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Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair—a growing economy, and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist sentiment—which, together, generate revealing paradoxes. In this book, Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics. The focus here is on mass protests, long considered the primary medium of meaningful change in this part of the world. Chowdhury writes provocatively about political life in Bangladesh in a rich ethnography that studies some of the most consequential protests of the last decade, spanning both rural and urban Bangladesh. By making the crowd its starting point and analytical locus, this book tacks between multiple sites of public political gatherings and pays attention to the ephemeral and often accidental configurations of the crowd. Ultimately, Chowdhury makes an original case for the crowd as a defining feature and a foundational force of democratic practices in South Asia and beyond.

Crowds --- Political culture --- Protest movements --- Political aspects --- Bangladesh --- Politics and government. --- Bangladesh. --- South Asia. --- crowd. --- democracy. --- paradox. --- popular sovereignty. --- postcoloniality. --- protest.

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Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together-such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability-also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs. Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do.

Political sociology --- United States --- Business and politics --- Public opinion --- Power (Social sciences) --- Pressure groups --- Lobbying --- E-books --- democracy, elections, public opinion, campaigning, lobbying, corporations, legislation, special interest, taxation, pollution, product liability, media, news, journalism, policy, accountability, think tanks, business, politics, political science, power, pressure groups, popular sovereignty, coalition, chamber of commerce, nonfiction. --- United States of America

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Populismus --- Politik --- Rechtsphilosophie --- (Produktform)Electronic book text --- Chantal Mouffe --- Donald Trump --- Ernesto Laclau --- Five Star Movement --- Hannah Arendt --- Jair Bolsonaro --- Jan-Werner Müller --- Jürgen Habermas --- Victor Orban --- agonism --- antagonism --- authoritarianism --- crisis of democracy --- epistemic injustice --- fake news --- globalization --- individual rights --- left populism --- legal culture --- legal ethos --- liberalism --- neoliberalism --- pluralism --- political epistemology --- political style --- popular sovereignty --- populism --- rhetoric --- post democracy --- right-wing populism --- rule of law --- truism --- truth --- (VLB-WN)9770 --- Philosophie --- Rechtswissenschaft --- Rechtslehre --- Staatspolitik --- Politische Lage --- Politische Entwicklung --- Politische Situation

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The description for this book, Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory, will be forthcoming.

Equality. --- Adamany, David W. --- Aristotle. --- Bagehot, Walter. --- Barry, Brian. --- Democratic National Committee. --- Dunleavy, Patrick. --- Eldersveld, Samuel J. --- Ferejohn, John. --- Fleishman, Joel. --- Frendreis, John P. --- Gilpin, Thomas. --- Hampton, Jean. --- Hobbes, Thomas. --- Jenness v. Fortson. --- Jillson, Calvin C. --- Kant, Immanuel. --- Keeter, Scott. --- Lakeman, Enid. --- Lukes, Steven. --- Miller, David. --- Nagel, Thomas. --- Nelson, William N. --- Ostrogorski, M. --- Pateman, Carole. --- Pericles. --- Sterne, Simon. --- Taylor, Michael. --- Thomas, Keith. --- Thucydides. --- White v. Regester. --- Zukin, Cliff. --- anonymity. --- best result theories. --- blind apportionment criteria. --- citizenship roles. --- communitarianism. --- corruption. --- equilibrium, in voting. --- gerrymandering. --- independent expenditures. --- liberal stability. --- majority tyranny. --- personal representation. --- popular sovereignty. --- popular will,. --- programmatic competition. --- public goods. --- racial restrictions on voting. --- reapportionment. --- special majorities. --- vote dilution. --- white primary.

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For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed. H. Gordon Skilling provides a comprehensive analysis of the events of 1968, assessing their significance both for Czechoslovakia and for communism generally. The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, and 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces of 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions.The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces on 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

-Czechoslovakia --- Czechoslovakia --- History --- Politics and government --- HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. --- Absolute war. --- Activism. --- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. --- Alexander Dubcek. --- Anti-Party Group. --- Anti-bureaucratic revolution. --- Anti-communism. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Bourgeois nationalism. --- Bratislava. --- Brezhnev Doctrine. --- Censorship. --- Censure. --- Central Committee. --- Chronicle of Current Events. --- Comecon. --- Communist International. --- Communist Party of Slovakia. --- Controversial discussions. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Criticism. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Czechs. --- Days of May. --- De-Stalinization. --- Dean Rusk. --- Demagogue. --- Democratization. --- Diktat. --- Economic democracy. --- Ernest Gellner. --- Ferdinand Peroutka. --- Flexible response. --- Foreign policy. --- German occupation of Czechoslovakia. --- Hungarian Revolution of 1956. --- Imperialism. --- Imre Nagy. --- János Kádár. --- Khrushchevism. --- Little Entente. --- Market socialism. --- Marxism–Leninism. --- Mehmet Shehu. --- Military occupation. --- Motion of no confidence. --- Nationality. --- Nazi propaganda. --- New Course. --- New Departure (Democrats). --- New Economic Policy. --- New class. --- Nonviolent revolution. --- Original position. --- Ostpolitik. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Police action. --- Political party. --- Politics. --- Popular sovereignty. --- Prague Spring. --- Presidium. --- Proletarian internationalism. --- Protectionism. --- Public diplomacy. --- Quiet Revolution. --- Reformism. --- Reprisal. --- Revisionism (Marxism). --- Revival Process. --- Revolution. --- Robert C. Tucker. --- Samizdat. --- Slovak National Council. --- Slovakia. --- Slovaks. --- Socialism with a human face. --- Socialist Unity Party of Germany. --- Socialist state. --- Sovereignty. --- Soviet Empire. --- Soviet Union. --- Stalinism. --- Statute. --- Subversion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Svazarm. --- Svoboda (political party). --- That Justice Be Done. --- The Future of Socialism. --- The Two Thousand Words. --- Titoism. --- Untouchability. --- Veto. --- Václav Havel. --- War. --- Warsaw Pact. --- West Germany. --- World Trade Organization. --- Yevgeny Yevtushenko.