Political category: 85882 books
The Parties Versus the People
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that—so far—has proved intractable. After every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes, the Republicans...
Political Bubbles
Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and...
American Political Rhetoric
Essential Speeches and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics, government, and political communication designed to explore fundamental political principles through classic examples of political rhetoric. Now in its seventh edition, its selections include the entire political...
by Arthur O' Connor
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1998
'Arthur O'Connor was the most important conduit between French republicanism and Irish political radicalism in the late 1790s ... His State of Ireland, published in 1798, created a distinctively Irish language of radical democracy out of French sources, by fusing them with the local political tradition...
New Faces, New Voices
The Hispanic Electorate in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Making up 14.2 percent of the American population, Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States. Clearly, securing the Hispanic vote is more important to political parties than ever before. Yet, despite the current size of the Hispanic population, is there a clear Hispanic politics?...
by George W. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise overview of the competing political philosophies that have shaped United States history.
Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations...
Pragmatism, Politics, and Perversity
Democracy and the American Party Battle
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce,...
Reconsidering American Liberalism
The Troubled Odyssey Of The Liberal Idea
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Forty years ago Louis Hartz surveyed American political thought in his classic The Liberal Tradition in America. He concluded that American politics was based on a broad liberal consensus made possible by a unique American historical experience, a thesis that seemed to minimize the role of political...
Política
Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Política offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico’s history, namely, the dramatic shift...
Is Democracy Possible Here?
Principles for a New Political Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin...
by Joe Painter, Dr Alex Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
"A very good overview. Covers the key topics well and in an accessible and engaging style."
- Dr Daniel Hammett, Department of Geography, Sheffield University
This is a revised and updated edition of a core undergraduate resource for political geography. Focusing on the social and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. While scholars continue to investigate interpretations of The Prince in different contexts throughout history, from the...
Gandhi and Tagore
Politics, truth and conscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book brings together the political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It explores truth and conscience as viable public virtues with regard to two exemplars of ethical politics, addressing in turn the concerns of an evolving modern...
How They Run The Country
Nineteen Short Stories of Canadian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Here are 19 short stories about Canadian politics and government. These fictional “inside accounts” of political and governmental events, discussions and decisions give the reader an unvarnished view into how Ottawa works. That is, how politicians think, what it’s like to live with the pressures...