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by Steven P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century....
Political Thought in Canada
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of...
by Ralph Negrine, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Has the communication of politics become professionalised? Who are the ‘professionals’ and what part do they play in the political process? Can the process of professionalisation be observed in different political systems? These, and related questions, about the changing nature of practices in...
Confucian Perfectionism
A Political Philosophy for Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance that can retain the spirit of the Confucian ideal while tackling problems arising from...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book is devoted to the work of Robert A. Dahl, who passed away in 2014. Dahl was one of the most important American political scientists and normative democratic theorists of the post-war era, and he was also an influential teacher who mentored some of the most significant academics of the next...
by Ethan Alexander-Davey, Steven D. Ealy, Khalil M. Habib
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Recognized as one of the greatest novelists of all-time, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to inspire and instigate questions about religion, philosophy, and literature. However, there has been a neglect looking at his political thought: its philosophical and religious foundations, its role in nineteenth-century...
Political Consumerism
Global Responsibility in Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which citizens, consumers and political activists use the market as their arena for politics. This book theorizes, describes, analyzes, compares and evaluates the phenomenon of political consumerism and how it attempts to use market choice to solve...
Making Sense of Media and Politics
Five Principles in Political Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Politics is above all a contest, and the news media are the central arena for viewing that competition. One of the central concerns of political communication has to do with the myriad ways in which politics has an impact on the news media and the equally diverse ways in which the media influences...
Political Tool Kit
Secrets of Winning Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
From city councils to governorships, from county commissioners to coroners, there are thousands of contested or vacant elected offices each year throughout the United States. In Political Tool Kit, author Ron Parsons provides a practical guide for citizens who are seeking an opportunity to participate...
by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Don’t be fooled --many legislators are corrupt and they don’t care anything about the community. They are steering people the wrong way! However, there are ways to become effective politicians, but we must learn to identify who is sincere and who is not. Who is really a voice for the people and...
Political Realism
How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A free eBook that asks hard questions about why politics once worked, and how today’s politics do not.
What if idealistic reform itself is a culprit?
In Political Realism, Jonathan Rauch argues that well-meaning efforts to stem corruption and increase participation have stripped political...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Doing and evolving with a political theory becomes easier for the students when they are reading the concepts presented here, in this book. Social and political philosophies learning become easier for the students where the mainstream academic political philosophies, take lead in the normative issues,...
Inventive Politicians and Ethnic Ascent in American Politics
The Uphill Elections of Italians and Mexicans to the U.S. Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This innovative book investigates the process through which ethnic minorities penetrate into higher echelons of political power: specifically, how they succeed in getting elected to the U.S. Congress. Analysts today see ethnic politicians largely in relation to their collectivities, but by actually...
Packaging The Presidency
A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1996
Packaging the Presidency, Third Edition, is now completely updated to offer the only comprehensive study of the history and effects of political advertising in the United States. Noted political critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson traces the development of presidential campaigning from early political songs...