The 2012 elections in Florida : Obama wins and democrats make strides in downticket races / / Robert E. Crew, Jr. and Mary Ruggiero Anderson |
Autore | Crew Robert E., Jr. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
Collana | Patterns and trends in Florida elections |
Soggetto topico |
Elections - Florida
Political campaigns - Forida Presidents - United States - Election - 2012 |
ISBN | 0-7618-6692-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; I: The 2012 Presidential Election in Florida; 1 An Overview; The Florida Presidential Contest in 2012; 2 The Nomination Process; Republican Presidential Primary; The Lead-In to the Florida Primary; The Florida Presidential Primary: Romney vs. Gingrich; The Florida Presidential Primary: Rick Santorum and Ron Paul; The Outcome of the Republican Presidential Primary; Summary; 3 The Presidential General Election Process; The Strategic Context; Positioning, Targeting, and Message; How the Democrats Campaigned; How the Republicans Campaigned; Summary
4 The Presidential Election ResultsEarly Voting; Voter Registration and Turnout; 5 Voting Behavior in the Presidential Election; Sex; Race and Ethnicity; Age; Summary of Key Demographic Groups; Summary; 6 Issues and Candidate Perceptions; Days Leading Up to the Election: Likely Voters in Florida; The Day of Election: CNN Exit Polling, Data, Florida Voters, and the Nation; Summary; II: The Race for the U.S. Senate; 7 The Campaign for the U.S. Senate; Background and Context; The Primary Campaign; The US Senate General Election; The Outcome of the Senate Race 8 Explaining the Voter in the Senate ElectionGeneral Election Results; Summary of Key Demographic Groups; Summary; III: The Race for Congress; 9 The Campaign for Congress; Introduction; The Pattern of Outcomes in the 2012 Congressional Elections; IV: The State Legislative Campaigns; 10 The State Legislative Races; Introduction; The Parameters of the 2012 Legislative Session; Overall Results; Patterns in the Outcomes of the Florida Legislative Races; V: What's Next in Politics in Florida?; 11 Patterns, Trends, and the Future of Florida Politics; Introduction Trends in the Florida Electoral SystemTrends in Voter Registration and Voter Turnout; Politically Relevant Population Trends; Trends in Campaign Finance; The Source of Campaign Funding; Work Cited; Index |
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Crew Robert E., Jr.
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The 2012 elections in Florida : Obama wins and democrats make strides in downticket races / / Robert E. Crew, Jr. and Mary Ruggiero Anderson |
Autore | Crew Robert E., Jr. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
Collana | Patterns and trends in Florida elections |
Soggetto topico |
Elections - Florida
Political campaigns - Forida Presidents - United States - Election - 2012 |
ISBN | 0-7618-6692-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; I: The 2012 Presidential Election in Florida; 1 An Overview; The Florida Presidential Contest in 2012; 2 The Nomination Process; Republican Presidential Primary; The Lead-In to the Florida Primary; The Florida Presidential Primary: Romney vs. Gingrich; The Florida Presidential Primary: Rick Santorum and Ron Paul; The Outcome of the Republican Presidential Primary; Summary; 3 The Presidential General Election Process; The Strategic Context; Positioning, Targeting, and Message; How the Democrats Campaigned; How the Republicans Campaigned; Summary
