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• the sociology of the german unification

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 574
  In graduate school, I had the distinct pleasure of taking cultural theory with Andreas Glaese r. One particularly interesting aspect of the course was that we got to read his then new book Divided In Unity . It’s pretty fascinating stuff. He wanted to understand the evolution of German society after the merging of ...
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• Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 126
  Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth  2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4199-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of ...
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• China claim of the day

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 753
  If China remains culturally closed, the Chinese Century will never come to pass. Instead, the United States--a country that has struggled with race and racism for centuries, and in the process has become more culturally open and resilient--will dominate this century as it did the last. Thats from Reihan Salaam , ...
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• organizational identity and ethics: the case of the idf

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 574
  The New Republic ran an article by Moshe Halbertal about the Israeli Defense Forces and the problems of policing/fighting in territories such as the Gaza Strip . The article is long, but let me summarize the key points: Western style military organizations are designed to fight clearly identified opponents. Our ...
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• Why Do People Vote? I

  
  The Scientific Fundamentalist — Authority: 434
  Why millions of people turn out to vote in every national election in the United States and other large democracies is one of the persistent mysteries in the rational choice theory of politics.  Why do people vote? If you think about it, voting in a large national election – such as the US Presidential election ...
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• Jordanian Professor: Israel Will Go to War over Water

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 425
  Israel will wage war against Egypt within seven years in order to control the Nile River. First war of Israel over water will be in Shebaa farms area.Related posts: Official: Israel prevents 15 medicine-laden trucks into Gaza World recoils at Gaza bloodshed, US backs Israel Gaza faces failed harvests after the ...
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• Something else to blame on the Democrats

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 570
  The World Series results: Union workers, welfare queens and illegal aliens thrive under Democratic administrations, but not as much as the New York Yankees. In this, the first year of the Obama Administration, the Yankees won their first World Series since … the last year of the Clinton Administration. You can ...
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• Cold War relics that do more to threaten America’s national security than to protect it

  
  Opinione — Authority: 125
  The field of political science is an academic discipline that studies political power. When that field of study is trained on Washington D.C. and a political scientist wants to examine which institutions and organizations in the national government have the most power, the two most prominent institutions are the ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Reestablishing the Second and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

  
  Lighthouse Patriot Journal — Authority: 127
  The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, part of what is known as the Bill of Rights as an attachment to the aforementioned document, reads:A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.A simple ...
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• Zeus and Gaia, sitting in a tree

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 570
  And it came to pass that the sons of Britain were persuaded that belief in global climate whatever-the-hell-it’s-doing deserved the same legal status as any other religion , which prompted Smitty to forecast our own eerily-similar future: When coupled with some of the latest nitwittery from the UN on the ...
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• How to run a successful blog

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 753
  ...They understand that public opinion matters...they understand that it’s a little harder to criticize someone after you’ve met him and he’s given you free cookies...they couldnt possibly have expected to change anybody’s mind, they understand that it’s better to talk to your critics than to avoid them. ...
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• Everyday Nationalism--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 126
  Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India ...
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• Senators against (Political) Science

  
  Rodger A. Payne's Blog — Authority: 117
  Yesterday, the United States Senate voted down the so-called "Coburn amendment," which would have eliminated National Science Foundation support for research in the field of Political Science. Actually, Im being polite. The resolution offered by the Republican from Oklahoma used this wording: "Coburn Amendment 2631 ...
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• Impressions from Treasury

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 753
  I will enumerate a few (you can trace other accounts here ): 1. Tim Geithner is very smart and he was conceptually stronger than one might have expected. 2. I believe that the long, L-shaped hallways encourage "visits to offices" rather than hallway conversations; this is a speculation and perhaps some reader can ...
  4 days ago

• Beginning Civics fail

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 570
  The Bill of Rights, as ratified, comprises ten Amendments. Whoever is running the White House Web site understands, at most, two of them. Slightly ahead of Congress, but still not good. © 2009 by Charles G. Hill. All rights reserved. See legal notice at dustbury.com/legalese .
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• Im leaving the country, so go read stuff

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 532
  Your humble blogger will be MIA for the next few days, as he is attending the annual meeting of the Japanese Association of International Relations in Kobe, Japan for the next few days.  Let me assure my readers that my decision to flee leave the country has nothing whatsoever to do with recent events .  ...
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• What would Victor Hugo do?

  
  Yale Press Log — Authority: 112
  The following guest post was written by Marva Barnett , author of Victor Hugo on Things That Matter : What is just and what is legal are all too often not the same thing. Nina Totenberg’s recounting of the current Supreme Court case about prosecutorial immunity illuminates what Victor Hugo called “the ...
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• The Devil in the Holy Water--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 126
  The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon Robert Darnton 552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9 | $34.95 | £23.00 A volume in the Material Texts series Not for sale in the British Commonwealth, except Canada, or in Europe Robert Darnton ...
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• Thinking About Politics, and Doing Politics

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  What’s the status of thinking about political subjects? I think it’s fair to say that there’s no way of achieving something called “truth” or “scientific knowledge” when dealing with basic political concepts. For example, there’s no truth about democracy, human rights, justice etc. We’re stuck with ...
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