Practical Politics category: 1369 books

This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and democracy. It demonstrates how the Internal Emergency of 1975 led to increased support of groups such...

What is justice? How is it enforced? Does it mean everyone should be treated the same, even when it comes to things like taxes or access to welfare? These sorts of questions have exercised the minds of thinkers since Plato and Aristotle. In this engaging and highly topical introduction, Professor...

In the spirit of the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 called for nondiscrimination for American citizens, seeking equality without regard for race, color, or creed. After the mid-1960s, to make amends for wrongs of the past, some people called for benign discrimination...

Jeffrey E. Cohen asks why US presidents send to Congress the legislative proposals that they do and what Congress does with those proposals. His study covers nearly the entire history of the presidency, from 1789 to 2002. The long historical scope allows Cohen to engage competing perspectives on how...

La linea tra assistente parlamentare e lobbista è molto sottile, spesso queste due figure, sopprattutto nel panorama italiano sono investiti dalla medesima persona.Colui che intraprende questa carriera, oltre ai compiti di appoggio e le mansioni di segretariato che svolge nell'assistere il parlamentare, si occupa di stabilire le strategie di influenza con varie tecniche.

La Suisse va-t-elle disparaître ? Et son peuple ? Ce sont les questions auxquelles les Suisses vont se voir confrontés ces prochaines années. Déjà des professeur-e-s de droit public, des politicien-ne-s, déclarent en Suisse que le peuple n’est plus le chef,...

Agenda Crossover updates our understanding of state delegations, exploring how they influence representation and responsiveness in Congress today. The theory of agenda crossover posits that members of the House and Senate have much to gain from monitoring the legislative agendas of other members of...

The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is twofold:...

This book examines the impact of immigration on U.S. society—on schools, social services, jobs, taxpayers. This book offers alternatives to present policies.

Constructivism, despite being one of the three main streams of IR theory, along with realism and liberalism, is rarely, if ever, tested in large-n quantitative work. Constructivists almost unanimously eschew quantitative approaches, assuming that variables of interest to constructivists, defy quantification....

* How this book distinguishes itself in the market and from the other 3 recently published books on the same subject:  It is the the only impeachment-related title that looks at Constitutional law and the history of past impeachments as lessons for understanding our current situation with...

The answer to the question raised in the title of this book is yes. This well-documented account explores the four culprits: progressivism, communism, Islamism, and globalism. After presenting the American concept and its key vulnerabilities, the book tracks the history of each of these isms, comparing...

“When the people shall have nothing more to eat,” said Rousseau, “they will eat the rich.” But the rich are rather good at getting the poor to eat each other instead. In this provocative novella-length essay, Mike Robbins looks at how the British electoral system, social media, bullying by business,...

The authentic dialogue, the compromises, the consensus which allowed Tunisia to overcome its political and institutional crisisThis book is the final product of an investigation launched in November 2014 and completed in July 2015. It has collected first-hand information from stakeholders involved in...