Political category: 85882 books
Political Barriers to Housebuilding in Britain
A Critical Case Study of Protectionism and its Industrial-Commercial Effects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Political Barriers to Housebuilding in Britain: A Critical Case Study of Protectionism and its Industrial-Commercial Effects
For decades, political barriers have hampered housebuilding in Britain. Governments have blocked urban expansion, stymied the introduction of new low-cost production...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
The Social Citizen
Peer Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on...
Political Power and Economic Policy
Theory, Analysis, and Empirical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
This book analyzes the links between political economics, governance structures and the distribution of political power in economic policy making. The book theoretically explains and empirically quantifies these interactions. The analysis includes both public good policies and redistributive policies....
Considerations on Green Political Thought - A new, ecological ideology?
A new, ecological ideology?
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: First (80% - very good), Aston University, 38 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The idea of a Green political ideology is a relative newcomer to political...
Understanding the Political Philosophers
From Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Understanding the Political Philosophers is an absorbing and accessible introduction to the major philosophers and core texts of western political philosophy.
Organised historically - beginning with Socrates and Plato, and concluding with post-Rawlsian theory - Alan Haworth presents the key...
Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions
Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
In defiance of the predominant pattern of reading liberal political thought in isolation from the metaphysical and theological investigations of its classic thinkers, Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions: Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke seeks to place their writings in context. Asaf...
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics examines key issues in politics of the five independent states of the South Asian region: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Written by experts in their respective areas, this Handbook introduces the reader to the politics of South Asia...
by J. S. McClelland, Dr J S Mcclelland
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book:
* traces the development of political thought...
by Jed W. Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
What can the Romans teach us about politics? This thematic introduction to Roman political thought shows how the Roman world developed political ideas of lasting significance, from the consequential constitutional notions of the separation of powers, political legitimacy, and individual rights to...
by Herbert Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
“The mere gathering of individuals into a group does not constitute them a society. A society, in the sociological sense, is formed only when, besides juxtaposition, there is cooperation. So long as members of the group do not combine their energies to achieve some common end or ends, there is little...
Ideas in Action
Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Imagine a world in which means and ends, theory and practice, ideals, values, and interests, are torturously disassociated and yet manifestly linked. That is the world of the 20th century as Stephen Eric Bronner vividly portrays it in his important new work. Now imagine a world in which new traditions...
by Eric Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The studies that comprise Political Socialization in a Media Saturated World synthesize, question, and update our knowledge of political socialization that has accumulated over the past 40 years of related research. The scholarship advances innovative theoretical perspectives and develops new models...