No Middle Ground

Author : Seth Masket
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472116898
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Middle Ground written by Seth Masket and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling legislators to rigidly partisan voting blocs.” —Sam Popkin, University of California at San Diego “No Middle Ground makes a significant contribution to the study of American parties and legislative politics.” —Matthew Green, Catholic University of America Despite concerns about the debilitating effects of partisanship on democratic government, in recent years political parties have gained strength in state governments as well as in Washington. In many cases these parties function as machines. Unlike machines of the past that manipulated votes, however, today’s machines determine which candidates can credibly compete in a primary. Focusing on the history and politics of California, Seth E. Masket reveals how these machines evolved and how they stay in power by directing money, endorsements, and expertise to favored candidates, who often tend toward the ideological extreme. In a provocative conclusion, Masket argues that politicians are not inherently partisan. Instead, partisanship is thrust upon them by actors outside the government with the power to manipulate primary elections.

Author : Kathleen M. Blee
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814712797
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Middle Ground written by Kathleen M. Blee and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembles a variety of studies on women's role in modern US radical and non-mainstream political movements, including labor, environmental, and racial. Some are first-person accounts reflecting on the personal dimensions of political commitment; other are scholarly examinations based on interviews and document analysis. Many focus on a particular incident or time period. Six of the 15 essays have been previously published. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Uzo E. Odunukwe
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781490820705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Is No Middle Ground - In God's Kingdom written by Uzo E. Odunukwe and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a multi-pronged book, aimed at moderating, redirecting, aligning, and perfecting Christian believers to run the race according to God's standards. There is no compromise with God's standard, nor alliance between God's kingdom and the world. In the things of this world, it is always ?a little to the left and a little to the right, ? which is a strategy in man's craftiness not to be caught on the wrong side. It has always been said that in politics, ? there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. It is a marriage of convenience. However, this is contrary the Word of God. You are either on the right or on the left, either hot or cold; there is no middle ground. Thus, you need to know who you are as a believer, using the Word of God as a mirror, in order to enable you know your state and make an informed decision of which side you will choose to be. There are several areas of life in the kingdom, like marriage, our ultimate destination, commitment to God, our character manifestation and our lifestyle. I believe this book will bring some new dimensions that we may not have contemplated before now.

Author : Sanjeev Shetty
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781312699
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Middle Ground written by Sanjeev Shetty and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the first bout in the epic battle between Nigel Benn, Michael Watson and Chris Eubank to contest the WBO Middleweight Championship that would keep us entertained for five manic, magnificent and ultimately tragic years, marking the start of an epic saga in British Boxing. The fight took place a month after the Hillsborough disaster and was screened live on TV, in a slot now dominated by talent contests. It was a time when kids could stay up late to watch 12 rounds of madness. It was also the last Golden Era of British Boxing. While for us these greats of British boxing provided entertainment away from the hooliganism of football, for them it was much more personal. Rivalries exist in every sport, but their loathing was real and in the ring it nearly became deadly. But this is what the swaggering early-90's Britain tuned in for. These three fighters were Britain's alpha-ego. They made the country proud. No Middle Ground takes us back to the years when these boxers pounded the heavy bags and tells their story as well as that of Britain's love affair with the sport, and how these fight came to define them and us. In tracing the boxers' journeys to centre-stage Sanjeev Shetty reveals the story of the dark side of Thatcher's nation - the blood, the sweat, the dangerous hatred that fuelled these men, and the ultimate price they would pay for their moment in the sun.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495682
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Ground written by Richard White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.

Author : Erin L. Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498582672
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Middle Ground written by Erin L. Murphy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In No Middle Ground: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing During the Philippine-American War, Erin L. Murphy argues that activists in the Anti-Imperialist movement against the Philippine-American War, led by the Anti-Imperialist League, followed an evolving path of ethical witnessing where leaders empathically considered the experience of imperialist violence as it was expressed by marginalized anti-imperialists. Murphy explores how the perspectives of marginalized anti-imperialists like white women, black women and men, and Filipino/as, led Anti-Imperialist League leaders, who were predominantly white men of some prominence, to evolve their activism from focusing on defending the U.S. Constitution through electoral politics and the legality of U.S. Empire to exposing the imperialist violence committed by the U. S. military as crimes against fundamental human rights. Activists believed that advocating for human rights held true to the principles in the U.S. Constitution while U.S. Empire only dismembered it. Murphy further analyzes the ways in which Anti-Imperialist League leaders and supporters began forming other organizations based on the principles of advocating for human rights and liberty, such as the National Association for Colored People, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, National Consumers League, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Ethical Society.

Author : Kurt W. Russo
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Middle Ground written by Kurt W. Russo and published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seth Masket
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472034677
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Middle Ground written by Seth Masket and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new political machines fuel partisanship by supporting only candidates who follow the party's agenda

Author : Jack Slater
Publisher : J.R.Slatcher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Middle Ground (DS Pete Gayle thrillers, Book 5) written by Jack Slater and published by J.R.Slatcher. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A missing father. A desperate daughter. A terrible discovery. A new case is the last thing DS Pete Gayle needs right now, but when it falls right into his lap, he has no choice. Justice is crying out to be served. With a career-making trial about to begin and his son in imminent danger from a pair of psychopathic brothers, Pete goes on the hunt in what could turn out to be the biggest case of his life..

Author : Olubusayo Aina
Publisher : Olubusayo Aina
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book No middle ground!: You are either for us, or against us. written by Olubusayo Aina and published by Olubusayo Aina. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven.’ Jesus, whilst teaching us how to pray, subtly revealed the Father’s desire to have His ‘will’ prevail on our terrestrial plane, as is the status quo in the celestial realms. Christ also – in the prayer, hinted that we should align ourselves to this Heavenly objective; as this is embedded in our prayer – to God. As it says: “After this manner therefore pray ye; Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven” (Matthew 6:9-10) After the important step of starting our prayers with praises and thanksgiving to God; the next on our agenda, should be to show our solidarity to this divine course. That His ‘will’ – must of necessity, prevail on Earth. In this, is our allegiance to Him confirmed. As much as we might try to play ignorance, one fact remains absolutely clear: Anyone born into this World, automatically gets thrown into an ongoing battle between good and evil. And to this War, there is no parley! Our very actions or inactions, take sides with one of these two opposing powers. Since the days of Joshua, God has read the riot act to all men; “Choose you this day, whom you will serve!” (Joshua 24:15) All who choose God’s Son, Jesus, choose life. Those who rebel against Him however, have aligned themselves with those condemned to the lake of fire. Whether you know it or not – currently, by your way of life, actions, beliefs, acceptance or rejection of the Christ; you have aligned yourself with a side. For there is NO MIDDLE GROUND!