The American Journal of Politics, Vol. 4


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Excerpt from The American Journal of Politics, Vol. 4: January to June, 1894 In 1888 all this was reversed. Our exports of merchandise were and our imports against or else a profit, which! An adverse balance, they persist in calling it, which we had to pay in gold. Well, we did export that year coin and bullion amounting to but during the same time we imported - a total ex cess of imports that year of over A clear gain to our country through commerce, say the economists. This con dition was again reversed in 1891, when we exported of merchandise more than we imported and, instead of receiving this balance in cash, we exported coin and bullion amounting to more than we imported. In 1892 the showing is vastly worse, we sending out of the country, all told, goods and cash, more than we ever received in re turn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







The American Political Economy


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Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.







Proceedings of the American Political Science Association


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Contains addresses, papers, and reports of business conducted at meetings of the Association.




Storable Votes


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Storable votes allow the minority to win occasionally while treating every voter equally and increasing the efficiency of decision-making, without the need for external knowledge of voters' preferences. This book complements the theoretical discussion with several experiments, showing that the promise of the idea is borne out by the data: the outcomes of the experiments and the payoffs realized match very closely the predictions of the theory.




The American Review, Vol. 4


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Excerpt from The American Review, Vol. 4: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science; July, 1846 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The American Review


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Ambiguities of Domination


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Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen’s groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad’s regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated spectacles. Asad was praised as the “father,” the “gallant knight,” even the country’s “premier pharmacist.” Yet most Syrians, including those who create the official rhetoric, did not believe its claims. Why would a regime spend scarce resources on a personality cult whose content is patently spurious? Wedeen shows how such flagrantly fictitious claims were able to produce a politics of public dissimulation in which citizens acted as if they revered the leader. By inundating daily life with tired symbolism, the regime exercised a subtle, yet effective form of power. The cult worked to enforce obedience, induce complicity, isolate Syrians from one another, and set guidelines for public speech and behavior. Wedeen‘s ethnographic research demonstrates how Syrians recognized the disciplinary aspects of the cult and sought to undermine them. In a new preface, Wedeen discusses the uprising against the Syrian regime that began in 2011 and questions the usefulness of the concept of legitimacy in trying to analyze and understand authoritarian regimes.