Political category: 85882 books
by Andrew Samuels
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
What can depth psychology and politics offer each other?
In The Political Psyche Andrew Samuels shows how the inner journey of analysis and psychotherapy and the passionate political convictions of the outer world are linked. He brings an acute psychological perspective to bear on public themes...
George Hunt
Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
George W. P. Hunt was a highly colorful Arizona politician. A territorial representative and seven-time Arizona state governor, Hunt joined Woodrow Wilson in making the Democratic Party the party of Progressive reform. This political biography follows Hunt through his years in the territorial legislature,...
Habermas and Rawls
Disputing the Political
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly because...
Critical Theory and Libertarian Socialism
Realizing the Political Potential of Critical Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series examines the role critical theory plays in today's political, social, and economic crises, showing how it can help to both diagnose and remedy such problems.
Critical social theory is first revisited by exposing the affinity between...
Reasonable Disagreement
A Theory of Political Morality
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
This book examines the ways in which reasonable people can disagree about the requirements of political morality. Christopher McMahon argues that there will be a 'zone of reasonable disagreement' surrounding most questions of political morality. Moral notions of right and wrong evolve over time as...
Modernization and Its Political Consequences
Weber, Mannheim, and Schumpeter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
People’s capacity to give meaning and direction to social life is an essential dimension of political freedom. Yet many citizens of Western democracies believe that this freedom has become quite restricted. They feel they are at the mercy of anonymous structures and processes over which they have little...
Comparative Inquiry In Politics And Political Economy
Theories And Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
"Comparative Inquiry in Politics and Political Economy provides all the essentials for a superb introductory text in comparative politics; comprehensive in scope; historical in approach; and fair-minded in its treatment of liberal, conservative, and radical perspectives. The best single survey...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in...
More than a Historian
The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A.Beard
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) was one of America's most influential historians and political scientists. He played a major role in founding the disciplines of history and political science, helped shape the teaching of social studies in the nation's public schools, and was one the nation's most popular...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory. Parties have traditionally been studied by political scientists in their organizational features and in relation to the analysis of related topics such as party systems and electoral systems. Little...
Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony
The Politics of the Legal Complex
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
What explains divergences in political liberalism among new nations that shared the same colonial heritage? This book assembles exciting original essays on former colonies of the British Empire in South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia that gained independence after World War II. The interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This comparative study examines what kinds of societal forces shape European relationships towards democratic political life in contemporary Europe.
Drawing on data from the European Social Survey (ESS), the book develops a theoretical perspective on the relationship between social structure...
From East Germans to Germans?
The New Postcommunist Elites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of...
Winning Women's Votes
Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote, and female suffrage would forever change the landscape of German political life. Women now constituted the majority of voters, and political parties were forced to address them as political actors for the first time.
Analyzing written...