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Why We Must Initiate Justice (Paperback): James Wilson, Kenneth Washington Why We Must Initiate Justice (Paperback)
James Wilson, Kenneth Washington
R533 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? - How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality (Hardcover): Corey... When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? - How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality (Hardcover)
Corey Brettschneider
R1,064 R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Save R61 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the familiar yet problematic responses to these issues, political theorist Corey Brettschneider proposes a new approach called value democracy. The theory of value democracy argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, and giving reasons to reject, hate-based or other discriminatory viewpoints.

Distinguishing between two kinds of state action--expressive and coercive--Brettschneider contends that public criticism of viewpoints advocating discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual orientation should be pursued through the state's expressive capacities as speaker, educator, and spender. When the state uses its expressive capacities to promote the values of free and equal citizenship, it engages in democratic persuasion. By using democratic persuasion, the state can both respect rights and counter hateful or discriminatory viewpoints. Brettschneider extends this analysis from freedom of expression to the freedoms of religion and association, and he shows that value democracy can uphold the protection of these freedoms while promoting equality for all citizens.

Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches (Paperback): Allan Pinkerton Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches (Paperback)
Allan Pinkerton
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gender, Governance and Islam (Hardcover): Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali, Kathryn Spellman-Poots Gender, Governance and Islam (Hardcover)
Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali, Kathryn Spellman-Poots
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender. The volume charts the shifts in academic discourse and global development practice that shape our understanding of gender both as an object of policy and as a terrain for activism. Nine individual case studies systematically explore how struggles for political control and legitimacy determine both the ways in which dominant gender orders are safeguarded and the diverse forms of resistance against them.

Media, Ideology and Hegemony (Paperback): Savas Coban Media, Ideology and Hegemony (Paperback)
Savas Coban
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Media, Ideology and Hegemony addresses a range of topics that provide readers with opportunities to think critically about the new digital world. It includes work on old and new media, on the corporate power structure in communication and information technology, and on government use of media to control citizens. Demonstrating that the new world of media is a hotly contested terrain, the book also uncovers the contradictions inherent in the system of digital power and documents how citizens are using media and information technology to actively resist repressive power. This collection of essays is grounded in a critical theoretical foundation, and is historically informed. Contributors are: Alfonso M. Rodriguez de Austria Gimenez de Aragon, Burton Lee Artz, Arthur Asa Berger, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Marco Briziarelli, Savas Coban, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Junhao Hong, Robert Jensen, Douglas Kellner, Thomas Klikauer, Peter Ludes, Tanner Mirrlees, Vincent Mosco, Victor Pickard, Padmaja Shaw, Nick Stevenson, Gerald Sussman, Minghua Xu.

Twilight of the Merkel Era - Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election (Hardcover): Eric Langenbacher Twilight of the Merkel Era - Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election (Hardcover)
Eric Langenbacher
R3,538 Discovery Miles 35 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globe-notably in Britain and the USA-it was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable. And it did through the re-election of Angela Merkel as chancellor, now in her fourth term. Just under the surface, however, instability is mounting-exemplified by the entry of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the largest opposition party, the decline of the Social Democrats, the ever-restive Bavarians, and the growing factionalism within the Christian Democratic Union as the Merkel era comes to an end. Paying special attention to the rise of the AfD, this volume delves into the campaign, leading political figures, the structure of the electorate, the state of the parties, the media environment, coalition negotiations, and policy impacts.

Full Responsibility - On Pragmatic, Political, and Other Modes of Sharing Action (Hardcover): Steven G. Smith Full Responsibility - On Pragmatic, Political, and Other Modes of Sharing Action (Hardcover)
Steven G. Smith
R2,769 Discovery Miles 27 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy (Hardcover): Cara E. Rabe-Hemp, Nancy S. Lind Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy (Hardcover)
Cara E. Rabe-Hemp, Nancy S. Lind
R2,245 Discovery Miles 22 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Political movements and citizens across the globe are increasingly challenging the traditional ways in which political authorities and governing bodies establish and maintain social control. This edited collection examines the intersections of social control, political authority and public policy. Each chapter provides an important insight into the key elements needed to understand the role of governance in establishing and maintaining social control through law and public policymaking. Close attention is paid to the roles of surveillance and dissent as tools for both establishing and disrupting the social control of political institutions. This collection examines the vast implications of increased participation in governance by citizens through dissent, revealing the ways in which this represents both a disruption of social control and a mechanism for increased accountability through surveillance and media. Through its examination of issues such as police militarization, police legitimacy, religion and the state, immigration, mental health policy, privacy and surveillance, and mass media and social control in a post-truth environment, this collection will prove invaluable for researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.

