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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782024603321

Autore

Holland Dorothy

Titolo

Local democracy under siege [[electronic resource] ] : activism, public interests, and private politics / / Dorothy Holland ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-9088-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HollandDorothy C

Disciplina

320.809756

Soggetti

Political participation - North Carolina

Political anthropology - North Carolina

Political culture - North Carolina

Democracy - North Carolina

North Carolina Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Experimenting with democracy -- Landscapes in transition -- Hope, fear, and political autobiography -- Racial framing -- Public goods for private ends : the redirection of schooling -- Local politics and the contemporary American scene -- Imagining local futures : who sets priorities for the present? -- Public business as usual -- Against American plutocracy : democratizing our communities, one by one -- Counter experiments for democracy : activism on new political terrain -- It's up to us : from local politics to a democratic America?

Sommario/riassunto

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award  Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.  What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century?  To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910694301803321

Titolo

The District of Columbia Tuition Access Grant Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1124, to extend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999, March 22, 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 75 p.)

Soggetti

Student aid - Law and legislation - Washington (D.C.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694099103321

Titolo

Drug importation : would the price be right? : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, on examining the price of drug reimportation, focusing on implications for United States consumers, pricing, research and development, and innovation, February 17, 2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 105 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Drug reimportation - United States

Prescription pricing - United States

Drugs - Purchasing - United States

Pharmaceutical policy - United States

Foreign trade regulation - United States

Drug reimportation

Drugs - Purchasing

Foreign trade regulation

Pharmaceutical policy

Prescription pricing

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia