By Robert Merkel on September 14, 2010
From a political perspective, the great success of the monarchists in the republic referendum of the nineties was transforming the issue into one of giving the “politicians” a good kicking. Canny campaigning, but it was made possible by the lousy [...]
Posted in Europe, federal election 2010, Foreign policy, Immigration, Imperialism, Sydney, Urbanism | Tagged Manifest Destiny, Maxine McKew, mega-city |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 3, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/richard-nixon.jpg" In a previous post on expectations of whether an Obama win will reshape politics and end the culture wars, I briefly discussed Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, which I read recently. The title, incidentally, comes from a passage in a [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, Foreign Elections, History, Howardia, USA | Tagged Adlai Stevenson, American history, American Political Science Association, barack obama, Crooked Timber, cultural politics, Culture Wars, David Greenberg, GOP, Henry Farrell, John Howard, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kevin Rudd, Maxine McKew, Nixon's Shadow, nixonland, political science, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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