Local Interests

Author : Sarah F. Anzia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226819280

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Local Interests by Sarah F. Anzia Pdf

A policy-focused approach to understanding the role of interest groups in US municipal governments. Local politics in the United States once seemed tranquil compared to the divisiveness and dysfunction of the country’s national politics. Those days have passed. As multiple wide-ranging crises have thrust America’s local governments into the spotlight, they have also exposed policy failures and systemic problems that have mounted for years. While issues such as policing and the cost of housing are debated nationally, much of the policymaking surrounding these issues occurs locally. In Local Interests, Sarah F. Anzia explores how local governments—and the interest groups that try to influence them—create the policies that drive the national conversation: policing, economic development, housing, and challenges of taxing and spending. Anzia examines local interest groups in terms of the specific policies they pursue, including how these groups get active in politics and what impact they have. By offering new perspectives on these issues, Anzia contributes to our knowledge of how interest groups function and the significant role they play in shaping broader social outcomes.

Author : Karl Sandstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135041649

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Local Interests and American Foreign Policy by Karl Sandstrom Pdf

This book provides an alternative perspective on how social interest-groups form and interact to affect interventions. It combines historic, sociological and international relations perspectives in a framework through which to view the relevant socio-political dynamics in ‘target societies’. At a time when American foreign policy seeks to redefine its objectives and its methods of intervention, the monolithic ideological assumptions of the state as the panacea to all social ailments, both as a format and a vehicle of norm delivery, seemingly dooms American foreign policy and European allies, to the repetition of old mistakes. In environments where interests and priorities are shaped on a highly localised basis, interventionist agendas often lack relevant meaning. The book focuses in particular on the contrast between the assumptions inherent in ‘Western’ interventionist strategies and social interest formation in Afghanistan, Somaliland, and Somalia. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book draws on available literature and on interviews with local population or international aid and development workers. The conclusion is that in the cases examined, the agency of local interest groups largely controls the outcome of external strategies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of US Foreign Policy, International Relations and Security Studies.

Author : Joshua Jepson Oddy,William Playfair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015021091411

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A Sketch for the Improvement of the Political, Commercial, and Local Interests of Britain by Joshua Jepson Oddy,William Playfair Pdf

Author : J. Jepson ODDY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020358107

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A Sketch for the improvement of the political, commercial and local interests of Britain as exemplified by ... inland navigations; ... including details relative to the intended Stamford Junction Navigation ... With a canal map by J. Jepson ODDY Pdf

Author : Sarah Anzia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031376269

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Interest Groups in U.S. Local Politics by Sarah Anzia Pdf

Interest group scholarship has so far focused mainly on national politics and has had very little to say about interest groups in American cities, counties, school districts, and special districts. This special issue is a step toward remedying that: it is a collection of articles and essays that examine some of the interest groups that are commonly active in US local politics. The contributions herein discuss real estate developers, tenant organizations, teachers' unions, police unions, and local PACs—covering topics such as how they are organized, how they engage in local politics, some of the constraints on their influence, and the nuanced ways in which ideology and identities can sometimes shape what coalitions are possible in the local context. By bringing this work together in one place, in a journal devoted to research on interest groups, the hope is that this special issue will help to cement “interest groups in local politics” as the recognizable research focus it deserves to be.

Author : Csongor István Nagy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030419202

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World Trade and Local Public Interest by Csongor István Nagy Pdf

Trade liberalization has shaped international economic relations since the conclusion of the GATT 1947. The last few decades have seen a significant shift in the focus of this process: multilateralism seems to have reached its limits, giving way to regionalism, and the focus of trade liberalization has shifted to non-tariff barriers. While these developments have attracted considerable attention, exploring them from comparative perspectives has been largely neglected. Trading systems – the WTO, regional economic integrations and federal systems – are all based on the same dichotomy of free trade and local public interest: they generally prohibit the constituent parties (states) from restricting trade, but exempt them from this limitation if the restriction is warranted by a legitimate local end. The purpose of this volume is to contribute to filling the above-mentioned research gap by exploring central issues in regional economic integrations from a comparative perspective. It provides a general economic analysis of the costs and benefits of trade liberalization and the role and function of normative values in commercial policy. This is followed by a comparative analysis of the approaches used in various regional economic integrations (in North America, Europe and Latin America) and federal markets (the United States, Australia and India) regarding the balance between free trade and local public interest. Key issues in investment law, one of the most contentious elements of next-generation free trade agreements, are also addressed.

