Political category: 85882 books
Bonhoeffer on Resistance
The Word Against the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Bonhoeffer thought and wrote a great deal about political life, but he did so neither as a political theorist nor a political activist but rather as a Christian pastor and theologian. Most of what he said about political resistance was said as a theologian, as one speaking on behalf of the church....
Political Booms
Local Money and Power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle “classes” promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy brought no boom and barely...
Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities
The Future of Arab Christians in the Islamic Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities discusses the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East and the future of political Christianity. The emergence of political Islam and the recent changes in political Christianity in the region have both contributed to a new perception...
Power, Authority, Justice, and Rights
Studies in Political Obligations
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a rapid growth of interest in political theory as the analysis of political concepts led to the publication of this book. The approach outlined here remains...
The Political Primer
Fundamentals of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The kind of society you want to live in depends upon what you politically believe. Discover your political beliefs and learn the why in politics.
The Political Primer is humbly offered as a way for you to re-discover, or discover for the first time, your political beliefs. This book is about...
Murder and Politics in Mexico
Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election...
Excluded Within
The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? And how does their political unintelligibility shape political bodies, and the terms of political agency, from which they are excluded? In this groundbreaking book,...
by Andreas Heuer
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Columbia Universität New York, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In this paper I examine two main thinkers who articulated the theologico-political conflict as a major problem of politics and modern...
The Plebeian Experience
A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political...
Politics and the Concept of the Political
The Political Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley’s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more...
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Politics, Justice, Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that theorists...
The China Model
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.”...
Conditional Democracy
The Contemporary Debate on Political Reform in Chinese Universities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Little is known about the political views of non-dissident Chinese intellectuals. For this book, Émilie Frenkiel has been granted unprecedented access to the discussions of politically committed Chinese who have been part of the intellectual debate on post-Tiananmen reform. Her in-depth research...
by Dennis W. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
The Routledge Handbook of Political Management is a comprehensive overview of the field of applied politics, encompassing political consulting, campaigns and elections, lobbying and advocacy, grass roots politics, fundraising, media and political communications, the role of the parties, political...