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Format: xviii, 414 Seiten : , Illustrationen, karten.

ISBN: 0-8129-2523-8

Content: Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, McNamara analyzes the Vietnam War and his role in it.

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science , Geography

Keywords: Vietnamkrieg ; Vietnamkrieg ; Geschichte ; 1916-2009 McNamara, Robert S. ; Vietnamkrieg ; Autobiografie ; Autobiografie ; Autobiografie

Author information: McNamara, Robert S. 1916-2009

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages).

ISBN: 9780203842720 , 0203842723 , 9781136907760 , 1136907769 , 9781136907715 , 1136907718 , 9781136907753 , 1136907750 , 9780415533676 , 0415533678 , 1282930206 , 9781282930209 , 9786612930201 , 6612930209

Series Statement: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; v. 35

Content: "By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000's, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the empowerment being realised. The notion of community empowerment, in which the 'solidarity' of a group can be a path to individual empowerment, is discussed, as well as analysing how empowerment can be a useful concept in development. Based on case studies of 15 NGOs as well as in-depth interviews with 80 women's self-help groups, the book highlights the key features of effective empowerment programs. The author uses innovative statistical analysis tools to show how a key factor in empowerment of marginalised women is the accountability relationship between themselves and the supporting NGO. The book goes on to discuss the ways that NGOs can work with communities in the future, and recognises the limitations of a donor-centric accountability framework. It provides a useful contribution to studies on South Asia as well as Gender and Development Studies. Introduction 1. Non-Governmental Organisations in India 2. The work of NGOs in India - SHGs and Women's Empowerment 3. Rural NGOs 4. Pune Waste-picker program 5. Measuring Women's Empowerment 6. NGO Accountability 7. Conclusion"--Publisher's description.

Note: Non-governmental organizations in India -- , Introduction -- , What makes NGOs tick? Some theory -- , Indian NGOs -- , The work of NGOs in India -- SHGs and women's empowerment -- , Introduction -- , Poverty in India -- , Models of NGO intervention -- , Empowerment -- , Rural NGOs -- , Introduction -- , Resourcing NGOs -- , NGO responses -- , The NGO case studies -- , IDS projects 2008-2009 -- , Pune waste-pickers programme -- , Introduction -- , Waste-pickers -- , Waste-pickers and SNDT -- , Solid waste collection and handling (SWaCH) co-operative -- , Measuring women's empowerment -- , Introduction -- , Researching empowerment with Indian NGOs -- , Empowerment -- , Factors that affect empowerment -- , Empowerment in practice -- , NGO accountability -- , Introduction -- , Accountability -- , Conclusion -- , Conclusion -- , Introduction -- , NGOs and empowerment -- , Accountability. , English.

Additional Edition: Print version: Kilby, Patrick. NGOs in india : the challenges of women's empowerment and accountability. London ; New York : Routledge, [2011] ISBN 9780415544306

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.4324/9780203842720

URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203842720

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Format: XI, 310 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-0-691-17551-5

Content: "As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic. In this revealing book, Cass Sunstein, the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, shows how today's Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism...and what can be done about it. Thoroughly rethinking the critical relationship between democracy and the Internet, Sunstein describes how the online world creates "cybercascades," exploits "confirmation bias," and assists "polarization entrepreneurs." And he explains why online fragmentation endangers the shared conversations, experiences, and understandings that are the lifeblood of democracy. In response, Sunstein proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation. These changes would get us out of our information cocoons by increasing the frequency of unchosen, unplanned encounters and exposing us to people, places, things, and ideas that we would never have picked for our Twitter feed. #Republic need not be an ironic term. As Sunstein shows, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies most need. "...

Note: Includes index

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , General works

Keywords: Demokratie ; Social Media ; Internet ; Politische Einstellung ; Öffentlichkeit ; Politische Beteiligung

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Author information: Sunstein, Cass R. 1954-

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Format: XIV, 277 S. : , graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0-8204-4135-X

Series Statement: Politics, media & popular culture 2

Content: "It's Show Time! Media, Politics, and Popular Culture is a collection of original essays introducing undergraduate students and interested readers to the important role that the media and popular culture have in shaping their lives and views on politics. Written by both political scientists and journalists, this book looks at the diverse ways television, movies, the internet, and even soap operas mold public opinion and define how we view political reality

Content: However, as these essays will reveal, this socialization is not all benign. Instead, this book reveals a corporate media increasingly trapped by the demands to inform, entertain, and make a profit - often at times distorting reality by transforming criminals into heroes, assassination theories into fact, and participatory government into a spectator sport

Content: Overall, It's Show Time! explores the limits and possibilities of the media and emerging information technologies as they shape political perceptions and politics into the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , General works

Keywords: Massenkultur ; Massenmedien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Schultz, David A. 1958-

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Format: XXV, 677 Seiten , Illustrationen

Series Statement: A Bantam book

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Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Vietnamkrieg

