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Fair Elections In Mexico: Much Ado About Nothing?, Ibpp Editor Nov 1999

Fair Elections In Mexico: Much Ado About Nothing?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Competing definitions of fairness may induce furor over the fairness of elections.


Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies., Laina Farhat-Holzman Oct 1999

Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies., Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention Of Speaker John W. Mccormack Of Boston, Garrison Nelson Sep 1999

Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention Of Speaker John W. Mccormack Of Boston, Garrison Nelson

New England Journal of Public Policy

From his election in 1940 as Majority Leader to his last day as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1971, John W. McCormack of Boston occupied the highest rungs of leadership in the Congress. Many biographies and autobiographies cover the lives and public careers of five Speakers, but not one has been devoted to McCormack — not because he was unimportant and irrelevant. He was a very private man who could rearrange the facts of his life to suit his political needs. The story had great resonance in Boston because its Irish gatekeepers — James Michael Curley, John …


Using And Misusing History: Kosovo And The Epistemological Challenge, Ibpp Editor Apr 1999

Using And Misusing History: Kosovo And The Epistemological Challenge, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights the difficulties inherent to informing security policy with history.