Politics category: 19839 books
Utopian Politics
Citizenship and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly...
Governing the Global Economy
Politics, Institutions and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Governing the Global Economy explores the dynamic interaction between politics and economics, between states and markets and between international and domestic politics. The contributors study how the governance of the global economy is shaped by interaction between international institutions, domestic...
Encyclopedia of Government and Politics
2-volume set
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This is a brand-new edition of the critically acclaimed Encyclopedia of Government and Politics which has been fully revised and updated to provide a systematic account of politics and political studies at the beginning of the new millennium. Providing a penetrating analysis of government and politics...
Deeply Divided
Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme...
The Politics of Good Intentions
History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Tony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W. Bush. This book is the first attempt to fulfill that wish, using the long history of the modern state to...
Labour and the Politics of Disloyalty in Belfast, 1921-39
The Moral Economy of Loyalty
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book provides the first ‘history from below’ of the inter-war Belfast labour movement. It is a social history of the politics of Belfast labour and applies methodology from history, sociology and political science. Christopher J. V. Loughlin questions previous narratives that asserted the...
The Politics of Disgust
The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Ange-Marie Hancock argues that longstanding beliefs about...
Re-Imagining a Politics of Life
From Governance of Order to Politics of Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The prominence and variety of global movements of resistance indicates that the idea of politics as governance is contested. However, the political canon continues to reinforce a narrow definition of politics according to liberal principles and practices. This book develops a new theory of political...
by Michael Hudson, Mimi Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The wave of uprisings that has engulfed the Arab world since 2011 has impacted the Gulf significantly, however much the region appears to have remained unscathed. In Bahrain, the regime cracked down on protestors with the help of Saudi forces, and increasing Gulf tensions with Iran, political chaos...
The Time of Liberty
Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this...
by Peter Francia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians. However, by the summer of 2005 opposition to...
The Politics of White Rights
Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954–73 taught Alabama’s segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense...
Typing Politics
The Role of Blogs in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The power of political blogs in American politics is now evident to anyone who follows it. In Typing Politics, Richard Davis provides a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the growing role played by political blogs and their relationship with the mainstream media. Through a detailed content analysis...
Development Aid Confronts Politics
The Almost Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically.
Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside...