Politics category: 19839 books
Social policy in times of austerity
Global economic crisis and the new politics of welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based...
by Stephen Buzdugan, Anthony Payne
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The Long Battle for Global Governance charts the manner in which largely excluded countries, variously described as ‘ex-colonial’, ‘underdeveloped’, ‘developing’, ‘Third World’ and lately ‘emerging’, have challenged their relationship with the dominant centres of power and major...
The New Freedom
[Illustrated & Biography Added]
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if we are to restore our politics to their full spiritual vigor again, and our national...
Smoke and Mirrors
The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Who gets to breathe clean air? Who benefits from the cheaper products produced with dirty air? The answers, as the contributors to Smoke and Mirrors tell us, are sometimes as gray as the air itself.
From the coal factory chimneys in Manchester in the late nineteenth century to the smog hanging over...
After the Rebellion
Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad...
The Institutions of American Democracy
The Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
From curriculum standards and testing to school choice and civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated in the United States. The Institutions of American Democracy , a collection of essays by the nation's leading education scholars and professionals, is designed to inform...
Leadership with Integrity
How to be True to Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Dr Mary Gentile interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, colleagues, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? If you already knew what was the right thing to do, how could you get it done? What kinds of stories,...
by Andrey Davydov
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Consideration of the term "political elite" as a synonym of the concept of "political power" is largely an attempt to look at new values from the viewpoint of a political historian, who seeks analogues in the past. Unfortunately, today such excursus is unlikely to end in success because it is...
by Gregory Parker, Allen West
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
With the ascension of relativism and the denial of absolutes and objectivity in everyday life, progressives and socialists have redefined the word 'tolerance' to mean the blanket acceptance of anything no matter how unpalatable or absent of truth. Those who challenge this fraud of tolerance, who invoke...
Basic Income Guarantee and Politics
International Experiences and Perspectives on the Viability of Income Guarantee
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This exciting and timely collection brings together international and national scholars and advocates to provide historical overviews of efforts to pass basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe.
Varietals of Capitalism
A Political Economy of the Changing Wine Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier Itçaina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes and...
The National Politics of Nuclear Power
Economics, Security, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.
The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary...
by Dr. David M. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics,...
If...Then
Algorithmic Power and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly...