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How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing Through Media Influence
Authors: Dill Karen E 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
It's a common belief that the stories we encounter through mass media--whether in video games, action movies, or political comedy skits on Saturday Night Live--are just entertaining fantasies that have no tangible impact on our everyday lives, attitudes, and choices. Not so, says Karen Dill in this lively and provocative book. As much as we may want to deny it, the images, sounds, and narratives that bombard us daily have ample power to alter our realities. Dill, the author of the single-most-cited study on the effects of video-game violence, draws on extensive research in social psychology to show not only the myriad ways--for good and ill--that media influence us, but also why we resist believing they do. Vibrantly written and packed with eye-opening examples from everyday life, her wide-ranging analysis encompasses everything from gender and racial stereotyping to social identity, domestic violence, and presidential politics. She discusses the ways that super-thin models and actresses have altered women's self-images, dissects the manipulative strategies of advertising aimed at children and medical consumers, and explains how the "fake news" of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report may offer more authentic and incisive coverage than the cable channels and network newscasts. She also assesses the growing importance of "new media" like text-messaging, blogs, and Facebook in how we communicate and process information. In a media-saturated society, Dill argues, understanding precisely how these powerful forces affect us and learning how to deal with them are vital to the very way we function as citizens. How Fantasy Becomes Reality shows what we can do to move from the passenger's seat to the driver's seat as media consumers.
Typing Politics
Authors: Davis Richard 
Published: November 2023

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The power of political blogs in American politics is now evident to anyone who follows it. In Typing Politics, Richard Davis provides a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the growing role played by political blogs and their relationship with the mainstream media. Through a detailed content analysis of the most popular political blogs--Daily Kos, Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, and Wonkette--he shows the degree to which blogs influence the traditional news media. Specifically, he compares the content of these blogs to four leading newspapers noted for their political coverage: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times. He explains how political journalists at these papers use blogs to inform their reportage and analyzes general attitudes about the role of blogs in journalism. Drawing on a national survey of political blog readers, Davis concludes with a novel assessment of the blog audience. Compact, accessible, and well-researched, Typing Politics will be an invaluable contribution to the literature on a phenomenon that has reshaped the landscape of political communication.
Agenda Setting
Authors: Davis Richard 
Published: November 2023

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On September 26, 2006, President George W. Bush signed a bill that created a searchable database of federal grants and contracts designed for citizens, groups, and the press to track federal spending. The bill seemed unremarkable except that it was strongly opposed by two senior senators who did not want public disclosure of the pork barrel projects they supported. They placed a secret hold on the bill to prevent a vote. Other members of Congress found it difficult to press these more senior members.
Then several political bloggers joined the battle. Glenn Reynolds, N. Z. Bear, and others used their blogs to urge readers to contact their senators and see who was blocking the bill. One congressional aide admitted, “Bloggers mobilized Congress, Congress did not mobilize bloggers.”
Under scrutiny from blogs and their audiences, the two senators relinquished their hold. Congress passed the bill, and the White House even acknowledged the role of bloggers by inviting several to join the bill-signing ceremony. This was a first. Bloggers were gaining official recognition for setting the agenda and helping to shape legislation.
Two years earlier, in July 2004, a newly formed group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth began running ads attacking Senator John Kerry’s war record. Kerry’s presidential campaign initially ignored the ads, which were designed to undermine his claims to heroism. The news media followed suit. But the blogosphere aired the charges extensively. Eventually the traditional media could not ignore the story any longer and by August began to cover the charges. The Kerry campaign went on the defensive.
Inside the Blogs
Authors: Davis Richard 
Published: November 2023

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From the thoughtful to the bombastic to the sarcastic, blog content, even within the political blogosphere, spans a wide range of approaches to political discussion. Some bloggers seem to be policy wonks offering up detailed policy treatises, while others are gossipmongers interested in passing on the latest salacious rumor. Yet despite the type of content, the mode of communication is surprisingly standard, even among the influentials. All center their writing on the post. The post, a discrete entry usually identified by date and time, is the basic contained unit of blogging. Like a diary entry, it is delineated by a historical point and space separating it from the next post. Bloggers uniformly use the post as the form of blogging.
Political communication scholars only recently have begun to analyze political blog content. Kaye Trammell examined a random sample of political posts of forty-six celebrity blogs over ten months. The focus of Michael Keren’s research was one political blogger’s posts over a five-year period. Svetlana V. Kulikova and David D. Perlmutter analyzed blog posts of a samizdat blog in Kyrgyzstan during the “Tulip Revolution” that led to the overthrow of the government in 2005, and Antoinette Pole analyzed the role of blog content in mobilizing readers. Susan C. Herring and others conducted a longitudinal analysis of blogs to determine change over time in such features as length of posts, number of links, and the type of sources linked to.3 For this book, blog posts on seven national influential political blogs were examined over a one-month period to determine the nature of blog content. These blog posts were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. (For a fuller description of methodology, see the appendix.)
Substance Abuse Etiological Considerations
Authors: Pihl Robert O 
Published: November 2023

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The medical historian Osler wrote, “the only characteristic that distinguishes man from other animals is his propensity to take drugs” (in Bean, 1951). Given current knowledge, Osler might add that there are exceptions to this statement and also that the propensity to “do drugs” is as old as human behavior. In the fi rst instance, animal behaviorists have commonly observed various species ingesting substances for both medicinal and seemingly recreational purposes. Intoxicated behavior is seen in most animals, from elephants to the catnip-consuming pet (Siegal, 1989).
Sexual Dysfunctions
Authors: Strassberg Donald S , Perelman Michael A 
Published: November 2023

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Sexual dysfunctions, conditions that impair the desire or ability to achieve sexual satisfaction, are among the most prevalent of the distressing emotional and behavioral problems facing mental health professionals and other clinicians. The National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS; Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, & Michaels, 1994; Laumann, Paik, & Rosen, 1999) reported a prevalence rate for all sexual disorders of 31% for men and 43% for women.
On Becoming a Stoic
Authors: Irvine William B 
Published: November 2023

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Practicing Stoicism won’t be easy. It will take effort, for example, to practice negative visualization, and practicing selfdenial will take more effort still. It will take both effort and willpower to abandon our old goals, such as the attainment of fame and fortune, and replace them with a new goal, namely, the attainment of tranquility.
A Historical Commentary On Arrian’S History Of Alexander
Authors: Bosworth A B 
Published: November 2023

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This, the second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the historian Arrian, deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great. It discusses some of the earliest datable evidence for the history of Central Asia and Pakistan, and analyses Alexander's views of sovereignty and divinity. Professor Bosworth is the leading authority on Arrian, and his commentary should become a classic work of reference for historians.
Religion, Law, And Power
Authors: Connolly S J 
Published: November 2023

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This is a study of religion, politics, and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to redefine their ideas of national identity. S. J. Connolly's scholarly and wide-ranging study examines these developments and sets them in their historical context. The Ireland that emerges from his lucid and penetrating analysis was essentially a part of ancien régime Europe: a pre-industrialized society, in which social order depended less on a ramshackle apparatus of coercion than on complex structures of deference and mutual accommodation, along with the absence of credible challengers to the dominance of a landed élite; in which the ties of patronage and clientship were often more important than horizontal bonds of shared economic or social position; and in which religion remained a central part of personal and political motivation.
A Floating Commonwealth
Authors: Harvie Christopher 
Published: November 2023

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Christopher Harvie offers a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain by focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. Atlantic and ‘inland sea’ together, Harvie argues, created a ‘floating commonwealth’ of port cities and their hinterlands whose interaction, both with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics, created an intense political and cultural synergy. At a technical level, this produced the freight steamer and the efficient types of railways which opened up the developing world, as well as the institutions of international finance and communications in the age of ‘telegrams and anger’. And ultimately, the resources of the Atlantic cities, their shipyards and works, enabled Britain to win withstand the test of the First World War. Meanwhile, as Harvie shows, the continuous attempt to make sense of an ever-changing material reality also stimulated the discourses on which social criticism and literary modernism were based, from Carlyle to James Joyce - although the ultimate outcome, of slump and emigration, would leave enduring problems in the years to come.
Deltas
Authors: Trenhaile A S 
Published: November 2023

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The term ‘delta’ was first recorded almost 2,500 years ago, when the historian Herodotus noted its use by the Greeks of that period to refer to the fertile, triangular-shaped, alluvial deposits at the mouth of the River Nile. Lyell introduced the term to the geological literature in 1832, in his Principles of Geology. Deltas played an important role in the development of classical civilizations. They provided food, water for irrigation, and because of economical access to the sea and the land they became focal points for commerce. Present geological interest in deltas partly reflects the fact that ancient deltaic sediments provided reservoirs for a large portion of the world’s oil and gas reserves. Although large populations on deltas continue to testify to their agricultural and commercial value, they often suffer catastrophic natural disasters, from river flooding and marine inundation during storm surges.
Globalization and Urban Change
Authors: Olds Kris 
Published: November 2023

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This book provides a grounded analysis of globalization and urban change in the late 20th century. Drawing upon multi-locale field work in Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paris, and London, the author highlights the role of two transnational cultures - ethnic Chinese property developers and ‘brand name’ architects - in the planning and development of urban mega-projects. Case studies from Vancouver and Shanghai are used to analyse the nature of the transnational practices and networks that facilitate the production of new urban spaces in the Pacific Rim. This reflexive, situated, and interdisciplinary account affairs an alternative perspective to the abstract and economistic analyses that dominate our understanding of globalization and urban change. It will be of value to human geographers, urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, economists, and political scientists; all with an interest in the processes that reshape the modern city.
Intergovernmental Strategies to Reduce Stigma HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention
Authors: Takahashi Lois M 
Published: November 2023

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FROM the data presented in this book, it is clear that HIV/AIDS is largely seen as a negative, and even dangerous, condition. Although medical research continues to seek a better understanding of the biology of HIV/ AIDS, and researchers work to develop medical interventions both to treat and to prevent HIV/AIDS, there remains the widespread public fear of contagion.
Problematizing Fairness
Authors: Takahashi Lois M 
Published: November 2023

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Fairness in the context of the NIMBY syndrome has become increasingly problematic as diverse groups have immersed themselves in community opposition over human service facility siting. Historically disadvantaged communities have increasingly entered the fray of locational conflict over the siting of facilities associated with homelessness and HIV/AIDS. But to complicate matters even more, home owning and suburban residents too have claimed the NIMBY syndrome as expressive of grass-roots attempts to engage in the democratic process. That is, both disadvantaged and privileged communities have begun to use the language of social movements, community mobilization, and oppression to bolster their arguments concerning the undesirability of specific facilities.
Authority and Convention
Authors: Green Leslie 
Published: November 2023

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To justify the authority of the state we require an argument which establishes that an institution claiming supreme and wide-ranging authority over many people should be treated as having the power to create binding, content-independent reasons for them to act. In Chapter 2, it was shown that instrumental arguments to the effect that such institutions are particularly valuable must be indirect in nature. On particular occasions, authoritative directives may require acting against the balance of reasons. But it is often thought that this will indirectly serve important values. In this chapter and the next, I examine two popular and influential versions of that thesis.
Obedience and Civility
Authors: Green Leslie 
Published: November 2023

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If political obligation is not a realistic possibility, and if the state’s authority extends to some but not others, it may seem that anarchy cannot be far away. If people came to accept that political bonds in the modern state are more complex and more attenuated than traditional theories suggest, would it not weaken their tendency to obey and support just institutions? We all know how fragile the commitment to do one’s duty can be, how easily people are distracted by self-interest and shortsightedness. In view of the near universality of these human failings, how could the tendency to obey just institutions be anything other than a virtue? Whatever the merits of our arguments as matters of abstract political theory, some may feel that, taking people as they are, the practical consequences of accepting the views defended here would be malign.
Privatizing Public Enterprises
Authors: Graham Cosmo , Prosser Tony 
Published: November 2023

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This is the first book to use a comparative approach to examine the effects of different constitutional and legal traditions on privatization. Cosmo Graham and Tony Prosser focus on privatization in the UK and France. They suggest that the British Government was remarkably free from constitutional limitation, whereas in France the written constitution imposed important restrictions on the scope of privatization and on the arrangements of the pricing of shares. They go on to describe the links created between privatized enterprises and government by devices such a golden shares and analyse the constraints of competition law and the regulatory arrangements in Britain. They also compare the British regulatory agencies with those in the US, looking in particular at the way in which the influence of Federal and State constitutions has led to the incorporation of significant elements of openness in decision-making procedures. This detailed analysis of the effect of legal constraints on economic policy adds a constitutional dimension to what has primarily been seen as an economic issue, and will make a unique and valuable contribution to current debates in political studies.
The German Tradition of Organized Capitalism
Authors: Parnell Martin F 
Published: November 2023

