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The Putin System: An Opposing View by Grigory Yavlinsky
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Grigory Yavlinsky

THE SOCIAL BASE OF PUTIN’S POWER Another important feature of a peripheral-type autocracy is the distinctive configuration of its social base of support. But before undertaking a description and analysis ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
The Art of the City by Milani Raffaele; Federici Corrado;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Milani, Raffaele; Federici, Corrado; [Milani, Raffaele; Federici, Corrado;]

BORDERS AND MARGINS Placing ourselves at the city limits and imagining we are living outside, in an out-of-the-way place, walking along the margins, among the buildings of an endless suburb, ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development January 19,2020 )
Under the Big Tree by Ellen Agler
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Ellen Agler [Agler, Ellen]

Unless I have a flight to catch, I don’t like to get out of bed before dawn, but at 6 a.m. on January 30, 2012, I was at home in ...
( Category: Non-Governmental Organizations January 19,2020 )
The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World by Anne-Marie Slaughter
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter [Slaughter, Anne-Marie]

THE POWER OF NETWORKS Defining and measuring the power of a network is another way of asking what networks are good for as foreign policy tools. What attributes do networks ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
The Culture of Contentment by John Kenneth Galbraith
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:John Kenneth Galbraith [Galbraith, John Kenneth]

CHAPTER 8 THE ECONOMIC ACCOMMODATION, II As has been noted in the last chapter, reputable or, as it is often called, mainstream economics has for some centuries given grace and ...
( Category: Economic Conditions January 19,2020 )
Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy by Nadia Urbinati
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-08-06 | Author:Nadia Urbinati

The Party of a Part Populist parties and leaders “generally represent authoritarian understandings of democracy, but ultimately are not against it, are wrongly equated with dictatorial formation.”64 Finchelstein writes that ...
( Category: Fascism January 19,2020 )
In the Shadow of Justice by Katrina Forrester
epub |eng | 2019-06-28 | Author:Katrina Forrester

7 New Right and Left BY THE END of the 1970s, the New Right had arrived.1 Under the Reagan administration, state-sponsored financial deregulation and the turn to global capital markets ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 19,2020 )
A Free Country by David Kemp
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:David Kemp [Kemp, David]

If Griffith had expressed himself unwisely before, he wanted to make clear that he did not believe there was an inherent conflict of interest in the industrial system. Indeed, he ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 19,2020 )
Networked Press Freedom by Ananny Mike;
epub |eng | | Author:Ananny, Mike;

Labor In his thoughtful study of digital news work, Matthew Powers (2012) observes that “Changes in the technologies of news production do not simply modify journalistic practices; they also introduce ...
( Category: Media & Internet January 19,2020 )
Just Violence by Wahl Rachel
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Wahl, Rachel [Wahl, Rachel]

Chapter 5 Complications of the Local: Violence, Religion, and Culture Cross-border terrorism cannot be solved with Gandhian methods. A criminal is a person without a soul, and the standard techniques ...
( Category: Asian January 19,2020 )
Howard Zinn's Southern Diary by Robert Cohen;
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Robert Cohen; [Cohen;, Robert]

Monday evening. April 14‡ Stayed up late talking to . . . [the wife of a colleague]. How are you so optimistic she asked me? Then she started to cry. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 19,2020 )
Empowering the Public-Private Partnership: The Future of America’s Local Government by George V. Voinovich
epub |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:George V. Voinovich [Voinovich, George V.]

( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Capital and Time by Konings Martijn
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Konings, Martijn [Konings, Martijn]

CHAPTER 9 Lineages of US Financial Governance Although the Bagehot doctrine never provided a convincing theoretical solution to the problems associated with the lender-of-last-resort function, it nonetheless still had considerable ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
Mayor: The Best Job in Politics by Michael A. Nutter
epub |eng | 2018-01-03 | Author:Michael A. Nutter [Nutter, Michael A.]

In this mayor’s job you get to do some fun things—and you must do some heart-wrenching things. Within the scope of five weeks during my first months as mayor, I ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 19,2020 )
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union by Etty John
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Etty, John [Etty, John]

CHAPTER SIX Making the Risible Visible: The Performative Construction of Non-Soviet Ideology in Krokodil Performance has been an important theme implicit in the discussion of Krokodil so far. Krokodil embodied ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )

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