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Post-Imperial Democracies

Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia

by Stephen E. Hanson ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
This book examines the causal impact of ideology through a comparative-historical analysis of three cases of 'post-imperial democracy': the early Third Republic in France (1870–86); the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–34); and post-Soviet Russia (1992–2008). Hanson argues that political ideologies are typically necessary for the mobilization of enduring, independent national party organizations ... Read more

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This book examines the causal impact of ideology through a comparative-historical analysis of three cases of 'post-imperial democracy': the early Third Republic in France (1870–86); the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–34); and post-Soviet Russia (1992–2008). Hanson argues that political ideologies are typically necessary for the mobilization of enduring, independent national party organizations
... Read more
Time and Revolution

Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions

by Stephen E. Hanson ...

Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet
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The Assault on the State

How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

by Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein ...

What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for ... Read more

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What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for
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Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy

by Richard D. Anderson, Jr., M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, Philip G. Roeder ...

Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by observers who relied on existing theories of democracy? In Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, four distinguished scholars conduct the first major assessment of democratization theory in light of the experience of postcommunist states. Richard ... Read more

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Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by observers who relied on existing theories of democracy? In Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, four distinguished scholars conduct the first major assessment of democratization theory in light of the experience of postcommunist states. Richard
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The Assault on the State

How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

by Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein ...

Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

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5 hours 48 min

What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the UK, and the US, attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves ... Read more

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What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the UK, and the US, attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves
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International Education at the Crossroads

by Michael A. McRobbie, Mary Sue Coleman, Kenneth Coleman, Patrick O'Meara, Robin Matross Helms, Elspeth Jones, Hans de Wit, Eva Egron-Polak, Jonathan Fanton, Stephen E. Hanson, Kris Olds, Zsuzsa Gille, Seung-Kyung Kim, Brian Edwards, Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, Dan E. Davidson, Daryl Baldwin, Kim Potowski, Francisco Marmolejo, Safwan M. Masri, Caroline Levander, Kathleen Claussen, Takyiwaa Manuh, Allan E. Goodman, Dawn Michele Whitehead, Cheryl Gibbs, Anthony Koliha, General Gene Renuart ...

International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than ... Read more

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International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than
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Miracle

by Rebekah Pace, Stephen Hanson ...

How much is a human life worth?It's December 2010 and Frank has just learned that Britain's National Health Service will no longer pay to keep his comatose mother on life support. He and his estranged sisters—Elizabeth and Dawn, living in the US like him, and Tess in the UK with their mom—open painful family scars as they wrestle with the moral issues of ending their mother's life or draining ... Read more

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How much is a human life worth?It's December 2010 and Frank has just learned that Britain's National Health Service will no longer pay to keep his comatose mother on life support. He and his estranged sisters—Elizabeth and Dawn, living in the US like him, and Tess in the UK with their mom—open painful family scars as they wrestle with the moral issues of ending their mother's life or draining
... Read more
Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson

Is the Constitution Still Applicable Today?

by Stephen D. Hanson ...

Many people have wondered what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they wrote the Constitution. Now you can find out directly from Thomas Jefferson. In a series of fictionalized interviews, Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson offers an explanation of Jeffersons goals and a description of how he and his colleagues crafted a road map that would help the nation set a strong framework for ... Read more

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Many people have wondered what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they wrote the Constitution. Now you can find out directly from Thomas Jefferson. In a series of fictionalized interviews, Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson offers an explanation of Jeffersons goals and a description of how he and his colleagues crafted a road map that would help the nation set a strong framework for
... Read more
Comparative Politics

Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order

Edited by Jeffrey Kopstein, Mark Lichbach, Stephen E. Hanson ...

Twelve in-depth case studies of the EU and countries across the globe, written by the leading country specialists and combining insights of cutting-edge institutional analysis and deep study of national histories, explore how the concepts of interests, identities and institutions shape the politics of nations and regions. The country studies trace the global and historical contexts of political ... Read more

$76.29 USD

Twelve in-depth case studies of the EU and countries across the globe, written by the leading country specialists and combining insights of cutting-edge institutional analysis and deep study of national histories, explore how the concepts of interests, identities and institutions shape the politics of nations and regions. The country studies trace the global and historical contexts of political
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The Mission Table

Renewing Congregation and Community

by Stephen Bouman ...

In a time of declining mainline Protestant church attendance, Bouman reminds us that the Holy Spirit is still very much at work in our communities and in the world. God continues to make all things new, and calls us to join this mission of reconciliation, restoration, and renewal. Each chapter of this book contains Bible references and questions for individual and group reflection, study, and ... Read more

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In a time of declining mainline Protestant church attendance, Bouman reminds us that the Holy Spirit is still very much at work in our communities and in the world. God continues to make all things new, and calls us to join this mission of reconciliation, restoration, and renewal. Each chapter of this book contains Bible references and questions for individual and group reflection, study, and
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The Garden at the End of Time

Getting By in the Age of Climate Change

by John Hanson Mitchell ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

6 hours 1 min

John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants and animals with whom he shares this land. In 2022, the United Nations and others started reporting the true severity of the climate crisis as the Earth passed a point of no return. All across the globe it was the worst year on record for climate-related disasters. Mitchell, like so many, felt ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants and animals with whom he shares this land. In 2022, the United Nations and others started reporting the true severity of the climate crisis as the Earth passed a point of no return. All across the globe it was the worst year on record for climate-related disasters. Mitchell, like so many, felt
... Read more

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Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions

Resolving Moral Conflicts in Medical Ethics

by Stephen S. Hanson ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate the amount of shared moral belief that can be used to address those conflicts. This work presents a means for taking seriously the pluralism in the modern world while recognizing the likelihood of moral “acquaintance” ... Read more

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The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate the amount of shared moral belief that can be used to address those conflicts. This work presents a means for taking seriously the pluralism in the modern world while recognizing the likelihood of moral “acquaintance”
... Read more

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