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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811537203321

Autore

Higley John

Titolo

Elite foundations of liberal democracy / / John Higley and Michael Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-7425-6855-5

0-7425-5360-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Elite Transformations

Classificazione

ME 3000

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences)

Democracy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Elites and Regimes; 2 Disunited Elites and Unstable Regimes; 3 Settlements among Disunited Elites; 4 Colonial Origins of Consensually United Elites; 5 Convergences among Disunited Elites; 6 Elites and Liberal Democratic Prospects; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This compelling and convincing study, the capstone of decades of research, argues that political regimes are created and sustained by elites. Liberal democracies are no exception; they depend, above all, on the formation and persistence of consensually united elites. John Higley and Michael Burton explore the circumstances and ways in which such elites have formed in the modern world. They identify pressures that may cause a basic change in the structure and functioning of elites in established liberal democracies, and they ask if the elites cluster around George W. Bush are a harbinger of thi



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974569103321

Autore

Du Liang <1976->

Titolo

Learning to be Chinese American : community, education, and ethnic identity / / Liang Du

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010

ISBN

979-82-16-29953-0

1-283-61386-7

0-7391-3850-2

9786613926319

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Disciplina

305.895/1073

Soggetti

Chinese Americans - Ethnic identity

Chinese Americans - Social conditions

Chinese Americans - Education

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chinese Americans : community, education, and identities -- Rationales behind an education : that box doesn't belong to you -- The creation of a diaspora identity -- The limits of ethnicity : community-based education as a contesting site -- Learning to be Chinese Americans in new times : community, identity, and globalization.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on original ethnographic material collected in an upper-middle class Chinese American community, this book aims at exploring the complicated identity production process within the community in relation to the rapidly changing global and local contexts. The book is expected to expand the scope of existing literature on identity production among immigrants of color in both empirical and methodological terms.