Politics category: 19839 books
Return of the "L" Word
A Liberal Vision for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies...
Opting Out of Congress
Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book provides a candidate entry explanation for partisan polarization in Congress. Danielle M. Thomsen draws on quantitative data to show that ideological moderates are less likely to run for and remain in Congress than those at the extremes. The book introduces a party fit argument for why moderates...
Accountability and Regulatory Governance
Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governance
by Tom Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
"Libertarianism is hot."--The Washington PostThe ideas presented in this book are about an alternative view of politics: a politics, not of force, but of persuasion, of live-and-let-live, of rejecting both subjugation and domination.The essays are mainly written by younger people who...
Agriculture and Food in Crisis
Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to suffer from hunger or food...
The War on Welfare
Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan...
The National Origins of Policy Ideas
Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and disseminated, and how this process varies between countries....
Oil and Governance
State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
National oil companies (NOCs) play an important role in the world economy. They produce most of the world's oil and bankroll governments across the globe. Although NOCs superficially resemble private-sector companies, they often behave in very different ways. Oil and Governance explains the variation...
In Search of Harmony in a Disharmonious World
Leadership Manual for Change Agents and Dreamers
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Each one of us is, in a sense, a leader in this world, and the author encourages us to adopt a model of harmony-based leadership. In easily-digested 'lessons' Prof. Srića gives fifty-two examples explaining in detail how each of us can develop internal harmony, and how to build and develop harmonious...
Whatever Happened to Class?
Reflections from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations...
The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations
An Uneasy Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book examines the political factors in the economic relationship between the European Union and China that help to explain the apparent stalling of the EU-China strategic partnership in policy terms. Written by two specialists with long experience of EU-China relations, this new volume draws...
The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Social democracy is clearly at a dead end, but is it actually dead? The Three Worlds of Social Democracy explores the historical and theoretical path of the social democratic parties from their inception to the present day through a series of essays by high-profile experts in the field.
Looking...
Comparing Democracies
Elections and Voting in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This book provides you with a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and voting behaviour. It explores important work taking place on new areas, whilst at the same time covering the key themes that you’ll encounter throughout your studies.
Edited...
Thinking Like a Political Scientist
A Practical Guide to Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts...