Political category: 85882 books
Arts of the Political
New Openings for the Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence felt, even amid an overwhelming global recession. In Arts of the Political: New Openings for the...
William E. Connolly
Democracy, Pluralism and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
William E. Connolly’s writings have pushed the leading edge of political theory, first in North America and then in Europe as well, for more than two decades now. This book draws on his numerous influential books and articles to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of his significant contribution...
Michael J. Shapiro
Discourse, Culture, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Michael J. Shapiro’s writings have been innovatory with respect to the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant array of methods that he has brilliantly mastered. This book draws from his vast output of articles, chapters and books to provide a thematic yet integrated account...
by Zhiyue Bo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
China watching is anything but being boring because Chinese politics is filled with dramas almost on a daily basis. In the past three years since Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese political drama has unfolded with a lot of twists and turns.
Based...
Political Marketing
Strategic 'Campaign Culture'
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A guiding principle in creating Political Marketing has been to examine the ways in which culture, politics, and society interrelate in the field of political marketing. In the course of the book, the editors and contributors consider ‘culture’ as a distinctive concept with transformative capacities...
The Politics of Evidence (Open Access)
From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast...
Beyond Post-communist Studies: Political Science and the New Democracies of Europe
Political Science and the New Democracies of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
This book makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as fully consolidated democracies. As such, they may be integrated into the mainstream of political science research, and not consigned forever to a transitional category encompassing countries that are now fully democracies...
by Colin Hay
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Politics was once a term with an array of broadly positive connotations, associated with public scrutiny, deliberation and accountability. Yet today it is an increasingly dirty word, typically synonymous with duplicity, corruption, inefficiency and undue interference in matters both public and private....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Philosophers have never shied away from interrogating the nature of our obligations beyond borders. From Hobbes to the international lawyers Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel, and of course Kant, modern philosophy has always attempted to define the nature and shape of a just international order, and the...
Switzerland in Europe
Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
While Switzerland is well known for its specific political institutions, such as direct democracy, federalism and neutrality, or for its banking secrecy, its socio-economic institutions, which decisively contributed to its prosperity, remain relatively unexplored.
This book gives the first...
The Possibility of Politics
A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if limited to cautious and piecemeal interventions that avoid radicalism and revolution? Can it also avoid unwanted consequences? Will the welfare state survive...
by Lisa Wegener
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, course: Political Systems of the World, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the following paper the attempt shall be made to compare...
Ozawa Ichirō and Japanese Politics
Old Versus New
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Ozawa Ichirō was the axis on which Japanese politics turned for more than two decades. He helped to reshape the electoral system, political funding rules, the evolution of the party system, the nature of executive government, the roles and powers of bureaucrats, and the conduct of parliamentary and...
by Florian Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1, University of Birmingham (International Development Department), course: Development Politics, language: English, abstract: The analysis of state failure and state collapse has gained widespread academic...