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The Death and Life of State Repression addresses a problem that
dates back at least 75 years, if not before. Since World War II,
individuals and institutions from around the world have been
concerned with state repression/human rights violations and since
about 1990, a robust empirical literature has emerged to
investigate what drives this behavior up or down (i.e., exploring
variation). While useful, this work has generally ignored important
aspects of the "Death/Life cycle" of state repression: i.e., its
onset, escalation, termination and recurrence. Such an approach is
important because different explanations and policies might be
relevant for different parts of the cycle. Exploring a new database
of repressive spells from 1976-2006 and new theory regarding
spells, The Death and Life of State Repression breaks new ground in
a variety of different ways. The book argues that repression is a
sticky process that is largely slow-moving and non-adaptive.
Consequently, change in this behavior is rare unless the ruling
cohort is perturbed in some manner. What perturbs is somewhat
surprising. The authors do not argue or find support for the
predominant variables/policies advanced by the international
community (i.e., naming/shaming, international law, military
intervention and economic sanctions). Rather, their research
advances and finds that political democratization plays a crucial
role in reducing and stopping most aspects of repressive spells,
and democratization itself is influenced by non-violent direct
action. The book has major implications for those who wish to study
state repression, as well as those who have an interest in trying
to reduce and stop it from occurring across the Death/Life cycle.
The path to less repressive behavior has never been clearer.
Two novels from the mean streets of 1940's New York City. Sweet
Money Girl was originally published by Gold Medal Books in 1954 and
tells the story of three lives that collide one December in New
York City-Hortense, the dance instructor who knows how to look out
for number one; Maxie, the mamma's boy who just wants his shot at
happiness; and Hugh, who wrecks it for all of them.Life and Death
of a Tough Guy was originally published in 1955 by Avon Books. Joey
Kasow is a skinny Jewish kid growing up in the 1920's in Hell's
Kitchen. Tormented by the Irish thugs in the neighborhood, he
eventually gains their begrudging respect and is allowed to join
their gang, the Badgers. Joey grows up tough. He knows he's got to
take whatever is dished out to him to stay in the gang. He learns
how to inflict pain--he learns how to kill. And gradually he works
his way up the ladder to become the Spotter's enforcer. He is now
Joey Case. But Joey can't escape his past, falling in love with
innocent young Sadie Madofsky, his refuge from the brutal world
around him. All Joey wants is to get ahead--but the Spotter has
other plans for him.
This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
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