Hazel Henderson provides a survival guide for our ride on the "tiger of change," offering new directions and expanded contexts for creating patterns of operation based on win-win models and a new planetary culture. She provides numerous examples of the new paradigm and outlines concrete steps toward it, including the use of renewable resources and chaos systems theory, the greening of social po…
In Dirty Politics, campaign analyst Kathleen Hall Jamieson provides an eye-opening look at political ads and speeches, showing us how to read, listen to, and watch political campaigns. Jamieson provides a sophisticated (and often humorous) analysis of advertising technique, describing how television ads use soft focus, slow motion, lyrical or patriotic music (Reagan used "I'm Proud to be an Ame…
The book consists of articles on Democracy in Caribbean Societies. Some of the articles benefited from the comments during the conference discussions and have been revised by the authors. This book contributes particularly to the theory and practices of democracy in the Caribbean of the twenty first century and is the second in a series of monographs published by the Democracy Unit. I am gratef…
After an introduction by the volume editors, the book offers a look at the complex relationship between nationalism and democracy. The authors then examine the special challenges facing democracy in ethnically divided societies.
The positive reception the publication of Swiss Democracy received two years ago demonstrated the large public interest in Switzerland. As few English publications on Swiss polity and politics exist, political science colleagues use the book as a basic reference and a concise introduction, mainly to explain the sense and the functioning of consensus democracy, power sharing or federalism. Sever…
This book containing selected of collection speeches and artwork of former President of Philippine Corazon C. Aquino.
A behind-the-scenes account of the campaign that elected Joseph Ejercito "Erap" Estrada as the 13th President of the Philippines. It explains how and why he won the campaign, detailing the strategies, events and people responsible for his victory, as well as his own personality.
"Democratic Transitions in Asia" focuses on political changes in the Asian region. Since the 1997 economic crisis, countries of the region are seeing greater demands for the accountability of leaders. Symbolic of the region's continuing struggle for democratisation, the President of South Korea, Kim Dae Jung was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000, joining other recent Asian Nobel laureates, …
Governing Singapore provides the most useful and up-to-date account of Singapore's political history since the accession to power of the People's Action Party in 1959, and in particular the performance of its governments since mid- 1965 under Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong.