Just Politics

Just Politics

Author: Ronald J. Sider

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1441239820

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Evangelicals today probably have more political influence in the United States than at any time in the last century--but they might not be certain what to do with it. It has been difficult to develop a unified voice on pressing issues such as social justice and moral renewal. Bestselling author and theologian Ron Sider offers a biblically grounded, factually rooted, Christian approach to politics that cuts across ideological divides. Shaped by a careful study of society, this book will guide readers into more thoughtful and effective political activity. It addresses perennially tough questions that often divide the church and includes a case study of the federal deficit debate. Practical, balanced, and nonpartisan, this book will be a welcome resource during the 2012 presidential race. This is a revised version of what was previously published as The Scandal of Evangelical Politics.


Just Politics

Just Politics

Author: C. William Walldorf, Jr.

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 080145963X

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Many foreign policy analysts assume that elite policymakers in liberal democracies consistently ignore humanitarian norms when these norms interfere with commercial and strategic interests. Today's endorsement by Western governments of repressive regimes in countries from Kazakhstan to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the name of fighting terror only reinforces this opinion. In Just Politics, C. William Walldorf Jr. challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that human rights concerns have often led democratic great powers to sever vital strategic partnerships even when it has not been in their interest to do so.Walldorf sets out his case in detailed studies of British alliance relationships with the Ottoman Empire and Portugal in the nineteenth century and of U.S. partnerships with numerous countries—ranging from South Africa, Turkey, Greece and El Salvador to Nicaragua, Chile, and Argentina—during the Cold War. He finds that illiberal behavior by partner states, varying degrees of pressure by nonstate actors, and legislative activism account for the decisions by democracies to terminate strategic partnerships for human rights reasons.To demonstrate the central influence of humanitarian considerations and domestic politics in the most vital of strategic moments of great-power foreign policy, Walldorf argues that Western governments can and must integrate human rights into their foreign policies. Failure to take humanitarian concerns into account, he contends, will only damage their long-term strategic objectives.


Just Good Politics

Just Good Politics

Author: Raymond Chafin

Publisher:

Published: 1995-10-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780822955771

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Just Good Politics is the autobiography of Raymond Chafin, the savvy, free-wheeling political "boss" from Logan County, West Virginia, who managed political machinery for the elections of several state governors, U. S. senators, and, in 1960, for John F. Kennedy. It also provides a genuine bridge between our increasingly homgenized American society and a largely unexamined part of rural mountain life.


The Other Divide

The Other Divide

Author: Yanna Krupnikov

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-01-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1108831125

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The key to understanding the current wave of American political division is the attention people pay to politics.


Winner-Take-All Politics

Winner-Take-All Politics

Author: Jacob S. Hacker

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1416588701

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In this groundbreaking book on one of the world's greatest economic crises, Hacker and Pierson explain why the richest of the rich are getting richer while the rest of the world isn't.


Just Get on the Pill

Just Get on the Pill

Author: Krystale E. Littlejohn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0520307453

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"The average woman concerned about pregnancy spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. She largely does so alone using prescription birth control, a phenomenon often taken for granted as natural and beneficial in the United States. In Just Get on the Pill, Littlejohn draws on interviews to show how young women come to take responsibility for prescription birth control as the "woman's method" and relinquish control of external condoms as the "man's method." She uncovers how gendered compulsory birth control-in which women are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways-encroaches on women's reproductive autonomy and erodes their ability to protect themselves from disease. In tracing the gendered politics of pregnancy prevention, Littlejohn argues that the gender division of labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust"--


Not Just Politics

Not Just Politics

Author: Carwyn Jones

Publisher: Headline Accent

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1786157721

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For nine years, Carwyn Jones was at the helm of Welsh politics. As First Minister from 2009 to 2018, he led the governance of an increasingly devolving Wales through turmoil and success. Not Just Politics follows Carwyn from his roots in a small corner of Wales and childhood brought up as a Welsh speaker in Bridgend, to the 1980s miners' strike which inspired a career in politics. After graduating with a degree in law from Aberyswyth, Carwyn juggled being a barrister and local councillor while also caring for his wife Lisa, who was diagnosed with leukaemia shortly after their marriage. As part of the first cohort of Welsh Government Ministers, Carwyn has been at the heart of the growing shift from Westminster to Cardiff, and as First Minister he oversaw landmark moments that put Wales firmly on the world stage.


Just Giving

Just Giving

Author: Rob Reich

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0691202273

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The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think it to be but might also undermine democratic values. Big philanthropy is often an exercise of power, the conversion of private assets into public influence. And it is a form of power that is largely unaccountable and lavishly tax-advantaged. Philanthropy currently fails democracy, but Rob Reich argues that it can be redeemed. Just Giving investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy and considers how giving might better support democratic values and promote justice.


Not Just Politics

Not Just Politics

Author: Lila Pifer

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2024-07-10

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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Not Just Politics: A Guide to Grassroots Activism is a user-friendly introduction for people of any age from all walks of life who want to become politically active, perhaps for the first time in their lives. It explains how political issues are not just about politics, but about the ideas behind such issues. About the Author Lila Pifer edits and publishes a quarterly newsletter, NOT JUST POLITICS. She has a Master’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a para-legal certificate from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She is the proud mother of a teacher daughter and grandmother to two teenage grandsons. After spending most of her adult life in Chicago, she has moved back to her hometown in Ohio. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, keeping up with current events, and staying involved with important issues in her local community.