Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Employer and Worker Collective Action
A Comparative Study of Germany, South Africa, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
This book compares sources of worker and employer power in Germany, South Africa, and the United States in order to identify the sources of comparative US decline in union power and to more precisely analyze the nature of labor-movement power. It finds that this power is not confined to allied parties,...
A Thorn in the Side of European Elites
The New Euroscepticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The European project has recently reached a critical point, where a discussion on the fundamental objectives of the European Union has entered public debate. There are considerable concerns about a new Euroscepticism arising in response to recent developments, especially the Eurozone crisis, and a...
Why Democracy Deepens
Political Information and Decentralization in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was...
Red is the New Black
How Women Can Fashion a More Powerful America
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Red Is the New Black challenges the assumption that the Democratic Party is a girl's best friend.
Red Is the New Black takes an in depth look at the major policy issues affecting all of us to unveil the core values that best empower today’s women. It turns out that if we focus on values...
The Democrats
From Jefferson to Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Interlacing humor into his ongoing narrative, Robert Allen Rutland provides in The Democrats a readable, balanced account of how the Democratic party was founded, evolved, nearly died, and came back in the twentieth century, flourishing as a political melting pot despite numerous setbacks. This updated...
Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin
Constructing a Theory to Combat Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption problems...
Predicting the Presidency
The Potential of Persuasive Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Millions of Americans—including many experienced politicians—viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White...
Nonunion Employee Representation
History, Contemporary Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Examines the history, contemporary practice, and policy issues of non-union employee representation in the USA and Canada. The text encompasses many organizational devices that are organized for the purposes of representing employees on a range of production, quality, and employment issues.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Trans-boundary rivers between Nepal and India have long signified both cooperation and dispute. Though both countries are highly interested in mutual cooperation for the development of the shared rivers, their attempt to bring things to a successful solution has been hampered by debate. Several treaties...
De autoritaire verleiding
Over de opmars van de antiliberale wereldorde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 24, 2018
In ‘De autoritaire verleiding’ onderzoekt journalist Casper Thomas vijf landen die de liberale democratie afwijzen en de rug toekeren. Jarenlang leek de combinatie van democratie, vrijheid en onafhankelijke instituties namelijk onaantastbaar. Nu meldt zich een uitdager: de ‘illiberale democratie’...
TURKEY SINCE 2002
JUSTICE, FREEDODOM, DEMOCRACY
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What philosophy or approaches did the Justice and Development Party implement to achieve such change?
What are some of these recognized economic developments that the critics are calling the “miraculous development”?
How did President Erdogan manage to rid the country from the influence...
Extreme Right Activists in Europe
Through the magnifying glass
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Since the 1980s, one of the main political changes in Western Europe has been the electoral upsurge of extreme right-wing parties. However, while the electoral support of these movements has been studied extensively, their membership has largely been ignored. This book examines who joins the extreme...
Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political...
The Dark Side of Church/State Separation
The French Revolution, Nazi Germany, and International Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Dark Side of Church/State Separation analyzes the Enlightenment's attack upon the Judeo-Christian tradition and its impact upon the development of secular regimes in France, Germany, and Russia. Such regimes followed the anti-Semitic/anti-Christian agenda of the French Enlightenment in blaming...