By exploring the role of both culture and the mass media, this volume fills a gap in the literature on war and peace. Outstanding scholars provide an overview of critical mass media research and open up entirely new perspectives on the ongoing debate over communications issues in war and peace. The contributions bring together common themes including the military-industrial-communications complex, cultural imperialism and transnational control of communications. Various perspectives are covered, such as gender issues, language study and bureaucratization.
Since the early 1970s women across South America have been uniting to confont the brutality and repression of military rule. In Out of the Shadows, author Jo Fisher interviews women in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay to show how they have moved into the vacuum left by the military's destruction of the male-dominated left. Chapters describe ......
''Bumiller is among several scholars who have questioned the excessive reliance on law, especially constitutional law and the Supreme Court, as a means of solving social problems in the United States. The book will generate much discussion among those scholars interested in critical legal studies, sociology of law, race and gender relations, the ......
Do political scientists in a liberal democracy bear a special responsibility that goes beyond their academic pursuits? Ceaser, a scholar of American political parties, argues that they do, and he challenges colleagues and students to reexamine what they do as political scientists. He observes that liberal democracy is a compound of two elements ......
Residential Community Associations in American Governance
Examines the role of residential community associations (RCAs) in the American intergovernmental system of governance. Examining this impact of RCAs on local politics, this title extrapolates to determine the implications of their proliferation for American governance and democratic values.
Nolla makes a strong presentation in gathering scholarly surveys of Alexis de Tocqueville's theories. Students of democratic theory will find it provoking. Bookwatch This volumes explores the whole range of Alexis Tocqueville's ideas, from his political, literary and sociological theories to his concept of history, his religious beliefs, and his ......
Political Martyrdom in America From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Drawing upon eulogies and obituaries, sermons and biographies, poems and public memorials, this book examines political martyrdom in the United States.
Offering a discussion of laws, customs, and agencies, this book examines the underlying political, cultural, and ethical structures that bind a society and define its character.
