Politics category: 19839 books
Post-Western World
How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order? Will China dominate the 21st Century?...
The Process of Government
A Study of Social Pressures
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor, during which time he had a sense of tremendous social activity taking place, and a feeling that all the politics of the country, so to speak, were drifting across [his] desk....
Open versus Closed
Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Debates over redistribution, social insurance, and market regulation are central to American politics. Why do some citizens prefer a large role for government in the economic life of the nation while others wish to limit its reach? In Open versus Closed, the authors argue that these preferences are...
The Hybrid Media System
Politics and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly defined by organizations, groups, and individuals who are best able to blend older...
Chinese Space Policy
A Study in Domestic and International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program.
It opens by tracing out the earlier development of...
Subterranean Politics and Freud’s Legacy
Critical Theory and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Subterranean Politics and Freud's Legacy seeks to reestablish psychoanalysis as an ally to critical theory's efforts to restore subjectivity and oppose systemic domination in modernity. Given critical theory's ongoing crisis of identity and purpose, this project makes a significant contribution to contemporary political theory.
by Susan R. Burgess, Kathryn C. Leeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This unique guide will provide an overview of radical U.S. political movements on both the left and the right sides of the ideological spectrum, with a focus on analyzing the origins and trajectory of the various movements and the impact that movement ideas and activities have had on mainstream American...
God and Mrs Thatcher
The Battle For Britain's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A woman demonised by the left and sanctified by the right, there has always been a religious undercurrent to discussions of Margaret Thatcher. However, while her Methodist roots are well known, the impact of her faith on her politics is often overlooked. In an attempt to source the origins of Margaret...
After Nature
A Politics for the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
The Democratic Arts of Mourning
Political Theory and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning...
Tales from the Left Coast
True Stories of Hollywood Stars and Their Outrageous Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When Barbra Streisand sends Dick Gephardt a personal fax, it makes headline news. When international relations expert Sean Penn leads his own "tour of peace" in Baghdad, every news desk across the country reports it. It's no secret that Hollywood has a leftward tilt when it comes to politics. But...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book, first published in 1987, analysed the state and changing nature of political opposition in Western Europe at the time. For each country covered, it discusses the concept of opposition and the approach adopted by opposition parties. It explores the institutional framework that was in place...
Alben Barkley
A Life in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Born to poor tenant farmers in a log cabin in Graves County, Kentucky, Alben Barkley (1877--1956) rose to achieve a national political stature equaled by few of his contemporaries. His memorable public career ranged from the Progressive era to the early years of the Cold War, and he witnessed or influenced...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Introduction to Politics“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government.You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again” – Lee Kuan YewMy political journey began when I...