Politics category: 19839 books
Narcissism and Politics
Dreams of Glory
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In this age of narcissism, the proliferation of politicians with significant narcissistic personality features is dramatic. Driven by dreams of glory, they seem to find the spotlight that the arena of politics provides irresistible. This book analyzes narcissism and politics and systematically explores...
The Politics of Parliamentary Debate
Parties, Rebels and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Parliamentary debate is a fundamental aspect of democratic law-making. While law makers everywhere seek to express their views in parliament, there are large discrepancies in who has access to the floor across political systems. This book explains how parties and their members of parliament (MPs)...
The Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama
A Critical Analysis of a Racially Transcendent Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
In the early twenty-first century, race still occupies a dominant role in American politics. Despite this truism, presidential candidate Barack Obama was uniquely poised to transcend both race and party as the first African American to have a realistic chance of winning the presidency. Previous contenders...
African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics
The Challenge of Gendered Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control,...
Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space
Locating Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) was established in December 2005 to develop outlines of best practice in post-conflict reconstruction, and to secure the political and material resources necessary to assist states in transition from conflict to peacetime. Currently, the organization...
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called “Nordic model”...
BCIM Economic Cooperation
Interplay of Geo-economics and Geo-politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book examines the strategic and economic logic behind the Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar (BCIM) Regional Cooperation. According to estimates, BCIM covers approximately 9 percent of the world’s mass and 40 percent of the world’s population spanning across four countries, constituting...
The Politics of Objectivity
An Essay on the Foundations of Political Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Modern political conflict characteristically reflects and represents deep-seated but also unacknowledged and un-analyzed disagreements about what it means to be 'objective'. In defending this proposition, Peter J. Steinberger seeks to reaffirm the idea of rationalism in politics by examining important...
Emotions, Protest, Democracy
Collective Identities in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
With the rise of both populist parties and social movements in Europe, the role of emotions in politics has once again become key to political debates, and particularly in the Spanish case. Since 2011, the Spanish political landscape has been redrawn. What started as the Indignados movement has now...
Roll Call Rebels
Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Scholars of legislative politics often note the many differences between the British House of Commons and the United States House of Representatives. These include differences in party strength, members' partisan loyalty on votes, and general institutional structure. Because of these differences,...
Fire and Ashes
Success and Failure in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.
by Richard Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Richard Rose’s memoir vividly describes first-hand experience of the transformation of politics in Europe and the United States since 1940. He has been teargassed in Chicago, seen walls go up in Belfast and come down in Berlin. The author’s education in the streets and in the corridors of political...
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). But the printed version was not published...
The Retail Revolution
How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means
Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism,...