Politics category: 19839 books
Dollarocracy
How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades...
The Making of a Southern Democracy
North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls. So argues Tom Eamon in his probing narrative of the state's political path since the 1940s. He charts the state's political transformation into a modern democratic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Executive Politics in Times of Crisis brings together leading international scholars to consider key trends and challenges that have defined executive politics over the past decade. It showcases key debates in executive politics and contributes to an understanding of the 'executive factor' in political life.
The Triumph of Politics
Why the Reagan Revolution Failed
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
As Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s, David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution—a bold plan to cut taxes and reduce the scope and cost of government. The Triumph of Politics was Stockman’s frontline report of the miscalculations, manipulations,...
by MARK JACOBSON
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Let me tell you a story of greed and lies, past and present. Politics is a business, but we can change the way in which we do business.
This is not your Founding Father's book on politics. Get ready to view our political system in a brand new way. Why Donald J. Trump really ran for president?...
Honest Politics Now
What ethical conduct means in Canadian public life
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
There have been enormous changes in Canadian public life in the past two decades. More and more, politicians and officials are expected to act honestly and in the public interest. Yet, for many, honest politics is still an oxymoron.
Using high-profile political scandals as case studies, this...
The American Political Party System
Continuity and Change Over Ten Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From party polarization, elections, and internal party politics, to the evolution of the U.S. presidency, John S. Jackson's new book has something for everyone interested in American politics. Beginning with a discussion of the creation of the U.S. government to the formation of today's political...
by David E. Kiwuwa
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book offers an examination of how a deeply divided post-conflict society embarks on democratic transition. Using Rwanda as the case study, it combines analysis of democratic transition and ethnopolitical debate, asking why deeply divided ethnic societies have a tendency to fail.
Though...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
Behind Closed Doors
Politics of Punjab, Haryana and the Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
A riveting volume that paints politics and politicians in their true colours!
A candid, hard-hitting and incisive work that throws light on crucial events in post-independence India – focusing on Punjab, Haryana and the Emergency – that had serious repercussions for the nation . . .
As...
Gandhi and Tagore
Politics, truth and conscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book brings together the political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It explores truth and conscience as viable public virtues with regard to two exemplars of ethical politics, addressing in turn the concerns of an evolving modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The field of media and politics is quickly changing as society transforms and new technologies develop continuously. Academic research in the area is rapidly breaking new ground to keep pace with the prolific media developments. This innovative, up-to-date text moves beyond rudimentary concepts and...
by Franco Scardino
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help readers gain...
Above Politics
Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Economic development requires secure contract enforcement and stable property rights. Normal majority-rule politics, such as bargaining over distributive and monetary policies, generate instability and frequently undermine economic development. Above Politics argues that bureaucracies can contribute...