Talking about Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talking about Politics write by Katherine Cramer Walsh. This book was released on 2010-03-15. Talking about Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the time. Yet while such conversations are a common part of everyday life, political scientists know very little about how they actually work. In Talking about Politics, Katherine Cramer Walsh provides an innovative, intimate study of how ordinary people use informal group discussions to make sense of politics. Walsh examines how people rely on social identities—their ideas of who "we" are—to come to terms with current events. In Talking about Politics, she shows how political conversation, friendship, and identity evolve together, creating stronger communities and stronger social ties. Political scientists, sociologists, and anyone interested in how politics really works need to read this book.
Talking Politics
Talking Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talking Politics write by William A. Gamson. This book was released on 1992-08-28. Talking Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Those who analyze public opinion have long contended that the average citizen is incapable of recounting consistently even the most rudimentary facts about current politics; that the little the average person does know is taken strictly from what the media report, with no critical reflection; and that the consequence is a polity that is ill prepared for democratic governance. And yet social movements, comprised by and large of average citizens, have been a prominent feature of the American political scene throughout American history and have experienced a resurgence. William Gamson asks, how is it that so many people become active in movements if they are so uninterested and badly informed about issues? The conclusion he reaches in this book is a striking refutation of the common wisdom about the public's inability to reason about politics.
Muslims Talking Politics
Muslims Talking Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslims Talking Politics write by Brandon Kendhammer. This book was released on 2016-06-22. Muslims Talking Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam’s compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where—Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book—have the voices of ordinary, working-class Muslims been in this conversation? Doesn’t the fate of democracy rest in their hands? Visiting with community members in northern Nigeria, he tells the complex story of the stunning return of democracy to a country that has also embraced Shariah law and endured the radical religious terrorism of Boko Haram. Kendhammer argues that despite Nigeria’s struggles with jihadist insurgency, its recent history is really one of tenuous and fragile reconciliation between mass democratic aspirations and concerted popular efforts to preserve Islamic values in government and law. Combining an innovative analysis of Nigeria’s Islamic and political history with visits to the living rooms of working families, he sketches how this reconciliation has been constructed in the conversations, debates, and everyday experiences of Nigerian Muslims. In doing so, he uncovers valuable new lessons—ones rooted in the real politics of ordinary life—for how democracy might work alongside the legal recognition of Islamic values, a question that extends far beyond Nigeria and into the Muslim world at large.
Butterfly Politics
Butterfly Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Butterfly Politics write by Catharine A. MacKinnon. This book was released on 2019-04-02. Butterfly Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has come—always, but perhaps now more than ever.” —Cass Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex “butterfly effects.” Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse—grounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement—and proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women’s rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment as illegal, this timely collection of her previously unpublished interventions on consent, rape, and the politics of gender equality captures in action the creative and transformative activism of an icon. “MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory in which the tiny motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away. Under the right conditions, she posits, small actions can produce major social transformations.” —New York Times “MacKinnon [is] radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist... Butterfly Politics is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars... This book has a single overriding aim: to effect global change in the pursuit of equality.” —The Australian “Sexual Harassment of Working Women was a revelation. It showed how this anti-discrimination law—Title VII—could be used as a tool... It was the beginning of a field that didn’t exist until then.” —U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 write by Boris Heersink. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.