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Dr Parnell provides a two-level analysis of the politics of government-industry relations in Germany. On the one hand, he presents an in-depth examination of the politics of the German coal industry. On the other, he offers a more general account of the characteristic relationship between state and industry in one of the most successful post-war economies. He argues that the crucial concept in understanding those relations is Selbstverwaltung (self-government). This notion, despite evolving over time, displays a continuity in its key features that serves to elucidate the unique position of the state in government-industry relations in Germany. The author argues that by shedding further light on existing theories of organized capitalism and corporatism, the notion of self-government can provide a basis for the analysis of broader socio-economic relations within the German-speaking world, and, in particular, the German economy's continued success.
Political Ideology and Party Members
Authors: Whiteley Paul , Seyd Patrick , Richardson Jeremy 
Published: November 2023

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In this chapter we examine the beliefs or attitude structures among the grass-roots Conservative party members, with the aim of ad dressing the question ‘What is contemporary Conservative ideol ogy?’ In addressing this question, the focus is not on Conservatism as a set of philosophical ideas which might be logically analysed or compared and contrasted with other belief systems, but rather Conservatism as a set of attitudes and beliefs in the minds of grass roots party members.
Europe of the Regions: Territorial Interests and European Integration: The Scottish Experience
Authors: Mazey Sonia , Mitchell James 
Published: November 2023

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The Treaty of Rome refers only to nation-states and national governments; regional and local authorities are not mentioned. Nor is there any provision in the founding Treaties for the formal representation of regional and local interests at the European Community (EC) level. In reality, however, subnational levels of government throughout the EC (with the notable exception of Britain) have acquired important new policy-making and legislative powers, especially in the field of socio-economic development. Within Britain, Scotland with its own legal system, separate administrative structures, and nationalist aspirations qualifies as an important regional entity. As their policy-making powers have expanded, regional authorities have become increasingly subject to and constrained by EC legislation. In this context, the ratification of the 1986 Single European Act and the establishment of the 1 January 1993 deadline for the completion of the Single European Market constituted an important turning-point.
Conclusion: A European Policy Style?
Authors: Mazey Sonia , Richardson Jeremy 
Published: November 2023

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Wyn Grant’s chapter advocated the need to avoid being mesmerized by the growing importance of Europe as a centre of decision making to the exclusion of analysing the continued importance of national lobbying as a means of influencing policy. In fact most national groups (and firms and quangos) are still heavily dependent on their ‘sponsoring’ ministries, for at least three reasons. First, despite the undoubted shift in power to Brussels and Strasbourg, much policy-making power still rests at the level of the nationstate. Many, if not most, key areas of social and economic life are still largely influenced by national governments as well as by the EC. Even with the further moves towards monetary union (and the existence of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, ERM), the management and development of national economies remains of central concern to national governments.
Introduction: The Twenty Years’ Crisis and the Category of ‘Idealism’ in International Relations
Authors: Wilson Peter 
Published: November 2023

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This volume examines a body of thought, predominant in the inter-war period, that has been almost universally denigrated ever since. It takes its title from E. H. Carr’s immensely influential The Twenty Years’ Crisis-a work which not only set the tone for subsequent discussion of inter-war thought, but also substantially shaped postwar attitudes towards it. Carr’s book occupies a special place in the historiography of International Relations. It is widely acknowledged as one of the few classics in the field, and it is probably the only undisputed classic. The exalted reputation of the book derives not just from its penetrating critique of what Carr chose to call ‘utopianism’. It also derives from three further attributes: its bold attempt to lay the foundations for a ‘science’ of international relations; its trenchant account and acute analysis of contemporary international problems; and its ability, fifty years on, to provoke and excite the intellect.
J.M. Keynes, Idealism, and the Economic Bases of Peace
Authors: Markwell D J 
Published: November 2023

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In 1935, a small book was published reprinting a debate from New Statesman and Nation on the question Does Capitalism Cause War?.In it, H. N. Brailsford, Harold Laski, and Frank Hardie argued that it did, and Sir Norman Angell that it did not. The Cambridge economist, John Maynard Keynes, was a member of the board of New Statesman, and a friend of its editor, Kingsley Martin. Keynes was undoubtedly aware of the New Statesman debate, and the wide currency that arguments about the economic causes of war had at that time. He was then working on a book that would revolutionize economics, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Unsurprisingly, in its final pages he addressed himself to the economic causes of war, and took a middle line between those who said that capitalism caused war, and those who argued that capitalism unhampered by trade or other restrictions brought peace.