Political category: 85882 books
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss
The Hidden Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory on his faith in divine...
Putting Ideas to Work
A Practical Introduction to Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2006
In this innovative new text, Mark Mattern offers a unique alternative to the traditional approaches to the study and teaching of political philosophy. Rather than approaching it solely as a world of abstractions, Putting Ideas to Work emphasizes its practical task. Political ideas drawn from historical...
Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution
Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process.
Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An Introduction to Political Science in Nigeria attempts to fill the void in the literature for undergraduate and graduate students in the Third World, particularly Nigeria, that are studying the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and law. Primarily intended for introductory courses in...
Democracy without Associations
Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
India's party system has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade. The Congress Party, a catch-all party that brought independence in 1947 and governed India for much of the period since then, no longer dominates the electoral scene. Political parties which draw support from particular...
Positive Political Theory I
Collective Preference
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular...
Political Complexity
Nonlinear Models of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This collection illustrates how nonlinear methods can provide new insight into existing political questions. Politics is often characterized by unexpected consequences, sensitivity to small changes, non-equilibrium dynamics, the emergence of patterns, and sudden changes in outcomes. These are all...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch offers an original analysis of global political economy by examining it through the ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers, leaders and personalities. Prebisch’s ground-breaking ideas as an economist – the terms-of-trade...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The creator of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe was quite politically active and that activism even resulted with his arrest, placement in a pillory and imprisoning. This collection represents his political activism and mirrors the true political climate in 18 th century England. His most successful...
by John R. Zaller
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range...
Understanding Policy Change
How to Apply Political Economy Concepts in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
How does the social and political context in which decision-makers find themselves in affect their ability to realize their reform goals? How does this context facilitate or inhibit specific reform agendas and projects? How can we operationalize and evaluate these risks and opportunities in order to...
Faces of Moderation
The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character—its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action—makes it...
Nationalism, Political Realism and Democracy in Japan
The thought of Masao Maruyama
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Masao Maruyama was the most influential and respected political thinker in post-WWII Japan. He believed that the collective mentality, inherent in the traditional Japanese way of thinking, was a key reason for the defeat in WWII and was convinced that such thought needed to be modernized. In this...
Unequal Democracy
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Bartels’s acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expanded
The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political...