Political category: 85882 books
by Andrey Davydov
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Consideration of the term "political elite" as a synonym of the concept of "political power" is largely an attempt to look at new values from the viewpoint of a political historian, who seeks analogues in the past. Unfortunately, today such excursus is unlikely to end in success because it is...
by Allan P. Sand
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
This material is useful regardless of the size of the campaign arena and is easily scalable from running for class president up to a national electoral challenge.
During the last 100 years, many writers have applied Sun Tzu’s book on war to business, sports, and, of course, various levels...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
Political Campaign Communication
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The eighth edition of Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices provides a clear understanding of the strategic decisions made and tactical communication practices used in contemporary political campaigns.
The authors:
incorporate examples from all levels—local, statewide,...
What Would Marx Do?
How the greatest political theorists would solve your everyday problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Have you ever wondered what Kant might have to say about your addiction to social media? Or whether Plato would be able to help resolve your constant arguments about what to watch on TV? Or if Hobbes would agree to feed your pet hamster while you're away on holiday?
When it comes to the really...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Political Marketing in the United States explores how politicians and parties utilize marketing concepts and tools, providing an up-to-date and broad overview of how marketing permeates U.S. politics. The volume focuses on current and recent elections and leaders, and covers a range of topics, including...
The New Politics of Class
The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three stages. The first is...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
'Bara and Pennington's edited volume successfully fills a huge void in the market for introductory textbooks to comparative politics which previously offered either descriptions of political processes and systems or overviews of the methodology of comparative analysis. By applying major political...
by Dr Heather Savigny
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Based upon analysis of existing theoretical literature and current political practice this book addresses both the use of marketing and its impact (real and potential) upon democracy by answering the following:
* Why have politicians adopted political marketing? What are the contextual factors that...
by Sabyasachi Kar, Kunal Sen
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
‘This book is different from most other attempts to understand the politics of Indian economic development. Breaking down the last 65+ years of Indian development into several episodes of growth, it provides a rich set of insights into the political economy of the Indian development process and...
Sourcebook for Political Communication Research
Methods, Measures, and Analytical Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.
The need for this Sourcebook...
Campaign Finance and Political Polarization
When Purists Prevail
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favored candidates with extreme ideological...
Social Suffering and Political Confession
Suku in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book closely examines one relatively small but significant political phenomenon — Suku in Revolutionary China through a matrix of western social theory: Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, and Ricoeur. Suku is the practice of confessing individual suffering in a political context and in a collective public...
Summary: The Political Zoo - Michael Savage
The Animals of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Michael Savage's book: "The Political Zoo".This summary of the ideas from Michael Savage's book "The Political Zoo" uses the analogy of a zoo to portray the variety of political views that are currently in play in Washington. In his book, the author claims that this zoo analogy is...