Ethics of Vaccine Passports - A Poor Bargain (Hardcover): Aviel Oppenheim Ethics of Vaccine Passports - A Poor Bargain (Hardcover)
Aviel Oppenheim
R685 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R113 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ninth Circle - A Critical Interpretation of the Military, Law Enforcement, and Our Society (Hardcover): Mitchell Henderson The Ninth Circle - A Critical Interpretation of the Military, Law Enforcement, and Our Society (Hardcover)
Mitchell Henderson
R865 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R139 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Documenting Individual Identity - The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Paperback): Jane Caplan, John Torpey Documenting Individual Identity - The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Paperback)
Jane Caplan, John Torpey
R1,162 R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Save R103 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity. From passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documentation, from fingerprinting to much-debated contemporary issues such as DNA-typing, body surveillance, and the catastrophic results of colonial-era identity documentation in postcolonial Rwanda, "Documenting Individual Identity" offers the most comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating topic ever published.

The nineteen essays in this volume represent the collaborative effort of historians, sociologists, historians of science, political scientists, economists, and specialists in international relations. Together they cover a period from the emergence of systematic practices of written identification in early modern Europe through to the present day, and a geographic range that includes Europe, the Soviet Union, North and South America, and Africa. While the book is attuned to the nefarious possibilities of states' increasing capacity to identify individuals, it recognizes that these same techniques also certify citizens' eligibility for significant positive rights, such as welfare benefits and voting.

Unprecedented in subject and scope, Documenting Individual Identity promises to shape a whole new field of research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and is of broad public and academic significance. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Valentin Groebner, Gerard Noiriel, Charles Steinwedel, Marc Garcelon, Jon Agar, Martine Kaluszynski, Peter Becker, Anne Joseph, Kristin Ruggiero, Andrea Geselle, Andreas Fahrmeier, Leo Lucassen, Pamela Sankar, David Lyon, Gary Marx, Dita Vogel, and Timothy Longman."

Freedom's Progress? - A History of Political Thought (Hardcover): Gerard Casey Freedom's Progress? - A History of Political Thought (Hardcover)
Gerard Casey
R1,678 Discovery Miles 16 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Police Personalities - Why Cops Act The Way They Do (Paperback): Ph D James R Delung, Ed D Stephen M Hennessy Police Personalities - Why Cops Act The Way They Do (Paperback)
Ph D James R Delung, Ed D Stephen M Hennessy
R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Enver Hoxha - The Iron Fist of Albania (Paperback): Majlinda Nishku Enver Hoxha - The Iron Fist of Albania (Paperback)
Majlinda Nishku; Blendi Fevziu; Edited by Robert Elsie; Introduction by Robert Elsie
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania - Stalinism survived virtually unscathed until 1990. The regime that the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha led from the time of the communist takeover in 1944 until his death in 1985, and that continued unabated under his successor Ramiz Alia until 1990, was incomparably severe. Such was the reign of terror that no audible voice of opposition or dissent ever arose in the Balkan state, a European country that became as isolated from the rest of the world as North Korea is today. When the Albanian communist system finally imploded, it left behind a weary population, frightened and confused after decades of purges and political terror. It also left behind a country with a weak and fragile economy, a country where extreme poverty was the norm. In the decades since Hoxha's death, Albania has made substantial progress in political and economic terms, yet the spectre of Hoxha still lingers over the country. Despite this, many people - inside and outside Albania - know little about the man who ruled the country with an iron fist for so many decades. This book provides the first biography of Enver Hoxha available in English, from his birth in GjirokastEr in southern Albania, then still under Ottoman rule, to his death in 1985 at the age of 76. Using archival documents and first-hand interviews, Albanian journalist Blendi Fevziu pieces together the life of this tyrannical ruler, in a biography which will be essential reading for anyone interested in Balkan history and communist studies.

