Political category: 85882 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Political Emotions explores the contributions that the study of discourses, rhetoric, and framing of emotion make to understanding the public sphere, civil society and the political realm. Tackling critiques on the opposition of the public and private spheres, chapters in this volume examine why some...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The fragility of democracy in Southeast Asia is a subject of increasing concern. While there has been significant movement in the direction of democratisation, the authoritarian tendencies of popularly elected leaders and the challenges posed by emerging security threats have given rise to a shared...
States of War
Enlightenment Origins of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties. We worry that constitutional states cannot, during a time of war, terror,...
by Moises Arce
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Despite its residents reporting the third-highest...
Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India
Monuments, Memory, Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The book examines the postcolonial Muslim political discourse through monuments. It establishes a link between the process by which historic buildings become monuments and the gradual transformation of these historic/legal entities into political objects. The author studies the multiple interpretations...
The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was also the movement’s principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely...
by Charles Merriam
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Charles Merriam is scarcely read today, and even among scholars he is probably more often cited than read seriously. His ambiguous position in the study of American democracy is unfortunate. Between the two world wars, Merriman was the doyen of American political science. This was a period when the...
Reinhold Niebuhr in Theory and Practice
Christian Realism and Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
American public life is gripped by a tumult that it has not experienced in at least half a century. Resentment, distrust, despair, fear, envy, and outrage are the passions of the day. Yet it was not long ago that political scientists and theologians could speak of a “Niebuhr renaissance” marked...
Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies
Sultans and Savages
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world. These writers...
Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia
After the Strongmen
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
From the 1980s onwards, a tide of democratization swept across the Asian region, as the political strongmen who had led since the end of World War II began to fall. Although it is generally assumed that once authoritarian leaders no longer hold power, the political landscape will drastically change...
Aristocratic Liberalism
The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis De Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
"Liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define. Burckhardt, Mill, and Tocqueville define one type of liberal thought. They share an aristocratic liberalism marked...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This timely volume brings together a diverse group of expert authors in order to investigate the question of phenomenology’s relation to the political. These authors take up a variety of themes and movements in contemporary political philosophy. Some of them put phenomenology in dialogue with feminism...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from...
Centrist Rhetoric
The Production of Political Transcendence in the Clinton Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
What exactly is happening when politicians evoke a center space beyond partisan politics to advance what are unmistakably political arguments? Drawing from an analysis of pivotal speeches surrounding Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and first term in office, Centrist Rhetoric: The Production...