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Paper · Semantic Scholar
State-Building in the City: An Experiment in Civilian Alternatives to PolicingWe helped design and evaluate a statebuilding intervention in Medellín, Colombia. The municipal government dramatically intensified nonpolice state presence in 40 neighborhoods over 20 months. On average, perceptions of security and legitimacy changed negligibly, suggesting that returns to statebuilding investments are generally low, at least within electoral cycles. Prespecified heterogeneity analysis, however, rev…
Reference · Wikidata
Private Interest Government: Beyond Market and State. Edited by Wolfgang Streeck and Philippe C. Schmitter (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1985. x, 278p. $35.00 cloth; $14.95 paper).journal article from American Political Science Review, published in 1988
Encyclopedia · Wikipedia
Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama II is an American former politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to serve as president. Obama represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 2005 to 2008 and served as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Book · DOAB
Religion, Ethnicity, and PoliticsIn September 1787 the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new Federal Constitution to replace the beleaguered Articles of Confederation. Each state then had to call a convention of its own to vote on ratification. Pennsylvania, like many states, was deeply divided over the new constitution. For six months Federalists and Antifederalists fought a bitter and, on occasion, violent political battle, wit…
Full text · Open Library
Democracy in California"In Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State, Brian P. Janiskee and Ken Masugi clearly explain the politics and character of California's governmental institutions and the dynamics affecting the lives of its citizens. Updated throughout, the post-recall edition also includes a new chapter on the unprecedented recall election and its effects on the state. As Janiskee and Masugi explore the…
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