Synthesizing theory, personal research, and prior studies on interest groups and other lobbies, the author offers an overview of organized political interests and explains how and why they affect public policy. Drawing on his experience researching interest groups, he assesses the impact that special interests have long had in shaping policy.
The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics
An analysis of the writings and speeches of the American founders. Kann (political science, U. of Southern Calif.) looks at how the founders deployed a grammar of manhood that provided informal rules for stigmatizing disorderly men, justifying citizenship for deserving men, and elevating exceptio
By defining communitarianism at the theoretical, policy, and organizational levels, Tam, Chair of the UK Communitarian Forum, re-maps the ideological battleground beyond left-right and progressive-regressive dichotomies. Communitarianism seeks a more inclusive form of community, as an alternative t
By defining communitarianism at the theoretical, policy, and organizational levels, Tam, Chair of the UK Communitarian Forum, re-maps the ideological battleground beyond left-right and progressive-regressive dichotomies. Communitarianism seeks a more inclusive form of community, as an alternative t
The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics
An analysis of the writings and speeches of the American founders. Kann (political science, U. of Southern Calif.) looks at how the founders deployed a grammar of manhood that provided informal rules for stigmatizing disorderly men, justifying citizenship for deserving men, and elevating exceptio
A must for anyone angry at being shut out of the political system. David Mathews points out that many Americans, making no secret of their anger at being shut out of the political system, are looking for ways to take that system back. Because of their low opinion of ''politics as usual,'' Mathews believes, some people are trying to create a ......
Foucault's work presents a challenge to orthodox, habitual forms of belief and practice. This text, with an interdisciplinary focus, argues that one of the keys to understanding Foucault is his political thought. It is this which he expressed in his last writings and which pulled together his earlier interests in power, agency and subjectivity. In this volume Foucault scholars and commentators on politics explore the significance of these last writings. They examine such issues as the question of Foucault and human rights; his relationship to ethical thought, power and freedom; his relationship to feminism; and comparisons for his work with Levinas and Rawls.
Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.
Using the cheap desktop publishing techniques of 'zine culture, and supplementing them with an extensive presence on the World Wide Web, the Bad Subjects Production Team has produced one of the only successful political 'zines in the US, as well as one of the first--and longest-running--on-line publications in the world. Bad Subjects offers a ......
