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by Magnus Boström, Michele Micheletti, Peter Oosterveer
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
The global phenomenon of political consumerism is known through such diverse manifestations as corporate boycotts, increased preferences for organic and fairtrade products, and lifestyle choices such as veganism. It has also become an area of increasing research across a variety of disciplines. Political...
Political Bargaining
Theory, Practice and Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today. It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights...
Trump and Political Philosophy
Leadership, Statesmanship, and Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book aims to recover from ancient and modern thinkers valuable arguments about statesmanship, leadership, and tyranny which illuminate reassessments of political science and practice after the election of Donald Trump. Like almost everyone else, contemporary political scientists were blind-sided...
A Virtue for Courageous Minds
Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer...
by Charles Andrain
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In this informative and highly readable book, first published in 1988, Charles Andrain explores the ways in which public policies and socio-political beliefs and structures cause political change in the Third World. The author examines 3 types of political change: (1) transitions in political leaders...
The Two Princes. Juan D. Perón and Getulio Vargas
A Comparative Study of Latin America Populism
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2012
This book is a comparative study of the political emergence of Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil. It seeks to describe and explain how and why
Peronism and Varguism were two different political projects. Using the tools of political discourse theory, this book scrutinizes the implications Perón...
Political and Civic Engagement
Multidisciplinary perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Based upon a three-year multi-disciplinary international research project, Political and Civic Participation examines the interplay of factors affecting civic and political engagement and participation across different generations, nations and ethnic groups, and the shifting variety of forms that...
by Richard J. Gelles
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Changes in the thinking of science are usually accompanied by lively intellectual conflicts between opposing or divergent points of view. The clash of ideas is a major ingredient in the stimulation of the life of the mind in human culture. Such arguments and counter-arguments, of proofs and disproofs,...
Aldous Huxley
The Political Thought of a Man of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters argues that Huxley is not a man of letters engaged in politics, but a political thinker who chooses literature to spread his ideas. His preference for the dystopian genre is due to his belief in the tremendous impact of dystopia on twentieth-century...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Political party is an organized group of people who have common policies about the government and act together as a political unit to control the government with the aim of carrying out their policies.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you political parties in Nigeria.
It...
by Nicholas Tampio
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychiatrist-activist Félix Guattari’s 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus is widely recognized as a masterpiece of twentieth-century Continental philosophy. Until now, however, few scholars have dared to explain the book’s political importance. Deleuze’s...
by Maria Alina Asavei
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Should politically concerned and engaged artistic production disregard questions or/and requirements of aesthetic reception and value? Whether art should be “aesthetic” or “political” is not a new question. Therefore, in spite of those several contemporary approaches of this issue, the answer...
Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity
Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements that both opposed austerity policies and created animosity towards the politicians...
Religion and Political Violence
Sacred Protest in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the modern world.
Examining the movement to restore Sharia law to a dominant place in the Egyptian government, the movement to make abortion illegal...