4 The Presidential Election ResultsEarly Voting; Voter Registration and Turnout; 5 Voting Behavior in the Presidential Election; Sex; Race and Ethnicity; Age; Summary of Key Demographic Groups; Summary; 6 Issues and Candidate Perceptions; Days Leading Up to the Election: Likely Voters in Florida; The Day of Election: CNN Exit Polling, Data, Florida Voters, and the Nation; Summary; II: The Race for the U.S. Senate; 7 The Campaign for the U.S. Senate; Background and Context; The Primary Campaign; The US Senate General Election; The Outcome of the Senate Race 8 Explaining the Voter in the Senate ElectionGeneral Election Results; Summary of Key Demographic Groups; Summary; III: The Race for Congress; 9 The Campaign for Congress; Introduction; The Pattern of Outcomes in the 2012 Congressional Elections; IV: The State Legislative Campaigns; 10 The State Legislative Races; Introduction; The Parameters of the 2012 Legislative Session; Overall Results; Patterns in the Outcomes of the Florida Legislative Races; V: What's Next in Politics in Florida?; 11 Patterns, Trends, and the Future of Florida Politics; Introduction Trends in the Florida Electoral SystemTrends in Voter Registration and Voter Turnout; Politically Relevant Population Trends; Trends in Campaign Finance; The Source of Campaign Funding; Work Cited; Index |
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Inside the Cold War from Marx to Reagan : an unprecedented guide to the roots, history, strategies, and key documents of the Cold War / / Sven F. Kraemer |
Autore | Kraemer Sven F. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, District of Columbia : , : American Foreign Policy Council |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (569 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Cold War
World politics - 1945-1989 |
ISBN | 0-7618-6623-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Inside The Cold War From Marx To Reagan ; CONTENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; PART I-ROOTS AND STRATEGIES OF THE COLD WAR BEFORE REAGAN ; 1 America's Freedom Faith and the Cold War; 2 Marxism-Leninism: Communist Roots of the Cold War to the Eve of the Second World War-1848 to 1939 ; 3 The Cold War Builds: From the Hitler-Stalin Pact to the Iron Curtain-1939 to 1950; 4 U.S. "Containment" Strategy: Truman to Johnson-1950 to 1968; 5 U.S. "Détente" Strategy: Nixon to Ford-1969 to 1977; 6 Carter's "Détente" Confusion: Soviet Advances and Catalysts for Change-1977 to 1981
PART II-THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IN U.S. COLD WAR STRATEGY: AN OVERVIEW7 The Reagan Revolution Begins: Reagan's Political Journey, Coalition, and 1980 Election; 8 The First Term, Setting the New Cold War Strategy: Peace and Freedom through Strength-1981 to 1985; 9 The Second Term: Reagan's Cold War Strategy Gains Force, Gorbachev Falters-1985 to 1989; PART III-THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IN DEFENSE AND ARMS CONTROL; 10 Reagan's Integrated U.S. Defense and Arms Control Strategy; 11 Intermediate Nuclear Forces: "Zero Option" vs. Nuclear Freeze 12 Strategic Forces: Soviet Buildup, U.S. Modernization, START, and Nuclear Deterrence13 Strategic Defense: SDI, MAD, ASATs, and Civil Defense; 14 NATO-Warsaw Pact: Conventional and CBW Forces and Arms Control; 15 Soviet Arms Treaty Violations; PART IV-REAGAN'S FREEDOM STRATEGY AGAINST SOVIET IMPERIALISM, ESPIONAGE, AND "ACTIVE MEASURES" INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS ; 16 Reagan's Freedom Strategy: Speeches, Public Diplomacy, and Support of Freedom Movements; 17 Taking on Soviet Imperialism in Afghanistan; 18 Taking on Soviet-Cuban Imperialism in Latin America and Africa 19 Taking on Soviet Imperialism in Poland and Eastern Europe20 Reagan's Intelligence Revolution: Taking on Soviet Espionage and "Active Measures"; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AWARD; REAGAN LETTER TO AUTHOR; ENDNOTES |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798078603321 |
Kraemer Sven F.
