Political category: 85882 books
Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement
The Challenge from Online Campaigning and Advocacy Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book considers the radical effects the emergence of social media and digital politics have had on the way that advocacy organisations mobilise and organise citizens into political participation. It argues that these changes are due not only to technological advancement but are also underpinned...
by Juliet Hooker
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Solidarity--the reciprocal relations of trust and obligation between citizens that are essential for a thriving polity--is a basic goal of all political communities. Yet it is extremely difficult to achieve, especially in multiracial societies. In an era of increasing global migration and democratization,...
Obama's Political Saga
From Battling History, Racialized Rhetoric, and GOP Obstructionism to Re-Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Many conservative extremists have argued that Obama was advancing a socialist agenda, immersing himself in African-American radicalism, and pushing big government liberal policies during his first term. The Republican Party, we once knew, has been pushed to the extreme right and has rendered itself...
Political Communication in the Anglophone World
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Political Communication in the Anglophone World: Case Studies, by Theodore F. Sheckels, extends political communication scholarship—primarily rhetorical scholarship—into the extensive English language arena outside the United States and the United Kingdom. While wrestling with the extent to which...
China's Political Development
Chinese and American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking. China's Political Development offers a unique look into the country's evolving political process by combining chapters authored...
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death
Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2005
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues...
Non-institutional Political Participation
A Case Study of Chinese Peasants During the Transformation Period
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
By examining social transformation and political participation theories, this book focuses on the core concept of non-institutional political participation, which is classified into two types: induced participation and imposed participation. This classification has changed the tradition of dichotomizing...
Father of Liberty
Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Dr. Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) was, according to John Adams, a “transcendental genius . . . who threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of the country in 1761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death.” He was also, J. Patrick Mullins contends, the most politically...
Post-Islamist Political Theory
Iranian Intellectuals and Political Liberalism in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool. What distinguishes this book from most scholarship in Iranian studies is that it primarily deals with the projects of Iranian...
Getting to Pluralism
Political Actors in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Pluralism in the Arab world has not yet matured into functional democratic politics. While ruling establishments, Islamist movements, and secular parties have introduced a much greater degree of pluralism into Arab societies, the imbalance of power and interdependence among these actors limits both...
by William L. Remley
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The influence of anarchists such as Proudhon and Bakunin is apparent in Jean-Paul Sartres' political writings, from his early works of the 1920s to Critique of Dialectical Reason, his largest political piece. Yet, scholarly debate overwhelmingly concludes that his political philosophy is a Marxist...
The Politics of Place
Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many Enlightenment thinkers sought to discover the right political order for all times and all places, and scholars often view Montesquieu as working within this project. In this reassessment of Montesquieu's political thought, Joshua Bandoch finds that Montesquieu broke from this ideal and, by taking...
Politics Reformed
The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Many studies have considered the Bible’s relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Theorists interested in learning more about any given interpretive approach are often required to navigate a dizzying array of sources, with no clear sense of where to begin. The prose of many primary sources is often steeped in dense and technical argot that novices find intimidating or even impenetrable....