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How to be a politician : 2000 years of good (and bad) advice
\"The ultimate book of political advice, conjuring the warp, weft, ebbs, flows, highs and lows of a political life, in the words of those who said it best - curated and introduced by Sir Vince Cable. Structured to follow the arc of a life in politics - from childhood aspirations and first attempts at getting elected, to navigating the back benches, ascending the greasy pole, dealing with detractors, facing crises, and finally escaping - this unique collection weaves together the wittiest, wisest and most acerbic political quotations from the last 2,000 years. Punctuated throughout by candid insights from Sir Vince Cable, How to Be a Politician is a timeless and entertaining education in the dark arts of politics\"--Publisher's description.
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Anti-Pluralism
The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today's populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges indict the triumphalism that accompanied liberal democratic consolidation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To respond to today's crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing fraught social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention. Although reforms may stem the populist tide, liberal democratic life will always leave some citizens unsatisfied. This is a permanent source of vulnerability, but liberal democracy will endure so long as citizens believe it is worth fighting for.
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Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil
Ambition theory suggests that scholars can understand a good deal about politics by exploring politicians' career goals. In the USA, an enormous literature explains congressional politics by assuming that politicians primarily desire to win re-election. In contrast, although Brazil's institutions appear to encourage incumbency, politicians do not seek to build a career within the legislature. Instead, political ambition focuses on the subnational level. Even while serving in the legislature, Brazilian legislators act strategically to further their future extra-legislative careers by serving as 'ambassadors' of subnational governments. Brazil's federal institutions also affect politicians' electoral prospects and career goals, heightening the importance of subnational interests in the lower chamber of the national legislature. Together, ambition and federalism help explain important dynamics of executive-legislative relations in Brazil. This book's rational-choice institutionalist perspective contributes to the literature on the importance of federalism and subnational politics to understanding national-level politics around the world.
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No middle ground
Despite concerns about the debilitating effects of partisanship on democratic government, in recent years political parties have gained strength in state governments as well as in Washington. In many cases these parties function as machines. Unlike machines of the past that manipulated votes, however, today's machines determine which candidates can credibly compete in a primary. Focusing on the history and politics of California, Seth E. Masket reveals how these machines evolved and how they stay in power by directing money, endorsements, and expertise to favored candidates, who often tend toward the ideological extreme. In a provocative conclusion, Masket argues that politicians are not inherently partisan. Instead, partisanship is thrust upon them by actors outside the government with the power to manipulate primary elections.
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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin
America
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin
American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and
Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and
circulation of online humor influence the region's relation to
democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in
everyday life.
Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of
political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the
mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil
examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro
supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers
memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video
content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo
Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germán
Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in
Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying
the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake
Twitter accounts.
Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
demonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public
interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create
greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic
participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious
attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary
culture.
Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto
Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Viktor
Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Héctor Fernández
L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera |
Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de Souza
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture
in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan
Carlos Rodríguez
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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Red state, blue state, rich state, poor state
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans who vote based on God, guns, and gays; and elitist blue-state Democrats woefully out of touch with heartland values. With wit and prodigious number crunching, Andrew Gelman debunks these and other political myths.
This expanded edition includes new data and easy-to-read graphics explaining the 2008 election.Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor Stateis a must-read for anyone seeking to make sense of today's fractured political landscape.
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