty, 43 percent had a favorable view of socialism, while only 32 percent had a favorable view of capitalism. Not since the Great...
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The November 2020 US election was arguably the most consequential since the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln-and grassroots leaders and organizers played crucial roles in the contention for the presidency and control of both houses of Congress.
Power Concedes Nothing tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts...
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