Politics category: 19839 books
My Journey in Politics
Practical Lessons in Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
My Journey in Politics: Practical Lessons in Leadership shares the author's journey in Singapore politics from 1991 to 2011. Tracing what he and different groups of people he worked with across the government ministries and agencies, grassroots organisations and charitable groups — both volunteers...
Judith Butler and Political Theory
Troubling Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with...
Beyond Power and Resistance
Politics at the Radical Limits
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Has political resistance has lost its ability to confront political and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb it and turn it towards their own ends.
Since...
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics
Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to figures...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The urban crisis of the 1960s revived a dormant social activism whose protagonists placed their hoped for radical change and political effectiveness in community action. Ironically, the insurgents chose the local community as their terrain for a political battle that in reality involved a few strictly...
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
WINNER OF:
Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson Prize
Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization...
The Possibility of Politics
A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if limited to cautious and piecemeal interventions that avoid radicalism and revolution? Can it also avoid unwanted consequences? Will the welfare state survive...
Warrior Politics
Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
“The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted.” —Sun-Tzu
We live in dangerous times, when a new kind of leadership is required. Visionary and ruthlessly strategic,...
Fox News and American Politics
How One Channel Shapes American Politics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In recent years, scholars have argued that the ability of people to choose which channel they want to watch means that television news is just preaching to the choir, and doesn’t change any minds. However, this book shows that the media still has an enormous direct impact on American society and...
AQA A2 Government & Politics Student Unit Guide New Edition: Unit 3a The Politics of the USA Updated
AQA A2 Government & Politics Student Unit Guide New Edition: Unit 3a The Politics of the USA Updated
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Exam Board: AQA
Level: A2
Subject: Government & Politics
First Teaching: September 2012
First Exam: June 2014
Written by Colleen Harris and updated by Simon Lemieux, this updated New Edition Student Unit Guide provides support throughout the course.
Feel confident you understand the unit:...
Think Big and Kick Ass in Politics
How a Republican Billionaire Masterminded His Way into the White House
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is about power, success, strategy, seduction, thinking big, the law of attraction, winning, and kicking ass in real-life politics, period. It obliterates the lies and misconceptions surrounding the 2016 billionaire Republican presidential nominee and proves, with certitude, that, rather...
by Robert C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject.The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations...
The Politics of Virtue
Post-Liberalism and the Human Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions ‘negative liberty’ and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left – free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life. The triumph of liberalism has had the...
Depression Folk
Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history...