Since they burst onto the scene in 1968, the San Diego Padres have taken fanson a roller coaster ride of ups, downs, and unforgettable moments. In Talesfrom the San Diego Padres Dugout, longtime Padres announcer Bob Chandlershares his memories of the team with Bill Swank in an easy-to-read recapof the team s colorful past.

Political biography of a former chief minister of Maharashtra and later cabinet minister of the federal government of India; extracted from various sources.

Biography of an Indian cabinet minister.

Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions - states and parties - which give political families a leg-up in the electoral process. It also proposes a rethinking of the view that dynastic politics is a violation of democracy, showing that it can also reinforce some aspects of democracy while violating others. Finally, this book suggests that both reinforcement and violation are the products, not of some property intrinsic to political dynasties, but of the institutional environment from which those dynasties emerge.