Political category: 85882 books
The Constitutional and Legal Development of the Chinese Presidency
The Emperors' New Clothes?
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
This book investigates the legal and political evolution of Chinese presidency from the period of its forerunner in the 1930s, its establishment in 1954 to its abolition in 1975, and its restoration in 1982, and discovers that the presidency has evolved from a traditional Chinese title into a political...
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World
Reorienting the Political
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examines
the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both
Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the
German-Jewish classicist...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Enlightenment Projects Vol. 1
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...
The Craft of Governing
The contribution of Patrick Weller to Australian political science
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
'Bargaining and puzzling; power and thought; dealing and agonising; compromise and commitment. These are two sides of political practitioners whether politician, public servant or campaigner. Understand the interplay and we can, just sometimes, make sense of the real world we seek to interpret.'
Patrick...
Herder's Political Thought
A Study on Language, Culture and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Johann Gottfried Herder was a philosopher and important intellectual presence in eighteenth-century Germany. Herder's Political Thought examines the work of this significant figure in the context of both historical and contemporary developments in political philosophy.
Vicki A. Spencer reveals...
The Search for a European Identity
Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union. Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, the editors have developed a theoretical framework to examine the interplay between...
by Myron J. Arnoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel, and intellectually equally at home in political...
by Susan McWilliams Barndt
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Americans love road trips. They love to go on road trips. They love to read about road trips. They love to watch road trip stories unfold on television and film. Road trip stories are a consistent feature of the American landscape, a central part of American mythology, and an important piece of the...
The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics
Irish Parties and Irish Politics from the 18th Century to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Professor Tom Garvin’s classic work studies the growth of nationalism in Ireland from the middle of the eighteenth century to modern times.
It traces the continuity of tradition from earlier organisations, such as the United Irishmen and the agrarian Ribbonmen of the eighteenth century, through...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
There are many avenues for displaying political agendas, with a prominent one being literature. Through literature, the voices of political parties and ideals can enlighten those in the present, and can even be preserved for centuries to come. Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature...
Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda
The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907–1927
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
In Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907–1927, Jay Douglas Steinmetz provides an original and detailed account of the political developments that shaped the American Film Industry in the silent years. In the 1900s and 1910s, the American film industry often...
New Body Politics
Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to...
by Nathan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel’s thinking about political and social institutions. It counters as overly simplistic the notion that Hegel has an ‘organic concept of society’. It examines the thought of Hegel’s...
Vying for Allah’s Vote
Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence, and Extremism in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
What is driving political extremism in Pakistan? In early 2011, the prominent Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer was assassinated by a member of his own security team for insulting Islam by expressing views in support of the rights of women and religious minorities. Benazir Bhutto, the former prime...