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Signal theory (Telecommunication). --- Signaling system 7. --- Telecommunication --- Switching systems.
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Electric railroads --- Local transit --- Congresses --- Signaling --- Electric equipment
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Electric railroads --- Local transit --- Electric railroads --- Electric railroads --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Transportation Engineering --- Congresses --- Congresses --- Congresses --- Signaling --- Congresses --- Electric equipment
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Is it “Stalinist” for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can a liberal, multicultural society memorialize anyone at all, or is it committed to a strict neutrality about the quality of the lives led by its citizens?In Written in Stone, legal scholar Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses of ever-changing societies to the monuments and commemorations created by past regimes or outmoded cultural and political systems. Drawing on examples from Albania to Zimbabwe, from Moscow to Managua, and paying particular attention to examples throughout the American South, Levinson looks at social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments. He asks what kinds of claims the past has on the present, particularly if the present is defined in dramatic opposition to its past values. In addition, he addresses the possibilities for responding to the use and abuse of public spaces and explores how a culture might memorialize its historical figures and events in ways that are beneficial to all its members.Written in Stone is a meditation on how national cultures have been or may yet be defined through the deployment of public monuments. It adds a thoughtful and crucial voice into debates surrounding historical accuracy and representation, and will be welcomed by the many readers concerned with such issues.
Monuments --- Flags --- Multiculturalism --- Political culture --- Colors (Flags) --- Ensigns --- Heraldry --- Emblems, National --- Signals and signaling --- Standards, Military --- Historical monuments --- Architecture --- Sculpture --- Historic sites --- Memorials --- Public sculpture --- Statues --- Political aspects --- History
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In Outside Lobbying, Ken Kollman explores why and when interest group leaders in Washington seek to mobilize the public in order to influence policy decisions in Congress. In the past, political scientists have argued that lobbying groups make outside appeals primarily because of their own internal dynamics--to recruit new members, for example. Kollman, however, grants a more important role to the need for interest group leaders to demonstrate popular support on particular issues. He interviewed more than ninety interest group leaders and policy makers active on issues ranging from NAFTA to housing for the poor. While he concludes that group leaders most often appeal to the public when they perceive that their stand has widespread popular support, he also shows that there are many important and revealing exceptions to this pattern. Kollman develops his theory of outside lobbying through a combination of rational choice modeling and statistical tests that compare public opinion data with data from his interviews about interest groups' policy positions and activities. The tests reveal that group leaders use outside lobbying to take advantage of pre-existing public preferences, not to recruit members or to try to generate the mere appearance of grass-roots support. Kollman's innovative book will clarify the complex relationship among lobbying, public opinion, and public policy, and will set a new standard for interest group research.
Lobbying --- Pressure groups --- United States. --- Constituent communication. --- 3M Corporation. --- American Petroleum Institute. --- Banks, Jeffrey. --- Bonner and Associates. --- Business Roundtable. --- Chaffee plan. --- Clinton, Bill. --- Donnelly, Brian (D-MA). --- Endangered Species Act. --- Exxon Corporation. --- First Amendment. --- General Motors Corporation. --- Gray Panthers. --- Greenpeace USA. --- Jews. --- Jones, Brian. --- Kernell, Samuel. --- Kingdon, John. --- LTV Corporation. --- Moe, Terry. --- Olson, Mancur. --- United We Stand. --- Wall Street Journal. --- Weingast, Barry. --- Zero Population Growth. --- agenda-shaping stage. --- conflict expansion. --- coordination problems. --- direct mail fundraising. --- factor analysis. --- focal points. --- framing. --- hat trick story. --- health care. --- inside lobbying. --- intensity dilemma. --- logit analysis. --- mail to Congress. --- mass media. --- need for action stage. --- persuasion theory. --- popularity. --- press conferences. --- referendums. --- resource mobilization theories. --- right wing groups. --- salience. --- senior citizen groups. --- signaling. --- teachers unions. --- truck drivers.
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