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"In this book, we use the case of China to examine how state actors can transform the Internet and online discourse into a key strategic element for maintaining the government and relieving domestic pressure on national institutions. While scholars have long known that the democratizing influence of the Internet can be blunted by autocratic states, in this book, we show that the online sphere can effectively be co-opted by states like China and transformed into a supporting institution. Our theory, Directed Digital Dissidence, explains how autocracies manage critical online information flows and the impact this management has on mass opinion and behavior. While the expansion of the Internet may stimulate dissidence, it also provides the central government an avenue to direct that dissent away and toward selected targets. Under the strategy of Directed Digital Dissidence, the Internet becomes a mechanism to dissipate threats by serving as a targeted relief valve rather than a building pressure cooker. We consider the process and impact of this evolving state led manipulation of the political Internet using data and examples from China. We use an original large-scale random survey of Chinese citizens to measure Internet use, social media use, and political attitudes. We also consider the impact of the state firewall. Beyond simply identifying the government strategy, we focus on testing the effectiveness of the strategy with empirical data. We also consider how the redirection of dissent can be done across a broader range of targets, including non-state actors and other nations"-- Provided by publisher.

• Palingenesis, history and politics
• Paul Chenavard and the Pantheon
• The troglodytes, the Hebrew republic and the Germanic peoples
• Immanuel Kant and the future as history
• Kant's critics
• Ballanche, Quinet and the end of history
• Industry and individuality
• The Coppet group and the liberty of the moderns
• The ancients, the moderns and the concept of perfectibility
• The division of labour
• Positive and negative liberty
• Roman law and its legacy
• The federal alternative
• Germaine de Staël and modern politics
• Germaine de Staël and Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Enthusiasm, the imagination and the nature of modern politics
• From the concept of palingenesis to the concept of enlightenment
• Kant, palingenesis and equality
• Constituent power and the politics of reform
• Kant and Enlightenment
• The death of God and the problem of autonomy
• Germaine de Staël and the death of God
• The concept of autonomy
• Rousseau, Mendelssohn and Kant
• Autonomy and the imagination
• Friedrich Schiller and the idea of aesthetic education
• The idea of autonomy and the concept of civil society
• Disciplining the uncontrolled natural will
• Fichte and the problem of autonomy
• Schelling and subjectivity
• From autonomy to civic humanism
• Hegel and civil society
• Hegelian political economy : Stein and Dietzel
• Rudolf von Jhering and the rule of law
• Georg Jellinek and the concept of sovereignty
• From romanticism to classicism
• Humanitarianism, Hegelianism and Saint-Simonianism
• Victor Cousin and the impersonality of reason
• François Guizot and the history of civilization
• Hegelians and Saint-Simonians
• Fortoul, Sainte-Beuve and Sieyès
• The return of Rome
• Symbols, enthusiasm and culture
• The limits of rationality
• Cyprien Desmarais and the dilemmas of the modern age
• Jules Michelet and Edgar Quinet
• The romantic Renaissance
• Civil society and the state
• Towards a new synthesis : Heinrich Ahrens and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
• Johann Kaspar Bluntschli and the theory of the modern state
• Heinrich von Treitschke and the liberal foundations of Realpolitik
• Ferdinand Lassalle and the politics of reform
• Otto von Gierke and the concept of the Genossenschaft
• From autonomy to democracy
• Felix Esquirou de Parieu and the principles of political science
• The origins of the Whig interpretation of history
• James Reddie and the Adam Smith problem
• Henry Sumner Maine and the properties of Roman law
• The politics of unsocial sociability
• History and normativity
• Joseph-Marc Hornung and Roman history
• Henry Maine and the history of the troglodytes
• Words that end in-ism
• Henry Michel and the politics of unsocial sociability
• Appendix. Lord Acton on the Romans, the Germans, and the moderns.

"A reflection on the legacy of money, law, and history in modern political thought"-- Provided by publisher.