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Inside the Cold War from Marx to Reagan : an unprecedented guide to the roots, history, strategies, and key documents of the Cold War / / Sven F. Kraemer |
Autore | Kraemer Sven F. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, District of Columbia : , : American Foreign Policy Council |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (569 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Cold War
World politics - 1945-1989 |
ISBN | 0-7618-6623-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Inside The Cold War From Marx To Reagan ; CONTENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; PART I-ROOTS AND STRATEGIES OF THE COLD WAR BEFORE REAGAN ; 1 America's Freedom Faith and the Cold War; 2 Marxism-Leninism: Communist Roots of the Cold War to the Eve of the Second World War-1848 to 1939 ; 3 The Cold War Builds: From the Hitler-Stalin Pact to the Iron Curtain-1939 to 1950; 4 U.S. "Containment" Strategy: Truman to Johnson-1950 to 1968; 5 U.S. "Détente" Strategy: Nixon to Ford-1969 to 1977; 6 Carter's "Détente" Confusion: Soviet Advances and Catalysts for Change-1977 to 1981
PART II-THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IN U.S. COLD WAR STRATEGY: AN OVERVIEW7 The Reagan Revolution Begins: Reagan's Political Journey, Coalition, and 1980 Election; 8 The First Term, Setting the New Cold War Strategy: Peace and Freedom through Strength-1981 to 1985; 9 The Second Term: Reagan's Cold War Strategy Gains Force, Gorbachev Falters-1985 to 1989; PART III-THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IN DEFENSE AND ARMS CONTROL; 10 Reagan's Integrated U.S. Defense and Arms Control Strategy; 11 Intermediate Nuclear Forces: "Zero Option" vs. Nuclear Freeze 12 Strategic Forces: Soviet Buildup, U.S. Modernization, START, and Nuclear Deterrence13 Strategic Defense: SDI, MAD, ASATs, and Civil Defense; 14 NATO-Warsaw Pact: Conventional and CBW Forces and Arms Control; 15 Soviet Arms Treaty Violations; PART IV-REAGAN'S FREEDOM STRATEGY AGAINST SOVIET IMPERIALISM, ESPIONAGE, AND "ACTIVE MEASURES" INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS ; 16 Reagan's Freedom Strategy: Speeches, Public Diplomacy, and Support of Freedom Movements; 17 Taking on Soviet Imperialism in Afghanistan; 18 Taking on Soviet-Cuban Imperialism in Latin America and Africa 19 Taking on Soviet Imperialism in Poland and Eastern Europe20 Reagan's Intelligence Revolution: Taking on Soviet Espionage and "Active Measures"; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AWARD; REAGAN LETTER TO AUTHOR; ENDNOTES |
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The polarized Congress : the post-traditional procedure of its current struggles / / Charles Tiefer |
Autore | Tiefer Charles |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
ISBN | 0-7618-6748-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Polarized Congress ; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Bicameral Agreement: Conferences and Ping-Ponging; Chapter 3 Running the Polarized House: Polarization, the Hastert Rule, and the Fettered Floor ; Chapter 4 Trying to Work with the Polarized Senate; Chapter 5 Cloture in the Often-Blocked Senate; Chapter 6 The Budget Process Serving Polarized Chambers; Chapter 7 Appropriations; Chapter 8 Change; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798145603321 |
Tiefer Charles
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The polarized Congress : the post-traditional procedure of its current struggles / / Charles Tiefer |
Autore | Tiefer Charles |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
ISBN | 0-7618-6748-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Polarized Congress ; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Bicameral Agreement: Conferences and Ping-Ponging; Chapter 3 Running the Polarized House: Polarization, the Hastert Rule, and the Fettered Floor ; Chapter 4 Trying to Work with the Polarized Senate; Chapter 5 Cloture in the Often-Blocked Senate; Chapter 6 The Budget Process Serving Polarized Chambers; Chapter 7 Appropriations; Chapter 8 Change; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808549803321 |
Tiefer Charles
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The riddling between Oedipus and the sphinx : ontology, hauntology, and heterologies of the grotesque / / Yuan Yuan |
Autore | Yuan Yu'an |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.915 |
