Politics category: 19839 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons...
Documenting World Politics
A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
As a central component of contemporary culture, films mirror and shape political debate. Reflecting on this development, scholars in the field of International Relations (IR) increasingly explore the intersection of TV series, fiction film and global politics. So far, however, virtually no systematic...
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies
Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its...
Narrative Global Politics
Theory, History and the Personal in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This volume harnesses the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics. It comprises a prologue, an epilogue, and sixteen chapters that both build upon and diversify the success of the 2011 volume Autobiographical International Relations.
Here, as...
Politics and Society in Modern Israel
Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
With full coverage of recent dramatic events in Israeli politics from the Rabin assassination through the May 1996 elections, this work provides an up-to-date introduction to Israeli politics and society. It seeks to convey a strong sense of everyday life in Israel, the nuances and contradictions...
by Sarra Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, WJEC/Eduqas
Level: A-level
Subject: Politics
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2019
Master the skills you need to set yourself apart and hit the highest grades; this year-round course companion develops the higher-order thinking skills that top-achieving...
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science. The Handbook is organized into three parts: the first part identifies foundational concepts for the French case, including chapters on republicanism...
by Hugh C. Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Conformity is a common coping strategy for dealing with stresses in political situations, as well a strategy for dealing with the lack of agreed foundations. This work introduces the conceptual frameworks of coping and conformity to provide a new analysis of the ethical and political demands of international...
The Price of Progressive Politics
The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights
movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive
Politics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rights
politics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism undermines
this multiracial movement. Through in-depth interviews
with...
by Phil Gunson, Greg Chamberlain, Andrew Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1991, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Central America and the Caribbean provides a guide to the most important organizations, figures, events and themes in the contemporary politics of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The countries covered include Mexico, Guatamala,...
Managing Indonesia's Transformation
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Managing Indonesia's Transformation: An Oral History is an account of Ginandjar Kartasasmita's career in the Indonesian government, both under President Suharto and in the post-Suharto era. Based on all the ministerial positions in which Kartasasmita has served the government, the book provides readers...
The Politics of Common Sense
How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The way that movements communicate with the general public matters for their chances of lasting success. Deva Woodly argues that the potential for movement-led political change is significantly rooted in mainstream democratic discourse and specifically in the political acceptance of new issues by...
Between Politics and Antipolitics
Thinking About Politics After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book traces a dialectic relationship between “politics” and “antipolitics,” the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns...