Bounded Missions

Author : Craig L. Arceneaux
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271021039

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Bounded Missions by Craig L. Arceneaux Pdf

Scholars of Latin American politics have been challenged to account for the varied outcomes of the transitions from authoritarian to democratic government that have occurred in many countries south of the border during the past two decades. What explains why some transitions were relatively smooth, with the military firmly in control of the process, while others witnessed substantial concessions by the military to civilian leaders, or even total military collapse? Rather than focus on causes external to the military, such as the previous legacy of democratic rule, severe economic crisis, or social protest, as other scholars have done, Craig Arceneaux draws attention to the important variables internal to the military, such as its unity or ability to coordinate strategy. Using this &"historical-institutionalist&" approach, he compares five different transitions in Brazil and three countries of the Southern Cone&—Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay&—to show what similarities and differences existed and how the differences may be attributed to variations in the internal institutional structure and operation of the military.

Author : Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112051963178

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Journal of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church by Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference Pdf

Author : Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510022722249

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Journal by Methodist Episcopal Church Pdf

Author : Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conferences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:17150231

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Journal of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church ... by Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conferences Pdf

Author : Thomas Smith,John Overton Choules
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Missions
ISBN : UOM:39015080399952

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The Origin and History of Missions by Thomas Smith,John Overton Choules Pdf

Author : San Francisco (Calif.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:LI1E2A

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San Francisco Municipal Reports ... by San Francisco (Calif.) Pdf

Author : Michael C. Mankins,Eric Garton
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633691773

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Time, Talent, Energy by Michael C. Mankins,Eric Garton Pdf

Managing Your Scarcest Resources Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization--resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage them, but most of it focuses on individual actions. What's really needed are organizational solutions that can unleash a company's full productive power and enable it to outpace competitors. Building off of the popular Harvard Business Review article "Your Scarcest Resource," Michael Mankins and Eric Garton, Bain & Company experts in organizational design and effectiveness, present new research into how you can liberate people's time, talent, and energy and unleash your organization's productive power. They identify the specific causes of organizational drag--the collection of institutional factors that slow things down, decrease output, and drain people's energy--and then offer a pragmatic framework for how managers can overcome it. With practical advice for using the framework and in-depth examples of how the best companies manage their people's time, talent, and energy with as much discipline as they do their financial capital, this book shows managers how to create a virtuous circle of high performance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010712516

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Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amy Oakes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804784931

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Diversionary War by Amy Oakes Pdf

The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke conflicts abroad to distract the public from problems at home, or whether such gambles offer a more effective response to domestic discontent than appeasing opposition groups with political or economic concessions. Diversionary War addresses these questions by reinterpreting key historical examples of diversionary war—such as Argentina's 1982 Falklands Islands invasion and U.S. President James Buchanan's decision to send troops to Mormon Utah in 1857. It breaks new ground by demonstrating that the use of diversionary tactics is, at best, an ineffectual strategy for managing civil unrest, and draws important conclusions for policymakers—identifying several new, and sometimes counterintuitive, avenues by which embattled states can be pushed toward adopting alternative political, social, or economic strategies for managing domestic unrest.

Author : Peter Kingstone,Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135280307

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics by Peter Kingstone,Deborah J. Yashar Pdf

Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics. The region’s experiments with installing and deepening democracy and promoting alternative modes of economic development have generated intriguing and enduring empirical puzzles. In turn, Latin America’s challenges continue to spawn original and vital work on central questions in comparative politics: about the origins of democracy; about the relationship between state and society; about the nature of citizenship; about the balance between state and market. The richness and diversity of the study of Latin American politics makes it hard to stay abreast of the developments in the many sub-literatures of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics offers an intellectually rigorous overview of the state of the field and a thoughtful guide to the direction of future scholarship. Kingstone and Yashar bring together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage, new original research, and a cutting-edge examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.

