Politics category: 19839 books
The Middle East
The Politics of the Sacred and Secular
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Amidst recent hype about events in the Middle East, there have been few attempts to get below the surface and develop a fuller understanding of what politics means there. The Middle East: The Politics of the Sacred and Secular redresses this balance and provides essential historical and theoretical...
The Politics of Historic Districts
A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political...
by Eric Nicol, Peter Whalley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Canadian politics is/are not well understood, no authority being prepared to say whether it/they is/are singular or plural. Canadian Politics Unplugged bravely breaks new ground in ignoring this question. The book concentrates on the central problem of democracy in a country that is too big to digest...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The sixth edition of Canadian Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a highly respected group of political scientists. For this edition, the editors have organized the book into six parts. Part I examines Canadian citizenship and political identities, while...
Thucydides on Politics
Back to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last hundred years, Thucydides has been interpreted and invoked in support of many different positions in politics,...
by Steven Womack
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
*"We’re Americans. We have the best government money can buy." *
With these words, Edgar and Shamus Award-winning mystery writer Steven Womack begins his investigation of one of the greatest crimes ever committed against the American people: the American political system.
The...
Women Presidents of Latin America
Beyond Family Ties?
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Women are gaining ground as presidents of Latin America. Women leaders in presidential systems (particularly women directly elected by the public) were generally limited to daughters and wives of male executives or opposition leaders. With the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, these traditional...
Honest Politics
Seeking Integrity in Canadian Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Honest Politics provides a framework for distinguishing right from wrong in politics and supplies some ideas for ensuring that ethical decision-making can be enforced.
Greene and Shugarman look at the ethical issues raised by conflicts of interest, patronage, party financing, and lobbyists....
Politics and Strategy
Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies are Janus-faced: their formulation has as much...
Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics
Regulation for the Rest of Us?
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent.
Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics...
Indigeneity: a politics of potential
Australia, Fiji and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This original book is the first comprehensive integration of political theory to explain indigenous politics. It assesses the ways in which indigenous and liberal political theories interact to consider the practical policy implications of the indigenous right to self-determination. Providing opportunities...
The Politics of Local Government
Governing in Small Towns and Suburbia
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation...
Living Legislation
Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when...
Markets, Morals, Politics
Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of...