Political category: 85882 books
Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas
An Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas is an exciting new text that provides students with a clearly presented introduction to some of the key areas of modern political thought. Uniquely combining historical and philosophical approaches to the subject, it describes the writings and ideas of the most...
Polity
Political Culture and the Nature of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Students of politics frequently confuse politics with current events and the activities of political actors. Lost in this view is a deeper understanding of politics that emphasizes the need for governmental management of many facets of social life. It proceeds first by illustrating the need for civil...
Engaging Political Philosophy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Engaging Political Philosophy introduces readers to the central problems of political philosophy. Presuming no prior work in the area, the book explores the fundamental philosophical questions regarding freedom, authority, justice, and democracy. More than a survey of the central figures and...
by Moisei Ostrogorski
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the...
The Storm at Sea
Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world.
Covering a broad range of political and cultural contexts, including Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, this...
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Venomous Speech: Problems with American Political Discourse on the Right and Left [2 volumes]
Problems with American Political Discourse on the Right and Left
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This book contains essays by some of the best scholars of political communication that examine modern-day American political discourse. The contributors address what is problematic in our political discourse and what has resulted in unprecedented levels of gridlock, discord, and hostility, covering...
Left and Right
The Small World of Political Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The words "left" and "right" often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfare, taxation, immigration, and the environment. Despite claims that political polarization is in decline, its persistence suggests...
National Dialogue in Tunisia
Nobel Peace Prize 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
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...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Political crisis is the time when critical disagreements occur in the governing of a State. Political crisis is the turning point in which necessary decisions must be made in order to move the body politic ahead.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you political crises in Nigeria.
It...
Political Theology and Pluralism
Renewing Public Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Reviving the ancient political wisdom of St. Augustine in combination with insights drawn from contemporary political theorist John Rawls, Joseph Rivera grapples with the polarizing nature of religion in the public square. Political theology, as a discipline, tends to argue that communitarianism remains...
by Bonnie Honig
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement....
Cultural Analysis
Volume 1, Politics, Public Law, and Administration
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations, Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity, exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values, beliefs, and institutions were neither endlessly varied, nor haphazardly...
The Beginning of Politics
Youthful Political Agency in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The conventional wisdom according to which children’s lives should be safe from adult concerns tends to situate them categorically outside the political. Thus understood, children become political agents when they reach maturity and eligibility to formal participation. Alternatively, political skills...