Subversive Institutions

Author : Valerie Bunce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585927
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversive Institutions written by Valerie Bunce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce argues in this book that two factors account for these remarkable developments: the institutional design of socialism as a regime, a state, and a bloc, and the rapid expansion during the 1980s of opportunities for domestic and international change. When combined, institutions and opportunities explain not just when, how, and why these regimes and states disintegrated, but also some of the most puzzling features of these developments - why, for example, the collapse of socialism was largely peaceful and why Yugoslavia, but not the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia, disintegrated through war.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications, and Appendix written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications (and Appendixes). written by United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russell Sandberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032044415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversive Legal History written by Russell Sandberg and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trouble with law schools -- The problem with legal history -- Subversive legal history -- The F in feminist legal history -- The perils of periodisation -- Counterfactual legal history -- The parallel world of legal geography -- We are all legal historians now.

Author : Jan Olsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349949221
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversion in Institutional Change and Stability written by Jan Olsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book theorizes subversive action, a neglected mechanism in the new institutionalism literature. Subversive action is political in nature, secretly undermining some institutions to open up alternative ideas or to secure existing institutions by secretly undermining adversaries. An example is a politician who promises change in public, but does something else behind the scenes to preserve the status quo. The book addresses the nature and meaning of subversive action and the contexts that give rise to it, as well as how it can work as an important mechanism behind institutional change and continuity. The book will interest students and scholars of public policy, public administration and political science.

Author : Ferdinand Mount
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451603286
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversive Family written by Ferdinand Mount and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family—including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family. In Subversive Family, politician and writer Ferdinand Mount argues that society is shaped by a series of powerful revolutionary movements, the leaders of which, whether they be political ideologues, theologians, feudal lords, or feminist writers, have done their utmost to render the family a subordinate instrument of their purpose but that, in spite of it all, the family endures. Mount maintains that many widely held contemporary beliefs about the family are based on a willful misreading of the evidence: among the myths are that arranged marriages were the norm until this century; that child care is a modern innovation; that in earlier societies children were treated as expendable objects; that the nuclear family is not a 20th-century invention; and that romantic love never existed before the troubador poets glorified adultery. Divorce, he contends, is no great novelty either, he shows that in many times and places it has been almost as easy to obtain as it is today. Far from diminishing the general desire and respect for family life, Mount contends that the provision for divorce has been popularly regarded as an integral part of any sensible system of family law. This study should jolt the reader into a re-assessment of one of the most familiar and ancient institutions, and encourage greater consideration for policies today that support the family.

Author : Audrey Kahin
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295976181
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversion as Foreign Policy written by Audrey Kahin and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on access to secret documents and interviews with many of the participants, Subversion as Foreign Policy is an extraordinary account of civil war in Indonesia provoked by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and resulting in the killing of thousands of Indonesians and the destruction of much of the country's air force and navy. "This startling new book reveals a covert intervention by the United States in Indonesia in the late 1950s involving, among other things, the supply of thousands of weapons, the creation and deployment of a secret CIA air force and logistical support from the Seventh Fleet. The intervention occurred on such a massive scale that it is difficult to believe it has been kept almost totally secret from the American public for nearly 40 years. And this CIA operation proved to be even more disastrous than the Bay of Pigs". -- San Francisco Chronicle "An exemplary study of an ignominious chapter of the Cold War in Southeast Asia". -- Journal of Asian Studies "Subversion as Foreign Policy is a remarkable book.... The Kahins have provided a rare insight into the workings of U.S. policy towards Indonesia, both clandestine and official". -- London Times Literary Supplement

Author : Stacy Braukman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059143
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communists and Perverts under the Palms written by Stacy Braukman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, state Senator Charley Johns was appointed the chairman of the newly formed Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, now remembered as the Johns Committee. This group was charged with the task of unearthing communist tendencies, homosexual persuasions, and anything they saw as subversive behavior in academic institutions throughout Florida. With the cooperation of law enforcement, the committee interrogated and spied on countless individuals, including civil rights activists, college students, public school teachers, and university faculty and administrators. Today, the actions of the Johns Committee are easily dismissed as homophobic and bigoted. Communists and Perverts under the Palms reveals how the creation of the committee was a logical and unsurprising result of historic societal anxieties about race, sexuality, obscenity, and liberalism. Stacy Braukman illustrates how the responses to those societal anxieties, particularly the Johns Committee, laid the foundation for the resurgence of conservatism in the 1960s. Braukman is considered and nuanced in her stance, refusing a blanket condemnation of the extremism of a committee whose influence, even decades after its dissolution, continues to be felt in the culture wars of today.

Author : Amos Vogel
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 : 9781933045276
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film as a Subversive Art written by Amos Vogel and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Amos Vogel. Foreword by Scott MacDonald.