School mathematics: geometry

Anderson, Richard D.

Houghton/Mifflin

Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by observers who relied on existing theories of democracy? In Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, four distinguished scholars conduct the first major assessment of democratization theory in light of the experience of postcommunist states. Richard Anderson, Steven Fish, Stephen Hanson, and Philip Roeder not only apply theory to practice, but using a wealth of empirical evidence, draw together the elements of existing theory into new syntheses. The authors each highlight a development in postcommunist societies that reveals an anomaly or lacuna in existing theory. They explain why authoritarian leaders abandon authoritarianism, why democratization sometimes reverses course, how subjects become citizens by beginning to take sides in politics, how rulers become politicians by beginning to seek popular support, and not least, how democracy becomes consolidated. Rather than converging on a single approach, each author shows how either a rationalist, institutionalist, discursive, or Weberian approach sheds light on this transformation. They conclude that the experience of postcommunist democracy demands a rethinking of existing theory. To that end, they offer rich new insights to scholars, advanced students, policymakers, and anyone interested in postcommunist states or in comparative democratization.

Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy.

Politics & Social Sciences

Fish, M. Steven

Roeder, Philip G.

Hanson, Stephen E.

Politics & Government

Princeton University Press

Public Politics in an Authoritarian State: Making Foreign Policy During the Brezhnev Years

NCROL

RVing in Alaska: Campgrounds and Services

RVing in Alaska: Campgrounds and Services describes hundreds of state, federal and privately operated campgrounds in Alaska plus essential services on all major highways. Easy to follow directions to campgrounds and services are provided as well as are driving alternatives at major highway junctions. Dozens of computer generated maps and photographs supplement the text.

Rving in Alaska: Campgrounds and Services

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Billiken Pr

RVing in Alaska: Campgrounds and Services describes hundreds of state, federal and privately operated campgrounds in Alaska plus essential services on all major highways. Easy to follow directions to campgrounds and services are provided as well as are driving alternatives at major highway junctions. Dozens of computer generated maps and photographs supplement the text.

Billiken Press

Discourse, Dictators and Democrats: Russia's Place in a Global Process

Voting hides a familiar puzzle. Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. The right to vote has commonly been won by protesters who risked death or injury even though any one protester could have stayed home without lessening the protest’s chance of success. Could people vote or protest because they stop considering their own chances and start to think about an identity shared with others? If what they hear or read affects political identity, a shift in political discourse might not just evoke protests and voting but also make the minority that has imposed the dictator’s will suddenly lose heart. During the Soviet Union’s final years the cues that set communist discourse apart from standard Russian sharply dwindled. A similar convergence of political discourse with local language has preceded expansion of the right to vote in many states around the globe. Richard D. Anderson, Jr., presents a groundbreaking theory of what language use does to politics.

Anthropology

Routledge

Voting hides a familiar puzzle. Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. The right to vote has commonly been won by protesters who risked death or injury even though any one protester could have stayed home without lessening the protest’s chance of success. Could people vote or protest because they stop considering their own chances and start to think about an identity shared with others? If what they hear or read affects political identity, a shift in political discourse might not just evoke protests and voting but also make the minority that has imposed the dictator’s will suddenly lose heart. During the Soviet Union’s final years the cues that set communist discourse apart from standard Russian sharply dwindled. A similar convergence of political discourse with local language has preceded expansion of the right to vote in many states around the globe. Richard D. Anderson, Jr., presents a groundbreaking theory of what language use does to politics.

History

Russia

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