Political Power

Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …

demonic, crazy people who somehow obtained political power. A bunch of thugs.11 To the contrary, I argue …

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

constitutionalization as well as the territorialization of political power are key features of the mod- ern state, especially …

Senegal faces difficult decisions as it navigates a transition to becoming an exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) with a pipeline of new projects, largely targeting Europe. The need to …

burgeoning LNG industry begins to assert more political power. Senegal has not had violent insurgencies …

Rent control in Ontario: The facts, the flaws, the fixes SEPTEMBER 2024 RENT CONTROL IN ONTARIO The facts, the flaws, the fixes Ricardo Tranjan and Paulina Vargatoth Rent control in …

landlords is felt in these spaces, as is the political power of organized tenants. It’s rare to see governments … helpful. But the most important work is building political power. Organized tenants are the ones doing this …

In Louis XIV’s New France, colonial authorities attempted to reproduce French regal authority in novel ways, often by performing typical metropolitan political rituals. When these practices were transposed into the …

seriously as events constitutive of colonial political power, and that the tools of anthropologists can …

The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields, including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields’s work, …

even the capital of Illinois, wields little political power. Secondly, Shields comes from the middle class …

A scathing critique of the colonial legal system’s denial of children’s rights One afternoon in 2016, law professor Robin Hansen receives a call. On the other end of the line …

principle which posits that law must trump bare political power. It means that no one is above the law, and … The legal system is closely associated with political power and political systems, but it is distinct …

The Adaptable Country outlines straightforward policy reforms to improve adaptability – the capacity to anticipate and manage danger. In a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security. …

The system is designed on the principle that political power should be widely diffused and individual freedom …

Created in the Image? describes the paradigm shift in the way Israeli writers have imagined Holocaust perpetrators since 1948.

that period. These include the 1977 shift in political power, the opening of Israeli culture to marginalized …

The campaign was in recognition of the fact that Ontario’s municipal councils are not representative of the diversity of the province and the populations municipal councils serve. [...] To inform …

beginning their campaigns from the periphery of political power, AMO or its partners could proactively support …