Political category: 85882 books
Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change
Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political leaders are required to explain...
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
In America, the two major parties monopolize our political system, but despite this, political independents, 3rd party candidates, and mavericks still press on. Bold political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates refuse to lie down and accept less than God's best. Instead, these political...
Party Competition
An Agent-Based Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer...
by Bruce Caldwell, Samuel Hollander, Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories...
Conservatism Redefined
A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
After reaching high levels of public popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, political conservatism has become beset with criticism and disillusionment. As demonstrated by the 2008 election results, political conservatism has been blamed for an unpopular Iraq war, an economy nose diving into recession,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book presents state-of-the-art research in political economy dealing with the decision making process under different political institutions. It focuses on the role that states and governments have on political outcomes and on the well-being of individuals, taking into account the differences...
The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Economic Liberalization, Mobilizational Resources, and Ethnic Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
At the point of independence in 1948, Sri Lanka was projected to be a success story in the developing world. However, in July 1983 a violent ethnic conflict which pitted the Sinhalese against the Tamils began, and did not come to an end until 2009. This conflict led to nearly 50,000 combatant deaths...
by William John Cox
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
With her novels, The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand created the philosophy of Objectivism, which continues to influence conservative American politics. Now, after all of these years, a political balance is provided by Sam, an entirely fact-based political philosophy narrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Democracy is a fine political system, but an expensive economic venture. Political parties and election campaigns cost money. Where does the money come from and at what sacrifice? Issues connected with political finance are significant but often neglected aspects of the process of democratization....
The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization
Trade Reform and Economic Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book tackles arguably the most perennial and deep-rooted of all questions in political economy, and questions the incumbent...
Political Finance and Corruption in Eastern Europe
The Transition Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
One characteristic of Central and Eastern European democracies in transition is the lack of stability in terms of accountability and transparency in practices of political party financing. This key volume provides a thorough and well-structured post-communist study of political finance, election campaign...
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 Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate"...
Appeals to Interest
Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these...