1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970815003321

Autore

Shapiro Michael J

Titolo

Methods and nations : cultural governance and the indigenous subject / / Michael J. Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, c2004

ISBN

1-135-94340-0

0-415-94531-3

1-135-94341-9

1-280-04572-8

0-203-50377-5

9780203503775

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Global horizons

Disciplina

700/.1/03

Soggetti

Postcolonialism and the arts

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. 235-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: Politics, Methods, and Loci of Enunciation; Acknowledgments; Social Science, ~Comparative Politics,~ and Inequality; Nation-States: Drama and Narration; The ~Musico-Literary~ Aesthetics of Attachment and Resistance; Landscape and Nationhood; Film and Nation Building; ~The Nation-State and Violence~: Wim Wenders Contra Imperial Sovereignty; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Shapiro seeks to bring recognition to forms of political expression that have existed on the margins of the nationhood practices of states and the complicit nation-sustaining conceits of social science.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968973803321

Autore

Ginsberg Benjamin

Titolo

Congress : The First Branch / / Kathryn Wagner Hill, Benjamin Ginsberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-300-24961-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 pages)

Collana

Yale scholarship online

Disciplina

328.73

Soggetti

Legislative bodies - United States

Legislative bodies - United States - History

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Congress: The First Branch -- 2. A Brief History of Congress: From First Branch to Second Fiddle -- 3. Congressional Elections -- 4. Political Parties and the Organization of Congress -- 5. The Legislative Process: The Rise of the New Order in Congress -- 6. Congress, the President, and Domestic Policy: Who Governs? -- 7. Congress and Foreign Policy -- 8. Congress and the Bureaucracy: Who Makes the Law? -- 9. Congress and the Courts -- 10. Reflections on Congress -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers In this accessible overview of the United States Congress's past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country's most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the President, and Congress and the courts. Congress: The First Branch offers a fresh approach to the First Branch grounded in a historical, positive frame.