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How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political wisdom, from the importance of promising everything to everybody and reminding voters about the sexual scandals of your opponents to being a chameleon, putting on a good show for the masses, and constan

First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social o

1. Revenues, states, and Central America -- 2. State-building in a globalized political economy -- 3. Historical junctures in Central American state-building and tax -- 4. 1990s transnational integration: quantitative evaluation of socioeconomic actors, democratic institutions, and tax regimes -- 5. Inside-out state-building in El Salvador: dominant and cohesive transnational elites -- 6. Outside-in state-building in Honduras: dominant but divided transnational elites -- 7. Crisis in Guatemalan state-building: divided, subordinate transnational elites -- 8. Conclusion: globalization and state-building and tax in developing countries

Red ink rising -- The triumph of politicians -- The dying constitution -- Burning bridges to nowhere -- Getting to no -- Government is still the problem -- In the arena -- Duplication nation -- The entitlement trap -- The case for real health reform, and against Obamacare -- The tax reformation -- Defense: peace through strength through streamlining -- The debt crisis is a moral crisis -- Conclusion: the choices that must be made

During 1917-1918, war ravaged the hill country north of New Caledonia's main island, the Grande terre. Occurring sixty-four years after France's 1853 annexation of New Caledonia and in the midst of the Great War of 1914-1918, the conflict was known by the mid-twentieth century as "the last of the kanak revolts." It represented to many--until the "events" of the 1980s--the final pacification of Kanak (the Indigenous people of New Caledonia). Specters of Violence in a Colonial Context is the first comprehensive history of the 1917-1918 war, which involved the French army, European settlers, and Kanak. In three parts, it addresses the events leading to the outbreak of war, how those involved explained their role in the fighting, and how the war has since been represented. It explores the dynamics of fear, violence, and warfare in a colonial setting that was both European and Melanesian in character. In the face of a colonial historiography and memory that has downplayed consistently the war's significance, this history ultimately reevaluates the causes and scale of the war while explaining the local contexts in which decisions were taken by the various protagonists. The author draws on a rich and largely unexploited colonial archive that includes administrative dossiers detailing the repression, the correspondence of missionaries and Indigenous Protestant teachers living in the region, the records of the judicial investigation that followed the war, and the reports on the post-war trial of seventy-eight "rebels."

The democratic transition processes in Africa since the 1990s have carried great hopes and expectations about 'civil society' and ambivalence about the state. This book explores the complex interactions between state fragility, self-help, and self organization in Nigeria. Nigeria's associational life is highly developed and multifaceted, reaching far beyond 'civil society organizations' (CSOs) or non-governmental organizations (NGOs). There is a 'third sector' within civil society that encompasses a spectrum extending from community-based forms of self-help to ethnic or religious representation, and even militias. Some self organization formations have narrow, pragmatic aims. Others have an explicit socio-cultural or political agenda. Many respond to, and cope with consequences of the Nigerian state's inability to deliver services and provide functioning regulatory frameworks. Examining and analyzing the emergence of broader forms of civil society, the book considers its roots, dynamics and successes, but also pinpoints its costs, ambivalences, and contradictions. Despite strong traditions of self-organization in Nigeria, many pressure groups, organizations defending rights, independent policy consultants and other structures known as 'civil society organizations' are also dependent on foreign aid. The book contributes to deliberations on the relationship between state and civil society in Nigeria, Africa, and globally.

Mitreissend erzählte Biografie des 1. deutschen Bundespräsidenten. Rezension: Die neuerdings wiederentdeckten Bürgerwerte könnten auch den von der biografischen Literatur lange ignorierten 1. Präsidenten der Republik wieder neu zu Ehren kommen lassen, und das anstehende Gedenkjahr zum 50. Todestag des "Bürgerpräsidenten" Heuss wird gewiss das Seine dazu tun. Diese auf Basis umfangreicher Quellen- und Literaturstudien erstellte grosse Lebensbeschreibung des für seine biografische Darstellungskunst, u.a. über Willy Brandt (2002), vielgerühmten ehemaligen Fernsehjournalisten setzt früh eine Marke, die so leicht nicht zu überbieten sein wird. Weit ausholend, in bester Erzähllaune und durchaus fasziniert von seinem Gegenüber, dennoch nicht unkritisch zeichnet Merseburger für ein breites Lesepublikum das private und politische Leben dieses "durch und durch zivilen" Bildungsbürgers nach, das vom Kaiserreich über Weimarer Republik und NS-Zeit bis an die Spitze der Bundesrepublik führte. 2 Abbildungsteile, Auswahlbibliografie, Personenregister. Ernst Wolfgang Becker (2011) ist eher für Schule und politische Bildung bestimmt. (2)

Developing a normative framework for evaluating non-state actors in the absence of formally binding obligations, this study is the first detailed human rights analysis of Hamas conduct and governance in the Gaza Strip. Tariq Mukhimer is a Human Rights Officer for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.