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Thalidomide in America

Science, 2023
A journalist corrects the record on US exposure A journalist corrects the record on US ...
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
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Who Rules America?

, 2021
Introduction 1. Class and Power in America 2. The Corporate Community 3. The Corporate Community and the Upper Class 4. The Policy-Planning Network 5. The Role of Public Opinion 6. Parties and Elections 7. How the Power Elite Dominates Government 8.
Kevin Strom
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Democracy in America

Princeton Readings in Political Thought, 2018
Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw. Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text ...
A. Tocqueville
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Democracy in Las Américas [PDF]

J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2017
“Here is a word that everyone pronounces, it is the favorite theme of every orator. There are not gatherings, nor meetings, nor discussions in which you do not hear . . . the word ‘Democracy.’†Thus opined the politician and poet Vicente Paz in 1876, in the newspaper El Montañes , from the coastal Pacific town of Barbacoas, Colombia. Democracy,
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Political sectarianism in America

Science, 2020
A poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion, and moralization poses a threat to democracy Political polarization, a concern in many countries, is especially acrimonious in the United States (see the first box).
E. Finkel, C. Bail, M. Cikara, Peter H. Ditto, S. Iyengar, Samara Klar, Lilliana Mason, Mary C. McGrath, B. Nyhan, David G. Rand, L. Skitka, Joshua A. Tucker, J. V. Van Bavel, Cynthia S. Wang, James N. Druckman   +14 more
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The Higher Learning in America

One test of a classic work of social criticism is to see if the critique's central logic and arguments remain generally applicable beyond the critic's own time.
T. Veblen
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Igualdad de género en Europa y América Latina

2020
Los textos que se recogen en esta publicación especial de Quaderns de la Igualtat son algunas de las comunicaciones presentadas en el G-NET Summit 2017 organizado en Cartago, Costa Rica, con motivo del final del proyecto Erasmus +, Equality training network: EU contributions to gender mainstreaming and citizenship.
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The Effects of Globalization and Neoliberalism in Central América: Nicaragua and Costa Rica

2002
Central America is a region not known for strong states or independent foreign policy. Geopolitically, it is in the Caribbean Basin and has been seen as part of the U.S. backyard. The region’s proximity to the United States and the enormous difference in size and power between the United States and the countries in this region suggests a very unequal ...
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The Great Will/El gran legado

2020
Tabla de contenidos: Paul Groussac y la angustia de las influencias en el Río de La Plata. La tempestad modernista (Darío y Rodó): un pre-texto para la religación latinoamericana. Tempestades en el Caribe anglófono y francófono: ¿cómo comenzar?. Calibán y la Revolución cubana: límites y fronteras del latinoamericanismo. Calibán, Ariel y los
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Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital

The City Reader, 1995
R. Putnam
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