Politics category: 19839 books
Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric
Politics as Transcendence and Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties have moved from ‘niche’ actors in party systems to mainstream political players. No longer the ‘outsider’ in party politics, these parties have successfully entered government at the regional and state levels and many have been...
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998
Electoral Failures and the Vagaries of Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998 is the second part of the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Alan H. Levy explores the political life of one of the most important women in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. This second part takes up Abzug’s life from the point...
Transnational Governance and South American Politics
The Political Economy of Norms
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book examines the interface between transnational private governance and domestic politics in South America. It explores the social and political factors that condition how ‘global’ private norms, discourses, and initiatives dealing with sustainability and CSR regulation are engaged with,...
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics...
Campaign for President
The Managers Look at 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Every four years following the presidential election, the Institute of Politics at Harvard University convenes a distinguished gathering of campaign managers, media commentators, and interested political observers to reflect on presidential campaign strategies from the earliest primaries through Election...
by Kurt Lang, Gladys Engel Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
"The authorsahave analyzed the television problem brilliantly. They had come up with a whole set of new insights, and their backup research always is fascinating to read."-Saturday Review"A cautious, research-based bookahopefully it will set a trend."-Ithiel de Sola Pool, Public...
The Wartime President
Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
“It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Interest in social science and empirical analyses of law, courts and specifically the politics of judges has never been higher or more salient. Consequently, there is a strong need for theoretical work on the research that focuses on courts, judges and the judicial process. The Routledge Handbook...
Italy and Japan: How Similar Are They?
A Comparative Analysis of Politics, Economics, and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book provides an enlightening comparative analysis of Japan’s and Italy’s political cultures and systems, economics, and international relations from World War II to the present day. It addresses a variety of fascinating questions, ranging from the origins of the authoritarian regimes and...
Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation
Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender...
by Gideon Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
A long neglected concept in the field of international relations and political theory, hospitality provides a new framework for analysing many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states to asylum and refugee crises.
by Gillian Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book explores the international politics behind the identification of human trafficking as a major global problem. Since 2000, tackling human trafficking has spawned new legal, security and political architecture. This book is grounded in the premise that the intense response to this issue is...
by Brian T. Kaylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking...