Participation in America: political democracy and social equality 9780060468231, 0060468238, 9780060468248, 0060468246

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Democracy in Immigrant America provides a comprehensive analysis of democratic participation among first- and second-gen

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Challenging the conventional wisdom that Americans are less engaged than ever in national life and the democratic proces

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Scholars have long argued that political participation tends to increase with economic and social modernization. In this

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Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it

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In Social Structures of Direct Democracy John Asimakopoulos develops a political economy of structural equality making s

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Since the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions of the 1980s, there has been little consensus on what welfare ought to do or h

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Democracy in Thailand is the result of a complex interplay of traditional and foreign attitudes. Although democratic ins

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The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink T

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This volumes explores the whole range of Alexis Tocqueville's ideas, from his political, literary and sociological

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Deals with social and political themes in American film from 1946 to the present

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