Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process, resulting in narrow special interest groups dominating state and federal decision-making. At a time when an American's investment in the democratic process has largely been reduced to an annual contribution to a political party or organization, Downsizing Democracy offers a critical reassessment of American democracy.
--Donald F. Kettl, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Choice "
Автор: Ori Swed; Thomas Crosbie Название: The Sociology of Privatized Security ISBN: 3030074684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030074685 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The first book dedicated to the sociology of privatized security, this collection studies the important global trend of shifting security from public to private hands and the associated rise of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and their contractors. The volume first explores the trend itself, making important historical and theoretical revisions to the existing social science of private security. These chapters discuss why rulers buy, rent and create private militaries, why mercenaries have become private patriots, and why the legitimacy of military missions is undermined by the use of contractors. The next section challenges the idea that states have a monopoly on legitimate violence and questions our legal and economic assumptions about private security. The collection concludes with a discussion of the contractors themselves, focusing on gender, race, ethnicity, and other demographic factors. Featuring a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods and a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, this book will inspire sociologists to examine, with fresh eyes, the behind-the-scenes tension between the high drama of war and conflict and the mundane realities of privatized security contractors and their everyday lives.
Автор: Cordelli Chiara Название: The Privatized State ISBN: 0691205752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691205755 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less free
Many governmental functions today--from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation--are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot.
In this boldly provocative book, Chiara Cordelli argues that privatization constitutes a regression to a precivil condition--what philosophers centuries ago called a state of nature. Developing a compelling case for the democratic state and its administrative apparatus, she shows how privatization reproduces the very same defects that Enlightenment thinkers attributed to the precivil condition, and which only properly constituted political institutions can overcome--defects such as provisional justice, undue dependence, and unfreedom. Cordelli advocates for constitutional limits on privatization and a more democratic system of public administration, and lays out the central responsibilities of private actors in contexts where governance is already extensively privatized. Charting a way forward, she presents a new conceptual account of political representation and novel philosophical theories of democratic authority and legitimate lawmaking.
The Privatized State shows how privatization undermines the very reason political institutions exist in the first place, and advocates for a new way of administering public affairs that is more democratic and just.
Название: Social Security at the Dawn of the 21st Century ISBN: 1138532991 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138532991 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presenting a periodic overview of the most significant developments and trends in the field of social security has become, for the International Social Security Association, a tradition and a firm commitment
Автор: Tripp Aili Mari, Ferree Myra Marx, Ewig Christina Название: Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives ISBN: 0814770207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814770207 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 11326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe.
This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term “human security” from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.
Название: Price Socl Security Ils 187 ISBN: 0415863740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415863742 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3367.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Автор: Stacey Hannem, Carrie B. Sanders, Christopher J. Schneider, Aaron Doyle, Tony Christensen Название: Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice: Critical Perspectives ISBN: 177338094X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781773380940 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Takes students through the evolution of risk technology devices, processes, and prevention. This seminal text unpacks technology`s influence on our understanding of governance and social order in areas of criminal justice, policing, and security.
Название: Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies ISBN: 1138026026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138026025 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 9492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Surveillance has a high profile in security contexts - it is also increasingly central to organizational life: personal information is valued commercially as well as in policing. Through international comparisons and up-to-date, expert analysis this handbook shows how and why surveillance operates today, touching everyday life with unprecedented consequences - both good and bad.
Название: Gender and Social Security Reform ISBN: 1138524158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138524156 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Aging populations are creating tremendous pressures on social security systems throughout the world, lifting the need for reform to the top of policy agendas
Автор: Hameiri Название: Governing Borderless Threats ISBN: 1107110882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107110885 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Border-spanning, `non-traditional` security problems - pandemics, climate change and organised crime - pervade the global agenda. This is the first book that systematically explains how such problems are governed. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, with in-depth Asian case studies, it will interest scholars and practitioners of international relations, security, and global governance.
Автор: Browne Simone Название: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness ISBN: 0822359197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822359197 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12910.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, Browne draws from black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as the methods of surveilling blackness she discusses: from the design of the eighteenth-century slave ship Brooks, Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, and The Book of Negroes, to contemporary art, literature, biometrics, and post-9/11 airport security practices. Surveillance, Browne asserts, is both a discursive and material practice that reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines, so much so that the surveillance of blackness has long been, and continues to be, a social and political norm.
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