Politics category: 19839 books
by Duncan Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone’s policies and their consequences.
Examining the theory and practice...
International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment
Global Governance, Politics and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.
Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book presents new and previously unpublished...
Grassroots
Politics . . . But Not as Usual
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This offbeat true story is a comedy and a tragedy about politics, from anti-globalist protest to domestic turmoil. It's about idealism, obsession and failure in Seattle, a progressive city on the fringe of America's continent and consciousness. Grant Cogswell is a poet, a punk rock-fan, an anarchist,...
The “New-Age America” & President Trump’S Invisible Politics in World Governance
The Future & the Security of You & I
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book is a policy-review piece. It strives to review some long-standing and herculean issues of concerns within the United States and around the world. It attempts a realistic second look into a few of the delicate and hellacious questions of governance that nations around the world are currently...
Destiny Calling
How the People Elected Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
On a bitter cold day in 2007—nearly 150 years after Abraham Lincoln's inauguration—United States Senator Barack Obama of Illinois gathered his supporters at the old state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Very new to the national political arena, he made an audacious announcement: "If you...
by Maayan Geva
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book investigates the Israeli engagement with international law in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) between 1967 and 2009. Grounded in a field-based study of the military International Law Department, it examines the dynamic position and impact that international law has...
Contemporary Left-Wing Activism Vol 2
Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and, in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of democratic potentials. At the same...
Contemporary Left-Wing Activism Vol 1
Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and, in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of democratic potentials. At the same...
Politics and the Bomb
The Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Epistemic communities represent networks of knowledge-based experts that help articulate cause-and-effect relationships of complex problems, define the self-interests of a state, or formulate specific policies for state decision makers. However, the role of these scientists and knowledgeable professionals...
Security, Risk and the Biometric State
Governing Borders and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life.
In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications...
The Birmingham Political Machine
Winning elections for Joseph Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
The British electorate swelled dramatically with the passing of the Second Reform Act in 1867. This presented the political class with a significant challenge. Here was a large, new electorate which needed to be understood, managed, enthused, and persuaded to vote for the right candidate in local...
by David Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Media coverage of climate change has attracted much scholarly attention because the extent of such coverage has an agenda-setting effect and because the ways in which the coverage is framed can influence public perception of and engagement with the issue. However, certain gaps in our understanding...
by Ann-Mari Sätre
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s and increased efforts to engage people in socially oriented NGOs and ‘encourage’ them to contribute to the fulfillment...
Ayn Rand
The Russian Radical
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1905–1982) is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century. Yet, despite the sale of over thirty million copies of her works, there have been few serious scholarly examinations of her thought. Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical...