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by M. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
An exploration of political traditions and their usage in explanations of British politics. This book includes an evaluation of both classical and critical approaches to the British Political Tradition. It also analyses more recent uses of political tradition by Bevir, Rhodes and Marquand.
Eleventh Hour
The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Pres. Jimmy Carter issued last-minute rules immediately before leaving the White House, creating frustration for the incoming Reagan Administration. As George W. Bush prepared to cede the Oval Office to Barack Obama almost three decades later, he ordered more than thirty last-minute policy changes,...
What Would Madison Do?
The Father of the Constitution Meets Modern American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
What would the father of the Constitution think of contemporary developments in American politics and public policy?
Constitutional scholars have long debated whether the American political system, which was so influenced by the thinking of James Madison, has in fact grown outmoded. But if...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This volume brings emerging research on religion and development into conversation with politics. Deploying innovative conceptual frameworks, and drawing on empirical research from across contemporary Asia, this collection makes an incisive contribution to the analysis of aid and development processes.
Taking Our Country Back
The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade. Drawing on interviews with more than sixty political staffers, fieldwork during the 2008 primaries and general election, and archival research, Daniel...
Not in Our Lifetimes
The Future of Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than half. Did that dramatic shift in opinion really...
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American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia [3 volumes]
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
This all-encompassing encyclopedia provides a broad perspective on U.S. politics, culture, and society, but also goes beyond the facts to consider the myths, ideals, and values that help shape and define the nation.
• Offers approximately 225 entries covering U.S. politics, culture, society,...
by Richard Ned Lebow
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Self-interest is an important human motive and this book explores its evolution in the United States and its consequences for politics, business, and personal relationships. In the postwar era American understandings of self-interest have moved away from Alexis de Tocqueville’s concept of “self-interest...
Between two worlds of father politics
USA or Sweden?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international continuum of ways of thinking about fatherhood. The key selling points of the two regimes model are...
Understanding community (second edition)
Politics, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society. The book takes a more critical look at the literature on community, community development and the politics of community, and applies...
Situating Global Resistance
Between Discipline and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in which resistance can be shaped by dominant ways of...
The Politics of Regulation in the UK
Between Tradition, Contingency and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book explores the discourse of regulatory crisis in the UK and examines why, despite the increasing contestation of the principles underpinning the regulatory state, its institutions and practices continue to be firmly embedded within the governance of the British state. It considers its implications...
Emotions in Politics
The Affect Dimension in Political Tension
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Prompted by the 'affective turn' within the entire spectrum of the social sciences, this books brings together the twin disciplines of political psychology and the political sociology of emotions to explore the complex relationship between politics and emotion at both the mass and individual level with special focus on cases of political tension.
by Evan S. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these...