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Release : 1978
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Author : Venelin I. Ganev
Release : 2007
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Preying on the State by : Venelin I. Ganev
Download or read book Preying on the State written by Venelin I. Ganev. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant characteristic was no longer its overweening powerfulness, but rather its utter decrepitude. Consequently, the role of the central state in managing economies, providing social services, and maintaining infrastructure came into question. Focusing on his native Bulgaria, Venelin I. Ganev explores in fine-grained detail the weakening of the central state in post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Ganev starts with the structural characteristics of the Soviet satellites, and in particular the forms of elite agency favored in the socialist party-state. As state socialism collapsed, Ganev demonstrates, its institutional legacy presented functionaries who had become accustomed to power with a matrix of opportunities and constraints. In order to maximize their advantage under such conditions, these elites did not need a robust state apparatus—in fact, all of the incentives under postsocialism pushed them to subvert the infrastructure of governance. Throughout Preying on the State, Ganev argues that the causes of state malfunctioning go much deeper than the policy preferences of "free marketeers" who deliberately dismantled the state. He systematically analyzes the multiple dimensions, implications, and significance of the institutional and social processes that transformed the organizational basis of effective governance.
Author : Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Release : 1916
Genre : Citizenship
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Book Synopsis The Problem of Small Nations in the European Crisis by : Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Download or read book The Problem of Small Nations in the European Crisis written by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. This book was released on 1916. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Lentricchia
Release : 1995-06-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition by : Frank Lentricchia
Download or read book Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition written by Frank Lentricchia. This book was released on 1995-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits. Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.
Author : Robert Stradling
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Teaching 20th-century European History by : Robert Stradling
Download or read book Teaching 20th-century European History written by Robert Stradling. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced for the Council of Europe project " Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th century", this book concentrates on the how rather than the what of teaching. Besides a study of selected themes and topics, it covers the teaching of sensitive issues, the reading of visual archives, analysing history on television and the Internet and assessing new technologies. Some of these new sources have not been made part of standard teacher training, yet they have a powerful role in the way young people perceive the past. The author is a Senior Research Fellow at Leirsinn Research Centre, University of Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute.