Author : Dorothy Holland,Catherine Lutz,Lesley Bartlett,Marla Frederick-McGlathery
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814737460

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Local Democracy Under Siege by Dorothy Holland,Catherine Lutz,Lesley Bartlett,Marla Frederick-McGlathery Pdf

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and workplaces. Their collaborative ethnography allows us to understand how diverse members of a community not just the elite think about and experience “politics” in ways that include much more than merely voting. This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made some new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult. Local Democracy Under Siege suggests how we can account for the current limitations of U.S. democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people. Complete List of Authors (pictured) From Left to Right, bottom row: Enrique Murillo, Jr., Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Marla Frederick-McGlathery. Top row: Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, and Don Nonini.

Author : R. Schur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230101722

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African American Culture and Legal Discourse by R. Schur Pdf

This work examines the experiences of African Americans under the law and how African American culture has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticism. Moving between novels, music, and visual culture, the essays present race as a significant factor within legal discourse. Essays examine rights and sovereignty, violence and the law, and cultural ownership through the lens of African American culture. The volume argues that law must understand the effects of particular decisions and doctrines on African American life and culture and explores the ways in which African American cultural production has been largely centered on a critique of law.

Author : Joel Krieger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199738595

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The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics by Joel Krieger Pdf

The two-volume Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics fills a gap in scholarship on an increasingly important field within Political Science. Comparative Politics, the discipline devoted to the politics of other countries or peoples, has been steadily gaining prominence as a field of study, allowing politics to be viewed from a wider foundation than a concentration on domestic affairs would permit. Comparativists apply various theories and concepts to analyze the similarities and differences between political units, using the results of their research to develop causalities and generalizations. Each of these theories and outcomes are thoroughly defined in the Companion, as are major resultant conclusions, those comparativists who have influenced the field in significant ways, and politicians whose administrations have shaped the evaluation of contrasting governments. Approximately 200 revised and updated articles from the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World would serve as a foundation for the set, while over 100 new entries would thoroughly examine the field in a lasting, more theoretical than current-event-based, way. New entries cover such topics as failed states, Grand Strategies, and Soft Power; important updates include such countries as China and Afghanistan and issues like Capital Punishment, Gender and Politics, and Totalitarianism. Country entries include the most significant nations to permit a focus on non time-sensitive analysis. In addition, 25 1,000-word interpretive essays by notable figures analyze the discipline, its issues and accomplishments. Collectively, entries promote deeper understanding of a field that is often elusive to non-specialists.

Author : National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000119087256

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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) Pdf

The volume for 1886 is a report of the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015022683877

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The Contemporary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230617872

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State versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572–1644 by H. Miller Pdf

This book looks at the bitter factionalism in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty as an ideological struggle between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1814 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015019913790

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American Aviation by Anonim Pdf

Issues for include Annual air transport progress issue.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Victoria
ISBN : NYPL:33433014074342

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Parliamentary Debates by Anonim Pdf

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135780524

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The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution by Glyndwr Williams Pdf

First Published in 1980. The dynamism within the American colonies in the fifty years or so before the outbreak of the crisis of the 1760s that was to lead to the Revolution has never been in doubt. The articles written included in this text suggest a number of ways in which the ‘imperial factor’ was of real importance in colonial life and show that there was dynamism on the British side as well as in the colonies.