Politics category: 19839 books
Obama at the Crossroads
Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. Beginning in 2009, the President and Congress put forward...
by Walter Lippmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
The most incisive comment on politics to-day is indifference. When men and women begin to feel that elections and legislatures do not matter very much, that politics is a rather distant and unimportant exercise, the reformer might as well put to himself a few searching doubts. Indifference is a criticism...
by Professor E. Scott Adler, Professor John D. Wilkerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
How do issues end up on the agenda? Why do lawmakers routinely invest in program oversight and broad policy development? What considerations drive legislative policy change? For many, Congress is an institution consumed by partisan bickering and gridlock. Yet the institution's long history of addressing...
Enough Said
What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that...
Center Stage
Media and the Performance of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
This up-to-date and lively text focuses on a wide range of issues, such as politics as theater, the economic forces shaping contemporary political media, the rhetoric of the 'War on Terrorism,' and the growth of new media. Separate chapters explore a range of contexts, including the presidency, Congress...
Politics and Slum Upgrading in Kenya
A Case Study on the Influence of Politics on Slum Upgrading in Kibera
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Why was the slum upgrading project in Kibera, Kenya, facing resistance? This study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection to reveal that politics revolving around the interests of local politicians, slum dwellers and business operators as well as external players such as...
Economics, Governance, and Politics in the Wine Market
European Union Developments
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The global wine industry is a continually modifying market impacted by financing, culture, and politics. Economics, Governance, and Politics in the Wine Market analyzes recent developments in European Agriculture policies on wine legislation and market trend orientation between political power and market structure.
The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany
Global, Rhineland or Hybrid Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in Germany in illuminating historical and structural contexts.
Showing how economic reform has become the central issue on the German political agenda, raising contentious issues of policy management and posing deeper questions...
Preservation Politics
Keeping Historic Districts Vital
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
You’ve established a historic district in your town! Now what? Preservation Politics picks up where The Politics of Historic Districts leaves off, advising the established HPC on how to maintain momentum in their communities once the initial political campaign to win historic preservation designation...
by Anthony J Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Let trusted author Anthony Bennett build your students political knowledge and understanding with our bestselling textbook, fully updated for the new specifications.
Combining informed discussion with the latest facts and figures, this textbook provides accessible coverage of key topics for...
by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills.
The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes and supports its conclusions –...
Thinking History, Fighting Evil
Neoconservatives and the Perils of Analogy in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Thinking History, Fighting Evil presents the most thorough exploration to date of how World War II analogies, particularly those focused on the Holocaust, have colored American foreign policy-making after 9/11. In particular, this book highlights how influential neoconservatives inside and outside...
The Politics of Perfection
Technology and Creation in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film provides an exploration of the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. Each chapter provides a detailed analysis of a film or novel, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Ridley Scott’s...
Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity
Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts and terrors of the mid- to late-twentieth century? Is it possible to understand absurdity not as a feature of events, but as a psychological posture...