Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Where Else but the Streets
A Street Art Dossier
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Los Angeles (specifically the well-trafficked area of Melrose Avenue between Fairfax and La Brea) was the center of the street art world. Taking their cues from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, famed and infamous artists such as Shepard Fairey, Morley, Mr. Brainwash, and even Banksy took to...
Making Constitutions
Presidents, Parties, and Institutional Choice in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Negretto provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs from an analytical, historical and comparative perspective. Based on analysis of constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and four detailed case studies, Negretto shows the main determinants...
Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong
From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.
Going to War in Iraq
When Citizens and the Press Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Conventional wisdom holds that the Bush administration was able to convince the American public to support a war in Iraq on the basis of specious claims and a shifting rationale because Democratic politicians decided not to voice opposition and the press simply failed to do its job.
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Transforming Brazil
A History of National Development in the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
In this book, Rafael R. Ioris critically revisits the postwar context in Brazil to reexamine traditional questions and notions pertaining to the nature of Latin America’s political culture and institutions. It was in this period that the region lived some of its most intense and successful experiences...
The Dynamics of States
The Formation and Crises of State Domination
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
State domination in the non-Western world is hallmarked by its constantly shifting character. This stimulating book develops a new approach to the study of state formation and state erosion to explain dynamics that neither follow the pathways of development nor the rule of stagnation that dependency...
by Fred H. Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Demystifying Syria offers an extraordinary insight into the shifting relations between the Ba'th party and the armed forces, civil law, social structure, burgeoning private enterprise, internal political opposition, the European Union and its relation to Syria. This book goes beyond the headlines...
A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment
A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Impeachment is based upon “those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust … as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.” —Alexander Hamilton
A non-partisan guide to a...
Israel, Jordan, and Palestine
The Two-State Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Since 1921, the Zionist movement, the Hashemites, and Palestinian nationalists have been vying for regional control. In this book, Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed to materialize. He provides an in-depth analysis...
Government by Investigation
Congress, Presidents, and the Search for Answers, 19452012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Paul C. Light examines and evaluates the 100 most significant investigations of policy failures, bureaucratic mistakes, and personal misconduct undertaken by the U.S. federal government between 1945 and 2012. Launched by Congress or the president, sometimes by both at the same time, the investigations...
Electing Justice
Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process. First he examines in detail the history and nature of the process, then he...
What I Have Learned…
(Or Nonagenarian Natterings)
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
What I Have Learned... (or Nonagenarian Natterings) (Trafford, 2012) might be considered a sequel to my Through the Eyes of a Concerned Liberal published in 2004. This sequel explains what I believe about various aspects of life and living (i.e., why I believe what I do; and what I sought to do about...
by Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2013
¿Por qué, a pesar de los notables ingresos por petróleo y remesas, la economía creció cada vez menos? ¿Por qué medio millón de mexicanos emigraron al norte cada año? ¿Por qué se acentuó la polarización social? ¿Por qué se detuvo el proceso de modernización del país?.
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by Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Sintetizando las tesis que sostuvo en su libro anterior, Democracia republicana, este nuevo título destaca por su brevedad y nitidez, presentando, además, una propuesta muy concreta para que los ciudadanos participen directamente en el combate a la pobreza, el desarrollo del país y la construcción...