Politics category: 19839 books
by Ben Clift
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path-breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone...
by Ray C. Rist
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to...
Global Feminist Politics
Identities in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2000
Global Feminist Politics examines the changing global context for feminist political action, its meaning and forms. It acknowledges the existence of dissent and debate among feminists, asserting that such debate leads to innovation in theory and practice. This book reaches the conclusion that the...
by John S. Dryzek, Jonathan Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities....
Changing Paths
International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. This new concern with...
Civic Engagement and Politics
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Creating transparency between government and citizens through outreach and engagement initiatives is critical to promoting community development and is also an essential part of a democratic society. This can be achieved through a number of methods including public policy, urban development, artistic...
Calculated Values
Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the success of institutions, or divining public opinion, we are told that numbers don’t lie. But numbers...
Race Over Party
Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post–Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon...
Parliamentary Thinking
Procedure, Rhetoric and Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
The parliamentary style of politics has been formed over centuries; nobody theorised it in advance. This book presents a thought experiment to spell out key principles of the parliamentary ideal type of politics. Max Weber offers the main intellectual inspiration, Westminster parliament provides the...
The Transnational Politics of Higher Education
Contesting the Global / Transforming the Local
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between higher education and transnational politics. It shows how higher education is a significant arena for regional and international transformation as well as domestic political struggle replete with unequal power relations.
This...
Performing Representation
Women Members in the Indian Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Seven decades after India’s independence women members occupy 1 in 10 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. In analysing women’s limited presence in the Indian Parliament, Performing Representation breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and politics. It explores...
Jordan and the Arab Uprisings
Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
In 2011, as the Arab uprisings spread across the Middle East, Jordan remained more stable than any of its neighbors. Despite strife at its borders and an influx of refugees connected to the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS, as well as its own version of the Arab Spring with protests and popular...
Reason, Culture, Religion
The Metaphysics of World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In Reason, Culture, Religion, Ralph Pettman calls for wider recognition of, and greater commitment to, the ‘new’ international relations, a discipline much more comprehensive and cosmopolitan than the ‘old’. He first documents the way modernist analysts describe and explain world politics....
Who Speaks for Nature?
On the Politics of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
When natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority. Where does science derive its remarkably resilient, though often contested, capacity to give voice to...