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America's Second Civil War
Dispatches from the Political Center
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"America has always taken a coherent national identity for granted. In recent decades that assumption has been challanged. Individual and group rights have expanded, eliciting acerbic debate about the legitimacy and limits of claims. National political leaders have preferred to finesse rather...
Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and Political Islam
Identity, Ideology and Religio-Political Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book offers a timely examination of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), a chapter of the transnational movement Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), whose key aim is the revival of the caliphate.
It cautions against an overly simplistic read of a group like HTI and political Islam in Indonesia. While there...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal is a collection of feminist essays that self-consciously develop non-idealizing approaches to either ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy...
The Political Representation of Immigrants and Minorities
Voters, Parties and Parliaments in Liberal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In 2005, almost 700,000 immigrants acquired the citizenship of a member state of the European Union; over 600,000 became US citizens; nearly 100,000 became Australians and approximately 200,000 Canadians. 2005 was not an exceptional year. During the past decades, many advanced liberal democracies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
This is the fifth 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...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Political party is an organized group of people who have common policies about the government and act together as a political unit to control the government with the aim of carrying out their policies. This book clearly explains the structure of political party like the constituency branch, state...
by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to national office is due, in large part, to gender-friendly electoral rules such as gender quotas and proportional electoral systems, and it...
Global Political Economy
A Multi-paradigmatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
This book applies a multiparadigmatic philosophical frame of analysis to the global political economy. Crossing two disciplines and lines of literature—social philosophy and global political economy—this book considers seven aspects of global political economy and discusses each aspect from four...
Political Stability and Sustainability as Key Success Factors in Developing Malaysia
Perdana Discourse Series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Before Malaya's independence in 1957, the British segregated the Malays from the non-Malays for the British administration's own political and economic benefits, the outcome of which was a lack of inter-ethnic interaction and harmony. The communities were driven further apart by ethnic-specific economic...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle...
by Sabine Putzgruber
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, University of Vienna (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The following pages try to analyze the way the state of Sudan functions and to...
The Political Economy of Change and Continuity in Korea
Twenty Years after the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This book analyzes the transformation of Korean political economy since the 1990s. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the political economy of South Korea has evolved around two diametrically opposed features: convergence into the Anglo-American model and the state-led strategic restructuring...
Amiable Scoundrel
Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent political figures. In his...
Pulse of the People
Political Rap Music and Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Hip-Hop music encompasses an extraordinarily diverse range of approaches to politics. Some rap and Hip-Hop artists engage directly with elections and social justice organizations; others may use their platform to call out discrimination, poverty, sexism, racism, police brutality, and other social...