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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “rainbow murray”
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  • Cracking the Highest Glass Ceiling

    A Global Comparison of Women's Campaigns for Executive Office

    Edited by Rainbow Murray ...
    Series series Women and Minorities in Politics
    This examination of the role of gender stereotyping in media coverage of executive elections uses nine case studies from around the world to provide a unique comparative perspective.In recent years, more and more high-profile women candidates have been running for executive office in democracies all around the world. Cracking the Highest Glass Ceiling: A Global Comparison of Women's Campaigns for ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Gendered Electoral Financing

    Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, Rainbow Murray ...
    Series series Gender and Comparative Politics
    Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money, gender and political recruitment across the world.Money is assumingly one of the greatest barriers to women in the political recruitment process. The financial disadvantage ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Undocumented

    How Immigration Became Illegal

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times).In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and ... Read more

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  • Disposable Domestics

    Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

    by Grace Chang, Alicia Garza ...
    The book that "has helped to make transnational analyses of reproductive labor central to our understanding of race and gender in the twenty-first century" (Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle).Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evidence for Hope

    Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

    by Kathryn Sikkink ...
    A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. They point out that Guantánamo is still open, the Arab Spring protests have been crushed, and governments are cracking down on ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Unspeakable Truths

    Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions

    by Priscilla B. Hayner ...
    In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The World Trade Organization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Amrita Narlikar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage. Rulings on beef hormones and tuna-dolphin cases provide graphic examples of how the organization regulates and intrudes into areas of individual consumer choice, ethical preferences, and cultural habits. This deep and far-ranging impact ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Dependent America?

    How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power

    by Stephen Clarkson, Matto Mildenberger ...
    Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States' wealth, security, and global power.This provocative work documents how Canada and Mexico offer the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Backsliders

    Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies

    by Susan C. Stokes ...
    Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve itDemocracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, two dozen presidents and prime ministers have attacked their countries’ democratic institutions, violating political norms, aggrandizing their own powers, and often trying to ... Read more

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  • The North American Idea

    A Vision of a Continental Future

    by Robert A. Pastor ...
    In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world economy. In 2001, however, North America peaked. Since then, trade has slowed among the three, manufacturing has shrunk, and illegal migration and drug-related violence have soared. At the same time, Europe ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Debating BRICS

    by José Vicente de Sá Pimentel ...
    Series series Coleção Eventos
    This book comprises the discussions recorded in two roundtables organized by Funag, attended by academics, journalists and businessmen, along with diplomats and negotiators who worked at meetings of the BRICS. Thus, it represents a suitable repository for updated information and critical reviews of the trajectory of the group, in a direct and accessible language to all those who are interested in ... Read more

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  • Women and Power in Postconflict Africa

    by Aili Mari Tripp ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
    The book explains an unexpected consequence of the decrease in conflict in Africa after the 1990s. Analysis of cross-national data and in-depth comparisons of case studies of Uganda, Liberia and Angola show that post-conflict countries have significantly higher rates of women's political representation in legislatures and government compared with countries that have not undergone major conflict. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD