... works in practice and a strong sense of detachment felt by many. The adolescent character of both politicians and citizens, the chapter argues, is largely to blame. Canada democracy equality political engagement politicians civility Conservative Party Canada Democratic Party US Ignatieff Michael...

... of immigrants and building a solid infrastructure. The chapter mentions the significance of virtue in experience, noting that the more the electorate is polarized, the less incentive for politicians to reach out for new supporters or introduce new policies or reforms. It explains that a grip on state and local...

...This chapter presents how politicians and planners reacted to the realization that US development was not working as planned, and not only in Nicaragua. The chapter discusses the action and pressure of the US Congress coming from a growing network of nongovernmental organizations and activists...

...This chapter looks at the argument between three of the United States' leading experts: Owen Lattimore, John King Fairbank, and David Nelson Rowe. It explores how their policy debates became wrapped up in toxic political struggles with the rise of anti-communist politicians like Representative...

...This book concludes with a discussion of Montgomery County's contribution to understanding planning politics. Montgomery's experience highlights the complementary roles and reasoning processes of planners and politicians as they sought to act in the public interest. One of the most valuable lessons...

... grown, its rapid transit system of underground and elevated rail lines has shrunk. Moreover, while politicians have repeatedly promised a Second Avenue subway to help advance their own careers, they have failed to acknowledge the enormous challenges involved in paying for it. Nevertheless, the first...

... the country had witnessed since the fall of the Paris Commune more than twenty years earlier. Certainly, some socialist politicians spoke out against the mass arrests, and the Parisian intelligentsia organized a strongly worded petition, but little resistance developed. This chapter then focuses on Émile...

... of the United States to achieve Irish independence. Simultaneously, the book tracks how American politicians used the Irish question as means of furthering their own diplomatic and political ends. Combining an innovative transnational methodology with attention to the complexities of American statecraft...

.... Canoes paddled along streets and lifeboats sculled over meadows. It was not Hurricane Katrina, but which was worse: the probable consequences of climate change, or the earnest politicians? Meanwhile, the end of the month was marked by days of saints: St. Hugh's, St. Cecilia's, St. Clement's, St...

... and complementary roles played by planners and politicians by focusing on the distinctive ways they think; the ideas and values that guide the principal interests that influence land use policy; and innovation, inertia, and transition in land use policy and the interests or values those policies reflected...

...This chapter maps out the rapidly growing field of public–private brokerage by assessing the scope and breadth of French revolving doors. The media discussion stirred up by the so-called pantouflages — a slang word for the practice of civil servants and politicians joining...

... brought millions of dollars of U.S. military aid into the country, resulting in the increased militarization of Philippine society as well as the near total defeat of peasant and working-class alternatives to Philippine elite control of the state. But while Filipino politicians affirmed decolonization...

... politicians took a shortsighted approach to the transit system. Instead of raising fares, they raised false expectations that New Yorkers could have high-quality subway service with low fares. The repercussions would last for generations. The chapter then looks at the establishment of the Office of Transit...

... émigrés made important contributions to a large range of subjects, including philosophy and history, while émigré communities produced hundreds of journals and newspapers. In the post-Soviet era, as Russian politicians and intellectuals have sought non-communist sources of inspiration, many have turned...

... with great alacrity to Allende's victory in the popular election. Richard Nixon himself instructed CIA director Richard Helms to conduct covert operations in Chile, behind Ambassador Korry's back. In addition, Chilean politicians, particularly Christian Democrats of the Frei line, tried or at least explored...

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...) employees, Philadelphia residents, and Democratic political leaders, such that by 1963, liberal politicians and their supporters realized that private control of this vital public service was no longer tolerable. That year they set in motion plans to purchase PTC and transform it into a publicly run...

...This chapter analyses the transformative effects of the new pattern of public–private collusion on prevailing conceptions and categories of the public interest. This dynamic development can be seen by following the trail of the group of mobile and multipositioned civil servants or politicians who...

...This chapter illustrates why gangs are so powerful in Latin America. First, Latin America is poor, and when opportunities for legitimate employment are scarce or unremunerative, people turn to crime because crime pays. Second, gangs get politicians elected and keep them in power, which makes...

... to the fore the underlying struggles in late-Soviet Tajik society, such as rival politicians and people who benefitted from perestroika. demonstrations of 1989 Karimov Buri riots of February 1990 Safieva Gulrukhsor Supreme Soviet of the USSR Armenian refugees Azerbaijan elections housing KGB...