Political category: 85882 books
by Matt Edge
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
In this work, Matt Edge offers an innovative approach to political philosophy. He invites the reader to consider the question of political justice from an empathic perspective - if you were asked to construct a theory of justice acceptable to members of a community you were not yourself a part of,...
Cosmopolitan Political Thought
Method, Practice, Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Cosmopolitan Political Thought asks the question of what it might mean for the very practices of political theorizing to be cosmopolitan. It suggests that such a vision of political theory is intimately linked to methodological questions about what is commonly called comparative political theory--namely,...
Political Participation, Diffused Governance, and the Transformation of Democracy
Patterns of Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Although democratic governments have introduced a number of institutional reforms in part intended to increase citizens’ political involvement, studies show a continued decline in regular political engagement. This book examines different forms of political participation in democracies, and in what...
Black Mosaic
The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States....
Political Philosophy and the Republican Future
Reconsidering Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Are we moving inevitably into an irreversible era of postnationalism and globalism? In Political Philosophy and the Republican Future, Gregory Bruce Smith asks, if participation in self-government is not central to citizens’ vision of the political good, is despotism inevitable? Smith's study evolves...
by William Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Professor David Kettler commented at the time of initial release, that this book is "writing with great poise and clarity, the author says important things in a deceptively simple way about a problem of paramount significance. A fine piece of clarification, blending just the right mixture of...
Anthropology and Political Science
A Convergent Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What can anthropology and political science learn from each other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the area of concepts and methodologies, is tremendously beneficial for both disciplines, though they also deal with some troubling aspects of the relationship. Focusing on the influence...
by Monika L. McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What influences political behavior more -- one's gender or one's gendered personality traits? Certain gendered traits have long been associated with particular political leanings in American politics. For example, the Democratic Party is thought to have a compassionate, feminine nature while the Republican...
Towards a regional political class?
Professional politicians and regional institutions in Catalonia and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland. The study deals with two different yet closely related sets of questions:...
by Michael McCord
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
“With colorful characters so ludicrous they could only be real, McCord’s satire of profit, politics and capital punishment should be required reading.” – Clarion Review
A satire in the tradition of Swift, Voltaire, Heller and Marx (Groucho, that is)
The Birth of Real America...is...
The Audacity of Name Calling
President Obama and the Detractors
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The current name-calling parading itself as political discourse has not only dominated American politics but also that of other nations. This ugly side of politics is threatening governance, impeding progress, and confusing the electorate. Disguised as a policy dialogue and dismissed as a political...
Political Trials
Gordian Knots in the Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Political trials take issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, which are tied in tight political and legal knots, and force us to face questions about our public identity, our standards for public policy, and our sense of history. Ron Christenson explores how political...
Hart and Soul
Gary Hart's New Hampshire Odyssey and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Stunning Political Upset. The long forgotten story of Gary Hart's 1984 stunning upset victory over Walter Mondale in the New Hampshire Democratic primary is much more than a political story. It is the moving story of ordinary people out to change the world and one man who inspired them to try.
New...
Believer
My Forty Years in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
New York Times Book Review
**“A stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years."
A New York Times Bestseller**
David Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates...