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Author: Keith Weghorst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1316519929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA first-of-its-kind study of legislative candidacy in electoral autocracies in Africa showing how civic activism translates into opposition ambition.
Author: Keith Weghorst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1009022458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do people run for office with opposition parties in electoral authoritarian regimes, where the risks of running are high, and the chances of victory are bleak? In Activist Origins of Political Ambition, Keith Weghorst offers a theory that candidacy decisions are set in motion in early life events and that civic activism experiences and careers in civil society organizations funnel aspirants towards opposition candidacy in electoral authoritarian regimes. The book also adapts existing explanations of candidacy decisions derived from leading democracies that can be applied to electoral authoritarian contexts. The mixed-methods research design features an in-depth study of Tanzania using original survey data, sequence methods, archival research, and qualitative data combined with an analysis of legislators across authoritarian and democratic regimes in Africa. A first-of-its kind study, the book's account of the origins of candidacy motivations offers contributions to its study in autocracies, as well as in leading democracies and the United States.
Author: Jennifer L. Lawless
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-26
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139504363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office explores the factors that drive political ambition at the earliest stages. Using data from a comprehensive survey of thousands of eligible candidates, Jennifer L. Lawless systematically investigates what compels certain citizens to pursue elective positions and others to recoil at the notion. Lawless assesses personal factors, such as race, gender and family dynamics, that affect an eligible candidate's likelihood of considering a run for office. She also focuses on eligible candidates' professional lives and attitudes toward the political system.
Author: Mason B. Williams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0393240983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review
Author: Doreen Lee
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0822374099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of "Generation 98," Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being—found in archival documents from the 1980s and 1990s; the connections between politics and place; narratives of state violence; activists' experimental lifestyles; and the uneven development of democratic politics on and off the street. Lee illuminates how the interaction between official history, collective memory, and performance came to define youth citizenship and resistance in Indonesia’s transition to the post-Suharto present.
Author: Pérez Bentancur Pérez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-24
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 110848526X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the value of an organization-centered approach to understanding parties and their role in democratic representation.
Author: Anne Meng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-20
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1108834892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.
Author: Denny Roy
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780801440700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, shaping its multiple and frequently contradictory identities. Offering a narrative of the island's political history, the author contends that it is best understood as a continuous struggle for security.
Author: Alice Wong
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0593315391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project “Alice Wong provides deep truths in this fun and deceptively easy read about her survival in this hectic and ableist society.” —Selma Blair, bestselling author of Mean Baby In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy.
Author: Jaimie Bleck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1107162084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa since the democratic transitions of the early 1990s.
