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Bazaar politics power and pottery in an Afghan market town / by Coburn, Noah

Table of Contents: “…Groups and violence : ethnography and suspicion -- Social organization in Istalif : making pots -- How making pots bound people together : the art of finding a bargain -- And selling pots tore people apart : telling stories -- Leadership, descent, and marriage : dinner -- Cultural definitions of power in Istalif : election day -- Masterly inactivity : the politics of stagnation : the director of intelligence -- The Afghan state as a useful fiction : Paktya : eighteen months later -- Thinking about violence, social organization, and international intervention.…”
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Frederick Douglass selected speeches and writings / by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Table of Contents: “…From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the election of Abraham Lincoln -- pt. 5. From secession to the Emancipation Proclamation -- pt. 6. …”
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Race in the age of Obama

Table of Contents: “…Civil rights and social justice in the age of Obama -- pt. 6. The 2008 election of Obama and reaction to the Obama presidency : a change in America's racial politics.…”
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Bazaar politics power and pottery in an Afghan market town / by Coburn, Noah

Table of Contents: “…Groups and violence : ethnography and suspicion -- Social organization in Istalif : making pots -- How making pots bound people together : the art of finding a bargain -- And selling pots tore people apart : telling stories -- Leadership, descent, and marriage : dinner -- Cultural definitions of power in Istalif : election day -- Masterly inactivity : the politics of stagnation : the director of intelligence -- The Afghan state as a useful fiction : Paktya : eighteen months later -- Thinking about violence, social organization, and international intervention.…”
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Frederick Douglass selected speeches and writings / by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Table of Contents: “…From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the election of Abraham Lincoln -- pt. 5. From secession to the Emancipation Proclamation -- pt. 6. …”
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Fighting for our health the epic battle to make health care a right in the United States / by Kirsch, Richard

Table of Contents: “…-- Health care in the 2008 elections -- The economy or health care? -- From the ground up, champions -- From the ground up, swings -- The happy warrior -- No help for the gang of six -- The guns of August -- The White House waffles -- If the insurance companies win, you lose -- The Baucus bill is a failure -- Did the White House try to get me fired? …”
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American politics and society by McKay, David

Table of Contents: “…Government and the people in a polarized society -- Beliefs, values and American society -- Constitutional government -- Federalism and intergovernmental relations -- American political parties and the politics of polarization -- Elections and political participation -- The media and American politics -- Congress I: the people's branch? …”
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Economic and political reform in Africa : anthropological perspectives / by Little, Peter D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : what it means to be "reformed" -- "They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business -- "Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique -- "We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya -- "They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya -- "The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia -- "Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya -- "A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism -- Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.…”
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Fighting for our health the epic battle to make health care a right in the United States / by Kirsch, Richard

Table of Contents: “…-- Health care in the 2008 elections -- The economy or health care? -- From the ground up, champions -- From the ground up, swings -- The happy warrior -- No help for the gang of six -- The guns of August -- The White House waffles -- If the insurance companies win, you lose -- The Baucus bill is a failure -- Did the White House try to get me fired? …”
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American politics and society by McKay, David

Table of Contents: “…Government and the people in a polarized society -- Beliefs, values and American society -- Constitutional government -- Federalism and intergovernmental relations -- American political parties and the politics of polarization -- Elections and political participation -- The media and American politics -- Congress I: the people's branch? …”
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Economic and political reform in Africa : anthropological perspectives / by Little, Peter D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : what it means to be "reformed" -- "They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business -- "Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique -- "We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya -- "They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya -- "The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia -- "Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya -- "A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism -- Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.…”
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Modern budget forecasting in the American states : precision, uncertainty, and politics / by Brogan, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the public budgeting forecast process -- The process and politics of generating budget forecast errors -- Inter-temporal variation, fiscal uncertainty and state-level long-term revenue budget forecasts errors -- Projecting expenditures : revenue uncertainty, public choices, political institutions, elections and forecast errors -- Interpreting budget forecast errors : fiscal shirking, financial uncertainty and public opinion -- The financial consequences of state-level budget forecast errors -- The electoral consequences of budget forecast errors -- Budget forecasting in the states : reforms, institutions, politics and uncertainty.…”
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Revolución y contienda política en Guanajuato (1908-1913) / by Blanco, Mónica

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Modern budget forecasting in the American states : precision, uncertainty, and politics / by Brogan, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the public budgeting forecast process -- The process and politics of generating budget forecast errors -- Inter-temporal variation, fiscal uncertainty and state-level long-term revenue budget forecasts errors -- Projecting expenditures : revenue uncertainty, public choices, political institutions, elections and forecast errors -- Interpreting budget forecast errors : fiscal shirking, financial uncertainty and public opinion -- The financial consequences of state-level budget forecast errors -- The electoral consequences of budget forecast errors -- Budget forecasting in the states : reforms, institutions, politics and uncertainty.…”
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Revolución y contienda política en Guanajuato (1908-1913) / by Blanco, Mónica

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Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / by O'Neill, Tom

Table of Contents: “…-- "God will save us from ourselves!" -- "The next election (or the one after that) will save us!" -- "I've decided to be a survivor!."…”
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Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / by O'Neill, Tom

Table of Contents: “…-- "God will save us from ourselves!" -- "The next election (or the one after that) will save us!" -- "I've decided to be a survivor!."…”
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Sobral Pinto, "the conscience of Brazil" leading the attack against Vargas (1930-1945) / by Dulles, John W. F.

Table of Contents: “…Participant in preparation for elections -- pt. 11. Declining to run for congress and explaining Vargas' fall (October 1945) -- pt. 12. …”
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Congress and policy change

Table of Contents: “…Carmines and James A. Stimson -- Elections and the potential for policy change in Congress / Gerald C. …”
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Sobral Pinto, "the conscience of Brazil" leading the attack against Vargas (1930-1945) / by Dulles, John W. F.

Table of Contents: “…Participant in preparation for elections -- pt. 11. Declining to run for congress and explaining Vargas' fall (October 1945) -- pt. 12. …”
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