Political category: 85882 books
The Heart of Rome
Ancient Rome's Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The essays in this book examine the political activities and institutions of pre-Imperial Rome in conjunction with the habits of the hearts and the minds of the Romans. Relying on the writings of ancient authors, the essays analyze significant political developments and events. They attempt to draw...
by Charles Merriam
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A History of American Political Theories is a comprehensive attempt to understand the full sweep of American political thought since the founding. Working within the liberal-progressive tradition, Merriam reviewed American political history in its entirety, from the founding down to his own day. He...
East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy
Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
What makes a government legitimate? Why do people voluntarily comply with laws, even when no one is watching? The idea of political legitimacy captures the fact that people obey when they think governments' actions accord with valid principles. For some, what matters most is the government's performance...
Failed States and the Origins of Violence
A Comparative Analysis of State Failure as a Root Cause of Terrorism and Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
What makes a terrorist? Is an individual inherently predisposed to be attracted to political violence or does exposure to a certain environment desensitize them in such a way that violence represents a viable mode for addressing political grievances? Identifying state failure as the impetus for political...
by Peter de Mendelssohn
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon powers, Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely unknown in the Western world. Overshadowed by the much nearer and more closely felt exertions of the Nazi propaganda...
by Andrea C. Hatcher
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book examines the paradoxical relationship between the religious and political behaviors of American and British Evangelicals, who exhibit nearly identical religious canon and practice, but sharply divergent political beliefs and action. Relying on interviews with British religious and political...
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics
Fatherlands in mothers' hands
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers’ hands is a playful exploration of how people’s desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It highlights the mythical sources of today’s political projects, the power of political imagination, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years. The aftermath of the 2011 uprisings saw some groups access or even control political institutions through success at the ballot box, while there has also been a marked resurgence...
Social and Political Philosophy
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This accessible book is invaluable to anyone coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides a broad survey of key social and political questions in modern society, as well as clear discussions of the philosophical issues central to those questions and to political thought...
Creating Chaos
Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Creating Chaos explores that dark side of statecraft, the covert use of political warfare in international relations – from its early practices during the Great Game between the British and Russian empires, through the Cold War era of ideological confrontation and forward into the hybrid political...
The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar
Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Bridging two generations of scholarship on social inequality and modern political forms, this book examines the political philosophies of inclusion of subalterns/Dalits in Gramsci and Ambedkar’s political philosophies. It highlights the full range of Gramsci’s ‘philosophy of praxis’ and presents...
by Smita A. Rahman
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed. For too long political theory, with the exception of occasional phenomenological forays, has remained grounded in a particular experience of time as linear and sequential....
Telling Political Lives
The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds,...
Democracy (Made in Taiwan)
The 'Success' State as a Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Democracy (Made in Taiwan) argues that post-colonialism and Confucianism met at the historical moment when democratization and liberalization occurred in Taiwan. The familiar political science standards take little note of either Confucianism or postcolonialism. In fact, these standards are unbalanced,...