Politics category: 19839 books
An Age of Risk
Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth-...
by Magnus Boström, Michele Micheletti, Peter Oosterveer
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
The global phenomenon of political consumerism is known through such diverse manifestations as corporate boycotts, increased preferences for organic and fairtrade products, and lifestyle choices such as veganism. It has also become an area of increasing research across a variety of disciplines. Political...
Patrons of the Poor
Caste Politics and Policymaking in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Why has there not been more progress with reducing poverty in India? Patrons of the Poor offers a rich and contemporary account of politics and policymaking in India, as it seeks to provide an answer to this vital question. Despite unprecedented economic growth, the last twenty years have witnessed...
Politics in China since 1949
Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political affairs,...
by Lowell Dittmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Burma, also known as Myanmar, strategically located between China and India, is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia. Yet it remains both economically and politically underdeveloped. Why is this so? We argue that much of the reason has to do with an ongoing struggle...
Political Booms
Local Money and Power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle “classes” promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy brought no boom and barely...
Coalitions and Compliance
The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Coalitions and Compliance examines how international changes can reconfigure domestic politics. Since the late 1980s, developing countries have been subject to intense pressures regarding intellectual property rights. These pressures have been exceptionally controversial in the area of pharmaceuticals....
The Labour of Subjectivity
Foucault on Biopolitics, Economy, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in de-subjectivation. To what extent did this claim shape his philosophical practice? What are its theoretical and ethical justifications? Why did Foucault come to view the production of subjectivity as a key site of political and intellectual emancipation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
An interdisciplinary group of scholars from the global North and South critically explore the global deepening of market economy models. In case studies including Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, they examine the associated tensions of livelihood and ecology in the current context of global...
Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World
Governance Beyond the Center
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The contributors link innovative analytical concepts and ethnographic in-depth case studies from the Arab world. Based on the debates on politics from below and dynamic concepts of state, all the chapters focus on informal institutions, non-elite actors, and the dynamic and contradictory relationship between state and society.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
With the ubiquitous nature of modern technologies, they have been inevitably integrated into various facets of society. The connectivity presented by digital platforms has transformed such innovations into tools for political and social agendas. Politics, Protest, and Empowerment in Digital Spaces is...
Critical Political Ecology
The Politics of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between environmental science and politics. In this timely and wide-ranging...
International Relations' Last Synthesis?
Decoupling Constructivist and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Many scholars, intentionally or unintentionally, have entangled constructivisms and critical theories in problematic ways, either by assigning a critical-theoretical politics to constructivisms or by assuming the appropriateness of constructivist epistemology and methods for critical theorizing. IR's...
Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia
A Treatise on Christian Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a ‘power’ as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff’s political theology, this book addresses the decades-long theological-spiritual debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in U.S. foreign policy and global Christian circles. It approaches...