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  • Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War

    by Sharon Alane Abramowitz ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    At the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War

    by Sharon Alane Abramowitz ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    At the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

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    by Garcia Marito H.; Pence Alan; Evans Judith ...
    This book, the first of its kind, presents a balanced collection of articles written by African and non-African authors ranging from field practitioners to academicians and from members of government organizations to those of nongovernmental and local organizations.Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge compiles the latest data and viewpoints on the state of Sub-Saharan Africa's children. Topics ... Read more

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  • The Space between Us

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    by Ryan D. Enos ...
    The Space between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life. By going into the neighborhoods of real cities, Enos shows how our perceptions of racial, ethnic, and religious groups are intuitively shaped by where these groups live and interact daily. Through the lens of numerous examples across the globe and drawing on a compelling combination of research ... Read more

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  • Anxious Politics

    Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World

    by Bethany Albertson, Shana Kushner Gadarian ...
    Emotions matter in politics - enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does ... Read more

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  • News That Matters

    Television & American Opinion

    by Shanto Iyengar, Donald R. Kinder ...
    Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulting book News That Matters, now hailed as a classic by scholars of political science and public opinion alike, is here updated for the twenty-first ... Read more

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  • Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns

    by Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Melissa R. Michelson ...
    Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others don’t.Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts targeting ethnoracial voters, Lisa García Bedolla and Melissa R. Michelson present a new ... Read more

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  • Politics of Empowerment

    Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform

    by David Pettinicchio ...
    Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population. The U.S. is, thus, a policy innovator and laggard in this regard. In Politics of Empowerment, David Pettinicchio offers a historically grounded analysis of the singular case of U.S. disability policy, countering long ... Read more

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  • The Lavender Vote

    Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics

    by Mark Hertzog ...
    Traces the influences of lesbian, gay and bisexual voters in American electionsIn the half century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights movement in earnest, LGB voters have steadily expanded their political influence. The Lavender Vote is the first full- length examination of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals as a factor in American ... Read more

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  • Who Governs?

    Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation

    by James N. Druckman, Lawrence R. Jacobs ...
    A comprehensive examination of how American politicians influence the public and undermine how a democratically elected government is supposed to work.America's model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, not a reality, according to James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman ... Read more

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  • West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

    Edited by Mora L. McLean ...
    Series series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
    This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the ... Read more

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    by Miriam Potocky, Mitra Naseh ...
    Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are especially vulnerable to psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, alienation, grief ... Read more

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