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		<title>Book Review: The Image by Daniel Boorstin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished reading Daniel Boorstin&#8217;s formerly famous and hopefully not forgotten 1962 book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America which despite the passage of time seems just as relevant today (if not more so) than when it was first published; I would go so far as to say that this is a prophetic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1456&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Celebrity Presidency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Skevington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Mail reports that left-wing documentary producer Michael Moore is encouraging Hollywood actor Matt Damon to run for the Presidency. This is apparently because he has been a vocal critic of Barack Obama and seemingly stands more chance of winning because of his popularity. While this may well be a non-story as Matt Damon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1309&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK Riots: What now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the riots in England are now at an end it is important for us to proceed with caution. From the political right we are seeing demands on the e-petitions website that rioters to lose their benefits while councils have threatened to evict people from social housing. We must avoid this kind of reactionary response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1275&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How democratic is Africa&#8217;s predominant party system? A Case Study of Zambia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Skevington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This brief essay will present a case study of Zambia as a means to illustrate the nature of the predominant party system in Africa. This will be split into three sections; first examining the relationship between democracy and the party system, then looking at Zambia&#8217;s predominant party system between 1990 and 2001 and then post-2001. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1253&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict in Africa: Is it inevitable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given continuing events in Africa in which, as the linked article suggests, 1.4 million people have been killed to date I can&#8217;t help but wonder what is the reason for the ongoing conflict? As conflict commonly occurs within weak states it may be fair to say that conflict is rooted in the &#8220;everyday politics and discourses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1204&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Jeffrey Herbst&#8217;s States and Power in Africa &#8211; Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Skevington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Herbst’s States and Power in Africa provides a unique historical examination of the process of African state creation and consolidation and seeks to explain why contemporary African states have been plagued by weakness and failure. He aims to show how African states differ from European states and believes that a great deal of current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1125&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neustadt&#8217;s Lessons for Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Skevington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Richard Neustadt wrote in his book Presidential Power &#38; the Modern Presidents that the power of the President is the power to persuade which is the power to bargain. This power is about getting what you want without resorting to outright coercion. If the President yields his power effectively he will be able [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1076&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Polarization &#8211; Causes and Effects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent discussion about raising the U.S. debt ceiling has demonstrated just how polarized American politics has become. While but a few years ago we could legitimately claim that both Democrats and Republicans were &#8220;pretty much the same&#8221; the same cannot be said today. I ask two key things - Why has Congress become so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Struggle with Bulimia</title>
		<link>http://leeskevington.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/my-struggle-with-bulimia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sit down and write this I get the feeling that I shouldn&#8217;t &#8211; it is 6:25am, I have been awake all night, unable to sleep and up thinking. I think that this should be a closely guarded secret but I feel for my own benefit the need to put this out in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News of the World Closure: A very British revolution&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://leeskevington.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/news-of-the-world-closure-a-very-british-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say I expected the News of the World to announce its closure though according to the BBC this is true. This Sunday will be the last edition of the News of the World after the plethora of phone hacking revelations. And not a moment too soon. This is such a watershed moment with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeskevington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9752434&amp;post=987&amp;subd=leeskevington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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