During the 1980s and early 1990s, Australia and New Zealand extensively deregulated their economies to create two of the most open markets in the industrialized world. Drawing on interviews with more than 180 policymakers in Australia and New Zealand, this book analyzes the factors that made the deregulation process different in these countries.
This book is a very nuance, meticulously, researched and vividly written study of a series of important debates in German literary circles since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid political transformations that have accompanied German unification. Rosellini not only offers trenchant interpretations of major controversies of the last decade ......
The Texas Folklore Society has collected, presented, and preserved more folklore than any other similar society in the United States. It has brought to Texas and sent out from Texas some of the leading folklorists of the nation. The third volume of the Society's history begins with the move from Wilson Hudson's editorship at the University of ......
Shulman's book places the Meyerson in its socio-political context, tracing its history back to the early 1970s when financial collapse forced the Dallas symphony to spend operations. Her narrative shows how the orchestra's recovery process led to a splendid new hall.
Traces a decade of Albanian history from its independence in 1985, from anarchy and chaos of the early 90's to the victory of the democratic party in 1992. Also provides an analysis of how moral, religious, economic, political and cultural identity is being redefined.
This volume chronicles almost two decades of American elections marked by a politics of disappointment. Combining political science, history and literature, it addresses the varied electoral trends: distrust of government; yearning for a renewal of the American dream; decreasing voter turnout; desire for self-government; and debate over the future shape of political conflict. New chapters in this edition include the latest research on national elections with up-to-date analyses of the 1996 and 1998 elections and an evaluation of the impeachment.
How did a US Democratic president and a Republican Congress reach agreement on a five-year plan to balance the budget at a time of intense partisanship, mutual distrust, and suspicion? Daniel J. Palazzolo, a Congressional Fellow for Robert Ehrlich during the budget negotiations, tells the inside story from start to finish, describing the complex workings of policymaking, presidential-congressional relations, committee politics, and congressional leadership. Contrary to conventional assumptions that the American separation-of-powers system is destined to gridlock, Palazzolo argues that the system still works, even under divided government. The budget choices and deficit politics from 1980-1996 are analysed, the author aiming to set the 1997 Budget Agreement in realistic perspective.
Traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. This book argues that the rhetoric of reform in America represents the continuation of a tradition separate from the commonly accepted principles of the Greeks.
The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention
In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Conventionbegins with an analysis of the 1979 Southern Baptist Convention, the watershed convention where moderate forces fell before the powerful oratory of the ultraconservative faction, which has remained in power ever since. Communication professors Carl L. Kell and L. Raymond ......
