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This original study discovers the bourgeois in the modernist and
the dissenting style of Bohemia in the new artistic movements of
the 1910s. Brooker sees the bohemian as the example of the modern
artist, at odds with but defined by the codes of bourgeois society.
"Bohemia in London" reconstructs the usual history, situating the
canonic names of modernism in the world of groups and coteries
which shaped the allied experiments in art and life. Thus it renews
once more the complexities and radicalism of the modernist
challenge.
This book presents an analysis and description of the
twentieth-century form of dictatorship, the ideological one-party
state, largely through sixteen case-studies of notable or
representative examples. Part One presents examples of the party
type (the party-state regime), Part Two examples of the military
type (the military-party regime) and Part Three examples of
transformations from one type to the other. These case-studies are
drawn from fascist, communist, and Third World examples and from
the 1920s to the 1980s.
This study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the contexts of theorizations modernism, postmodernism, post-coloniality and globalization. Brooker draws on Beck and Giddens and Rem Koolhasas, amongst others, to propose a 'reflexive modernism' which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. Cities included are London and New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Writers and artists considered are: in the modernist period, Ezra Poun and T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes and Melvin B. Tolson, and in the contemporary period, Hanif Kureishi, Bernadine Evaristo and Salman Rushdie, Iain Sinclair and Patrick Keiller, Paul Auster and Sarah Schulman, William Gibson, Wong Kar-Wai and Lawrence Chua, and Alex Proyas, Latife Tekin and John Berger.
This second, revised edition presents a broader discussion of
Schumpeter's and other leadership models of democracy and also
includes a new chapter on presidential leadership and foreign
policy. The first part of the book is centred around Schumpeter's
theories and his emphasis upon the role of leadership in democracy.
Such leadership normally involves only an adaptive, incremental
response to change but it can also take the form of an adaptive
innovation, a creative response, or a pioneering leader's
entrepreneurial-style initiative and innovation. The second part of
the book uses the US and British examples of democracy to assess
how much entrepreneurial-style, pioneering leadership occurred
during the 1960s-90s in democracies' electoral, governmental,
legislative, administrative, and policy-advocacy sectors. The
second edition's conclusion offers a new appraisal of the prospects
for this pioneering leadership, and the merely adaptive form of
innovative leadership, in the decades and crises that lie ahead.
This book presents an analysis and description of the
twentieth-century form of dictatorship, the ideological one-party
state, largely through sixteen case-studies of notable or
representative examples. Part One presents examples of the party
type (the party-state regime), Part Two examples of the military
type (the military-party regime) and Part Three examples of
transformations from one type to the other. These case-studies are
drawn from fascist, communist, and Third World examples and from
the 1920s to the 1980s.
"Leadership in Democracy" develops and applies an innovative
leadership theory of democracy and political evolution, based upon
Schumpeter's famous theories of democracy and economic
entrepreneurship. The new theory is applied to the US and British
democracies in an assessment of how much entrepreneurial-style,
pioneering leadership occurred from the 1960s to the 1990s in the
electoral, governmental, legislative, administrative and
policy-advocacy sectors of democracies. The assessment leads on to
a wide-ranging appraisal of the prospects for 'entrepreneurial'
democracy in the twenty-first century.
This original study discovers the bourgeois in the modernist and
the dissenting style of Bohemia in the new artistic movements of
the 1910s. Brooker sees the bohemian as the example of the modern
artist, at odds with but defined by the codes of bourgeois society.
It renews once more the complexities and radicalism of the
modernist challenge.
A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth
century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of
modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization.
Brooker draws on Beck and Giddens to propose a 'reflexive
modernism' which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. The
principal cities considered are London and New York, Tokyo, Hong
Kong and Bangkok. Writers considered include Ezra Pound and T.S.
Eliot, Langston Hughes, Hanif Kureishi, Iain Sinclair, Paul Auster,
Sarah Schulman and William Gibson. Filmmakers include Patrick
Keiller and Wong Kar-Wai.
This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on presidential leadership
and foreign policy, and has expanded its coverage of Schumpeter's
and other leadership models of democracy. Its focus, however,
remains on pioneering political leadership in the electoral,
governmental, legislative, and administrative sectors of the US and
British democracies.
Leadership in Democracy develops and applies an innovative
leadership theory of democracy and political evolution, based upon
Schumpeter's famous theories of democracy and economic
entrepreneurship. The new theory is applied to the US and British
democracies in an assessment of how much entrepreneurial-style,
pioneering leadership occurred from the 1960s to the 1990s in the
electoral, governmental, legislative, administrative and
policy-advocacy sectors of democracies. The assessment leads on to
a wide-ranging appraisal of the prospects for 'entrepreneurial'
democracy in the twenty-first century.
Why did some Communist and Middle-Eastern dictatorships, those in
China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Iran,
remained defiantly stable during the onset of a democratic age in
the 1980s and early 1990s? The book offers an explanation based
upon external relations - the regimes' defiance of external
military or political foes - and then searches for alternative or
supplementary explanations by examining the changes that occurred
in these dictatorships' political structures, ideologies and
economic policies during 1980-94.
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