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The Politics of the Black Nation

A Twenty-five-year Retrospective

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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

This volume of the National Political Science Review, the official publication of the National Political Science Association, is anchored by a major symposium on The Politics of the Black "Nation," the book authored by Matthew Holden in 1973, which is now considered one of the most influential...
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Piety, Politics, and Pluralism

Religion, the Courts, and the 2000 Election

by George E. Garvey, Bette Novitt Evans, Ted G. Jelen
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002

Piety, Politics, and Pluralism skillfully confronts the question: Is liberal democracy hostile to religion or is it compatible with the rights of believers? Prominent scholars analyze the controversy about religious freedom by examining two areas at the intersection of religion and politics in contemporary...
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Politics (Canadian Edition)

An Introduction to the Modern Democratic State, Fourth Edition

by Larry W. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012

The latest edition of Politics offers a comprehensive and comparative approach to the essential components of democratic politics in today's states. The book begins by addressing ways of thinking about politics, community, and society, offering broad outlines of political theory in a historical context....
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by Hans J. Eysenck
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

In writing The Psychology of Politics, Hans Eysenck had two aims in mind: to write a book about modern developments in the field of attitude studies which would be intelligible to the layman; and one that would integrate into one consistent theoretical system a large number of contributions on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

This book is based on the assumption that great powers determine global politics and, in this instance, environmental politics. It addresses the approaches of both established and rising powers and their implications for the advancement of international climate negotiations. The new introduction looks...
Cover of The New States of Abortion Politics
by Joshua C. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016

The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback to the days of clinic-front protests, the decision seemed a means to reinvigorate the old street politics...
Cover of Identity Politics in India and Europe
by Michael Dusche
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010

This book highlights the present perceptions of the East and the West as seen through the eyes of eminent scholars from India, and in doing so, theorises on identity politics. Identity Politics in India and Europe combines qualitative methods (20 interviews) with historical and philosophical...
Cover of The Trajectories of the Indian State
by Sudipta Kaviraj
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among Indias most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Ironically, this has remained something of a state secret because Kavirajs writings are scattered and not easy to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

This is the first world-wide, comparative study of the controversial new trends of gender quotas now emerging in global politics, presenting a comprehensive overview of changes in women’s parliamentary representation across the world. This is important reading for all those working to increase...
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Deleuze and World Politics

Alter-Globalizations and Nomad Science

by Peter Lenco
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

The central argument of this book is that the univocal ontology and corresponding immanent metaphysics of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) can provide a theoretical perspective capable of accounting for the complex nature of world politics. Drawing on a wide variety of Deleuze’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

The Politics of Development: A Survey provides an overview of the intrinsically political relations of development. It brings together essays written by experts in the politics of development and covers a range of significant and topical concerns: gender, race, indigenous development, social movements,...
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by Lisa Harrison, Adrian Little, Ed Lock
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015

Politics: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and broad-ranging introduction to the terms that lie at the heart of political discourse. Entries are drawn from areas such as political theory, international politics, political science and methodology. As well as explaining core, established principles,...
Cover of The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
by Christof Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these questions both empirically and theoretically by concentrating on one of the least likely cases for welfare state transformation in Europe. It analyzes...
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Recognition and Redistribution

Beyond International Development

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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019

This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric approaches....
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