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Documents the troubling influence of a small group of scientists who the author contends misrepresent scientific facts to advance key political and economic agendas, revealing the interests behind their detractions on findings about acid rain, DDT, and other hazards.
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In recent years, a burgeoning literature has explored the strategic advantages of using nonviolent resistance to achieve positive political outcomes, such as regime change and democratization. Yet, despite one-fifth of largescale nonviolent campaigns occurring during the course of a civil war, we know little about the effect nonviolent resistance might have on the transformation of armed conflict. Bringing together the previously isolated literatures...
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This complete summary of "The Assault of Reason" by Al Gore, prominent American political activist and former Vice President, presents his argument that the public and political sphere has degraded into a place that is hostile to reason. He suggests rational debate and clear thinking, instead of campaigns and discussions based on fear and secrecy.
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¿Por qué tantos catalanes creen que España y Cataluña saldrían ganando si cada una tuviera su propio Estado? ¿Puede un Estado catalán ser "moderno, republicano y más equitativo y eficaz" que el Estado español? ¿Puede contribuir la propuesta catalana a renovar, modernizar y democratizar el relato político español?
Un Estado es una herramienta, un conjunto de instituciones destinadas a legislar, gobernar y atender a los intereses y anhelos...
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Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.
For decades, emancipatory struggles have been deeply influenced by the slogan "Change the world without taking power." Amid growing social inequalities and the return of right-wing authoritarianism, however, many now recognize the limits of disengaging from government and the state. From the Streets to the State chronicles many diverse...
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Uno de los retos más grandes que ha tenido que enfrentar el proceso de consolidación de la democracia colombiana es saber expandir y fortalecer el carácter laico del Estado a partir de su propia trayectoria histórica y cultural.
Este proceso implica afrontar la discusión sobre el rol de la religión en los debates sociales, políticos y jurídicos contemporáneos. En general, se pueden encontrar dos extremos radicales en esta discusión. En...
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Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.
A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon such figures as Aristotle, Montesquieu, Hegel, Dewey, Heidegger, Arendt, and Lefort, Fred Dallmayr emphasizes the need for civic education and practical-ethical...
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It was rare, if not impossible, to find in '80s and '90s a Muslim cleric, who spoke in favor of democracy, integration with the Western world, and universal human values. Fethullah Gülen was one of those. Many of his avant-garde ideas did not only earn him one of the largest and most influential faith-inspired social movements of recent history, but also many foes, especially from the Turkish ruling elite, placing him in the center of many social...
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Just in time for the 2012 election, Douglas E. Schoen, one of America's preeminent political pundits, analyzes the growing chasm between the political class-politicians, lobbyists, fundraisers, consultants-and the American Mainstream, frustrated with government's inability to address the major issues affecting their lives. This gap has given rise to populist movements on the right and the left and driven our two-party system to the brink of possible...
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Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces in voter turnout. Given the province's economic reliance on oil revenues, a symbiotic relationship also developed between government and the oil industry....
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Un conjunto de estudios sobre novedosas instituciones de participación ciudadana y control político que se han desarrollado en los últimos años y que merecen la designación de "potencialmente democratizadores", aunque reflejen tanto el desencanto de muchos ciudadanos latinoamericanos con el desempeño real de los regímenes instalados en nombre de la democracia después de 1980, como la creatividad de actores políticos -viejas élites y coaliciones...
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Una mirada profunda a dos momentos de nuestra historia da el ensayista Sergio Muñoz Riveros en su libro más reciente. Primero, analiza los turbulentos años de la Unidad Popular y el período que vino luego del golpe de 1973, cuando él pertenecía a las filas comunistas. Y luego, alejado de cualquier militancia, la etapa que va desde la irrupción de la violencia, en octubre de 2019, hasta los dilemas políticos que hoy enfrenta Chile. "Soy un...
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Una incisiva lectura crítica del neoliberalismo que ha dominado en América Latina desde la década de los ochenta, un modelo que lejos de resolver los problemas crónicos de la región, concentró la riqueza, debilitó las instancias estatales de integración y fortaleció las represivas, condenó por "organicista" la presencia estatal, invocó la modernización y la competitividad, pero acentuó las asimetrías entre el capital y el trabajo, precarizó...
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A dangerous cancer is spreading throughout America. Our freedoms and liberties are being chipped away in a never-ending assault from the left. The left and their allies are hell-bent on destroying this country. The allies of the left are Communists, seeking to overthrow our political system and rewrite America into the dystopian world envisioned by George Orwell in 1984. Communism has never been implemented for the success of the masses. It only...
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The ten years since the financial crash have been lean years for progressive politics of all kinds. Now Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US, and the rising tide of national populism in Europe pose new dangers. Parties of the Centre-Left are in retreat. Old bases of support have declined, old policies are out of touch, old assumptions no longer hold.
At the same time new thinking, new innovations, new forces are turning the world upside down. We face...
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-En estos tiempos en que todo lo que somos lo medimos y lo vemos como capital, disputar el concepto de conocimiento es disputar la vida misma."
Las formas más invisibles de injusticia tienen que ver con lo intangible, con el dominio sobre la información y el conocimiento. Modos de opresión y de exclusión que la política no suele considerar porque se ha construido sobre la mentira de que la verdad no cuenta, solo cuenta lo que se cree que es...
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La democracia como forma de organización política contribuye al proceso de legitimación de las decisiones colectivas en el ámbito público, fomentando la participación y deliberación ciudadana y la gestión de políticas públicas locales que fortalecen el sistema democrático y la ciudadanía, generando capacidad en las instituciones de poder y sociedad civil para enfrentar desafíos como el populismo. Se reúnen en este libro debates sobre...
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In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format-and an even smaller percentage if you include their archive of Friedman's audio and television recordings, correspondence, and other writings. This book and the larger...
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The British General Election of 2017 is the definitive and authoritative account of one of the most dramatic elections in British history. Throwing aside her natural caution, Theresa May called a snap election and was widely expected to crush Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. Her gamble backfired spectacularly as the Conservatives lost their Commons majority to a resurgent Labour led by one of the most unconventional politicians to lead a major British...
100) ¿Por qué reprimen las democracias?: Los determinantes de la violencia estatal en América Latina
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En promedio, las democracias latinoamericanas son de las más represivas del mundo y varias de éstas superan la media global de la represión en regímenes autocráticos. A la luz de este retrato empírico, este libro analiza los determinantes de la represión estatal en las democracias en América Latina (1981-2005).
Siguiendo la distinción conceptual entre represión centralizada y descentralizada, se desarrolla una teoría sobre por qué los...
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