Faculty Books, 2002
Campaign Battle Lines: The Practical Consequences
of Crossing the Line Between What's Right and What's Not in Political
Campaigning
Paul S. Herrnson, director of the Center for
American Politics and Citizenship, Department of Government and Politics,
and Ronald A. Faucheux (eds.)
Published by Campaigns and Elections Publishing Co.,
2002
Campaign Battle Lines presents a political candidate's
eye view of campaigning and an assessment of the impact that various
campaign techniques have on election outcomes. Candidates will learn
how to tell if their opponent has crossed the line and what they can
do about it. The books includes information collected from nearly 8,000
recent candidates for public office and case studies.
China and India Online: Information
Technology Politics and Diplomacy in the World's Two Largest Regions
Marcus Franda, Department of Government and Politics
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002
China and India Online is the first book-length comparison
of the politics and diplomacy of information technology (IT) development
in the two most populous nations. By tracing the growth of the Internet
in these countries--with regard to technical standards, management and
government issues, and commercial and legal frameworks-- Franda explores
the rivalry between China and India in their quests for increased international
power. Franda sees both nations as test cases for the growth of a robust
global Internet regime and compares their priority levels for IT development
vis-à-vis other technology policy areas such as energy security,
space exploration, and missile defense. An accessible and interesting
mix of international communication, IT and policy, history, and politics,
this book provides key insights into two nations with considerable potential
for future economic, diplomatic, and political expansion.
Confronting Consumption
Ken Conca, Department of Government and Politics,
Thomas Princen and Michael Maniates (eds.)
Published by The MIT Press, 2002
Confronting Consumption places consumption at the center
of debate by conceptualizing "the consumption problem" and
documenting diverse efforts to confront it. In Part 1, the book frames
consumption as a problem of political and ecological economy, emphasizing
core concepts of individualization and commoditization. Part 2 develops
the idea of distancing and examines transnational chains of consumption
in the context of economic globalization. Part 3 describes citizen action
through local currencies, home power, voluntary simplicity, ad-busting,
and product certification. Together, the chapters propose "cautious
consuming" and "better producing" as an activist and
policy response to environmental problems. The book concludes that confronting
consumption must become a driving focus of contemporary environmental
scholarship and activism.
The book has been dubbed the "best book of 2002 on
international environmental affairs" by the International Studies
Association.
Continuity and Change in the American Family
Suzanne M. Bianchi, Department of Sociology and
Director of the Maryland Center on Population Research Center, and Lynne
M. Casper
Published by Sage Publications, 2002
Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues
they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive
description of the social demography of the American family. Understanding
ever-changing family systems and patterns requires taking the pulse
of contemporary family life from time to time. This book paints a portrait
of family continuity and change in the later half of the 20th century,
with a focus on data from the 1970's to present. The authors explore
such topics as the growth in cohabitation, changes in childbearing,
and how these trends affect family life. Other topics include the changing
lives of single mothers, fathers, and grandparents and increasing economic
disparities among families; child care and child well-being; and combining
paid work and family.
Environmental Peacekeeping
Ken Conca, Department of Government and Politics,
and Geoffrey D. Dabelko (eds.)
Co-published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2002
Environmental Peacekeeping asks how environmental cooperation
can be used to bolster regional peace. A large body of research suggests
that environmental degradation may catalyze violent conflict. Environmental
cooperation, in contrast, has gone almost unexplored as a means of peacemaking,
even though it opens several effective channels: enhancing trust, establishing
habits of cooperation, lengthening the time horizons of decision makers,
forging cooperative trans-societal linkages, and creating shared regional
norms and identities. This volume examines the case for environmental
peacemaking by comparing progress, prospects, and problems related to
environmental peacemaking initiatives in six regions: south Asia, central
Asia, the Baltic, southern Africa, the Caucasus, and the U.S.-Mexico
border.
The Good Fight: How Political Candidates
Struggle to Win Elections Without Losing Their Souls
Paul S. Herrnson, Director of the Center for
American Politics and Citizenship, Department of Government and Politics,
and Ronald A. Faucheux (eds.)
Published by Campaigns and Elections Magazine, 2002
The Good Fight: How Political Candidates Struggle to Win
Elections Without Losing Their Souls explores whether candidates who
take the "high road"can get elected. If so, what can others
learn from the experience? This book explores these and other questions
about the way local, state and federal campaigns are run. It includes
surveys of thousands of recent candidates for public office, both winners
and losers of all parties. It also includes case studies that illustrate
the strategic and ethical choices many campaigns are forced to make
as well as the extraordinary pressures placed upon candidates as they
try to win hard-fought elections.
Launching
into Cyberspace: Internet Development and Politics in Five World Regions
Marcus Franda, Department of Government and Politics
Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002
Launching into Cyberspace: Internet Development and Politics
in Five World Regions examines the extent to which Internet development
has taken place in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eurasia, and central
and eastern Europe. The focus is on the impact of the Internet on international
relations. The author discusses in detail the different ways each region
has reacted to the spread of the global Internet and the consequences
of these reactions for international relationships.
Making Place for Community: Local Democracy
in a Global Era
Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of
Political Economy, Thad Williamson, Department of Government and Politics,
and David Imbroscio
Published by Routledge, 2002
Making Place for Community: Local Democracy in a
Global Era considers a number of social ills that lead to death of community,
including the general increase in isolation and cynisism of citizens,
widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership
in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence.
