MADISON - The showdown over collective-bargaining rights for public employees is just the first step in a contentious debate over how to solve Wisconsin's budget woes, with newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker also seeking to dismantle an array of social policies enacted under his Democratic predecessor. On the chopping block in Walker's two-year budget proposal are early release programs for prisoners, in-state college tuition for the children of illegal immigrants, mandatory insurance coverage of contraceptives, college financial aid for high school grads who are good citizens and public financing for Supreme Court campaigns.
Reviewed by Ali R. Abootalebi This book is written by Asef Bayat, a well-established authority on the subject who is Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In this respect, Professor Bayat's view parallels this reviewer's argument that democracy is a function of a power struggle among organized groups, including the state, who compete with one another over socioeconomic resources and political power.1 Central to Bayat's argument is how Islamism in Iran has evolved, through resistance and the expansion of public space, into a post-Islamist phase, where democratic norms and principles are emerging.
Democratic group has Social Security plan WASHINGTON (Bloomberg News) -- A Democratic-led policy group is proposing changes in Social Security that party members have resisted for years in an effort to pave the way for recommendations this week by President Obama's deficit-cutting commission.
Dabashi is at once critical of Iranian writers, like Azar Nafisi (author of Reading Lolita in Tehran), who present an image of Iranian culture as passive and corrupt, and of the ideas of Francis Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington (authors, respectively, of The End of History and The Clash of Civilizations), whose arguments serve US power interests. Continuing his theme of struggle, Dabashi argues that the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 produced three political trends - liberal democratic nationalism, social democratic nationalism, and theocratic Islamism that have shaped Iranian politics ever since, while fighting each other as well as outside interference.
The 35,000 people swarming West State Street for Saturday's Public Worker-palooza rally represented a core Democratic constituency -- teachers, social workers and janitors. The only thing missing was Democratic leaders.
The "50-state strategy" of Howard Dean, head of the Democratic National Committee, beefed up campaign funding in Wyoming and other states where the party's candidates looked like long shots. The Wyoming Democratic Party had one full-time staffer until, 13 months before the election, Dean's group sent money to hire two more. The new staffers organized far more volunteers than had been available in recent campaigns and "really built up our ground game, the infrastructure," says Mike Gierau, state party chairman. The close results in [Gary Trauner]'s race and the party's net gain of three seats in the Legislature will encourage more viable Democratic candidates to run in 2008. Dean's strategy "was an immense help in Wyoming," Gierau says. According to [Jeffery Sells] and other experts, the...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Breaking with party leaders, a Democratic congressman plans to introduce Social Security legislation, saying his first commitment is to his constituents. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., said Friday: "I have the largest amount of Social Security recipients of any Democrat anywhere in the country. My allegiance to seniors is greater than my allegiance to the Democratic Party.
... be the sole representative of social democratic political identity with its political agenda and p...
The honeymoon already is over between the Bush and Harper administrations ("Canada's new leaders," Editorial, Wednesday). David Wilkins, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, stated that plans to assert Canadian jurisdiction of the Arctic are unacceptable. During the recent election, Mr. Wilkins expressed his dismay with statements made by outgoing Prime Minister Paul Martin. He refrained at that time from expressing his views on the Conservative Party's plans to build three military-class icebreakers to enforce Canadian sovereignty in Arctic waters. I did not vote for the Conservatives because I do not support the social-conservative policies many in that party openly support. Instead, I voted for the social-democratic New Democratic Party, which has social and economic policies closer to my ...
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