Political category: 85882 books
The Unheavenly Chorus
Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political...
by Aristotle Papanikolaou
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology...
The Outrage Industry
Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while...
Political Capitalism
How Political Influence Is Made and Maintained
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of political...
by Bilveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the factors that shape the island-republic's domestic politics, the key institutions and issues in the city-state, electoral power as well as the political...
The Politics of the Internet
Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In The Politics of the Internet: Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism, R.J. Maratea examines the Internet’s effect on political claims-making and protest action to show how online technology is helping to shape popular opinion about political issues....
Political Responsibility Refocused
Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences. Has this changed our moral and political obligations towards people distant from us in space and time – for instance, to generations...
Modern Political Economy And Latin America
Theory And Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This is a reader that applies the newest debates in political economy to the analysis of Latin America in a way that is thematically and theoretically cohesive.. Modern Political Economy and Latin America consists of carefully selected, edited readings in Latin American political economy. The editors,...
Blogging the Political
Politics and Participation in a Networked Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The popular blog-tracking site technorati.com reports the existance of well over one hundred million blogs. Despite the medium’s ubiquity, the impact of political blogging on politics and civic engagemment has not been systematically examined. In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access...
Political Consultants and Campaigns
One Day to Sell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell examines the differences between how political science theory suggests campaigns should be run and how political consultants actually run campaigns. In the wake of consultants who effortlessly move from campaigners to policymakers, the dearth of...
Building a Business of Politics
The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants who carefully curate the images of politicians, advise candidates on polling and analytics, and shape voters' perceptions through marketing and advertising techniques. More than half of the $6 billion spent in the...
Why Youth Vote
Identity, Inspirational Leaders and Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book examines the reasons why young people vote. Viewing political behavior through a psychological lens, this book uses psychological developmental models to test the theory of political identity development and explain how and why young people vote. Rather than studying why young people do...
by David D. Perlmutter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have? In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter...
Comparative Political Thought
Theorizing Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This edited book introduces students and scholars to Comparative Political Thought. Featuring contributions from an excellent international line-up of esteemed scholars it examines some of the following issues:
Is political theory 'Western-centric'?
What can we learn from non-Western traditions...