Practical Politics category: 1369 books
A House Divided
What Would We Have to Give Up to Get the Political System We Want?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Every American is affected by the divisions and outrage that prevent us from making progress on urgent problems. This issue guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. These are difficult questions, and there are no easy answers:
Should we require...
Coup d'État
A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Edward Luttwak’s shocking 1968 handbook showed, step-by-step, how governments could be overthrown and inspired anti-coup precautions around the world. In addition to these instructions, his revised handbook offers a new way of looking at political power—one that considers the vulnerability of stable democracies after prolonged economic distress.
Why Mugabe Won
The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe and their Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The 2013 general elections in Zimbabwe were widely expected to mark a shift in the nation's political system, and a greater role for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. However, the results, surprisingly, were overwhelmingly in favour of long-time...
by Myron J. Arnoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel, and intellectually equally at home in political...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Following the popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world beginning in 2010, armed forces remained pivotal actors in politics throughout the region. As demonstrators started to challenge entrenched autocratic rulers in Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a, and Manama, the militaries stormed back into the limelight...
by Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
This is a newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer's personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which culminated in a libel action against "The Times" newspaper. The book reveals the dirty tricks...
The Democratic Party of Japan in Power
Challenges and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized by a two-party system. However, in addition to the triple disasters of March 2011, the DPJ faced numerous difficulties arising from its controversial...
Global Powers of Horror
Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror’s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror’s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity...
Palestinian Politics and the Middle East Peace Process
Consensus and Competition in the Palestinian Negotiating Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Eight years after the second Palestinian uprising, the Oslo accords signed in 1993 seem to have failed. The reasons for the failure continue to fascinate students, politicians, researchers and policymakers alike. This book explores one of the major aspects of the bilateral peace process – the composition...
Pride Parades and LGBT Movements
Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe,...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
In recent years, political scientists and journalists have taken a great interest in the question of whether the American electorate is "sorting" into communities based on partisan affiliation. That is, there is concern that American communities are becoming increasingly politically homogenous...
The Indian Constituent Assembly
Deliberations on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Indian Constituent Assembly laid the foundations of the largest democracy in the world. The debates between the members of the Assembly form the bedrock of the Indian Constitution. The chapters in this volume propose a range of methodological perspectives from which these critical debates might...
The Erasure of Arab Political Identity
Colonialism and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book explores the long history of the evolution of Arab political identity, which predates the time of the Prophet Muhammad and is characterized by tolerance, compassion, generosity, hospitality, self-control, correct behaviour, equality and consensus. The author argues that present-day struggles...
The Process of Government
A Study of Social Pressures
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor, during which time he had a sense of tremendous social activity taking place, and a feeling that all the politics of the country, so to speak, were drifting across [his] desk....