Archive For The “Politics” Category
By Gil Eyal
Making Capitalism with no Capitalists bargains a brand new conception of the transition to capitalism. by way of telling the tale of the way capitalism is being outfitted with no capitalists in post-communist important Europe it courses us in the direction of a deeper figuring out of the origins of contemporary capitalism.
By Thomas J. Gradel
Public cash spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes crammed with embezzled money. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' tradition of "Where's mine?" and the general public apathy it engenders has made our country and native politics a disgrace.
In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take objective at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers via a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to demonstrate how generations of chicanery have undermined religion in, and wish for, sincere govt. From there, they lay out how you can enforce institutional reforms that supply responsibility and get rid of the favoritism, sweetheart bargains, and conflicts of curiosity corroding our civic life.
Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to rework our politics from a pay-to-play–driven industry into what it may be: an tool of public good.
In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take objective at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers via a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to demonstrate how generations of chicanery have undermined religion in, and wish for, sincere govt. From there, they lay out how you can enforce institutional reforms that supply responsibility and get rid of the favoritism, sweetheart bargains, and conflicts of curiosity corroding our civic life.
Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to rework our politics from a pay-to-play–driven industry into what it may be: an tool of public good.
By Benjamin R. Barber
Can towns resolve the largest difficulties of the twenty-first century higher than international locations? Is the town democracy’s top hope?
By Andrew Heywood
The fourth variation of this hugely profitable and available textual content has been considerably revised and up to date and contains additional assurance all through on non-western methods and overseas political thought. every one bankruptcy discusses a cluster of interrelated phrases, examines how they've been utilized by various thinkers and within the a number of political traditions, and explores comparable debates and controversies.
By Jan Knippers Black
This significant paintings argues that human rights abuse isn't really unavoidably approximately foreign places and peoples, and it's neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. regardless of the looks of consensus concerning the significance of human rights defense, abuse―with its universal middle in inequality―is increasing in any respect degrees from the petty to the profound. Designed to notify and encourage, this e-book additionally offers the analytical and strategic instruments wanted for the following new release of activists. Jan Knippers Black bargains a basic reexamination of the elemental phrases and ideas, criminal and institutional foundations, controversies, cleavages, threats and methods linked to human rights.
Black's standpoint is holistic, stressing the relevance of human rights concerns to all human wishes and endeavors and requiring multidisciplinary research. Chapters interpreting connections between political, fiscal, ecological, and cultural affects on social and person wellbeing and fitness are followed via case reviews highlighting classes realized from luck or failure. This empowering ebook seeks to advertise an "each for all" dedication, breaking via limitations of lack of know-how and apathy, denial and melancholy, in order that advocates and activists can paintings to avoid destiny atrocities.
The Emergency of 1975-77 used to be a depressing bankruptcy of India's democracy. major as much as it used to be the JP stream, named after its chief Jayaprakash Narayan which paralysed a lot of northern India and at once challenged leading Minister Indira Gandhi on the Centre. This publication, in contrast to previous reports, appears at those happenings sequentially, looking to comprehend their personality and the character of the problem they posed to our democracy. Finely argued, incisve and unique, this e-book is a helpful contribution to our realizing of these turbulent years.
By Mark Mazower
No Enchanted Palace lines the origins and early improvement of the United international locations, some of the most influential but possibly least understood agencies lively on the planet this day. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to put aside the preferred delusion that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of global warfare II because the dad or mum of a brand new and peaceable worldwide order, providing in its place a strikingly unique interpretation of the UN's ideological roots, early heritage, and altering position in global affairs.
Mazower brings the founding of the UN brilliantly to existence. He indicates how the UN's creators expected a global association that might defend the pursuits of empire, but how this imperial imaginative and prescient used to be decisively reshaped through the postwar reaffirmation of nationwide sovereignty and the unanticipated upward push of India and different former colonial powers. it is a tale instructed during the conflict of personalities, comparable to South African statesman Jan Smuts, who observed within the UN a method to guard the outdated imperial and racial order; Raphael Lemkin and Joseph Schechtman, Jewish intellectuals at odds over how the UN may still wrestle genocide and different atrocities; and Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first major minister, who helped remodel the UN from an device of empire right into a discussion board for finishing it.
A much-needed old reappraisal of the early improvement of this very important international establishment, No Enchanted Palace unearths how the UN outgrew its origins and has exhibited a unprecedented flexibility that has enabled it to undergo to the current day.
By Thom Hartmann
Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling writer Thom Hartmann exposes the covert conflict conservatives, and firms are waging opposed to America's center class?a warfare that is decreasing the remainder of us to a politically impotent operating terrible. This ebook asks: How did this occur? who is reaping rewards? and the way will we cease it?
By Serge Latouche
So much people who stay within the North and the West eat a ways an excessive amount of – an excessive amount of meat, an excessive amount of fats, an excessive amount of sugar, an excessive amount of salt. we're prone to wear an excessive amount of weight than to head hungry. we are living in a society that's heading for a crash. we're conscious of what's occurring and but we refuse to take it totally under consideration. specially we refuse to deal with the difficulty that lies on the middle of our difficulties – particularly, the truth that our societies are according to an economic system whose in basic terms objective is progress for growth’s sake.
Serge Latouche argues that we have to reconsider from the very foundations the concept that our societies could be in keeping with development. He bargains a thorough replacement – a society of ‘de-growth’. De-growth isn't the comparable factor as unfavourable development. we should always be speaking approximately ‘a-growth’, within the experience during which we communicate of ‘a-theism’. And we do certainly need to abandon a religion or faith – that of the economic climate, development and development—and reject the irrational and quasi-idolatrous cult of progress for growth’s sake.
While many discover that that the endless pursuit of progress is incompatible with a finite planet, we now have but to come back to phrases with the consequences of this – the necessity to produce much less and devour much less. but when we don't switch direction, we're heading for an ecological and human catastrophe. there's nonetheless time to visualize, particularly lightly, a process dependent upon a special good judgment, and to devise for a ‘de-growth society’.
By Satyajit Das
The worldwide economic system is getting into an period of protracted stagnation, just like what Japan has skilled for over a decade. That is the message of this incredible and arguable precis of our present financial main issue from an across the world revered advisor and commentator on monetary markets, who estimated the worldwide monetary quandary of 2008. the writer demanding situations the belief that progress will be perpetual and questions the power of political leaders to enact the cruel structural adjustments wanted. he's quite serious of the "easy cash" method of facing the nice recession of 2008, mentioning the risks of over the top debt and deep-seated basic imbalances. The fallout of those negative guidelines, he argues, will impact not just the company quarter, but additionally the existence and prosperity of ordinary voters and destiny generations.
The writer concludes with a proposal test illustrating the large-scale adjustments that might be essential to fix financial, monetary, and social sustainability. This scan has already been attempted in Iceland, which went bankrupt within the wake of the 2008 drawback, and now, after a painful adjustment, is at the highway to recovery.
Written for the lay reader and peppered with witty anecdotes, this immensely readable e-book in actual fact explains the missteps that created the present hassle, why a restoration has proved elusive, and the tough treatments that needs to finally be utilized to make sure a reliable destiny.