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 Free Download William Case, "Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415556414, 0415846765 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 0.3 mb Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building. But recently, democracy's fortunes have ebbed in the region. In the Philippines, the progenitor of 'people power', democracy has been diminished by electoral cheating and gross human rights violations. In Thailand, though the former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, scored successive electoral victories, he so committed executive abuses that he served up the pretext by which royalist elements in the military might mount a coup, one that even gained favour with the new middle class. And in Indonesia, lauded today as the region's only democracy still standing, the government's writ over the security forces has remained weak, with military commanders nestling in unaccountable domains, there to conduct their shadowy business dealings. Elsewhere, dominant single parties persist in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, while a military junta perpetuates its brutal control over Burma.  Free Download Helene Strauss, Sarah Olutola, Jessie Forsyth, "Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0367142376, 1138636398 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.9 mb Across Africa, new collectivities are shifting the terms within which access to economic opportunity, social belonging, and political agency have historically been understood. Recent years have seen powerful waves of civic mobilization sweep across the continent. Less prominent articulations of contemporary political desire have also been percolating through the diffuse experiences of the African everyday. As differential access to global capitalism and its promises folds into modes of subjection―and escape―that are hard to predict, those who exercise power find ever more ways of guarding the borders and memberships of privileged groups. This book turns to the critically entangled terms of affect and access as a basis for exploring emergent orientations in the field of African cultural theorizing. It pays especial attention to scholarship engaging with the multifaceted coordinates of political and social participation, where complex assemblages of affective attachment, exchange, and realignment work in concert with demands for socio-political and economic forms of access. This book was originally published as a special issue of Safundi.
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 Free Download Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases: European Workshop on Inductive Databases and Constraint Based Mining, Hinterzarten, Germany, March 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers By Roberto J. Bayardo (auth.), Jean-François Boulicaut, Luc De Raedt, Heikki Mannila (eds.) 2006 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 3540313311 | PDF | 5 MB The 18 articles in this state-of-the-art survey present the latest results in inductive querying and constraint-based data mining and also identify future directions of this newly emerging field lying at the intersection of data mining and database research. The papers address topical sections on foundations of inductive database frameworks, optimizing inductive queries on local patterns, optimizing inductive queries on global patterns, and applications of inductive querying techniques.  Free Download Timothy Kersey, "Constrained Elitism and Contemporary Democratic Theory" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138486434, 041572712X | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.6 mb Today, examples of the public's engagement with political issues through commercial and communicative mechanisms have become increasingly common. In February 2012, the Susan G. Komen Foundation reversed a decision to cease funding of cancer screening programs through Planned Parenthood amidst massive public disapproval. The same year, restaurant chain Chic-fil-A became embroiled in a massive public debate over statements its President made regarding same-sex marriage. What exactly is going on in such public engagement, and how does this relate to existing ideas regarding the public sphere and political participation? Is the public becoming increasingly vocal in its complaints? Or are new relationships between the public and economic and political leaders emerging?  Free Download Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan, "Constitutional Reform in Britain and France: From Human Rights to Brexit" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1786831228 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.4 mb The United Kingdom and France have very distinctive constitutional identities, so a book that compares the two takes on a complicated task. Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan here begins by detailing the two nations' shared historical, political, and cultural background, then goes on to explore the sweeping transformations that their constitutional frameworks have undergone in the past twenty-five years at both national and regional levels, with a particular emphasis on Wales and Scotland. Where Gibson-Morgan truly breaks new ground, however, is in her approach: rather than treat each country separately, she explains the pattern of institutional development in both from a comparative Franco-British perspective.  Free Download Henry Hallam, "Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1530260736 | EPUB | pages: 172 | 0.5 mb Henry Hallam was an English historian. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit for some years before turning to history. |
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