Politics category: 19839 books
Black Women in Politics
Identity, Power, and Justice in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The research included in this volume examines the competing pressures felt by black women as political agents in the domains of elections, public policy, and social activism. Their challenges and initiatives are explored in public spaces, institutional behaviours, and public policy.
The volume...
Black Mosaic
The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States....
by Edited by Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Historically, women have been under-represented in politics. Patriarchal political parties, debilitating customs and discriminatory selection processes, and obstructionist attitudes have generally contributed to the inability of women to enter mainstream political life in a significant way. In Women...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Bringing together political theorists and specialists in Canadian politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics combinesconceptual frameworks from political theory and empirical evidence to offer fresh perspectives on political events in contemporary Canada. Examining complex and timely...
US politics today
Fourth edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
US politics today not only introduces the defining features of contemporary American politics but also considers the strengths and weaknesses of a system that is now under serious strain.
The book is ideal for students, teaching staff and the general reader. It outlines the ways in which the...
Food Politics
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated...
Dog Whistle Politics
How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a...
by Nick Gallop
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Exam board: AQA
Level: A-level
Subject: Politics
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2018 (AS) Summer 2019 (A-Level)
Written by experienced teachers Nick Gallop and Paul Fairclough, this Student Guide for Politics:
-Identifies the key content you need to know with a concise summary...
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
Beijing, Chicago, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 10: Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Volume 10 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture combines two of the sections from the original edition, adding extensive updates and 53 entirely new articles. In the law section of this volume, 16 longer essays address broad concepts ranging from law schools to family law, from labor relations...
Heidegger and Politics
The Ontology of Radical Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In this fresh interpretation of Heidegger, Alexander S. Duff explains Heidegger's perplexing and highly varied political influence. Heidegger and Politics argues that Heidegger's political import is forecast by fundamental ambiguities about the status of politics in his thought. Duff explores how,...
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes
Dead Body Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare’s political outlook by comparing some of the playwright’s best-known works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. By situating Shakespeare ‘between’...
Fat Man Fed Up
How American Politics Went Bad
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
For more than forty years, Jack Germond has been covering politics for Gannett newspapers, the Washington Star, and the Baltimore Sun, and talking politics on the Today show, The McLaughlin Group, and Inside Washington. Now, in Fat Man Fed Up*,* Germond confronts the most critical issues raised by...
by José M. Magone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Contemporary Spanish Politics gives fresh insight into the formal and informal workings of this dynamic southern European democracy. It thoroughly discusses the history, politics, institutions, parties, economy and foreign policy of Spain at an introductory level ideal for an undergraduate audience....