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Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political system to issues like immigration, health care, and the economy can inform our understanding of its basic patterns and processes. While there has been...
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This book is a pioneering comparison of Wales with another small people, the Slovenes, over the formative period for national development in modern Europe. Language, religion and social conflict figured in both countries, but the determinant issue for national mobilisation was language equality for Slovene speakers, and religious equality for Welsh Nonconformists. Both options reflected their respective state contexts: the Habsburg empire's acceptance...
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Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and instead emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nicolás Maduro, took the opposite approach, declaring an all-out war on crime (mano dura). What accounts for this drastic shift toward more punitive measures?
In “Deadline”,...
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In The Coalitions Presidents Make, Marcus Mietzner explains how Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one of the world's most stable. He argues that since 2004, Indonesian presidents have deployed nuanced strategies of coalition building to consolidate their authority and these coalitions are responsible for the regime stability in place today. In building coalitions, Indonesian presidents have looked beyond...
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La France d'aujourd'hui a perdu de sa splendeur. Elle est prise dans un tourbillon permanent d'idéologies, de contre-vérités ou de contradictions qui l'éloignent de l'essentiel qu'étaient ses valeurs collectives et ses objectifs de nation. Un grand nombre de citoyens français se sentent alors perdus et désespérés quant à leur avenir. Ils ne trouvent plus l'énergie nécessaire pour dépasser leurs doutes et prendre des risques. Comment en...
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Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, racism and big data, Guantánamo and reggaeton, soccer and baseball, Obama and the Rolling Stones, Europe and Donald Trump-Iván de la Nuez approaches his criticism with singularity of purpose. In Cubanthropy he does not set out to explain Cuba to the world, but rather to put the world into a Cuban context. In these sparkling essays, filled with erudition and humor, de la Nuez confronts the thicket of Cuban geopolitics,...
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This edited book is about child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school-community that identified its causes and effects, the challenges it poses for schooling future generations, and a series of local solutions that personify Wales's devolved governments' social democratic social imaginary. These responses all markedly contrast those of conservative UK Westminster governments espousing neoliberal logics for a global economy in consecutive...
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