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Canada a Nation in Motion is a bold look at issues facing Canada
today from the perspective of a Canadian who truly understands the
issues. In his special blend of analysis, humor and wit, Samy
Appadurai offers up an intelligent discussion of issues ranging
from the history of immigration in Canada, the G20 Summit and the
Vancouver Olympics to the position of Canada on the world stage.
Along with masterful storytelling, Samy provides a detailed
analysis and commentary on each subject he covers in a way that
anyone can easily understand. The perspective that Samy Appadurai
takes is one of a well respected community leader who has dedicated
his life to not only serving his community, but also his country.
His belief in the importance of learning about the issues that face
Canada as a nation is clear. However, he is not afraid to take a
stand and provide an alternative point of view in order to spark
conversation and debate. Canada is a country that is constantly
changing from within and without but Samy Appadurai tells us
exactly what it is that keeps Canada moving.
This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization
that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and
delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics. By
adding domestic politics and the actors to the international level
of analysis, the authors add the insights of Kenneth Waltz, Graham
Allison, and Louis Henkin to understand why most international law
is developed and observed most of the time. However, the authors
argue that law-breaking and law-distorting occurs as a part of
negative legalization. Consequently, the book offers a framework
for understanding how international law both produces and
undermines order and justice. The authors also draw from realist,
liberal, constructivist, cosmopolitan and critical theories to
analyse how legalization can both build and/or undermine consensus,
which results in either positive or negative legalization of
international law. The authors argue that legalization is a process
over time and not just a snapshot in time.
"Professor Samuel Krislov's 'Representative Bureaucracy' remains
among the most important and enduring books in the field of public
administration and its intersection with political science. It
takes the kernel of the idea, inchoately introduced in J. Donald
Kingsley's 1944 book by the same title, that public bureaucracies
can be representative political institutions and it develops an
overall analytic framework with empirically testable propositions
that has served subsequent generations scholars very well. So well,
in fact, that as the literature on representative bureaucracy
blossomed, these propositions have become so ingrained that many
younger scholars are unaware of their initial formulation and
roots. That is one reason why the republication of this volume now
is not only appropriate, but a critical step toward more tightly
organizing the vast literature that it arguably spawned into a
comprehensive empirically-based theory integrating all facets of
the study of representative bureaucracy." - David H. Rosenbloom,
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, American
University (from the new Foreword) *** Now available for the first
time in hardcover edition, republished from the original classic
and using embedded images from the original as well-allowing
continuity of referencing and citation. New edition from Quid Pro
Books bring this important work back to print, and in
library-quality format, no less.
Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen
Colbert investigates classical and contemporary understandings of
satire, parody, and irony, and how these genres function within a
deliberative democracy. Elizabeth Benacka examines the rhetorical
history, theorization, and practice of humor spanning from ancient
Greece and Rome to the contemporary United States. In particular,
this book focuses on the contemporary work of Stephen Colbert and
his parody of a conservative media pundit, analyzing how his humor
took place in front of an uninitiated audience and ridiculed a
variety of problems and controversies threatening American
democracy. Ultimately, Benacka emphasizes the importance of humor
as a discourse capable of calling forth a group of engaged citizens
and a source of civic education in contemporary society.
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