Politics category: 19839 books
by Bonnie Honig
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement....
Contemporary Environmental Politics
From Margins to Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics,* *presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.
Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a fascinating period in which environmental...
The Chinese State's Retreat from Health
Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe,...
by José M. Magone
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This fully revised and updated third edition reflects the considerable changes in Spain over the last decade as the country celebrates 40 years of its constitution. The author gives fresh insight into the formal and informal workings of this dynamic southern European democracy. Thoroughly examining...
Party System Change in South India
Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book provides a systematic exploration of party system change. By applying the concept of political entrepreneurship and using a detailed case study of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, it demonstrates how party leaders can exercise their agency and drive party system change.
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by Anthony J Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Hit the highest grades at A-level with contemporary examples and data from the last year in US politics you can use in your exams
- Successfully navigate the often-complex political landscape of the US with guidance on what you need to know at the beginning of each chapter
- Enhance your knowledge...
Forging Power
Coalition Politics in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
This volume looks at the evolution of coalition politics in India, both at the national and provincial levels. It investigates the processes that led to coalition governments. It explores the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the Janata Party...
A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics
Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and...
Multi-Level Electoral Politics
Beyond the Second-Order Election Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years. The growing importance of multiple electoral arenas suggests...
by Karl Kaltenthaler
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
As countries in the European Union struggle to comply with the Maastricht Treaty, the question of monetary integration is at the forefront of European politics. Germany and the Politics of Europe’s Money explores how and why Germany—whose economic power makes it a pivotal player in the European...
Unstable universalities
Poststructuralism and radical politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Unstable universalities, available for the first time in paperback, examines the theme of universality and its place in radical political theory. Saul Newman argues that both Marxist politics of class struggle and the postmodern politics of difference have reached their historical and political limits,...
Human Behaviour and World Politics
A Transdisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
The contemporary academic study of world politics is a very diverse one This book is particularly concerned with that considerable part of it which in a loose sense represents the ‘behaviouralist’ school - the fashion of analysis that flowered in the 1950s and 1960s, principally in the United...
Politics on the Fringe
The People, Policies, and Organization of the French National Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1999
Once a marginal political coalition, the French National Front has become the most high-profile far-right organization in Europe. In Politics on the Fringe Edward G. DeClair provides the first extensive analysis of the Front’s history, from its creation in 1972 and outcast status in the early 1980s...
Ruff-Around Politics
The Political Candidate's Guide to Earning "a" Vote
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In addition to the information contained in the "Short Description," Ruff-Around Politics addresses issues pertaining to campaign protocols, voter registration and identification, national and world security, the media's role in politics, and matters of "life." Also, and in some regards most importantly,...