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"Your pen is your biggest enemy" is the kind of warning M. P. Prabhakaran says he used to receive from his friends every time he published a provocative social or political commentary. He published them in The East-West Inquirer, an online monthly, of which he is editor and publisher. He has cited the warning in the preface to this book. The preface also says that, pointing to the subject of the commentary, those well-meaning friends would follow...
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En cent ans, le Mexique est passé d'une guerre civile violente à un régime autoritaire, pour ensuite entamer une transition démocratique lente et difficile, souvent qualifiée d'incomplète. À l'occasion du centenaire de la Révolution mexicaine célébré en novembre 2010, ce livre propose un bilan de celle-ci. Il traite des effets sociaux et politiques immédiats de cette révolution, de la longue transition démocratique mexicaine ainsi que...
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Como reza el título de este libro, las nuevas derechas desafían gravemente las democracias actuales. En las páginas que siguen, un grupo de científicos sociales han sido capaces de analizar, a través de estudios de caso muy bien elegidos, algunas de las peligrosas consecuencias del ascenso de la extrema derecha y del (neo)fascismo en todo el mundo y, en el caso que nos ocupa, en América Latina. Solo así puede desenmascararse la falsa ambigüedad...
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Diseñado como un manual introductorio, el contenido de este libro reúne y examina claves, métodos y enfoques útiles para el análisis político. A beneficio de tal fin, el libro sistematiza y discute las definiciones, historias literarias y debates contemporáneos de diez conceptos capitales: ciencia política, sociología política, psicología política, constitución, democracia, sistemas de gobierno, partidos políticos, sociedad civil, movimientos...
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One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes were the wave of the future. A similar tragicomedy is playing out in our century: as the victims of despotism and backwardness from Third World...
86) La democracia
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Varios de los autores-ícono sobre la cuestiones de la globalización se cruzan aquí-junto con otros autores no tan conocidos-para tratar sobre esta cuestión.
Desde la Vida de consumo de Zygmunt Bauman, pasando por el No logo de Naomi Klein y La felicidad paradójica de Gilles Lipovetsky, hasta llegar a La cultura del nuevo capitalismo de Richard Sennett, todos aportan su punto de vista sobre este tema tan vigente, con sus luces y sus sombras.
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Prologado por Miqel Iceta
Misión Federal presenta una reflexión sobre la respuesta federalista que se ha dado al proceso independentista catalán. Narra en primera persona la división de la sociedad catalana y el surgimiento de la asociación Federalistes d'Esquerres. Explica el separatismo catalán como una confluencia de las viejas prácticas del pujolismo con los nuevos movimientos nacional-populistas. Y realiza propuestas para una solución...
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The concentration of wealth and power, held in the hands of a few, has influenced the political landscape of America since its inception. Today, the campaign financing of the political elites consistently ensures the agenda of the ruling class takes precedent over the will of the masses. United States Cultural Piece explores how this impacts America not only politically, but economically and morally-while explaining how the spirit of the everyday...
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Can making things smaller make the world a better place? No Local takes a critical look at localism, an ideology that says small businesses, ethical shopping and community initiatives like gardens and farmers' markets can stop corporate globalization. These small acts might make life better for some, but they don't challenge the drive for profit that's damaging our communities and the earth. No Local shows how localism's fixation on small comes from...
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America in the Age of Trump is a bracing, essential look at the failure of a great nation to meet the needs of its people and the challenges of the age-and the resulting collapse of public trust in government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from broken families to a loss of faith in the American idea itself. This crisis of values occurs just as the country faces an unprecedented array of fiscal, economic, social, and national-security...
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Todos los caminos llevan al Palacio de La Zarzuela. Desde allí, los Borbones reinan hace 43 años gracias a los designios del dictador Francisco Franco, primero, a la audacia de Juan Carlos I y Adolfo Suárez, después, y a la anuencia y complicidad del PSOE y el PP, por último. Los dos partidos que han gobernado España durante los últimos 35 años son los principales garantes del sistema político surgido de la Transición y apuntalado por la...
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The deep political divide that is growing ever more apparent is a far cry from our Founder's envisioned Utopia. Whether through hate mongering, religious-political extortion, bold-faced lies, or outright treason, our political leaders are bringing forth the apocalypse of the American ethos. It is important to note that George Washington had a fixed opinion on the punishment of traitors hanging. This absolutism is exactly what he expected his successors...
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Con esta nueva publicación, muy en el espíritu de nuestro Grupo de estudios interdisciplinario sobre paz, conflicto y posconflicto (JANUS), marcamos el acento sobre un hecho fundamental: cómo cualquier proceso político, económico, social y aún afectivo, la paz tiene sus olvidos y olvidados.
Contrario al maniqueísmo radical de algunos sectores reaccionarios que le presentan a la opinión pública la imagen de una paz "perfecta", y quienes no...
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La democracia parece estar atravesando por una espesa neblina. El sistema político más prestigioso desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial -reforzado aún más después de la caída del muro de Berlín- ha pasado a ser cuestionado por unos y otros. Hay quienes la rechazan abiertamente como sistema de gobierno, o piensan que sus resultados son pobres, que está aplastada por los poderes económicos, que las élites políticas no representan a la...
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Get the Summary of John Stuart' Mill's On Liberty in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On Liberty, a philosophical work by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 discuses ethical system of utilitarianism of the society and the state. In it, Mill advocates the rights of the individual against Society, with special emphasis to the importance of individuality. The main focus of this book is on...
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In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...
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The essays in this volume originally appeared over a period of some years in Voice magazine. All were published well before the global financial turmoil of October 2008, to which all are linked. Other essays in Voice covered a variety of topics, but those appearing here developed a common theme, a belief that representative democracy has not just outlived its usefulness, but has become a danger to the survival of humanity itself.
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An ex-Citizenship Judge of British Columbia and Yukon region, Dr. Shinder Purewal is a Professor of Political Science at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. Born and raised in India, Dr. Purewal moved to Canada as a teenager where he obtained both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Simon Fraser University, and earned his Ph.D. from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Dr. Purewal's first book explored the rise and demise...
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More Equal Animals is an inquiry into the difference between the idealistic intent of democratic governance and the unfortunate reality of the prevailing governance structures. It builds up a foundation for a new democratic process that better captures the desire to empower the people to govern themselves without the institutions of government being corrupted.
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Dictionaries define health as the absence of disease, but that's wishful thinking, for diseases typically begin asymptomatically. You don't know you have them. You might feel fine, but you can't say there's no cancer, occlusion, infection etc. lurking beneath the surface. If something pops up, you might describe it, name it, even fix it, but until you see it, you can't know if it's there. So, feeling fine isn't adequate.
It's actually much worse...
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