• Palingenesis, history and politics
• Paul Chenavard and the Pantheon
• The troglodytes, the Hebrew republic and the Germanic peoples
• Immanuel Kant and the future as history
• Kant's critics
• Ballanche, Quinet and the end of history
• Industry and individuality
• The Coppet group and the liberty of the moderns
• The ancients, the moderns and the concept of perfectibility
• The division of labour
• Positive and negative liberty
• Roman law and its legacy
• The federal alternative
• Germaine de Staël and modern politics
• Germaine de Staël and Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Enthusiasm, the imagination and the nature of modern politics
• From the concept of palingenesis to the concept of enlightenment
• Kant, palingenesis and equality
• Constituent power and the politics of reform
• Kant and Enlightenment
• The death of God and the problem of autonomy
• Germaine de Staël and the death of God
• The concept of autonomy
• Rousseau, Mendelssohn and Kant
• Autonomy and the imagination
• Friedrich Schiller and the idea of aesthetic education
• The idea of autonomy and the concept of civil society
• Disciplining the uncontrolled natural will
• Fichte and the problem of autonomy
• Schelling and subjectivity
• From autonomy to civic humanism
• Hegel and civil society
• Hegelian political economy : Stein and Dietzel
• Rudolf von Jhering and the rule of law
• Georg Jellinek and the concept of sovereignty
• From romanticism to classicism
• Humanitarianism, Hegelianism and Saint-Simonianism
• Victor Cousin and the impersonality of reason
• François Guizot and the history of civilization
• Hegelians and Saint-Simonians
• Fortoul, Sainte-Beuve and Sieyès
• The return of Rome
• Symbols, enthusiasm and culture
• The limits of rationality
• Cyprien Desmarais and the dilemmas of the modern age
• Jules Michelet and Edgar Quinet
• The romantic Renaissance
• Civil society and the state
• Towards a new synthesis : Heinrich Ahrens and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
• Johann Kaspar Bluntschli and the theory of the modern state
• Heinrich von Treitschke and the liberal foundations of Realpolitik
• Ferdinand Lassalle and the politics of reform
• Otto von Gierke and the concept of the Genossenschaft
• From autonomy to democracy
• Felix Esquirou de Parieu and the principles of political science
• The origins of the Whig interpretation of history
• James Reddie and the Adam Smith problem
• Henry Sumner Maine and the properties of Roman law
• The politics of unsocial sociability
• History and normativity
• Joseph-Marc Hornung and Roman history
• Henry Maine and the history of the troglodytes
• Words that end in-ism
• Henry Michel and the politics of unsocial sociability
• Appendix. Lord Acton on the Romans, the Germans, and the moderns

• Le métier et la vocation de politiste. Apprendre les sciences sociales avec Philippe Garraud
• Politiques nationales : élaboration de l'agenda
• Les contraintes partisanes dans le métier d'élu local
• Sur quelques interactions observées dans l'agglomération bordelaise autour des élections municipales de 1989
• La vie politique locale entre professionnalisation et singularité, retour sur un article publié dans Politix
• Les nouveaux juges du politique en France
• De la corruption aux affaires. Juger la politique dans la France des années 1990
• Ambiguïté et "bricolage" institutionalisés le "cercle vicieux" de l'intervention publique
• La construction de la ligne Maginot alpine et son emploi en 1940 : un système défensif et novateur efficace
• Philippe Garraud et l'histoire militaire du XXe siècle dans Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains
• Manières d'être chercheur. Pour une vision orchestrale de la vie académique.

"Ce livre parle d'un chercheur et d'une œuvre en sollicitant celles et ceux qui ont travaillé avec ou aux côtés de Philippe Gorraud : non sur le mode pieux du souvenir, mais en se saisissant de la trajectoire d'un collègue trop tôt disparu pour questionner les évolutions du métier universitaire, la durabilité des legs intellectuels, le rapport entre générations de chercheurs. Directeur de recherches au CNRS, Philippe Garraud (1951-2017) a été - tant à Sciences Po Bordeaux (1977-1991) au sein du CERVL, qu'à Sciences Po Rennes (1992-2016) dans l'équipe du CRAPE puis d'ARENES - un politiste atypique. En des temps où la spécialisation est une injonction, parfois une pathologie quand elle prend des formes superlatives, il a tenu la gageure de renouveler à peu près tous les dix ans ses domaines de recherche. Ce sont les différentes facettes de ce parcours scientifique extrêmement vivant que ce livre rend accessibles. L'ouvrage rassemble donc des textes qui illustrent un parcours académique. Il part d'une contribution devenue un classique sur les "mises à l'agenda pour aller vers la sociologie des élus locaux, les politiques publiques de lutte contre le chômage, la construction de la corruption comme problème public. Comprendre ce parcours, c'est aussi mettre en évidence des travaux que les routines disciplinaires ont quelque peu occultés. Travaillant sur les politiques d'armement à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Philippe Garraud y a gagné l'estime des historiens spécialisés, moins l'attention de ses pairs politistes, qui trouveront ici matière à découvrir une articulation entre disciplines."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction : a posthuman techno-feminist praxis
• Glitch in the age of technoculture
• Arab data bodies
• Digital activism
• Aggregation as archive
• Art practice
• Conclusion : fix your own democracy

• Introduction : a posthuman techno-feminist praxis
• Glitch in the age of technoculture
• Arab data bodies
• Digital activism
• Aggregation as archive
• Art practice
• Conclusion : fix your own democracy.

"Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics--one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements. Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch as a disruptive media affordance. She employs data analytics to analyze tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media, and performs the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ Um Amel. Playing with multiple voices that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual. Are we cyborgs or citizens--or both? This book teaches us how a region under transformation became a vanguard for new thinking about digital systems: the records they keep, the lives they impact, and how to create change from within"-- Provided by publisher.

"In this book, longtime political scientist Richard Davis tells the stories of academics who have reached beyond the ivory tower-not only scholars in the past, but also his own story of working in party politics in Utah. He frames his political activism within the context of a larger trend in political science away from the affairs of academia toward more public and political engagement. Some political scientists have become purely activists; a few have left academe and accepted appointments in government or have been elected to full-time office. Davis discusses different ways to remain both active in academic life while also becoming more publicly engaged in the community and state where one lives. At a time when higher education is going through a crisis, this book shows how political scholars may find alternative ways to explore their passion for politics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I: Early Development
• Chapter 1: The Advent of Public Administration in the United States and China
• Chapter 2: The Orthodox Approach and the Jiangning Experiment
• Chapter 3: The Lanxi Experimental County and Its Unorthodox Practices Part II: The Battlefront Administrative State
• Chapter 4: The Rationality Project Based on Irrationality
• Chapter 5: The Beauty of Humanistic Politics Part III: The Frontier of Modern Chinese Statecraft
• Chapter 6: Guizhou: The Promised Land for Public Administration?
• Chapter 7: Eliminating the Brutal and Safeguarding the Good
• Chapter 8: The Counter-Public Administration Insurgency.
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This book is a political history of global attempts to reduce politics to science and the results of such an attempt in modern China. The book follows the discourses and activities of a special group of local officials in China's Nationalist government (1928-1949). These officials had been students or faculty at the Central Politics School (CPS), the only national university in modern Chinese history that trained professional bureaucrats according to the blueprint of the United States' science of public administration conceived by Frank Goodnow. Through its accounts of how these officials handled land administrative reforms, the battlefront of statebuilding during World War II, and rebellions of ethnic minorities, the book discusses why some of the most talented CPS officials resorted to non-modern humanistic political techniques and achieved a Chinese statecraft more efficient and sustainable than science. As such, the book invites readers to think whether science and the rational-legal authority proposed by Woodrow Wilson and Max Weber, is a proper conceptual framework for understanding politics in China and the rest of world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction : The Rigidity of the Right and The Rigidity of the Extremes
• The Closing of the Partisan Mind
• The Need for Cognitive Closure and Partisan Group-Centrism
• Clear Choices, Group-Centric Partisans
• The Dynamics of Partisan Closure and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
• Conclusion : Opening the Closed Mind?

"American politics today is defined by the intense and toxic divide between Democrats and Republicans. This book traces this type of political conflict to changes in American society that have caused politics to become more appealing to individuals seeking cognitive closure, creating a new, closed, kind of partisanship in America"-- Provided by publisher

This Element examines the way that Boris Johnson's government handled the early months of the Covid crisis in the UK, with a particular focus on the role of rhetoric and communication in enacting their leadership strategy.

• Ecological States
• Making Ecology Developmental
• Botany, Beauty, Purification
• Ecological Territorialization
• Ecological Migrations, Volumetric Aspirations
• Rural Redux
• Infrastructural Diffusion
• Global Ecological Futures

"This book analyzes how science-based nature protection campaigns are transforming society and the environment through extensive fieldwork in China's southwestern cities. Furthermore, it examines the role of ecology in constituting state power and social inequality"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Ecopolitics Beyond the Human World
• Salmon Politics and Latour's Gaia
• Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs
• Chimpanzee politics: Towards Empathy
• From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics Through Ricketts and Steinbeck
• Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics
• Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future.

"Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community"-- Provided by publisher.

• Pursuing the Forms: Equality and Excellence in Plato's Republic and Symposium
• Equality and Excellence in the Education of Cyrus
• Splendid Equality in the Nicomachean Ethics: Munificence
• How Excellence Bows to Equality in Aristotle's Politics
• First Among Equals: Philosophers, Statesmen, and Citizens in Spinoza's Democracy
• Excellence and Equality in Fénelon's Telemachus
• The Seductive Danger of Equality and Excellence: The Moderating Wisdom of Montesquieu's Science of Ovidian Metamorphosis
• Equality and Excellence in Rousseau's Emile, Book III
• Hegel's Evaluation of Liberalism: Equality of Rights without Human Excellence
• Democracy, Nobility, and Freedom: The Political and Moral Aesthetics of Tocqueville
• Does Kierkegaard Have a Concept of Excellence?
• Nietzsche: The Indignity of Equality
• The Good and the Excellent: John Rawls's Egalitarian Liberalism

• Instrumental and expressive preferences
• Influences over preference formation
• Preference aggregation through voting
• The formation of political preferences
• Anchor preferences and derivative preferences
• Preferences of elites and masses
• Policies that maximize political power
• Patriotism, propaganda, and the public interest
• Implications for democracy.

"Policies are designed by the elite and the masses actually have little say. While models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences, and that candidates and parties conform to those preferences, voters instead adopt the policies of those political elites -- they follow their leaders"-- Provided by publisher.