Political category: 85882 books
American Marriage
A Political Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriage...
Attlee's War
World War II and the Making of a Labour Leader
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
As deputy prime minister of Britain's coalition government during World War II, Clement Attlee became one of the most powerful figures in British politics and subsequently played a crucial role in the reshaping of the post-war party-political landscape. The architect of Labour's entry into the wartime...
The Politics of Inequality
A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American...
Democracy for Hire
A History of American Political Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California governorship,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The term the 'Entangled political economy' was first coined by Economist Richard E. Wagner of George Mason University who challenged the "additive" political economy paradigm with his "entangled political economy," which sees public and private entities as equal and entwined players...
Rethinking Political Risk
Concepts, Theories, Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Political risk was first introduced as a component for assessing risk not directly linked to economic factors following the flow of capital from the US to Europe after the Second World War. However, the concept has rapidly gained relevance since, with both public and private institutions developing...
The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution
The Political Impact of Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are largely mired in the assumption that the free...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and subsequent activities in Eastern Ukraine are not isolated incidents, but rather a new form of hybrid war, or asymmetric warfare....
International Political Economy
Contrasting World Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE).
Written in a concise, accessible style by an experienced teacher and scholar, it combines theoretical perspectives,...
The Discretionary Economy
A Normative Theory of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
The Discretionary Economy argues that we do in fact control our own political and economic destinies. As a community, we have discretion over policies that determine whether an economic process adequately provides for the necessities of life. We also determine who participates in normative public...
America at Risk
Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
America at Risk gathers original essays by a distinguished and bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are some of the greatest dangers facing America today? The answers, which range from dwindling political...
Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change
Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy and War
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent ministers to their cabinet.
This book shows this is not necessarily the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in ministerial office and how they are linked...
by Hans Noel
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America puts ideology front and center in the discussion of party coalition change. Treating ideology as neither a nuisance nor a given, the analysis describes the development of the modern liberal and conservative ideologies that form the basis of our...
Political Science Research Methods
Exploring America at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The principal goal of this textbook is to provide clear and elementary descriptions of the major statistical techniques used in political and social science research. The book is built on two basic assumptions. First, that it is possible to explain social science statistics in a simple and straightforward...