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Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society - Interdisciplinary Insights (Paperback): David Laycock Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society - Interdisciplinary Insights (Paperback)
David Laycock
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ideology is a ubiquitous, continuously innovating dimension of human experience, but its character and impact are notoriously difficult to pinpoint within political and social life. Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society demonstrates that the reach and significance of political ideology can be most effectively understood by employing a multidisciplinary approach. Offering analyses that are simultaneously empirical and interpretive - in fields as diverse as development assistance policy and game theory - the contributors to this volume reveal ideology's penetration in varied spheres, including government activity, party competition, agricultural and working-class communities, and academic life.

Rekindling Democracy (Hardcover): Cormac Russell Rekindling Democracy (Hardcover)
Cormac Russell; Foreword by John L McKnight; Afterword by Julia Unwin
R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marks, Martin and the Mule Train - Marks, Mississippi Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Origin of the 1968 Poor People's... Marks, Martin and the Mule Train - Marks, Mississippi Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Origin of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign Mule Train (Hardcover)
Hilliard Lawrence Lackey
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Revenge in the White House - The Racist Reign of the New Elagabalus (Hardcover): Stephen Welton Taber Black Revenge in the White House - The Racist Reign of the New Elagabalus (Hardcover)
Stephen Welton Taber
R1,332 Discovery Miles 13 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Remaking the Rural South - Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi (Hardcover):... Remaking the Rural South - Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi (Hardcover)
Robert Hunt Ferguson
R2,007 Discovery Miles 20 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular and oppressive regions in the nation. Thus began a twenty-year experiment - across two communities - in interracialism, Christian socialism, cooperative farming, and civil and economic activism. Robert Hunt Ferguson recalls the genesis of Delta and Providence: how they were modeled after cooperative farms in Japan and Soviet Russia and how they rose in reaction to the exploitation of small- scale, dispossessed farmers. Although the staff, volunteers, and residents were very much everyday people - a mix of Christian socialists, political leftists, union organizers, and sharecroppers - the farms had the backing of such leading figures as philanthropist Sherwood Eddy, who purchased the land, and educator Charles Spurgeon Johnson and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who served as trustees. On these farms, residents developed a cooperative economy, operated a desegregated health clinic, held interracial church services and labor union meetings, and managed a credit union. Ferguson tells how a variety of factors related to World War II forced the closing of Delta, while Providence finally succumbed to economic boycotts and outside threats from white racists. Remaking the Rural South shows how a small group of committed people challenged hegemonic social and economic structures by going about their daily routines. Far from living in a closed society, activists at Delta and Providence engaged in a local movement with national and international roots and consequences.

Power Balance - Increasing Leverage in Negotiations with Federal and State Governments-Lessons Learned from the Native American... Power Balance - Increasing Leverage in Negotiations with Federal and State Governments-Lessons Learned from the Native American Experience (Hardcover)
Steven J Haberfeld
R1,902 Discovery Miles 19 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Negotiation, understood simply as "working things out by talking things through," is often anything but simple for Native nations engaged with federal, state, and local governments to solve complex issues, promote economic and community development, and protect and advance their legal and historical rights. Power Balance builds on traditional Native values and peacemaking practices to equip tribes today with additional tools for increasing their negotiating leverage. As cofounder and executive director of the Indian Dispute Resolution Service, author Steven J. Haberfeld has worked with Native tribes for more than forty years to help resolve internal differences and negotiate complex transactions with governmental, political, and private-sector interests. Drawing on that experience, he combines Native ideas and principles with the strategies of "interest-based negotiation" to develop a framework for overcoming the unique structural challenges of dealing with multilevel government agencies. His book offers detailed instructions for mastering six fundamental steps in the negotiating process, ranging from initial planning and preparation to hammering out a comprehensive, written win-win agreement. With real-life examples throughout, Power Balance outlines measures tribes can take to maximize their negotiating power-by leveraging their special legal rights and historical status and by employing political organizing strategies to level the playing field in obtaining their rightful benefits. Haberfeld includes a case study of the precedent-setting negotiation between the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and four federal agencies that resolved disputes over land, water, and other natural resource in Death Valley National Park in California. Bringing together firsthand experience, traditional Native values, and the most up-to-date legal principles and practices, this how-to book will be an invaluable resource for tribal leaders and lawyers seeking to develop and refine their negotiating skills and strategies.

A Conflict of Principles - The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (Hardcover): Carl Cohen A Conflict of Principles - The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (Hardcover)
Carl Cohen
R1,344 Discovery Miles 13 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority enrollment, was actually practicing a form of racial discrimination--calling it "affirmative action"--he found himself at odds with his longtime allies and colleagues in an effort to defend the equal treatment of the races at his university. In "A Conflict of Principles" Cohen tells the story of what happened at Michigan, how racial preferences were devised and implemented there, and what was at stake in the heated and divisive controversy that ensued. He gives voice to the judicious and seldom heard liberal argument against affirmative action in college admission policies.

In the early 1970s, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, Cohen vigorously supported programs devised to encourage the recruitment of minorities in colleges, and in private employment. But some of these efforts gave deliberate preference to blacks and Hispanics seeking university admission, and this Cohen recognized as a form of racism, however well-meaning. In his book he recounts the fortunes of contested affirmative action programs as they made their way through the legal system to the Supreme Court, beginning with "DeFunis v. Odegaard" (1974) at the University of Washington Law School, then "Bakke v. Regents of the University of California" (1978) at the Medical School on the UC Davis campus, and culminating at the University of Michigan in the landmark cases of "Grutter v. Bollinger" and "Gratz v. Bollinger" (2003). He recounts his role in the initiation of the Michigan cases, explaining the many arguments against racial preferences in college admissions. He presents a principled case for the resultant amendment to the Michigan constitution, of which he was a prominent advocate, which prohibited preference by race in public employment and public contracting, as well as in public education.

An eminently readable personal, consistently fair-minded account of the principles and politics that come into play in the struggles over affirmative action, "A Conflict of Principles" is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to our national conversation about race.

Untimely Democracy - The Politics of Progress After Slavery (Hardcover): Gregory Laski Untimely Democracy - The Politics of Progress After Slavery (Hardcover)
Gregory Laski
R2,775 Discovery Miles 27 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy. But what exactly does racial "progress" mean, and how do we recognize and achieve it? Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery uncovers a surprising answer to this question in the writings of American authors and activists, both black and white. Conventional narratives of democracy stretching from Thomas Jefferson's America to our own posit a purposeful break between past and present as the key to the viability of this political form-the only way to ensure its continual development. But for Pauline E. Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, Stephen Crane, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sutton E. Griggs, Callie House, and the other figures examined in this book, the campaign to secure liberty and equality for all citizens proceeds most potently when it refuses the precepts of progressive time. Placing these authors' post-Civil War writings into dialogue with debates about racial optimism and pessimism, tracts on progress, and accounts of ex-slave pension activism, and extending their insights into our contemporary period, Laski recovers late-nineteenth-century literature as a vibrant site for doing political theory. Untimely Democracy ultimately shows how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided fertile terrain for a radical reconstruction of our most fundamental assumptions about this political system. Offering resources for moments when the march of progress seems to stutter and even stop, this book invites us to reconsider just what democracy can make possible.

Leviathan (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Thomas Hobbes
R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial (in)Justice (Hardcover): Julian M. Hayter, George R. Goethals Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial (in)Justice (Hardcover)
Julian M. Hayter, George R. Goethals
R3,374 Discovery Miles 33 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of original essays and commentary considers not merely how history has shaped the continuing struggle for racial equality, but also how backlash and resistance to racial reforms continue to dictate the state of race in America. Informed by a broad historical perspective, this book focuses primarily on the promise of Reconstruction, and the long demise of that promise. It traces the history of struggles for racial justice from the post US Civil War Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights decades of the 1950s and 1960s to the present day. The book uses psychological, historical and political perspectives to put today?s struggles for justice in historical perspective, considering intersecting dynamics of race and class in inequality and the different ways that different people understand history. Ultimately, the authors question Martin Luther King, Jr.?s contention that the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, challenging portrayals of race relations and the realization of civil rights laws as a triumph narrative. Scholars in history, political science and psychology as well as graduate students in these fields can use the issues explored in this book as a foundation for their own work on race, justice and American history. Contributors include: E.L. Ayers, T.J. Brown, S. Fein, C.N. Harold, J.M. Hayter, C.F. Irons, J.P. Thompson, E.R. Varon, K.E. Williams, E.S. Yellin