Author information: Sheehan, Neil 1936-2021

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Format: 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781108565233 (ebook)

Series Statement: Human rights in history

Content: In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history - Poland's Solidarity movement - Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland's Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of international groups: US Cold Warriors, French left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists, Amnesty International, even Chilean opponents of the Pinochet regime. By unpacking the politics and transnational discourses of these groups, Brier demonstrates how precarious the position of human rights in international politics remained well into the 1980s. More importantly, he shows that human rights were a profoundly political and highly contested language, which actors in East and West adopted to redefine their social and political identities in times of momentous cultural and intellectual change.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021). , The rise of dissent in Poland -- Dissent and the politics of human rights -- "The principle of non-interference as laid down in the Helsinki Final Act" : the Polish crisis, the Cold War and human rights -- The end of the ideological age : human rights and Ostpolitik -- Solidarity, human rights, and anti-totalitarianism in France -- The "bedrock of human rights" : US labor, neconservatism, and human rights -- Letters from prison : the prisoner of conscience and the symbolic politics of human rights -- Lech Wałęsa, the symbolism of the Nobel Peace Prize, and global human rights culture -- General Pinochecki : Poland, Chile, and the global politics of human rights culture -- Human rights and the end of the Cold War -- Epilogue.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781108478526

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565233

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Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9781003348856 , 1003348858 , 9781000963229 , 1000963225 , 9781000963144 , 1000963144

Series Statement: Cold war history

Content: "This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime's history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland's socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and European 1970s, including détente in the Cold War, western European integration, and globalisation. In this period of international transformations, socialist Poland under Edward Gierek's leadership multiplied its economic and political contacts with capitalist countries, especially western Europe, and became a leader of East-West cooperation among Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Warsaw Pact members. Relying on sources from public and corporate archives in five different European states, the book demonstrates both that the global political and economic transformations of that period were critical for the decision-making process in Poland and, moreover, that the national socialist elites participated in shaping these transformations. By looking at the goals and expectations of the Polish socialist elites and their practices of political and economic exchanges with western Europe, the book explains the logic which drove the socialist regime into entanglement with the West. As is shown here, this entanglement proved inextricable and critical for the socialist regime's failure and Poland's political and economic future. This book will be of much interest to students of European history, cold war studies, socialism studies and International Relations"--

Note: Towards the big opening, the late 1960s -- Bold and ambitious : a new national strategy, 1971-2 -- Perfect timing? 1973-5 -- Defending the status quo, 1976-80 -- Prosperity, progress, profit, and peace : the goals and expectations of the licence policy -- The deal of the decade : Italy, Fiat, and the production of passenger cars -- Cementing political rapprochement : France, Berliet, and new city buses -- Facing electronic giants : the FRG and audio equipment -- Gains and losses of the licence policy.

Additional Edition: Print version: Komornicka, Aleksandra Poland and European East-West cooperation in the 1970s Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032392165

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Hochschulschrift

DOI: 10.4324/9781003348856

URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003348856

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Format: VIII, 262 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 1571819592

Series Statement: Culture and society in Germany 3

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science

Keywords: Friedliche Revolution in der DDR ; Intellektueller ; Friedliche Revolution in der DDR ; Opposition ; Friedliche Revolution in der DDR ; Evangelische Kirche ; Deutschland ; Systemtransformation ; Intellektueller ; Deutschland ; Systemtransformation ; Opposition ; Deutschland ; Systemtransformation ; Evangelische Kirche ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: ix, 279 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-1-138-23777-3

Series Statement: Routledge studies in anthropology 44

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-315-29903-7

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Ethnology

Keywords: Finanzkrise ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Flüchtling ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ethnomethodologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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URL: Register // Gemischte Register

Author information: Dalakoglou, Dimitris.

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Format: VIII, 182 S.

ISBN: 0-19-510599-0 , 0-19-510600-8

Content: Democracy is under threat from a variety of forces originating in the transnational capitalist economy. Structural economic pressures force states to act in certain ways, regardless of what their populations want or think. In Democracy in Capitalist Times, John S. Dryzek discusses the challenges transnational capitalism presents for democracy and the most promising places where democracy can find new and growing support. Dryzek links contemporary political theory and comparative politics to explore the contradictions between capitalism and democracy. While ideological forces limit the range of political debate, government and market together promote aggressive individualism, under which people compete as consumers and profit maximizers rather than associate as citizens. Dryzek outlines these forces, considers how democracy might be defended against them, and explores the prospects for deepening democracy in the face of these threats. He argues that while state democracy has significantly diminished, democracy in different places, notably civil society, social movements, workplaces, and transnational politics, is on the rise, and it is in these places that democrats should concentrate their efforts. Dryzek further explains that the health of democratic politics in these alternative locations crucially depends on how states organize patterns of interest representation, among which social democratic corporatism proves to be most conductive to democracy.

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Demokratie ; Kapitalismus ; Demokratie

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/95042341-d.html

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Author information: Dryzek, John S., 1953-