John Markoff
University of Pittsburgh
61 Papers
603 Citations
John Markoff is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 60 publications.
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Papers
The Ubiquitous Rise of Economists
John Markoff,Verónica Montecinos +1 more
TL;DR: The symbolic aspect of the appointment of high-level economist-politicians is as significant as any specific stock of knowledge they bring to political life and is a part of an emerging transnational political culture in which economists occupy a sacerdotal role as mentioned in this paper.
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Waves of democracy : social movements and political change
TL;DR: A quick history of modern democracy can be found in this paper, where states, social movement Challengers, and elite reformers were involved in the 18th-century revolution, and the Twentieth-century Pendulum Swings.
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The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution
John Markoff
- 01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: Markoff et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and revolutionary legislators joined in bringing "the time of the lords" to an end and how, in that ending, seigneurial rights came to be central to the very sense of the French Revolution.
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Civilization and Barbarism: Cattle Frontiers in Latin America
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the varied and subtle effects of these ways in which the capacity for violence is structured in social life and show that consequences follow for any society from the presence or absence of full-time military specialists, from the forms of their organization, from regional distribution of control of organized violence, from advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of force and from the norms associated with such use.
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