Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
When Vicente Fox was elected Mexico’s president in 2000, the world’s most enduring twentieth-century authoritarian regime finally came to an end. In this book Paul Haber explains how urban popular movements contributed to such a historic transition.
In the 1960s Mexico’s urban poor, effectively incorporated into ......
Analyzes the practice and meanings of democratic decision making through an extended case study of school board meetings in one western U.S. community. Argues that for communication conduct in local governance bodies, reasonable hostility is a more promising ideal than civility.
Analyzes populist movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela from a gender perspective. Considers the role of masculinity and femininity in populist leadership, the impact of populism on democracy and feminism, and women's critical roles as followers of these leaders.
Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods
The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts of the world, including developing countries. ......
Examines how African-American as well as international films deploy film noir techniques in ways that encourage philosophical reflection. Combines philosophy, film studies, and cultural studies.
Why People Say What They Do When Trying to Influence Others
Seeking and Resisting Compliance explores how people "produce" influence messages; that is, how they decide what to say during everyday influence interactions. Wilson does not present a single theory of persuasive message production; rather, he reviews theory and research from communication, psychology, linguistics, and other fields that shed ......
An English translation of three major works by 13th-century French author and poet Philippe de Remi: his two-verse romances, Manekine and John and Blonde, as well as his single short verse tale, “Foolish Generosity.”
Analyzes the crisis indigenous political groups faced in Mexico at the turn of the twenty-first century. Focuses on an indigenous peoples movement in the state of Guerrero that gained unprecedented national and international prominence in the 1990s and yet was defunct by 2002.
The complex relationship between the nation, Church of England, and the Jews reached an important culmination during the Reformation as Christian scholars became more and more interested in Hebrew language and the Jewish roots of European civilization. Christian Hebraism’s influence spread as a central focus in theology and politics, ......
