Lexington Books: 3858 books
Global Strategic Engagement
States and Non-State Actors in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Global Strategic Engagement analyzes the changes brought about in global politics by the phenomenon of globalization in the last thirty years. The primary point of view of the text is the micro-perspective of the new practitioners of global governance: international public officers, transnational...
Arminius Vambéry and the British Empire
Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
This book frames the fascinating life and influential works of the Hungarian Orientalist, Arminius Vambéry (1832–1913), within the context of nineteenth century identity politics and contemporary criticisms of Orientalism. Based on extensive research, the book authoritatively presents a comprehensive...
The Making of Jewish Universalism
From Exile to Alexandria
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
This book explores two kinds of universalist thought that circulated among Jews in the Greco-Roman world. The first, which is founded on the idea that all people may worship the One True God in an engaged and sustained manner, originates in biblical prophetic literature. The second, which underscores...
The World in Brooklyn
Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to...
Pierre Bourdieu
The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Pierre Bourdieu: The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution argues that Bourdieu appointed himself as the representative of the French people and acted as its National Assembly. In that capacity, he set himself to work with the charter of the preamble toThe Declaration of the Rights of Man and the...
The Four Pillars of Politics
Why Some Candidates Don't Win and Others Can't Lead
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The Four Pillars of Politics provides a uniform foundation for evaluating political campaign strategies. The four pillars identified in this book—fear, national narcissism, consumerism, and religion—serve as attitudinal anchors that American voters use in making their voting decisions. The dominant...
Campaign Finance Reform
The Political Shell Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
For decades, campaign finance reform has been an on-going topic of discussion. In particular, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was heralded as a major breakthrough in controlling the flow of money into campaigns. Almost immediately, political players found other ways to financially...
by Melissa M. Smith, Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
More than two billion dollars. That’s how much money was spent in the 2012 presidential campaign—the most expensive campaign in history. Each party raised and spent more than one billion dollars as the traditional boundaries of campaign financing were ignored. Both parties could do so because...
by Steven A. Mucci
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book examines the financial, legal and institutional strategies available to the international oil and gas industry to manage political and investment risk. The financial techniques for mitigating and allocating risk include corporate finance, joint ventures, and project finance.
The legal techniques...
Making a Difference
A Comparative View of the Role of the Internet in Election Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
This book is a cross-national analysis of the role of the internet in national electoral campaigns. It covers an array of electoral and party systems throughout the globe from parliamentary to presidential, party-based to candidate-oriented, multi-party to two-party, and stable party system to dynamic...
A Southern Writer and the Civil War
The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more vigorously argued as those surrounding its outcome. One of the leading explanations for Confederate defeat has been the argument that the Civil War South lacked a national...
Representations of Islam in the News
A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed “foreign Islam”), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority...
The Style and Rhetoric of Elizabeth Dole
Public Persona and Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a conservative, feminine persona in which she depicted...
Free Speech on America's K–12 and College Campuses
Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Free Speech on America’s K–12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine covers the history of legal cases involving free speech issues on K–12 and college campuses, mostly during the fifty-year period from 1965 through 2015. While this book deals mostly with high school and college...