Politics category: 19839 books
Religious Minorities in Turkey
Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book considers the key issue of Turkey’s treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey’s EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, have pushed...
The Politics of Information
The Case of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking. As a very dynamic environment characterized by many different modes of information gathering and processing, the EU forms a particularly interesting case to test the politics of information approach.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across a variety of fields from domestic migration politics to oil and gas...
Networked Politics
Agency, Power, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations, however, network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful theoretical perspective. In Networked...
Designing public policy for co-production
Theory, practice and change
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and suggest co-production as a more democratic...
The Politics of Extreme Austerity
Greece in the Eurozone Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive interview with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, this is the first comprehensive account of the economic crisis at the heart of Europe.
Rethinking Urban Transitions
Politics in the Low Carbon City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Rethinking Urban Transitions provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research, undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with analysing and shaping urban sustainability...
The Dynamics of Political Communication
Media and Politics in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
What impact do news and political advertising have on us? How do candidates use media to persuade us as voters? Are we informed adequately about political issues? Do twenty-first-century political communications measure up to democratic ideals? The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics...
by M. Breen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
As national governments continue to disagree over how to respond to the aftermath of the global financial crisis, two of the few areas of consensus were the decisions to increase the IMF's capacity to respond and remove the policies designed to limit the use of its resources. Why was this massive...
The Politics of Financial Markets and Regulation
The United States, Japan and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Sara Konoe looks into the politics of financial regulatory developments in the United States, Japan, and Germany. These case studies highlight systemic interaction between institutions and political contexts, and provide broader implications for global financial governance.
by B. Barratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This political analysis of Harry Potter uses the beloved wizarding world to introduce readers to the equally murky and intimidating world of politics. Rowling's work provides us with entries into all of the most important political questions in history, from terrorism and human rights to the classic foundations of political thought.
Mad Men and Politics
Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Mad Men, using the historical backdrop of the many events that came to demarcate the 1960s, has presented a beautifully-styled rendering of this tumultuous decade, while teasing out a number of themes that resonate throughout the show and connect to the contemporary discourses that dominate today's...
International Resource Politics in the Asia-Pacific
The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Resource security is a new battleground in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific. With demand for minerals and energy surging, disputes are emerging over access and control of scarce natural resource endowments. Drawing on critical insights from political economy, this book explains why resources have emerged as a source of inter-state conflict in the region.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation. Over the past decades,complicity critique has evolved and become integral to literary and cultural studies. Nonetheless, the concept of complicityremains fundamentally underresearched. Addressing topical and...