This book argues that this death of community is being caused by contemporary
policies that, if not changed, will continue to foster the decline of
community. The authors believe increased capital flow between nations
is not at the root of the problem; increased capital flow within our
nation is. They argue that small towns shouldn't have to hope for a
prison to open nearby and downtown centers shouldn't sit empty as suburban
sprawl encroaches, but they do because of widely agreed upon public
policies.
Marbury Versus Madison
Mark Graber and Michael Perhac, Department of
Government and Politics (ed.)
Published by CQ Press, a division of Congressional
Quarterly Inc., 2002
Marbury Versus Madison combines excerpts from more
than 100 documents and analytical essays to review the constitutional,
political, and philosophical background of judicial review; the historical
record leading to this landmark case, sometimes called the single most
important ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court; the effect
of the decision since 1803; and the case's impact on the world stage,
especially for new and emerging democratic nations.
The Moral Foundations of Trust
Eric M. Uslaner, Department of Government and
Politics
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002
The Moral Foundations of Trust looks at a decline in trust
caused by declining optimism and increasing economic inequality. The
book seeks to explain why people place their faith in strangers and
why doing so matters. This book details: trust and the good life; strategic
trust and moralistic trust; counting (on) trust; the root of trust;
trust and experience; stability and change in trust; trust and consequences;
and trust and the democratic temperament. An epilogue looks at trust
and the civic community
The Role
of Social Capital in Development
Theirry van Bastelaer, director, Integrated Financial
Services Team, Center for Institutional Reform in the Informal Sector,
and Christiaan Grootaert (eds.)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002
The Role of Social Capital in Development documents the
pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation
and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services,
and easing political transition and recovery from civil conflicts.
Second Track/Citizens' Diplomacy: Concepts
and Techniques for Conflict Transformation
John Davies, senior research associate, Center
for International Development and Conflict Management, and Edward (Edy)
Kaufman, senior research associate, Center for International Development
and Conflict Management and visiting professor, Department of Government
and Politics
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Inc. 2002
In Second Track/Citizens' Diplomacy: Concepts and Techniques
for Conflict Transformation, prominent contributors explain the development,
theory and current practice of second track diplomacy, broadly defined
as facilitated dialogue to address conflict issues between unofficial
representatives or equivalent opinion leaders from communities in conflict.
According to the authors, almost all current wars are primarily intra-state,
involving complex societal conflicts with at least one party a non-state
community. They further state that second-track diplomacy is an essential
complement to official (first track) diplomacy for responding to the
enormous challenge that these complex conflicts pose to building a sustainable
and dynamic peace.
The Stakes: America and the Middle East
Shibley Telhami, Sadat Chair for Peace and Development
Published by Westview Press, 2002
The Stakes: America and the Middle East is a concise and
penetrating analysis that explains the Arab and Muslim attitudes toward
the U.S. and shows why there is much reason for concern. The book provides
new perspectives on the collapse of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations
and escalating violence and shows why the Arab-Israeli conflict remains
central to the war on terrorism and to international stability. It also
considers American policy toward Iraq and the Persian Gulf and demonstrates
the need for political change in the region's oil states and suggests
how to achieve it.
"Shibley Telhami has become a voice of reason
on American policy toward the Middle East. Few command such balanced
knowledge and understanding, not only of Arabs and Israelis." President
Jimmy Carter.
"Dr. Shibley Telhami has written an important
book for our national debate over American policy toward the Middle
East. His account is balanced, informed, analytical and interpretive.
It is a significant contribution." General Brent Scowcroft, national
security advisor to President Gerald Ford and President George H.W.
Bush.
Understanding and Measuring Social Capital:
A Multidisciplinary Tool for Practitioners
Theirry van Bastelaer, director, Integrated Financial
Services Team, Center for Institutional Reform in the Informal Sector,
and Christiaan Grootaert (eds.)
Published by the World Bank, June 2002
In Understanding and Measuring Social Capital: A Multidisciplinary
Tool for Practitioners, the Social Capital Initiative at the World Bank
attempts to contribute to the understanding of the importance of social
capital to sustainable development by concentrating on how to measure
social capital and its impact. This book details both the quantitative
and qualitative approaches to the analysis of social capital. Also included
is the Social Capital Assessment Tool, which combines quantitative and
qualitative instruments in order to measure social capital at the household,
community, and organization levels. This tool can be downloaded from
a CD-ROMthat is included with the book.
"This book makes evident the growing contributions
and the potentiality for even greater contributions of non-official
meetings and exchanges in overcoming destructive conflicts in the contemporary
world. The authors are distinguished practitioners and analysts doing
significant work in this vital field." Louis Kriesbe
March 3, 2008
The Wisdom of the Arabs
Compiled by Suheil Bushrui, Baha'i Chair for
World Peace
Published by Oneworld Publications, 2002
The Wisdom of the Arabs draws on the vast spectrum of
writings from the Arab world. It includes passages from classical literature,
the holy Qur'an, traditional folk sayings and the recent wisdom of Kahlil
Gibran. Thought-provoking and engaging, these passages offer advice
on everything from the demands of daily life to the path of leadership
and the search for the divine. Offering a combination of practical and
spiritual wisdom, as well as a deeper insight into the joys, sadnesses,
and passions of the Arab peoples, this little treasury will provide
nurture and nourishment for readers of all backgrounds.
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