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...Courtenay W. Daum Abstract This article analyzes the National Football League (NFL) player protests against institutionalized racism as a means of radical democratic discourse. Players elected to sit/kneel during the playing of the national anthem on the sidelines of nationally televised football...

.... Interrelating institutional arrangements and democratic values through an application of George Tsebelis’s veto players theory and Isaiah Berlin’s notions of positive and negative liberty, we juxtapose the American and French democracies as we assess Russia’s post-Soviet democratic consolidation. We focus...

... president—each program tailors its content in a unique way. Significant differences emerge in the way hosts foreground and characterize role players, emphasize themes, and relate to the grassroots. Findings tend to define Limbaugh and Hannity as fiscal conservatives, and Ingraham and Savage as culture...

... Steering Committee. Analysis of original interviews and organizational documents indicates that the transition brought important, if modest, gains but impeded aspects of community empowerment through bureaucratic resistance and imbalanced governmental-civil society roles. Key players responded by reforming...

...Bradley J. Macdonald Abstract While the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School has become an interesting player in recent theoretical attempts to understand the problems of, and potential solutions to, capitalist regimes of globalization, it has been generally limited to the work of Jürgen...

... on events that shows multiple perspectives, and that may even provide a glimpse into the terrorist point of view. By contrast, counterterrorism games restrict players to a first-person view. Players are only able to see the game world from the perspective of the counterterrorist operatives they control...

... that are derived from linking democracy to game design. Games are inherently democratic precisely because they invite participation and require decision-making. Within the game, players are agents. Well-designed games can encourage people to work together (even while competing) and invest themselves in a shared...

... by multilateral organizations such as the International Telecommunications Union, industry players such as AT&T, and political stakeholders such as the European Union. One of the most difficult challenges in writing about information and communication technology in the political science context is making...

... this movement of movements in one core ideological camp miss this point of the flexibility which allows movement interaction to remain dynamic rather than d ogm at ic . 4 ) The more exciting element is engaging, listening, and learning from the multitude of narratives from which different players locate...

... them colourful-combined with the historian's eye for making highly complicated comings-and-goings into a readable narrative. Other biographers see Willich, Schapper, Gottschalk and the rest as walk-ons in 1 Karl Marx (London: Fourth Estate, 1999). Book Reviews 273 scenes where Marx is the major player...

... from his interest in the dynamics of cooperation, Axelrod is intrigued by the emergence and stability of international norms. As a complexity theorist, he approaches the puzzle with an emergent and evolutionary approach. This approach is "based on the principle that what works well for a player is more...

... the various building options. We opened up the full process to clear view and communication. Eventually each player began to "listen to the whole band" and took responsibility for their part in coming up with a good plan. Springdale citizens recognized they were not just a passive audience, but discriminating...

... or have our lives obstructed," with "the 'freedom' to be a white man, which, for the most part is denied the majority of people on the earth, which includes jazz players, or for that matter, blues people." He adds, "The freedom to want your own particular hip self is a freedom of a somewhat different...

... defeated all her former teammates to win the gold medal in the 1994 Asian Games. Koyama pursued personal victory in 1987 and was punished for that. She reasserted her heroism as a Japanese player but was severely criticized in the Chinese media. Koyama's experience suggests that the Chinese nationals...

... beholden to big money. Though Boggs is explicit in this pursuit, he does not develop a robust analysis of these interests and the specific political engagements of major corporations until the second half of the book. Although many of the corporate players are listed in the first half of the text...

..., and that legal claim showed up in other venues, notably in the Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting, in public opinion, and in the state's senate oversight hearings. The challengers responded to authority of the judges as someone with the law. A repeat player is willing to accept a loss because they could...

... fossil fuels, more deregulation, more resource availability" (p. 57). In the United States, whose productive and consumptive footprints make it a key player in the world system of ecological degradation, this generalized capitalist ethos is entrenched within a political structure that makes any kind...

... SCIENCE 575 overleverage their capital. With recourse to ample lines of credit, Boss Tweed was able to finance party business. The party's dominance thus expanded with these financial successes, during which windfall profits redounded to the party's central players. Meanwhile, the government paid...

... operators would gain new buyers for their products. The book recreates the role played in this process by multilateral organizations such as the International Telecommunications Union, industry players such as AT&T, and political stakeholders such as the European Union. One of the most difficult challenges...

... artifacts, this 0739-3148/98/040489-03 © 1998 Caucus for a New Political Science 490 Ken Shulman and George Katsiaficas doesn't give me the right to do it," Dr. Carlos Enrique Zea Flores, Vice Minister of Culture and Sport for Guatemala, told us. Obviously, the MFA is not the only player involved...