Author : Craig L. Arceneaux
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031079047

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Political Struggle in Latin America by Craig L. Arceneaux Pdf

This book discusses in an accessible way how emerging globalizing processes are setting the stage for new forms of social and political struggle in Latin America, with increased involvement of multilateral and foreign actors, and impacts of global political populism and populist social media. These are opening up new strategies and opportunities for activists, and offer new arenas of contestation for international organizations. The book analyzes the struggles of select marginalized groups, specifically the urban poor, indigenous groups, women's and LGBTQ groups, and the vulnerable middle classes. Each case is examined in the context of a distinct struggle for citizenship, identity, inclusion, and or the rule of law. The study offers a broad historical analysis of the region through the context of these struggles. It tackles some of the most pressing issues surrounding the current politics of Latin America, including identity politics, cultural appropriation, social mobilization and protest, neoliberal reform, reproductive rights and sexual autonomy, corruption, the influence of religion and patriarchy, crime and social justice, inequality and poverty, the informal economy, and urban exclusion. In doing so, it details not only how these are not new struggles, but also how they have evolved over time. In the contemporary period, the book explores how the actors as well as character of their struggle are changing through a globalized interchange of ideas and processes. The book covers a wide geographical area in Latin America, with a particular focus on countries with Spanish or Portuguese colonial backgrounds, and is for researchers, students and laypersons interested in new globalizing forces affecting Latin American society and polity.

Author : Aurel Croissant,David Kuehn,David Pion-Berlin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800889842

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Research Handbook on Civil–Military Relations by Aurel Croissant,David Kuehn,David Pion-Berlin Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this comprehensive Research Handbook analyses key problems, subjects, regions, and countries in civil-military relations. Showcasing cutting-edge research developments, it illustrates the deeply complex nature of the field and analyses important topics in need of renewed consideration.

Author : Chris McGillion,Morris Morley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527541580

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US Policy toward Chile in the 1970s by Chris McGillion,Morris Morley Pdf

This book provides a detailed analysis of the bureaucratic politics of US foreign policymaking with respect to Chile during the 1970s. On the basis of original interviews with key officials from the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations, congressional staffers, human rights activists, and Chilean opposition figures during the Pinochet dictatorship, together with extensive archival research (in the US, Canada and the UK), it recreates the internal debates in Washington over appropriate policy approaches and traces how faithfully these approaches were implemented down to the level of desk officer in the US embassy in Santiago. Assessing what impact US influence had on developments inside Chile is also an important part of this study. The findings make for vital reading for students and researchers of US foreign policy making, diplomatic history, and US-Chilean relations, although the book will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in the same issues.

Author : Zoltan Barany,Robert G. Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139480284

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Is Democracy Exportable? by Zoltan Barany,Robert G. Moser Pdf

Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise discussion of what political philosophers from Plato to Montesquieu thought about the issue, the authors explore the structural preconditions (culture, divided societies, civil society) as well as the institutions and processes of democracy building (constitutions, elections, security sector reform, conflict, and trade). Along the way they share insights about what policies have worked, which ones need to be improved or discarded, and, more generally, what advanced democracies can do to further the cause of democratization in a globalizing world. In other words, they seek answers to the question, Is democracy exportable?

Author : Pippa Norris,Alessandro Nai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780190677800

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Election Watchdogs by Pippa Norris,Alessandro Nai Pdf

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Transparency in electoral governance -- Pippa Norris -- Part II: Upwards accountability to the international community -- 2. International monitors -- Craig Arceneaux and Anika Leithner -- 3. International enforcement -- Daniela Donno -- 4. Electoral reform -- Ferran Martinez i Coma -- 5. Election audits -- Erica Shein and Chad Vickery -- Part III: Horizontal accountability to state actors -- 6. Election management -- Holly Ann Garnett -- 7. Constitutional courts -- Armen Mazmanyan -- 8. Poll workers -- Alistair Clark and Toby S. James -- Part IV: Downward accountability to civil society -- 9. Domestic monitors -- Max Grömping -- 10. The fourth estate -- Alessandro Nai -- Part V: Conclusions -- 11. Electoral transparency, accountability and integrity -- Pippa Norris -- Notes -- References -- Index