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Exploring Political Legacies

Author : Stephen Farrall,Colin Hay,Emily Gray
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030370054

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The concept of the political legacy, despite its importance for institutionalist and historically-minded political analysts more generally, remains both elusive and undeveloped theoretically. This book seeks to address that oversight by building on existing studies which have approached the notion of a legacy to offer a clear definition and operationalisation of the term which might be used to inform future research. Legacies we view as traces of the past in the present; the claim to the existence of a legacy is both a causal and a counter-factual claim. We propose, in the light of this, a multi-dimensional approach to gauging political legacies, reflecting on some of the theoretical, analytical and methodological concerns which need to be addressed in establishing credible claims to their existence. These we develop and illustrate with respect to the literature on Thatcherism.

Exploring Political Legacies

Author : Stephen Farrall,Colin Hay,Emily Gray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030370060

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Exploring Political Legacies by Stephen Farrall,Colin Hay,Emily Gray Pdf

The concept of the political legacy, despite its importance for institutionalist and historically-minded political analysts more generally, remains both elusive and undeveloped theoretically. This book seeks to address that oversight by building on existing studies which have approached the notion of a legacy to offer a clear definition and operationalisation of the term which might be used to inform future research. Legacies we view as traces of the past in the present; the claim to the existence of a legacy is both a causal and a counter-factual claim. We propose, in the light of this, a multi-dimensional approach to gauging political legacies, reflecting on some of the theoretical, analytical and methodological concerns which need to be addressed in establishing credible claims to their existence. These we develop and illustrate with respect to the literature on Thatcherism.

The Politics of Heritage

Author : Jo Littler,Roshi Naidoo
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415322103

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The Politics of Heritage by Jo Littler,Roshi Naidoo Pdf

This collection explores how the heritage industry and cultural policy have responded to questions of nation and national identity

Plastic Legacies

Author : Trisia Farrelly ,Sy Taffel ,Ian Shaw
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771993272

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Plastic Legacies by Trisia Farrelly ,Sy Taffel ,Ian Shaw Pdf

There is virtually nowhere on earth that remains untouched by plastics and the situation presents a serious threat to our natural world. Despite the magnitude of the problem, the interventions most often put in place are consumer-led and market-based and only nominally capable of addressing the issue. As the problem worsens and neoliberal ideologies limit the world’s responses to this crisis, there is a growing need for legislative frameworks that attend to the complex social and ecological issues associated with plastics. The contributors to this volume bring expertise from across academic disciplines to illustrate how plastics are produced, consumed, and discarded and to find holistic and integrated approaches that demonstrate an understanding of the wide-ranging problem. From the plasticization of earth’s oceans to the endocrine disrupting chemicals that have the potential to seriously harm life as we know it, these essays beg the question that we all must answer: what is our plastic legacy? With contributions by: Imogen E. Napper, Sabine Pahl, Richard C. Thompson, Sasha Adkins, Stephanie B. Borrelle, Jennifer Provencher, Tina Ngata, Sven Bergmann, Christina Gerhardt, Elyse Stanes, Tridibesh Dey, Mike Michael, Laura McLauchlan, Johanne Tarpgaard, Deirdre McKay, Padmapani Perez, Lei Xiaoyu, and John Holland.

Historical Legacies of Communism

Author : Alexander Libman,Anastassia V. Obydenkova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108829984

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Historical Legacies of Communism by Alexander Libman,Anastassia V. Obydenkova Pdf

Reveals how the legacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union affects modern politics, society and economic development in post-Communist Russia.

Legacies of Empire

Author : Sandra Halperin,Ronen Palan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107109469

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Legacies of Empire by Sandra Halperin,Ronen Palan Pdf

This book reveals how the structures and practices of past empires interact with and shape contemporary 'national' ones.

The Legacies of Liberalism

Author : James Mahoney
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801876424

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Winner of the Barrington Moore Jr. Prize for the Best Book in Comparative and Historical Sociology from the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Best Book Award in the Comparative Democratization Section from the American Political Science Association Despite their many similarities, Central American countries during the twentieth century were characterized by remarkably different political regimes. In a comparative analysis of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua, James Mahoney argues that these political differences were legacies of the nineteenth-century liberal reform period. Presenting a theory of "path dependence," Mahoney shows how choices made at crucial turning points in Central American history established certain directions of change and foreclosed others to shape long-term development. By the middle of the twentieth century, three types of political regimes characterized the five nations considered in this study: military-authoritarian (Guatemala, El Salvador), liberal democratic (Costa Rica), and traditional dictatorial (Honduras, Nicaragua). As Mahoney shows, each type is the end point of choices regarding state and agrarian development made by these countries early in the nineteenth century. Applying his conclusions to present-day attempts at market creation in a neoliberal era, Mahoney warns that overzealous pursuit of market creation can have severely negative long-term political consequences. The Legacies of Liberalism presents new insight into the role of leadership in political development, the place of domestic politics in the analysis of foreign intervention, and the role of the state in the creation of early capitalism. The book offers a general theoretical framework that will be of broad interest to scholars of comparative politics and political development, and its overall argument will stir debate among historians of particular Central American countries.

Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism

Author : Antonio Costa Pinto,Leonardo Morlino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317986423

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Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism by Antonio Costa Pinto,Leonardo Morlino Pdf

In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the previous authoritarian regimes. New factors, like international environment, conditionality, party cleavages, memory cycles and commemorations or politics of apologies, do sometimes bring the past back into the political arena. This book addresses such themes by dealing with two dimensions of authoritarian legacies in Southern European democracies: repressive institutions and human rights abuses. The thrust of this book is that we should view transitional justice as part of a broader ‘politics of the past’: an ongoing process in which elites and society under democratic rule revise the meaning of the past in terms of what they hope to achieve in the present. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

The Legacy of Thatcherism

Author : Stephen Farrall,Colin Hay
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0197265707

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The Legacy of Thatcherism by Stephen Farrall,Colin Hay Pdf

Examining the policies of the Thatcher governments helps us understand the economic and social conditions in Britain today. The book explores Thatcherite policies on the economy, social welfare, housing, education, crime, families, and social inequality, and examines what can be said about the legacy of Thatcherism for the 21st century.

The Blair Legacy

Author : T. Casey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230232846

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The Blair Legacy by T. Casey Pdf

Exploring how Tony Blair and New Labour changed British politics, policy, governance and foreign affairs, this volume stands as a key actor on the world and domestic stage, delving into Blair's foreign policy legacy, with empahsis on the Iraq War and Anglo-American relations.

Athenian Legacies

Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691190167

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Athenian Legacies by Josiah Ober Pdf

How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going on together presents few difficulties. But in the face of loss, disruption, and civil war, it requires tragic sacrifices and agonizing compromises. Athenian Legacies demonstrates with flair and verve how the people of one influential political community rebuilt their democratic government, rewove their social fabric, and, through thick and thin, went on together. The book's essays address amnesty, civic education, and institutional innovation in early Athens, a city that built and lost an empire while experiencing plague, war, economic trauma, and civil conflict. As Ober vividly demonstrates, Athenians became adept at collective survival. They conjoined a cultural commitment to government by the people with new institutions that captured the social and technical knowledge of a diverse population to recover from revolution, foreign occupation, and the ravages of war. Ober provides insight into notorious instances of Athenian injustice, explaining why slaves, women, and foreign residents willingly risked their lives to support a regime in which they were systematically mistreated. He answers the question of why Socrates never left a city he said was badly governed. At a time when social scientists debate the cultural grounding necessary to foster democracy, Athenian Legacies advances new arguments about the role of diversity and the relevance of shared understanding of the past in creating democracies that flourish when the going gets rough.

Into Print

Author : Charles Walton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271050720

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The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the Enlightenment&’s &“evil&” or &“liberating&” potential in the French Revolution finds present-day parallels in the battle between those who see the Enlightenment at the origins of modernity&’s many ills, such as imperialism, racism, misogyny, and totalitarianism, and those who see it as having forged an age of democracy, human rights, and freedom. The essays collected by Charles Walton in Into Print paint a more complicated picture. By focusing on print culture&—the production, circulation, and reception of Enlightenment thought&—they show how the Enlightenment was shaped through practice and reshaped over time. These essays expand upon an approach to the study of the Enlightenment pioneered four decades ago: the social history of ideas. The contributors to Into Print examine how writers, printers, booksellers, regulators, police, readers, rumormongers, policy makers, diplomats, and sovereigns all struggled over that broad range of ideas and values that we now associate with the Enlightenment. They reveal the financial and fiscal stakes of the Enlightenment print industry and, in turn, how Enlightenment ideas shaped that industry during an age of expanding readership. They probe the limits of Enlightenment universalism, showing how demands for religious tolerance clashed with the demands of science and nationalism. They examine the transnational flow of Enlightenment ideas and opinions, exploring its domestic and diplomatic implications. Finally, they show how the culture of the Enlightenment figured in the outbreak and course of the French Revolution. Aside from the editor, the contributors are David A. Bell, Roger Chartier, Tabetha Ewing, Jeffrey Freedman, Carla Hesse, Thomas M. Luckett, Sarah Maza, Renato Pasta, Thierry Rigogne, Leonard N. Rosenband, Shanti Singham, and Will Slauter.

Archive That, Comrade!

Author : Phil Cohen
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781629635316

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Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate. It is informed by the author’s experience of writing a memoir about his involvement in the London underground scene of the 1960s, the London street commune movement, and the occupation of 144 Piccadilly, an event that hit the world’s headlines for ten days in July 1969. After a brief introduction that sets the contemporary scene of ‘archive fever,’ the book considers what the political legacy of 1960s counter culture reveals about the process of commemoration. The argument then opens out to discuss the notion of historical legacy and its role in the ‘dialectic of generations’. How far can the archive serve as a platform for dialogue and debate between different generations of activists in a culture that fetishises the evanescent present, practices a profound amnesia about its past, and forecloses the sociological imagination of an alternative future? The following section looks at the emergence of a complex apparatus of public fame and celebrity around the spectacle of dissidence and considers whether the Left has subverted or merely mirrored the dominant forms of reputation-making and public recognition. Can the Left establish its own autonomous model of commemoration? The final section takes up the challenge of outlining a model for the democratic archive as a revisionary project, creating a resource for building collective capacity to sustain struggles of long duration. A postscript examines how archival strategies of the alt-right have intervened at this juncture to elaborate a politics of false memory.

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Robert Wokler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191604423

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Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Wokler Pdf

One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's life and works Robert Wokler shows how his philosophy of history, his theories of music and politics, his fiction, educational and religious writings, and even his botany, were all inspired by visionary ideals of mankind's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom. He explains how, in regressing to classical republicanism, ancient mythology, direct communion with God, and solitude, Rousseau anticipated some post-modernist rejections of the Enlightenment as well. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe

Author : Katherine Hite,Paola Cesarini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058087597

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Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe by Katherine Hite,Paola Cesarini Pdf

Among the challenges for democracies in Latin America and Southern Europe are weakened political parties, politicized militaries, compromised judiciaries, corrupt police forces and widespread citizen distrust. These essays offer an examination of the political structures and institutions bequeathed by authoritarian regimes.