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Report: 26 pp., digital file. ; This short paper is a broad look at Winnipeg's political landscape in the years immediately following Unicity, and its impact on electoral politics, citizen engagement, planning, and administration. There is a brief historical background of Winnipeg's political culture and public attitudes toward municipal government, Winnipeg's economic position, the creation of Metro government, and the various proposals for municipal reform leading up to the implementation of Unicity in 1972. It looks for changes in the civic political structure by examining parties and coalitions, election results, and voter turnouts. While suburban interests quickly came to dominate Winnipeg politics after the formation of Unicity, the new structure had clearly made taxation more equitable by raising property tax mill rates in former suburban municipalities to rates comparable to those in the central city. The paper finds that the new Unicity government's Resident Advisory Groups were becoming increasingly marginalized by council, in spite of showing some signs of being an effective and useful part of the planning and governing process. Unicity created increased efficiency in the area of downtown planning, though this raised the concern that not enough long-term planning and careful consideration of development proposals occur. Regional planning, meanwhile, continued to be met by conflict and opposition from the new Unicity government. This paper also raises concerns over what seemed to be a growing concentration of power at the administrative level, and a lack of local control when it comes to the provision of services.

Examines the implementation of major projects in the governmental field, and more specifically those in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

Eight years after the second Palestinian uprising, the Oslo accords signed in 1993 seem to have failed. This book explores one of the major aspects of the bilateral peace process - the composition and behaviour of the Palestinian negotiating team, which deeply impacted the outcome of the negotiations between 1991 and 1997.

​1 On Studying the Trump Presidency2 The Lies of Donald Trump: A Taxonomy 3 Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Policies: The Risks of Executive Branch Lawmaking That Fails to 'Take Care'4 President Donald J. Trump and the Clemency Power: Is Claiming 'Unfair' Treatment for Pardon Recipients the New 'Fake News'?5 How to Keep the Republic (Before It's Too Late): Why a New Constitution Is Necessary to Strengthen Liberal Democracy in the United States6 Conclusion: The Five Rules of Trump 7 Epilogue: Donald Trump's Contribution to Research on Presidential Power.

Machine generated contents note I Early Ambition and the Theory of Society -- II The Sublime and Beautiful -- III The Wilkes Crisis and Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents -- IV The American War -- V The Loss of the Empire in the West -- VI Democracy, Representation, and the Gordon Riots -- VII In Defense of Politics. The first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both his major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor should they be. For Burke's "a thinker, writer, and politician." The principles of politics were merely those of morality enlarged. Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be. This intellectual biography examines the first three decades of Burke's professional life. His protest against the cruelties of English society and his criticism of all unchecked power laid the groundwork for his later attacks on abuses of government in India, Ireland, and France. Bromwich allows us to see the youthful skeptic, wary of a social contract based on "nature," the theorist of love and fear in relation to "the sublime and beautiful," the advocate of civil liberty, even in the face of civil disorder; the architect of economic reform; and the agitator for peace with America.

'Fighting for France' is the first book to examine violence between political extremists in interwar France and the ways in which contemporaries understood it. This has important implications for understanding twentieth-century French politics, not least the French experience of collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War

Modern-day movements to end racism in the U.S. seem sadly doomed to fail. If a more sober analysis of U.S. history is not considered, our efforts will lead to continued fragmentation--or worse. The essays in this book reveal the successful strategies and methods of multigenerational coalitions used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and many more. Meyer's reflections on the need for intensified solidarity, consciousness, and accountability among white folks provide a provocative and urgent challenge

"This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559. Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy - no more so than during the Italian Wars (1494-1559). During those turbulent years, governments rose and fell with dizzying regularity. Some changes of regime were peaceful; others were more violent. But whenever a new reggimento took power, old social tensions were laid bare and new challenges emerged - any of which could easily threaten its survival. This provoked a variety of responses, both from newly established regimes and from their opponents. Constitutional reforms were proposed and enacted; civic rituals were developed; works of art were commissioned; literary works were penned; and occasionally, aspects of material culture were pressed into service, as well. Comparative in approach and broad in scope, it offers a provocative new view of the diverse political, culture, and economic factors which ensured the survival (or demise) of regimes - not only in 'major' polities like Florence, Rome, and Venice, but also in less-well studied regions like Savoy. This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in cultural, military and political history"--

[14], 354 p. ; Attributed to S. Bethel. Cf. BM. ; Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.

Introduction -- The Rise and Fall of the Basotho Nation -- The Formation of the Basotho Nation, 1820s-1870s -- The Loss of Economic Independence, 1870s-1890s -- British Trading Monopoly and the Liberation Struggle -- Colonial Commerce, 1870s-1930s -- Basotho in Colonial Commerce, 1900s-1966 -- The Political Struggle for Reform of Trade, 1900s-1966 -- Lesotho's Postcolonial Counter-Revolution and Resistance to It -- The Developmental State and Lesotho's Counter-Revolution, 1966-1986 -- The Military Dictatorship and the Neoliberal Turn, 1986-2010s -- Business Politics and the Collapse of the Congress, 2000s-2020 -- The Rise of a Chinese Trading Monopoly and of Mobile Money, 2000s-2020 -- Conclusion. Commerce as Politics.