A new ethnic order has emerged in the United States. The growing number of Latinos and Asians has rendered the old black-and-white binary obsolete. And yet, political pundits and commentators on both
US political scientists examine how congressional primaries seem to be changing the congressional elections, congressional politics, and the US political system in general. In particular, they look at
To think in terms of “alternative modernities” is to admit that modernity is inescapable and to desist from speculations about modernity’s end. Modernity today is global and multipl
Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or material - culture, but all too rarely have scholars examined the politics that lie behind that cultu
The United Nations is being called upon more and more to participate in situations that fall somewhere between peacekeeping and full-scale enforcement operations, such as those in Korea during the 19
An unabridged republication of the edition published by Navijivan Trust, Amhedabad, in 1951 and Schocken Books in 1961. In 183 reprinted short articles and excerpts, Ghandi (1869-1948) sets out the pr
The Politics of Misinformation is an examination of how concentrations of social and economic power result in public languages of politics that are necessarily image-based, vague, and misleading in their denial of undemocratic tendencies. As a result, public discourses of democracy tend to be populi
A New Democracy Forum on Campaign Finance Reform Foreword by Gore Vidal "This book is the blueprint to return democracy to politics."* Three activists argue that only full public funding of
The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, political philosopher and member of the French resist
Modern Malaya was born in a period of war, insurrection, and monumental social upheaval. Tim Harper's acclaimed 1999 study examines the achievement of independence in 1957, not primarily through the struggle between Imperial Britain and nationalist elites, but through the internal struggles that lat
Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other cases? And why do some labor leaders fashion more creative and effective roles for labor unions? This book addresses these critical questions in an in-d
After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded
Globalization is at the heart of debates about the present phase of development of the world economy. In Globalization and the Postcolonial World, Ankie Hoogvelt joins these debates to examine the wa
Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other cases? And why do some labor leaders fashion more creative and effective roles for labor unions? This book addresses these critical questions in an in-d
Beginning with an overview of the region's long history, Kenneth McRoberts focuses on the last two decades - the period in which the Catalan government has secured some degree of autonomy within the S
One of the first book-length studies in decades solely devoted to religion and African-American political activism,Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity encourages political activism among A
