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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The relatively recent advent of cell phones provides an increasing portion of the world's population with hitherto unprecedented access to information, and offers a novel...
Rentier Islamism
The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called "rentier states" where taxes are very low and oil wealth subsidizes the needs of citizens, are largely unaffected...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Focusing on early Chinese ethical and political thought across multiple schools and thinkers, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the research being done in Chinese comparative ethics and political philosophy.
In addition to chapters on Chinese comparative and interpretative thought,...
Power and Society
A Framework for Political Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Power and Society, Harold D. Lasswell collaborates with a brilliant young philosopher, Abraham Kaplan, to formulate basic theoretical concepts and hypotheses of political science, providing a framework for further inquiry into the political process. This is a classic book of political theory written...
by Alexander Dugin
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates...
Centripetal Democracy
Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
This book is the first collection within political theory to examine the ideas and debates of the German Revolution of 1918/19. It discusses the political theorists and actors of the revolution and uncovers an incredibly fertile body of political thought. Revolutionary events led to the proliferation...
Political Peoplehood
The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of “political peoples,” a category that is much broader and more fluid than legal citizenship, enabling Smith...
by Jan J.T. Srzednicki
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The general purpose of this book differs from those of most of the works found traditionally in the field of political philosophy. Firstly, the present approach is in no way prescriptive or normative, as the interest centres on explication rather than an evaluative assess ment of this, that or another...
Legitimacy
Ambiguities of Political Success or Failure in East and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2005
This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable. Legitimacy is specifically political, rather...
Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy
Trends, Debates and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book explores what constitutes contemporary African social and political philosophy with regard to its meaning, aims, sources, and relevance for today’s Africa. Kasanda denounces conventional approaches considering these either as a subcategory of general philosophy or as the ideological attempts...
Beyond Interviews:
Changes in Women’s Lives and Politics (1970-2008)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book, Beyond Interviews: Exploring Changes in Women’s Lives and Politics (1970-2008), examines the life trajectories and social and political views and behaviors of a diverse group of thirteen women I interviewed four times--from their junior year in high school in 1970 through their mid-fifties...
The Political Effects of Entertainment Media
How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Entertainment media are rife with material that touches on the political. The stories with which we entertain ourselves often show us, for better or worse, that everything can be solved by the rise of an individual hero, and that the “best way” to deal with a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with...
by Jongseok Woo, Eunjung Choi
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Political Corruption and Democratic Governance explores the effects of political corruption on important aspects of democratic governing. Jongseok Woo and Eunjung Choi use a cross-national lens to analyze how political corruption influences different areas of politics and economics, including electoral...