Soggetto topico |
Grotesque
Ontology |
ISBN | 0-7618-6663-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the return of the grotesque -- Notes. 1 The primal scenes revisited: archeology and genealogy of the grotesque : 1 the uncanny subject between aesthetics and metaphysics : The current critical scenes: figuration of the grotesque -- Archeology of the grotesque: dis-figuration at the primal scene -- Genealogy of the grotesque: transfiguration in different aesthetic modes -- Conclusion: aesthetics of art and metaphysics of being -- Notes. 2 The mystical encounter between the Sphinx and Oedipus : The Sphinx: emblem of the grotesque and the problematic origin -- The Sphinx at different locations: transfiguration of identities -- The encounter: fall of the Sphinx and rise of Oedipus in the Oedipus legend -- Shift and drift between Oedipus and the Sphinx in and beyond the legend -- The ontological mystery between Oedipus and the Sphinx -- The riddle between Oedipus and the Sphinx -- Conclusion of part one: the uncanny subject of the grotesque. 2 Reconfiguring the grotesque between the Sphinx and Oedipus : 3 The enigmatic Sphinx: the grotesque other in aesthetic speculation : Hege's symbolic art: a metaphysical speculation of the grotesque -- Nietzsche's Dionysus: mythical desires toward the grotesque -- Freud's "the uncanny" and the grotesque: mother and the other -- Notes. 4 Oedipus obsessed: grotesque desires and the phantom subject : Derrida's hauntology: the spectral and specular other -- Solipsistic desire, negative signification, and the ghost subject in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit -- The ascetic ideal and nihilistic desire: the disembodied subject and bad conscience in Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals -- Freud's Civilization and its Discontents and The Future of an Illusion: between Oedipal rites and narcissistic desire -- Conclusion of part two: the modern subject -- Notes. 3 The subject of the other(s) in ontology and heterologies : 5 Oracles and ghosts: the dubious other in Lacan's discourse of the subject : Repeating after Freud and the sacred words from the spectral other -- The grotesque: surrealistic images, poststructualist ideas, and modern ethos -- The specular other and the imaginary subject -- The linguistic other and the symbolic subject -- The dubious other(s) in the unconscious -- No other of the other? The wholly or holy other without alterity or difference -- Notes. 6 From ontology to heterologies: a postmodern perspective on otherness : The death of God and the postmodern turn toward the other -- Bakhtin: carnivalizing the grotesque in folk culture -- Kristeva: abjecting the grotesque and the other in process -- Anzaldúa: hybridizing the grotesque: the new Mestiza in ethnographical borderlands -- Notes. Afterword: the cyborg: a post-human return to the grotesque -- Notes. Bibliography -- Index. |
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Yuan Yu'an
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The riddling between Oedipus and the sphinx : ontology, hauntology, and heterologies of the grotesque / / Yuan Yuan |
Autore | Yuan Yu'an |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.915 |
Soggetto topico |
Grotesque
Ontology |
ISBN | 0-7618-6663-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the return of the grotesque -- Notes. 1 The primal scenes revisited: archeology and genealogy of the grotesque : 1 the uncanny subject between aesthetics and metaphysics : The current critical scenes: figuration of the grotesque -- Archeology of the grotesque: dis-figuration at the primal scene -- Genealogy of the grotesque: transfiguration in different aesthetic modes -- Conclusion: aesthetics of art and metaphysics of being -- Notes. 2 The mystical encounter between the Sphinx and Oedipus : The Sphinx: emblem of the grotesque and the problematic origin -- The Sphinx at different locations: transfiguration of identities -- The encounter: fall of the Sphinx and rise of Oedipus in the Oedipus legend -- Shift and drift between Oedipus and the Sphinx in and beyond the legend -- The ontological mystery between Oedipus and the Sphinx -- The riddle between Oedipus and the Sphinx -- Conclusion of part one: the uncanny subject of the grotesque. 2 Reconfiguring the grotesque between the Sphinx and Oedipus : 3 The enigmatic Sphinx: the grotesque other in aesthetic speculation : Hege's symbolic art: a metaphysical speculation of the grotesque -- Nietzsche's Dionysus: mythical desires toward the grotesque -- Freud's "the uncanny" and the grotesque: mother and the other -- Notes. 4 Oedipus obsessed: grotesque desires and the phantom subject : Derrida's hauntology: the spectral and specular other -- Solipsistic desire, negative signification, and the ghost subject in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit -- The ascetic ideal and nihilistic desire: the disembodied subject and bad conscience in Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals -- Freud's Civilization and its Discontents and The Future of an Illusion: between Oedipal rites and narcissistic desire -- Conclusion of part two: the modern subject -- Notes. 3 The subject of the other(s) in ontology and heterologies : 5 Oracles and ghosts: the dubious other in Lacan's discourse of the subject : Repeating after Freud and the sacred words from the spectral other -- The grotesque: surrealistic images, poststructualist ideas, and modern ethos -- The specular other and the imaginary subject -- The linguistic other and the symbolic subject -- The dubious other(s) in the unconscious -- No other of the other? The wholly or holy other without alterity or difference -- Notes. 6 From ontology to heterologies: a postmodern perspective on otherness : The death of God and the postmodern turn toward the other -- Bakhtin: carnivalizing the grotesque in folk culture -- Kristeva: abjecting the grotesque and the other in process -- Anzaldúa: hybridizing the grotesque: the new Mestiza in ethnographical borderlands -- Notes. Afterword: the cyborg: a post-human return to the grotesque -- Notes. Bibliography -- Index. |
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Yuan Yu'an
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The suicidal state in Somalia : the rise and fall of the Siad Barre Regime, 1969-1991 / / Mohamed Haji Ingiriis |
Autore | Ingiriis Mohamed Haji |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
Disciplina | 967.7305 |
ISBN | 0-7618-6720-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Note on Somali Orthography and Transliteration; Introduction; I: The Colonial State and Schooling: Tribulation; 1 The Genealogies of African Dictatorship(s); 2 A Critical Appraisal; II: The Capture of the State: Totalitarianism; 3 Siad Barre and the Somali State; 4 The Dialectics of Dictatorship and Domination; III: From Clanised to Criminalised State: Tyranny; 5 Plunder, Predatory Power and Political Economy; 6 The Politics of the 1977 War and Its Ramifications; IV: The Calamity of the State: The Terror
7 The Exploitation of Clan as Political Resource8 The Family Affair and the Absence of Escape; 9 The Turning Points and the Ending Point; V: The Cacophony of Control: The Torment; 10 The Outbreak of the Uprising; 11 The Reality and Realignment of 1991; Conclusion; Notes; Subject Index; Name Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798297803321 |
Ingiriis Mohamed Haji
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The suicidal state in Somalia : the rise and fall of the Siad Barre Regime, 1969-1991 / / Mohamed Haji Ingiriis |
Autore | Ingiriis Mohamed Haji |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : University Press of America, Incorporated, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
Disciplina | 967.7305 |
ISBN | 0-7618-6720-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Note on Somali Orthography and Transliteration; Introduction; I: The Colonial State and Schooling: Tribulation; 1 The Genealogies of African Dictatorship(s); 2 A Critical Appraisal; II: The Capture of the State: Totalitarianism; 3 Siad Barre and the Somali State; 4 The Dialectics of Dictatorship and Domination; III: From Clanised to Criminalised State: Tyranny; 5 Plunder, Predatory Power and Political Economy; 6 The Politics of the 1977 War and Its Ramifications; IV: The Calamity of the State: The Terror
7 The Exploitation of Clan as Political Resource8 The Family Affair and the Absence of Escape; 9 The Turning Points and the Ending Point; V: The Cacophony of Control: The Torment; 10 The Outbreak of the Uprising; 11 The Reality and Realignment of 1991; Conclusion; Notes; Subject Index; Name Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813067803321 |
Ingiriis Mohamed Haji
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