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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Dialogue is promoted by its supporters as a pluralising force capable of accommodating the moral disagreement inevitable in every sphere of human society, but this promise is widely and vehemently challenged. How are we to determine the principles upon which the dialogical exchange should take place?...
Emigrants Get Political
Mexican Migrants Engage Their Home Towns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Migrants have become an important social and political constituency throughout the world. In addition to sending remittances to their home countries, many migrants maintain political ties with their nations of origin through the expansion of dual citizenship and voting rights. Some even return home...
Race Rules
Electoral Politics in New Orleans, 1965-2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Race Rules: Electoral Politics in New Orleans, 1965-2006 examines one of the innumerable ramifications of Hurricane Katrina: a reversal in the decades-long process of racial transition, from white dominant to black dominant. The electoral consequences of such a racial change - in a city where race...
by Thomas Christiansen, Emil Kirchner, Uwe Wissenbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This accessible text offers a comprehensive analysis of the European Union (EU)-China relationship, as one of the most important in global politics today. Both are major players on the world stage, accounting for 30% of trade and nearly a quarter of the world’s population. This text shows how, despite...
2016-2017 Directory of American Politics
The Definitive Guide to Political Organizations and Resources in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The 20152016 edition of The Directory of American Politics is the most comprehensive listing of government and private political organizations yet published, with information on the offices of federal and state elected officials, interest groups, media outlets, Super PACs, and registered lobbyists-in...
Of Privacy and Power
The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the future
We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce...
God, Money, and Politics
English Attitudes to Blindness and Touch, from the Enlightenment to Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Note: Author Simon Hayhoe was intervied on BBC Radio 4 in August, 2008. Click here for the transcript. Our book examines the role of three factors, God, Money, and Politics, in the epistemological theory of blindness, (the theory of the construction of knowledge on blindness and touch by social and...
by Glenn David Mackin
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The Politics of Social Welfare in America examines how politicians, theorists and citizens discuss need, welfare and disability with respect to theoretical and political projects. Glenn David Mackin argues that participants in these discussions often miss the way their perceptions of those in need...
Globalization and Mass Politics
Retaining the Room to Maneuver
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This book analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the types of public issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies. Although many studies interrogate whether internationalization matters in regard...
by Robert Porter
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The politics of everyday life is to be found, time and again, in meandering movements, in making connections across and between things in the rough and tumble of the seemingly banal, fragmentary and quotidian experiences that make up our day-to-day existence. The key point of the book, ideally as...
Tolerance
A Sensorial Orientation to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
In Tolerance, Lars Tønder offers a thought-provoking theory on what tolerance means in pluralistic societies. Tønder begins by showing the limitations of the way democratic theory currently understands tolerance: either as a form of restraint or as benevolence, but always divorced from what it is...
Political Satire, Postmodern Reality, and the Trump Presidency
Who Are We Laughing At?
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book attempts to grasp the recent paradigm shift in American politics through the lens of satire. It connects changes in the political and cultural landscape to corresponding shifts in the structure and organization of the media, in order to shed light on the evolution of political satire on...
by Hans-Jörg Sigwart
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book interprets Hannah Arendt’s work as a “wandering” type of political theory. Focusing on the sub-text of Arendt’s writings which questions “how to think” adequately in political theory whilst categorically refraining from explicitly investigating meta-theoretical questions of epistemology...
Four Theories of the Press
60 Years and Counting
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The links between distinctive political regimes and media systems are undeniable. As Siebert, Peterson and Schramm wrote (1956: 1) 60 years ago: ‘the press always takes on the form and coloration of the social and political structures within which it operates’. Nevertheless, today’s world and...