Whispers of Cruel Wrongs - The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 (Hardcover): Mary Maillard Whispers of Cruel Wrongs - The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 (Hardcover)
Mary Maillard
R2,030 R1,817 Discovery Miles 18 170 Save R213 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Louisa Jacobs was the daughter of Harriet Jacobs, author of the famous autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. That work included a heartbreaking account of Harriet parting with six-year-old Louisa, taken away to the North by her white father. Now, rediscovered letters reveal the lives of Louisa and her circle and shed light on Harriet's old age. New voices call out from the lost world of nineteenth-century African American women in this annotated correspondence. Unidentified for nearly one hundred years, over seventy rare letters from Louisa Jacobs, Annie Purvis, and Charlotte Forten to their friend Eugenie Webb disclose the lives of these educated, resourceful women. Jacobs taught at Howard University, ran her own small business, advocated for civil rights, cared for her ailing mother, and worked for two federal agencies. Purvis, Forten, and Webb were descendants of some of Philadelphia's earliest free black abolitionist families. Sustained by friendship and faith, these women created warm and sympathetic relationships, despite difficult family obligations and the racist strife that marked the post-Reconstruction era in Washington, Philadelphia, and New Jersey.

Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media (Hardcover): Marco Adria, Yuping Mao Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media (Hardcover)
Marco Adria, Yuping Mao
R7,137 Discovery Miles 71 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New media forums have created a unique opportunity for citizens to participate in a variety of social and political contexts. As new social technologies are being utilized in a variety of ways, the public is able to interact more effectively in activities within their communities. The Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media addresses opportunities and challenges in the theory and practice of public involvement in social media. Highlighting various communication modes and best practices being utilized in citizen-involvement activities, this book is a critical reference source for professionals, consultants, university teachers, practitioners, community organizers, government administrators, citizens, and activists.

The Fight to Vote (Paperback, Reissue ed.): Michael Waldman The Fight to Vote (Paperback, Reissue ed.)
Michael Waldman
R464 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R77 (17%) Out of stock
On Global Citizenship - James Tully in Dialogue (Hardcover): James Tully On Global Citizenship - James Tully in Dialogue (Hardcover)
James Tully
R4,384 Discovery Miles 43 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In his lead essay, Tully applies his distinctive philosophy to the global field of citizenship. The second part of the book contains responses from influential interlocutors including Bonnie Honig and Marc Stears, David Owen and Adam Dunn, Aletta Norval, Antony Laden, and Duncan Bell. These provide a commentary not just on the ideas contained in this volume, but on Tully's approach to political philosophy more generally, thus making the book an ideal first source for academics and students wishing to engage with Tully's work. The volume closes with a response from Tully to his interlocutors. This is the opening volume in Bloomsbury's Critical Powers series of dialogues between authors and their critics. It offers a stimulating read for students and scholars of political theory and philosophy, especially those engaged with questions of citizenship. It is an ideal first source for academics and students wishing to engage with Tully's work.

White Identity Politics (Hardcover): Greg Johnson White Identity Politics (Hardcover)
Greg Johnson
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Technology and the New Generation of Active Citizens - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover): Paolo Beneventi Technology and the New Generation of Active Citizens - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover)
Paolo Beneventi
R3,641 Discovery Miles 36 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New media forums have created a unique opportunity for citizens to participate in a variety of social and political contexts. The public is able to interact more effectively in activities within their communities as new technologies are being created and utilized. Technology and the New Generation of Active Citizens: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the use of information and communication technologies for active citizen engagement. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as digital competence framework, multimedia, and social media, this publication is an ideal resource for professionals, consultants, university teachers, practitioners, community organizers, government administrators, citizens, and activists.

What Does Being an American Mean? Laws and Citizen Responsibilities American Constitution Book Grade 4 Children's... What Does Being an American Mean? Laws and Citizen Responsibilities American Constitution Book Grade 4 Children's Government Books (Hardcover)
Universal Politics
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rapture of Dread (Hardcover): Zahra Vaezi Rapture of Dread (Hardcover)
Zahra Vaezi
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vanguard - How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Paperback): Martha S. Jones Vanguard - How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Paperback)
Martha S. Jones
R436 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R74 (17%) Out of stock
Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia (Hardcover): Ward Berenschot, H.G.C. (Henk) Schulte Nordholt, Laurens Bakker Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Ward Berenschot, H.G.C. (Henk) Schulte Nordholt, Laurens Bakker
R4,896 Discovery Miles 48 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. Providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens interpret and realize the recognition of their property, identity, security and welfare in the context of a weak rule of law and clientelistic politics, this study highlights the importance of studying citizenship for understanding democratization processes in Southeast Asia. With case studies from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Cambodia, this book provides a unique bottom-up perspective on the character of public life in Southeast Asia. Contributors are: Mary Austin, Laurens Bakker, Ward Berenschot, Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Takeshi Ito, David Kloos, Merlyna Lim, Astrid Noren-Nilsson, Oona Pardedes, Emma Porio, Apichat Satitniramai, Wolfram Schaffer and Henk Schulte Nordholt.

The Southern Phoenix (Hardcover, 2nd Printing ed.): Rosemary Jenkins The Southern Phoenix (Hardcover, 2nd Printing ed.)
Rosemary Jenkins; Introduction by Steven B B Jacobs
R1,079 Discovery Miles 10 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Light of Knowledge (Hardcover): Jeff Aupperle The Light of Knowledge (Hardcover)
Jeff Aupperle
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Spokane - The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest (Hardcover): Dwayne A Mack Black Spokane - The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest (Hardcover)
Dwayne A Mack
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase's win failed to capture the attention of historians--as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In "Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest," Dwayne A. Mack corrects this oversight--and recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and civil rights in America.
As early as the 1880s, Spokane was a destination for black settlers escaping the racial oppression in the South--settlers who over the following decades built an infrastructure of churches, businesses, and social organizations to serve the black community. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, newspapers, and a rich array of other primary sources, Mack sets the stage for the years following World War II in the Inland Northwest, when an influx of black veterans would bring about a new era of racial issues. His book traces the earliest challenges faced by the NAACP and a small but sympathetic white population as Spokane became a significant part of the national civil rights struggle. International superstars such as Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and Hazel Scott figure in this story, along with charismatic local preachers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers who stepped forward as civic leaders.
These individuals' contributions, and the black community's encounters with racism, offer a view of the complexity of race relations in a city and a region not recognized historically as centers of racial strife. But in matters of race--from the first migration of black settlers to Spokane, through the politics of the Cold War and the civil rights movement, to the successes of the 1970s and '80s--Mack shows that Spokane has a story to tell, one that this book at long last incorporates into the larger history of twentieth-century America.

From the Company of Shadows (Hardcover): Kevin Michael Shipp From the Company of Shadows (Hardcover)
Kevin Michael Shipp; Illustrated by Caroline Blochlinger; Edited by Lisa Rowan
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the Company of Shadows. Read firsthand accounts of fascinating events inside the CIA. Learn how the CIA conducts operations, recruits agents and protects defectors from assassination. Understand the current global and domestic threat of terrorism from the perspective of a decorated CIA officer. Read an insider's expose' of the CIA's use of secrecy and the executive branch's abuse of the shadowy State Secrets Privilege.

Transnational Citizenship in the European Union - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover, New): Espen D.H. Olsen Transnational Citizenship in the European Union - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover, New)
Espen D.H. Olsen
R4,700 Discovery Miles 47 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process. Transnational Citizenship in the European Union follows an institutionalist approach and traces the development of citizenship discourse from the founding treaties of the EU to the most recent effort of constitution-making and the Lisbon Treaty. This helps demonstrate that such discourse has followed a path based on the foundational principles of free movement and non-discrimination rather than revolutionary ideas of a postnational citizenship beyond the nation-state. This in-depth analysis of citizenship in the EU takes into account the institutional configuration of membership, rights, identity, and participation. It also brings in the domestic level of the debate through the examination of national positions on reform proposals and the interplay between EU and member states conceptions of citizenship. Lastly, by investigating citizenship practices, the book helps foster understanding of how the EU works as a political system, and the relationship between European institutions and the recipients of their integrative politics , i.e., the citizens.

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