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Runaway State-Building
Here, Conor O'Dwyer introduces the phenomenon of runaway state-building as a consequence of patronage politics in underdeveloped, noncompetitive party systems. Analyzing the cases of three newly democratized nations in Eastern Europe—Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia—O’Dwyer argues that competition among political parties constrains patronage-led state expansion. O’Dwyer uses democratization as a starting point, examining its effects on other aspects of political development. Focusing on the link between electoral competition and state-building, he is able to draw parallels between the problems faced by these three nations and broader historical and contemporary problems of patronage politics—such as urban machines in nineteenth-century America and the Philippines after Marcos. This timely study provides political scientists and political reformers with insights into points in the democratization process where appropriate intervention can minimize runaway state-building and cultivate efficient bureaucracy within a robust and competitive democratic system.
The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small
This is the master volume to the 28 book set on Irish Family History from the Irish Genealogical Foundation. The largest and most comprehensive of the series, this volume includes family histories from every county in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It also has, for the first time, the complete surname index for the entire series. The 27 other books which are indexed in this volume will provide additional information on even more families.
Coming Out of Communism
How homophobic backlash unexpectedly strengthened mobilization for LGBT political rights in post-communist Europe While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in the region, LGBT individuals in other post-communist countries also suffer from discriminatory laws and prejudiced social institutions. Combining an historical overview with interviews and case studies in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, Conor O’Dwyer analyzes the development and impact of LGBT movements in post-communist Eastern and Central Europe. O’Dwyer argues that backlash ag...
Talking about O'Dwyer
What really happened when Joe Panapa, a soldier in the Maori Battalion, was killed in action in the New Zealand campaign in Crete in the Second World War? And why did Joe s whanau place a makutu, a Maori curse, on Joe's Pakeha commanding officer, O'Dwyer, when he visited Joe s home marae after the war to pay his respects? Years later, Mike Newall, an New Zealand philosopher at Oxford University, uses the occasion of O'Dwyer s funeral to revisit the incident. Why did O'Dwyer kill the Maori soldier during the retreat from Crete'. The precise facts of Panapa's death become the central thread of a complex novel which swings from an New Zealand boyhood to academic life at Oxford to a West Auckland Dalmatian connection which later takes Mike to Croatia at the height of the Serb-Croatian war. At the end of the novel the various threads come together in a military cemetery on a Crete hillside as Mike, and an Oxford friend, and Panapa's family both Maori and Croatian - visit the young soldier's grave.
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Confucianism's Prospects
Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and critically evaluates communitarian Confucian alternatives to liberal democracy. In Confucianism’s Prospects, Shaun O’Dwyer offers a rare critical engagement with English-language scholarship on Confucianism. Against the background of historical and sociological research into the rapid modernization of East Asian societies, O’Dwyer reviews several key Confucian ethical ideas and proposals for East Asian alternatives to liberal democracy that have emerged from this scholarship. He also puts the following question to Confucian scholars: what prospects do those ideas and proposals have in East Asian societies in whic...
ECDL Advanced Presentation
This comprehensive coursebook covers all aspects of the ECDL Advanced Presentation module using the most popular business software - Microsoft PowerPoint 2000. It provides everything a student needs to pass the ECDL Advanced Presentation certification test. Written by experienced trainers Paul Holden and Sadhbh O'Dwyer, the book offers guidance on the ECDL Advanced Presentation module.
Deep Mediations
The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies For decades the concept of depth has been central to critical thinking in numerous humanities-based disciplines, legitimizing certain modes of inquiry over others. Deep Mediations examines why and how this is, as scholars today navigate the legacy of depth models of thought and vision, particularly in light of the “surface turn” and as these models impinge on the realms of cinema and media studies. The collection’s eighteen essays seek to understand the decisive but evolving fixation on depth by considering the term’s use across a range of conversations as well as its status in relation to critical metho...
Mastering the C++17 STL
This book breaks down the C++ STL, teaching you how to extract its gems and apply them to your programming. About This Book Boost your productivity as a C++ developer with the latest features of C++17 Develop high-quality, fast, and portable applications with the varied features of the STL Migrate from older versions (C++11, C++14) to C++17 Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to master the C++ STL and make full use of its components. Prior C++ knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn Make your own iterator types, allocators, and thread pools. Master every standard container and every standard algorithm. Improve your code by replacing new/delete with smart pointer...
