Politics category: 19839 books
The 1728 Musin Rebellion
Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea provides the first comprehensive account in English of the Musin Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow King Yŏngjo (1694–1776; r. 1724–1776), and the largest rebellion of eighteenth-century Korea. The rebellion proved unsuccessful,...
by Westen K. Shilaho
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book discusses Kenya’s transition from authoritarianism to more democratic forms of politics and its impact on Kenya’s multi-ethnic society. The author examines two significant questions: Why and how is ethnicity salient in Kenya’s transition from one-party rule to multiparty politics?...
Administered Politics
Elite Political Culture in Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Several years ago, freshly returned from a year in Stockholm but deeply en meshed in the American Malaise of the late 1960's, I sketched out an image of Swedish policy-making that defined a generalized policy-making role and sought to relate that role to both citizen attitudes and the elite political...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia. A team of leading experts in the field offers discussion at both the country and regional level, including analysis of democratic attitudes and movements in China, Japan, South Korea, and...
by Ron Christenson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social science. This edition focuses on Aron's lifelong...
Sentientist Politics
A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against...
Humanity and the Enemy
How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The book questions the concept of "the enemy," beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics.
The Wars before the Great War
Conflict and International Politics before the Outbreak of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Between 1911 and 1914, the conflicts between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, together with the Balkan wars that followed, transformed European politics. With contributions from leading, international historians, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the wars before the Great War and surveys...
How language works in politics
The impact of vague legislation on policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
There were more colons used in legislation in 2015 than there were words enacted in 1900. Using analysis from machine readings of all legislation enacted between 1900 and 2015, this book discusses the social impact of increasingly elastic legislative language on the contemporary workings of the British...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This one-volume reference presents the major conceptual approaches to the study of U.S. political parties and the national party system, describing the organization and behavior of U.S. political parties in thematic, narrative chapters that help undergraduate students better understand party origins,...
United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice
Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war...
Politics of Survival
The Conservative Part of Canada, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Professor Granatstrin's book is a fascinating account of the Conservative party's struggle for survival during the Second World War. In some respects a new departure in Canadian history and with some startling parallels to present-day events and personalities in Canadian politics, it is the first...
by Qi Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book develops a new way of reading and benefiting from Schmitt's legal and political theories. It explores Schmitt's theories from the perspective of what I refer to as the politics of transition. It also contributes to identifying the real theoretical relationship between Schmitt and Mao.
International Relations Theory and Philosophy
Interpretive dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
This book discusses the contribution of philosophers and thinkers whose ideas have recently begun to permeate international relations theory. It provides an introduction to the contemporary debates regarding theories and methodologies used to study international relations, particularly the relationships...