The State In Socialist Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Harding, N., ed.

Politics & Government

SUNY Press

Onetti and Others: Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Elections in Israel 1996 (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies)

Leading American and Israeli social scientists discuss the precedent-setting events of Israel’s 1996 elections. Leading social scientists from Israeli and American universities, using different methods and representing diverse intellectual traditions, address the precedent-setting events of Israel’s 1996 elections. The contributors discuss the meaning of collective identity, the role of religion and nationalism in modern Israel, the political behavior of Israeli Arabs, the secrets of success of the immigrant party. Also discussed are issues such as the impact of the direct election law on party organization, primaries and coalition-formation calculations, the repeated electoral failure of Shimon Peres, and the role of the media in the election campaign. The 1996 elections in Israel represented a “first” in Israeli politics in many ways. For the first time Israelis directly elected their prime minister and, in simultaneous but separate elections, they elected their 120-member Knesset (parliament). Also, it was the first time that elections were held after the mutual recognition of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization following the Oslo accords and it was the first election held after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rubin. The political parties made widespread use of primaries in 1996, and hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union cast their first ballots. The large support for a party supported by former-Soviet immigrants highlighted the emergence of sectarian interests. This was also expressed in the surge for the two Arab parties from five seats in 1992 to nine seats in 1996, and for the three Jewish religious parties whose combined representation grew from 16 to 23 seats.

The Elections in Israel 1996 (SUNY series in Israeli Studies)

History

Middle East

Re-Reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later (SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

Re-evaluates Jose Marti's contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution. This is one of the very few books on the Cuban political thinker and poet Jose Marti available in English. Written by renowned Latin Americanists, the book explores the man who created the notion of Latin America--Nuestra America--(also the title of Marti's seminal text) as a distinct cultural and racial identity. Marti's influence as a writer in Latin America was almost as great as the one he had as a statesman. An extraordinarily innovative poet and prose writer, he contributed effectively to modernizing Latin American literature, linguistically and thematically. One hundred years after Marti's death, Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895) re-evaluates his contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution. Through his journalistic writings Marti was tremendously influential in shaping the notion of a distinct Latin America as well as in predicting the United States' imperialistic tendencies regarding those countries. Revered in Cuba, Marti, more than any other patriot, stirred nationalistic feelings necessary to organize the war that finally secured Cuba's independence from Spain. Contributors include Ottmar Ette, Cathy L. Jrade, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal, Enrico Mario Santi, Rafael Saumell-Munoz, Ivan A. Schulman, and Adalberto Ronda Varona.

Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

A practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation.

One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias (SUNY series in Logic and Language)

Walton, Douglas

Philosophy

Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France (SUNY series in National Identities)

Provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rise of citizenship conflict in contemporary France. Studying the politics of citizenship reforms and immigration in contemporary France, Reconstructing Citizenship reveals the influential roles played by key figures and institutions in reconstructing French citizenship. An extended political process framework is used by Feldblum to study domestic changes in citizenship policies, nationality reforms, and immigrant incorporation politics. Focused on a decade of citizenship conflicts in France, Reconstructing Citizenship provides new insight into the re-envisioning of national membership taking place not just in France, but across European politics today.

Feldblum, Miriam

Social Sciences

Provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rise of citizenship conflict in contemporary France.

The Environmental Presidency (SUNY series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues)

Examines how the modern presidency has responded to environmental concerns. The Environmental Presidency develops a systematic understanding of how presidents have influenced the development of environmental and natural resource policy through an examination of environmental behavior and interaction patterns between the president and the American people. Looking at five presidential roles―Commander in Chief, Chief Diplomat, Opinion and Party Leader, Chief Legislator, and Chief Executive―the authors show how the modern presidency has redefined the relative strengths of each role in response to the political salience of the environment. Contributors include Chris Borick, Michael Cabral, Janet S. Conary, Byron Daynes, Andrea K. Gerlak, Mark Kelso, Ron Ketter, Carolyn Long, Brent Steel, Glen Sussman, Raymond Tatalovich, Brooks Vandivort, Mark Wattier, and Jonathan P. West.

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Examines how the modern presidency has responded to environmental concerns. The Environmental Presidency develops a systematic understanding of how presidents have influenced the development of environmental and natural resource policy through an examination of environmental behavior and interaction patterns between the president and the American people. Looking at five presidential roles―Commander in Chief, Chief Diplomat, Opinion and Party Leader, Chief Legislator, and Chief Executive―the authors show how the modern presidency has redefined the relative strengths of each role in response to the political salience of the environment. Contributors include Chris Borick, Michael Cabral, Janet S. Conary, Byron Daynes, Andrea K. Gerlak, Mark Kelso, Ron Ketter, Carolyn Long, Brent Steel, Glen Sussman, Raymond Tatalovich, Brooks Vandivort, Mark Wattier, and Jonathan P. West.

Parliaments and Technology: The Development of Technology Assessment in Europe

The first comparative analysis of the development and practice of technology assessment in different national settings. Parliaments and Technology explores an issue critically important to the practice of democracy everywhere: How do citizens and elected officials assess the opportunities and costs of new technologies that may profoundly impact their societies’ future? For example, what are the social and moral implications of gene patents, reproductive technology, cloning and genetic engineering or of virtually unlimited access to information? Technology assessment has become one of the most important methodologies for aiding legislatures in analyzing and deliberating such questions. The first comparative analysis of the development and practice of parliamentary technology assessment in different national settings, this book explains the origins, methods, and impacts in five European countries―Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands―and the European Parliament. It also provides a theoretical framework for comparing the institutionalization of new functions in different parliamentary systems and the influence of national political cultures on the conceptualization and operation of these new agencies. Contributors include Josée van Eijndhoven, John Grin, Dick Holdsworth, Rob Hoppe, Simon Jos, Lars Klüver, Todd M. La Porte, Maurice Laurent, Michael Norton, Herbert Paschen, Thomas Petermann, and Norman J. Vig.

Business & Money

Economics

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The State In Socialist Society

Onetti and Others: Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

The Elections in Israel 1996 (SUNY series in Israeli Studies)

Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias (SUNY series in Logic and Language)

Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France (SUNY series in National Identities)

Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France (SUNY series in National Identities)

The Environmental Presidency (SUNY series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues)

The Environmental Presidency (SUNY series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues)

Parliaments and Technology: The Development of Technology Assessment in Europe