Truth and Politics - Toward a Post-Secular Community (Hardcover): Fred Dallmayr Truth and Politics - Toward a Post-Secular Community (Hardcover)
Fred Dallmayr
R2,769 Discovery Miles 27 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Destiny of Liberty (Paperback): Mwanandeke Kindembo Destiny of Liberty (Paperback)
Mwanandeke Kindembo
R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Becoming Blue-Understanding Police Culture (Paperback): Sean Farmer Becoming Blue-Understanding Police Culture (Paperback)
Sean Farmer
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Will There Be Peace in Myanmar? (Paperback): Ryuho Okawa Will There Be Peace in Myanmar? (Paperback)
Ryuho Okawa
R328 R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Save R39 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Open Secrets - WikiLeaks, War, and American Diplomacy (Paperback): New York Times Staff Open Secrets - WikiLeaks, War, and American Diplomacy (Paperback)
New York Times Staff; Edited by Alexander Star; Introduction by Bill Keller
R582 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R73 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The controversial anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks made headlines around the world when it released hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents in 2010. Allowed advance access, The New York Times sorted, searched, and analyzed these secret archives, placed them in context, and played a crucial role in breaking the WikiLeaks story.
Open Secrets is the essential collection of the Times's expert reporting and analysis, as well as the definitive chronicle of the documents' release and the controversy that ensued. An introduction by Times executive editor, Bill Keller, details the paper's cloak-and-dagger relationship with a difficult source. Extended profiles of Assange and Bradley Manning, the Army private suspected of being his source, offer keen insight into the main players. Collected news stories offer a broad and deep view into Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the messy challenges facing American power in Europe, Russia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Also included are editorials by the Times, opinion columns by Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, and others, and original essays on what the fracas has revealed about American diplomacy and government security. Open Secrets also contains a fascinating selection of original cables and war logs, offering an unvarnished look at diplomacy in action.

Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service (Paperback): Carol Leonnig Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service (Paperback)
Carol Leonnig
R563 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R126 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation (Hardcover): Leslie F. Stebbins Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation (Hardcover)
Leslie F. Stebbins; Foreword by Ethan Zuckerman
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is about how we can build back truth online. It provides solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties and promote access to trustworthy information. This book explains the problem of misinformation within the larger context of "information disorder." It provides a road map with six paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit us, learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital spaces, build tools to reduce harmful practices, require platform companies to prioritize the public good, repair journalism and strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new healthier digital public squares. This book presents a comprehensive and connected strategy on how we can reduce misinformation and build back truth. New, experimental models that are ethically designed to build community and promote trustworthy content are having some early successes. We know that human social networks -- online and off-- magnify whatever they are seeded with. They are not neutral. We also know that to repair our systems we need to repair their design. We are being joined in the fight by some of the best and brightest minds of our current generation as they flee big tech companies in search of vocations that value integrity and public values. The problem of misinformation is not insurmountable. We can fix this.

Crisis Leadership - Boris Johnson and Political Persuasion During the Covid Pandemic (Paperback): Philip Seargeant Crisis Leadership - Boris Johnson and Political Persuasion During the Covid Pandemic (Paperback)
Philip Seargeant
R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Desegregation - Resistance and Readiness (Paperback): Melvin Marvin Tumin Desegregation - Resistance and Readiness (Paperback)
Melvin Marvin Tumin
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The most critical dimension of desegregation in our region is found in the attitudes of members of the dominant white communities. Melvin Tumin, a sociology professor at Princeton University, and eleven associates...have done a first-rate job mapping this vital dimension in an opinion study of citizens of Guilford County, North Carolina...the best effort yet to plumb citizens' attitudes on this agonizing modern problem."--Reading Guide, Law Library of University of Virginia. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mr. Putin - Operative in the Kremlin (Paperback, New & expanded edition): Fiona Hill, Clifford G Gaddy Mr. Putin - Operative in the Kremlin (Paperback, New & expanded edition)
Fiona Hill, Clifford G Gaddy
R990 R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Save R126 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fiona Hill and other U.S. public servants have been recognized as Guardians of the Year in TIME's 2019 Person of the Year issue. From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West. Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go? The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order in decades. Russia's 8,000 nuclear weapons underscore the huge risks of not understanding who Putin is. Featuring five new chapters, this new edition dispels potentially dangerous misconceptions about Putin and offers a clear-eyed look at his objectives. It presents Putin as a reflection of deeply ingrained Russian ways of thinking as well as his unique personal background and experience. Praise for the first edition: "If you want to begin to understand Russia today, read this book."-Sir John Scarlett, former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) "For anyone wishing to understand Russia's evolution since the breakup of the Soviet Union and its trajectory since then, the book you hold in your hand is an essential guide."-John McLaughlin, former deputy director of U.S. Central Intelligence "Of the many biographies of Vladimir Putin that have appeared in recent years, this one is the most useful."-Foreign Affairs "This is not just another Putin biography. It is a psychological portrait."-The Financial Times Q: Do you have time to read books? If so, which ones would you recommend? "My goodness, let's see. There's Mr. Putin, by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy. Insightful."-Vice President Joseph Biden in Joe Biden: The Rolling Stone Interview.

Criminal History Record Information Sharing with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency - Education and Training... Criminal History Record Information Sharing with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency - Education and Training Materials for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partners (Paperback)
Douglas C Ligor, Shawn D. Bushway, Maria McCollester, Richard H Donohue, Devon Hill
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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