1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002793249707536

Titolo

The Great Society and the high tide of liberalism / edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2005

ISBN

1558494936

1558494944

Descrizione fisica

XXI, 490 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Political development of the American nation

Altri autori (Persone)

Milkis, Sidney M.

Mileur, Jerome M.

Disciplina

973.923

Soggetti

Liberalismo - Stati Uniti d'America

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

Stati Uniti d'America Politica Sociale

Stati Uniti d'America Politica Economica

Stati Uniti d'America Politica e Amministrazione Sec.20.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society, and the "twilight" of the modern presidency / Sidney M. Milkis -- Sixties civics / Hugh Heclo -- Pluralism, postwar intellectuals, and the demise of the union idea / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Contested rights : the Great Society between home and work / Eileen Boris -- Making pluralism "great" : beyond a recycled history of the Great Society / Brian Balogh -- Lyndon Johnson in the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt / William E. Leuchtenburg -- Great societies and great empires : Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Lyndon Johnson : means and ends, and what his presidency means in the end / David M. Shribman -- The politics of the Great Society / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- The new politics of participatory democracy viewed through a feminist lens / Rosalyn Baxandall -- Freedom from ignorance? : the Great Society and the evolution of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 / Patrick McGuinn and Frederick Hess -- Medicare : the Great Society's enduring national health insurance program / Edward Berkowitz --



Justices and justice : reflections on the Warren Court's legacy / Henry J. Abraham -- The Great Society's civil rights legacy : continuity 1, discontinuity 3 / Hugh Davis Graham -- From tax and spend to mandate and sue : liberalism after the Great Society / R. Shep Melnick -- The Great Society and the demise of New Deal liberalism / Jerome M. Mileur.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968975603321

Autore

Sohrabi Nader <1961->

Titolo

Revolution and constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran / / Nader Sohrabi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22373-3

1-139-20913-2

1-280-48481-0

1-139-22185-X

9786613579799

1-139-21703-8

1-139-21396-2

1-139-22356-9

1-139-22013-6

0-511-97719-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 447 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL000000

Disciplina

955.05/1

Soggetti

Constitutional history - Turkey

Constitutional history - Iran

Revolutions - Turkey - History - 20th century

Revolutions - Iran - History - 20th century

Comparative government

Turkey Politics and government 1878-1909

Turkey Politics and government 1909-1918

Iran Politics and government 1905-1911

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Ottoman Empire -- Revolution and the Neopatrimonial State -- The Young Turk Revolution and the Global Wave -- Constitutional and Extra-constitutional Struggles -- The Staff Policies and the Purges -- Counterrevolution and Its Aftermath -- Iran -- Reform and Patrimonialism in Comparative Perspective -- The Less Likely Revolution: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 in Iran in Light of the Young Turks.

Sommario/riassunto

In his book on constitutional revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and Iran in the early twentieth century, Nader Sohrabi considers the global diffusion of institutions and ideas, their regional and local reworking and the long-term consequences of adaptations. He delves into historic reasons for greater resilience of democratic institutions in Turkey as compared to Iran. Arguing that revolutions are time-bound phenomena whose forms follow global models in vogue at particular historical junctures, he challenges the ahistoric and purely local understanding of them. Furthermore, he argues that macro-structural preconditions alone cannot explain the occurrence of revolutions, but global waves, contingent events and the intervention of agency work together to bring them about in competition with other possible outcomes. To establish these points, the book draws on a wide array of archival and primary sources that afford a minute look at revolutions' unfolding.