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by Hinda Mandell
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When a major political sex scandal occurs, it occupies as much as 25 percent of all news coverage in the United States. Even if people may deny it, they enjoy "consuming" and talking about political sex scandals. Written by a former journalist who has frequently explored the intersections...
From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?
Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of political parties. This volume systematically examines these two prominent developments in contemporary democratic politics...
Reconstructing the Middle East
Political and Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
It is clear by now that the label ‘Arab Spring’ has proven too simplistic to describe the uprisings that upended the political order of the Arab world in late 2010. Brutal crackdowns and civil conflict in Syria, Libya, and Yemen dashed the hopes that peaceful democratic revolutions would sweep...
The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma
Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.
Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book questions the basic assumptions of democratization theory, examining the political science of...
How Political Actors Use the Media
A Functional Analysis of the Media’s Role in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book investigates how individual politicians and political parties strategically make use of the media to reach their political goals. Looking beyond a purely Americentric viewpoint, the chapters present data from more than ten Western democracies to argue that the media are both a source of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
This is the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP...
Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
World Making in the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2005
Democracy's checkered past and uncertain future in the developing world still puzzles and fascinates. In Latin America, attempts to construct resilient democracies have been as pervasive as reversals have been cruel. This book is based on a wealth of original historical documents and contemporary...
Seriously Funny
Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Political jokes exist around the world and across many types of political systems. But what purposes do they serve? Do they have an impact on politics—or on politicians? Surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to these significant questions. And, until the publication of this book, no one...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This volume presents in-depth insights into the polity, politics and policies of the Brazilian political system. It reassesses the processes of change since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s, in the light of autocratic societal structures and suboptimal institutional design, on the one...
Political Succession in the Arab World
Constitutions, Family Loyalties and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Political succession is a key issue in the contemporary Middle East. In this new study the author examines the process and shows how respect for those in authority and tribal codes of loyalty have been far more influential in maintaining regimes than security institutions and political repression.
The...
Short Stories and Political Philosophy
Power, Prose, and Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion explores the relationship between fictional short stories and the classic works of political philosophy. This edited volume addresses the innovative ways that short stories grapple with the same complex political and moral questions,...
by George Klosko
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
With the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the US government ushered in a new era of social welfare policies, to counteract the devastation of The Great Depression. While political philosophers generally view the welfare state to be built on values of equality and human dignity, America's...
Social Networks and Japanese Democracy
The Beneficial Impact of Interpersonal Communication in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Many who critique democracy as practiced in East Asia suggest that the Confucian political culture of these nations prevents democracy from being the robust participatory type, and limits it to a spectacle designed to create obedience from the public. Certainly some East Asian nations have had elections...
Contagious Representation
Women’s Political Representation in Democracies around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Women’s participation in parliaments, high courts, and executive
offices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but this
global increase in women’s representation masks significant variation
among different democratic political systems. For example, in
December of 2009, Rwanda’s legislature...