Politics category: 19839 books
The PKK-Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Regional Politics
During and After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements’ imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society...
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson
The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Where The Ideas for which We Stand came from.
In this incisively drawn book, Darren Staloff forcefully reminds us that America owes its guiding political traditions to three Founding Fathers whose lives embodied the collision of Europe's grand Enlightenment project with the birth of the nation.
Alexander...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history--such as eras, institutions,...
The Age of Austerity
How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.
In a matter...
Women and Politics
Paths to Power and Political Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence examines the role of women in politics from the early women’s movement to the female politicians in power today. Following the historic 2016 presidential election, this timely edition includes analysis of the challenges of navigating gender...
Scandal
How "Gotcha" Politics Is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
For more than four decades, polarized politics in America has been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians, extremists on the left and right, and a sensationalist media energized by bringing public officials down. In this sorely needed book Lanny Davis, who has been in...
by Christopher J. Kam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
One of the chief tasks facing political leaders is to build and maintain unity within their parties. This text examines the relationship between party leaders and Members of Parliament in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, showing how the two sides interact and sometimes clash. Christopher...
by Bill Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
“Politics is stuck,” writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but “idealism isn’t dead. It can be reawakened.”
What will it take to make America a better, stronger, truer country? asks the bestselling author, former...
Unconventional Wisdom
Facts and Myths About American Voters
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Late deciders go for the challenger; turnout helps the Democrats; the gender gap results from a surge in Democratic preference among women--these and many other myths are standard fare among average citizens, political pundits, and even some academics. But are these conventional wisdoms--familiar...
Leaving Liberty?
Essays on Politics and Free-Market Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Politics can impact the marketplace in a big way.
In Leaving Liberty?, author Martin Mazorra presents a collection of essays that explores the important relationship between politics and economics.
Delivered in a daily devotional format of thirty-one essays, Leaving Liberty? provides...
South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy
Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the ‘extraordinary’, which includes...
Power, the State, and Sovereignty
Essays on International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades. Power, the State, and Sovereignty is a collection of his key scholarly works. The book includes both a framing introduction written for this...
Postcommunist Welfare States
Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social...
Housing politics in the United Kingdom
Power, planning and protest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
With rapid population growth, a long-term dearth in new housing construction, the emergence of ‘generation rent’ and rising homelessness, the issue of housing in the UK is considered complex, open-ended and intractable. Using insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social...