Big Brother and the Grim Reaper: Political Life After Death - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Michigan State University PressISBN-13:9781611865080ISBN-10:1611865085UPC:9781611865080Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Commentary & Opinion, World, Death & DyingSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC1TJNTDBJ
Big Brother and the Grim Reaper: Political Life After Death
States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state's reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state's hold on life. He notes that increasingly institutions are using the regulation of death as an essential source of power. They do this by not only threatening death to their enemies...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Michigan State University PressISBN-13:9781611865080ISBN-10:1611865085UPC:9781611865080Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Commentary & Opinion, World, Death & DyingSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC1TJNTDBJ
Benjamin Ginsberg is David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than thirty books, including The Fall of the Faculty, Presidential Government, Downsizing Democracy, The Captive Public: Politics by Other Means, The Value of Violence, How the Jews Defeated Hitler,...
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