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..., and their communities in reasonably open, and equitable ways in the face of governmental indifference, failure, and rejection-in this case, in NOLA before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. Democracy despite government does not necessarily generate public policy (although it can ignite governmental backlash...

... It is no coincidence that the Tea Party rose to prominence as the United States debated health care. Significantly, the group's rise resulted in its anger over what it deemed a "government takeover" of American health care during debates over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, the Obama...

...Derek W. M. Barker Abstract Theories of elite democracy claim to show how representative institutions can govern in the common interest and maintain the confidence of the citizenry. Critics have brought attention to the problem of inequality in representative systems, but usually in terms...

... that this discursive practice highlights the way in which the Bolivarian Revolution shuttles between poles of un-governability and representation, reflected at a subjective level in the figures of the multitude and the pueblo. I suggest a reading of official discourses that celebrate the autonomous and collective...

... public? Some research has shown that when government officials seek and use public input into policy decisions, perceptions of governmental fairness increases,8 and that when public servants use fair processes-processes that focus on equity, respect, honesty, and lack of favoritism-the public's trust...

... he is working on a re-presentation of the so-called "German Ideology" manuscript materials and fresh analysis of the thought processes and debates recorded in these very rough drafts. Joshua Barkan, Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press...

...Carlos M. Vilas Carlos M. Vilas The Contribution of Economic Policy and International Negotiation to the Fall of the Sandinista Government Translated by Lena M. Gilman . . . in history, those who have tried to survive making concessions have never survived . the only road to the survival...

...Joseph G. Peschek Suzanne Mettler , The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy , Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press , 2011 , 163 pp. © 2013 Joseph G. Peschek 2013 Book Reviews 153 the root of the problem. Further she provides...

... discourses of government. He is currently writing a book exploring the cultural political economy of the Irish financial crisis. Robert W.T. Martin, Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, & Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic, New York: New York University Press, 2013, 273 pp...

... monitor their work and their use of often large amounts of public money_ These agencies, commissions, bureaux or (in Britain) 'quangos' (quasi-autonomous, non-governmental organizations) have proliferated because ofthe strong attraction to any government whose own attention to problems is constantly being...

... the world. Many argued that the world was witnessing a global transformation; the manifest victory of democratic principles of government. Yet while attention was focused on global democratic successes, a more subtle non-democratic revolution was rapidly reaching its conclusion at the sub-national level...

...Richard J. Meagher Intergrative Governance: Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crisis , edited by Margaret Stout and Jeannine M. Love , New York, NY : Routledge , 2019 , 259 pp., $140 (hardcover), ISBN 9781138695733 © 2019 Richard J. Meagher 2019 @666 BOOK...

.... In contrast, this study, by focusing on the dimension of political agency in the state, provides for a qualitative analysis of the transformations of the Italian state during the consolidation of neoliberalism (1988–2009). Through a Critical Discourse Analysis of the political economy of Italian governments...

...Justin Patrick The United Nations as Leviathan: Global Governance in the Post-American World, by Roland Rich , Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books , 2023 , 288 pp., $24.99 (softcover), ISBN: 978-0-7618-7372-3 © 2023 Justin Patrick 2023 @422 BOOK REVIEWS So, 'In the age...

... these three discourses create a story about a "disposable" population of "aliens" who are "flooding" the US, using up scarce social services, and corrupting and polluting American culture from the "shadows." 12 "Governmentality" is the term used by Foucault and other scholars to discuss how governance...

... to propose and decide on projects to fund with tax dollars. Does PB achieve a form of empowered participatory governance? This article examines this question by focusing on the degree to which PB engages marginalized groups in two Bay Area cities, using survey and interview data. We find that marginalized...

... initiatives of the Party and the government due to societal deliberation innovations of government use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms frequency of interaction between the government and the citizens governmental debates in the process of decision-making attended by the citizens extent...

...Maria Boikova Struble Governed through Choice. Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction , by Jennifer Denbow , New York, NY : New York University Press , 2015 , 230 pp. © 2017 Maria Boikova Struble 2017 @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 163 (p. 95, 104). A case study...

...Geoff Kennedy @288 BOOK REVIEWS Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response: The Politics of the End of Labourism, by Jason Schulman, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 167 pp. Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response contributes to the substantial literature...

...Adam G. Yoksas Patricia Mooney Nickel , Culture, Politics and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics ofKnowledge Production , New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 , 199 pp. © 2015, ADAM G. YOKSAS 2015 442 Book Reviews Gramsci, C. Wright Mills, and the "oligarchical...