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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms
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.
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have
focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their
respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public
accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to
this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center
of the twentieth century's transportation revolution, and airports
embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and
cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When
segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and
blackness onto sites of interstate and even international transit,
they not only brought the incongruities of racial separation into
sharp relief but also obligated the federal government to
intervene. Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil
rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and
airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping
aviation's legal, cultural, and built environments. She relates the
struggles of black travelers-to enjoy the same freedoms on the
airport grounds that they enjoyed in the aircraft cabin-in the
context of larger shifts in the postwar social, economic, and
political order. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both
spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation
over the re-negotiation of racial identities. Hence, this new study
situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted
entanglements of "race" and "space."
Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the
movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The
deprivation of liberty of non-citizens due to their undocumented or
irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book
stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these
practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human
rights and prevent detention abuses. Approaching detention from an
interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together leading
writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it
is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront
it locally and globally. Challenging Immigration Detention
thematically examines a broad range of situations across the globe,
with contributors providing overviews of key issues, case studies
and experiences in their fields, while highlighting potential
strategies for curbing detention abuses. Demonstrating the value of
varied analytical frameworks and investigative angles, the
contributors provide urgently needed insight into a growing human
rights issue. With cross-disciplinary investigation into an issue
with immediate global importance, Challenging Immigration Detention
is vital for undergraduates, postgraduates, activists, lawyers and
policy-makers interested in international human rights. National
and international humanitarian organizations and advocacy groups
working in migrant and asylum rights will find this a compelling
and diverse overview of migrant detention. Contributors include: S.
Albert, N. Bernstein, M. Bosworth, S. Brooker, P. Ceriani, D.
Conlon, G. Cornelisse, N. De Genova, M.B. Flynn, M.J. Flynn, M.
Grange, N. Hiemstra, I. Majcher, G. Mitchell, A. Mountz, C. Munoz,
D. Schriro, H. Singh Bhui, Z. Steel, D. Wilsher, M.P. Young, P.
Young
An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police, from
filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of
citizen rights to calling themselves—and acting primarily
as—"law enforcement officers." As accusations of police
misconduct and racial bias increasingly dominate the media, The
Police in a Free Society: Safeguarding Rights While Enforcing the
Law takes an unflinching look at the police, the communities they
serve, and the politicians who direct them. Author Todd Douglas, a
veteran state police commander, exposes the occurrences of police
misconduct and incompetence as well as incidences of charlatans who
intentionally inflame racial tensions with the police for their own
political or financial gain. Readers will better understand what
police officers must deal with on a daily basis, grasp the role of
lawmakers in keeping faith with the public, and appreciate the
tremendous challenges that police leaders face in attempting to
reverse recent trends and shore up public confidence in police
officers. This is a rare glimpse into the often-ugly reality of
what happens on America's streets, with insights gained from the
perspective of the cop and suspect alike.
This timely book sets out how ordinary citizens can reform our broken economy.
Politicians curry favour with interest groups such as trade unions, public service workers, teachers and the unemployed, instead of serving the general public. Trade unions exploit labour laws to get benefits for their members without increasing productivity. Teachers enjoy sheltered employment without producing properly qualified learners. Formal employees abuse the bargaining-council system to push up labour costs
imposed on employers and employees outside the system. Notoriously unproductive “public servants” enjoy above-market salaries in a growing sector that creates little to no economic value. Unemployed people, of whom there are 11 million, form the bedrock of our community of 18 million recipients of welfare grants. They produce nothing in return. The glue holding together all these forms of rent-seeking, is centralised
government power, undergirded by laws and government spending.
The author highlights that the system of rent-seeking has damaged moral fabric in this country, eating at it like a virus. It does not let go, because it contains the seed of destruction of any argument deployed towards dismantling it. Rent-seeking is embarked upon – invariably almost – in the name of some noble cause or other. And noble causes demand that we be on the right side of them, or risk being tainted as unfair, oppressive, right-wing or simply bad.
Who in their right mind doesn’t want to protect workers against unemployment or exploitation, advance previously disadvantaged black citizens, improve the matric pass rate, help the poor with housing and money, build a strong public service?
The Research Handbook on Visual Politics focuses on key theories
and methodologies for better understanding visual political
communication. It also concentrates on the depictions of power
within politics, taking a historical and longitudinal approach to
the topic of placing visuals within a wider framework of political
understanding. The Handbook provides an introduction to the
theoretical underpinning of the study of visual politics as well as
an overview of the current thinking and research traditions in the
field of visual politics. The impressive selection of contributors
explore all types of media, including studies of the tools utilised
for visual politics such as social media, art and photography,
featuring the latest platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. The
editors also include discussions of visual politics covering a
range of nations and political systems while placing current
practices in visual politics within their historical context.
Offering a rich range of studies exploring differing practices
within their contexts to highlight current studies and support the
development of future research, this Research Handbook is designed
for researchers and students interested in the broad field of
politics and the subfields of political communication, persuasion,
propaganda and rhetoric.
Mark Tushnet presents a concise yet comprehensive overview of free
expression law, understood as a form of constitutional law.
Confronting the major issues of free expression - speech critical
of government, libel law, hate speech regulation, and the emerging
challenges posed by new technologies - he evaluates the key
questions and potential difficulties for future generations.
Contrasting the United States with current law in Europe and
elsewhere, Tushnet argues that freedom of expression around the
world should reflect deference to legislative judgements, unless
those judgements reflect inadequate deliberation or bias, and that
much of the existing free expression law is consistent with this
view. Key features include: Comprehensible for both students of law
and non-specialist readers interested in freedom of expression from
a legal perspective Viewpoints from multiple legal systems
including analysis of decisions made by the US Supreme Court and
the European Court of Human Rights Explains the two legal doctrinal
structures: categorical, rule-bound approaches and standards-based
approaches List of key references for further reading, allowing
readers to extend their knowledge of the topic past the advanced
introduction. This Advanced Introduction will be an essential
foundational text for students of law, as well as those from a
political science background who can view freedom of expression
from a legal perspective.
What would it mean to ""get over slavery""? Is such a thing
possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold
of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from
imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of
slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the
systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist
in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of
established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of
African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a
nuanced dialogue upon these questions. With a painful awareness
that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the
present - and vice versa - the contributors place slavery's
historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century
manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social
death. Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance
art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume
considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as
they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the
scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or
debate how to best convey that black lives matter. The Psychic Hold
of Slavery thus raises provocative questions about how we behold
the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement
and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack
domination.
In 2008, Barack Obama's presidential campaign used an innovative
combination of social media, big data, and micro-targeting to win
the White House. In 2012, the campaign did it again, further honing
those marketing tools and demonstrating that political marketing is
on the cutting edge when it comes to effective branding,
advertising, and relationship-building. The challenges facing a
presidential campaign may be unique to the political arena, but the
creative solutions are not. The Marketing Revolution in Politics
shows how recent US presidential campaigns have adopted the latest
marketing techniques and how organizations in the for-profit and
non-profit sectors can benefit from their example. Distilling the
marketing practices of successful political campaigns down into
seven key lessons, Bruce I. Newman shows how organizations of any
size can apply the same innovative, creative, and cost-effective
marketing tactics as today's presidential hopefuls. A compelling
study of marketing in the make-or-break world of American politics,
this book should be a must-read for managers, students of marketing
and political marketing, and anyone interested in learning more
about how presidential campaigns operate. Winner of the 2016
International Book Award in the "Business: Marketing &
Advertising" category.
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