Political Leadership, National Identity, and the Dilemmas of Diversity
With enormous numbers of new immigrants, America is becoming dramatically more diverse racially, culturally, and ethnically. This title discusses the role of national leadership, especially the presidency, at a time when a fragmented and dysfunctional national identity has become a real possibility.
Public management involves leading, coordinating, and stimulating public agencies and programs to deliver excellent performance. This title address topics such as: the nature and impact of public management; reform, reinvention, innovation, and change; and, models and frameworks for understanding and improving public management.
This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Fredric Jameson, Richard Rorty, ......
How the Mass Media Have Transformed World Politics
Drawing upon his lifelong study of politics and journalism, political historian Lee Edwards offers a scholarly examination of a powerful new phenomenon in world politics-the mass media. Edwards argues in his work that the media have become as important a factor in determining the course of international affairs and the future of nations as ......
The Social Construction of Europe systematically introduces and applies a social constructivist perspective to the study of European integration. A strong international list of contributors provide new and important insights to a key area of contemporary study and research. They: carefully locate social constructivism in terms of its philosophical and methodological origins; review the wider debates and contribution of constructivist approaches to international relations; fully explore the insights that are made into European studies through a constructivist approach; offer worked examples of key research topics in European integration and EU governance using and demonstrating a variety constructivist approaches; This unique volume includes exciting new theoretical contributions to the debate by Andrew Moravcsik, Steve Smith and (writing for the first time on neofunctionalism since his seminal work in field), Ernest B. Haas.
Theorizing European Integration provides a comprehensive introduction to theories of European integration in the contemporary study of Europe, the European Union and European integration. Dimitris Chryssochoou presents a complete overview of the many competing approaches that have sought to capture and explain the evolving European polity. These ......
An examination of the diverse implications of the idea of global identity, which brings a sociological focus to environmental issues, whilst testing and extending globalization theory. It explains the complex interrelation between environmentalism and globalization and it investigates globalization in the contested policy arena of the environment. The book also contends that mutual suspicion and fragmentation are the outcomes of competing visions of the globe's needs, and looks critically at how the "globality" of global issues is constructed and negotiated.
This study offers a critique of the origins, the discourses, the general strategic line, the local variations, the policy turnover, tha failures, and the consequences of the workfare offensive in the USA. It also covers attempts to develop workfare states in Canada and Britain.
Argues that since the 1980s a distinctive suburban politics has emerged in the United States. This title also argues that the political differences between urban and suburban voters have found expression in changes in congressional representation and new electoral strategies for the major political parties.
