Political category: 85882 books
Local Government in Early America
The Colonial Experience and Lessons from the Founders
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Local Government in Early America is a concise and thought-provoking exploration of the American desire for political participation, most notably in the 'town hall meeting.' A product of early New England democracy, this form of direct local participation remains one of the most celebrated, yet feared,...
State Structure, Policy Formation, and Economic Development in Southeast Asia
The Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Why do some small, developing countries industrialize and others don’t? What factors account for different economic performance among states that are vulnerable to external shocks, crony capitalism, and political instability? This book argues that the answer lies in the structuring of state power,...
Imagination and Environmental Political Thought
The Aftermath of Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau seeks to correct oversimplified readings of Henry David Thoreau’s political thought by elucidating a key tension within his imagination. With the celebration of Thoreau’s two-hundredth birthday now past, this study outlines,...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT)....
Political Worlds of Women
Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Political Worlds of Women provides a comprehensive overview of women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels of power from official institutions of state to grassroots mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of identity enmeshed in local, national, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical...
by Edward Weisband, Courtney I P Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines...
The Globalization of Political Violence
Globalization's Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world’s population enjoy the perceived benefits of globalization, others seek to utilize globalization for their own politically violent purposes. If 9/11 demonstrated...
Introduction to Political Psychology
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This comprehensive, user-friendly introductory textbook to political psychology explores the psychological origins of political behavior. The authors introduce readers to a broad range of theories, concepts, and case studies of political activity to illustrate that behavior. The book examines many...
by Chantal Mouffe
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. What does this mean for political and social life? Is there a 'Third Way' beyond left and right, and if so, should we fear or welcome it?
This thought-provoking...
Injustice
Political Theory for the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael...
Transformation of Political Community
Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders. In this book, Andrew Linklater claims that globalization, the pacification of core areas of the world economy and ethnic revolt challenge...
Border Crossings
Toward a Comparative Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1999
Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing...