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“michael j grabowski”

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  • Ethics of Virtual Reality

    Technology and Experience

    by Michael J. Grabowski ...
    In this book, Michael Grabowski draws on established theories of ethics to consider critical questions surrounding the growing adoption of virtual reality (VR) technologies. These questions include who should control and have access to VR, its impact on privacy, its potential for misrepresentation and bias, and how to provide a platform for free expression while mitigating harassment and abuse ... Read more

    $85.09 USD

  • Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process

    Are You In or Are You Out?

    by Anastacia Kurylo, Wilfredo Alvarez, Nicole T. Castro, Brian Cogan, Kelli Coghill, Katrina A. Comber, Brad Crownover, Lawrence R. Frey, Susan J. Gilbertz, Howard Giles0, Jane Giles1, Alan Hansen2, David Linton3, Anthony Naaeke4, David L. Palmer5, Marie L. Radford6, Jessica S. Robles7, Natasha E. E. Shapiro8, Fernando Taveras9, Michael J. Grabowski0, Tyler (Ellora) LaCarrubba1, Trudy Milburn2 ...
    Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process: Are You In or Are You Out? focuses on researcher identity and the role it plays in conducting research, whether as a member of the culture being studied (i.e., an insider) or as an outsider to that culture. Contributors address the problems researchers face as insiders and outsiders, the practical strategies used to overcome related obstacles, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Mosh the Polls

    Youth Voters, Popular Culture, and Democratic Engagement

    by Marco Calavita, Xiaoxia Cao, Brandy Chappell, Brian Cogan, Michael J. Grabowski, Robert Klotz, Marc Leverette, Shawn McIntosh, Aaron Teeter, Laura Tropp0 ...
    This timely, highly readable edited collection undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of the innovative ways in which both the political process and the entertainment industry appeal to voters under the age of 30 and how the intended audience receives these endeavors. Along the way, contributors shed light on the state of the modern American political system and its relationship to entertainment ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections

    by Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, Neil Nevitte, Elisabeth Gidengil ...
    Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat, failing even to become the official opposition and recording their lowest ever share of the vote. Dominance and Decline provides a comprehensive, comparative account of Canadian election outcomes from 2000 ... Read more

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  • Republic, Lost

    How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it.In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in *Citizens United v. Federal Election ... Read more

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  • Political Animals

    How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics

    by Rick Shenkman ...
    Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics, and history, Shenkman explores the hidden forces behind our often illogical choices.Political Animals ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

    Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participationThough voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with limited hours are a few of the ways voter turnout is suppressed. These methods of voter suppression are ... Read more

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  • One Vote

    Make Your Voice Heard

    by Ben Carson ...
    Discover the True Power of the BallotThe vast majority of Americans feel that our nation is moving in the wrong direction, but we feel powerless to do anything about it. Maybe, that's why in the presidential election of 2012, more people did not vote than voted for either candidate. We, the people, must realize we hold the power through our one vote. If we do not exercise that power, we have no ... Read more

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  • How to Choose a Leader

    Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Twenty essential tips for picking great leaders from the father of modern politicsOne of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolò Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders—ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed Machiavelli ... Read more

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  • Dilemmas of Inclusion

    Muslims in European Politics

    by Rafaela M. Dancygier ...
    As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas. In vote-rich enclaves, Muslim views on religion, tradition, and gender roles can deviate sharply from those of the majority electorate, generating severe trade-offs for parties seeking to broaden their coalitions. Dilemmas of Inclusion explains when and why European ... Read more

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  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady ...
    Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing Voter

    Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Thomas E. Patterson ...
    From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote.Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voterinvestigates why—despite a better educated citizenry, the end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter registration procedures ... Read more

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