Political category: 85882 books
Institutional Theory in Political Science
The New Institutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.
Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, the book argues that the new institutionalism comprises...
Typing Politics
The Role of Blogs in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The power of political blogs in American politics is now evident to anyone who follows it. In Typing Politics, Richard Davis provides a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the growing role played by political blogs and their relationship with the mainstream media. Through a detailed content analysis...
American Political Ideologies
An Introduction to the Major Systems of Thought in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
For many people, the world of politics is defined by ideologies. The average voter rarely takes time to research a policy issue, thoroughly relying instead on a set of beliefs set forth by his or her chosen political organization to make important decisions. These publicly promoted ideologies play...
Magyars and Political Discourses in the New Millennium
Changing Meanings in Hungary at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In this book, Melinda Kovács analyzes various areas of Hungarian political discourse: newspapers, party websites, informational books on the EU, and government-produced brochures sent to all households in Hungary. The inquiry is supported by an understanding of politics as achieving and negotiating...
The China Model and Global Political Economy
Comparison, Impact, and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Since the beginning of China's phenomenal rise in the international system, our knowledge of the country has grown rapidly. But those who have debated the China issue in policy circles mostly focus on the implications of China’s rise, often without a firm understanding of why the country is rising...
The Politics of Culture in Turkey, Greece & Cyprus
Performing the Left Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Performing a political identity usually involves more than just casting a vote. For Left-wingers in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus – countries that emerged as the only non-socialist constituents of South-eastern Europe after WWII – political preference meant immersion to distinct ways of life, to ‘cultures’:...
Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring
Mediators and Microfoundations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The euphoria and promise that accompanied the Arab Spring has been replaced with a business-as-usual tone in the MENA. Revolutionary shifts in political and religious power have been tempered and, in some cases, reversed. Observers should not be surprised at these outcomes, but skeptics would be advised...
Politics as Development
The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Nineteenth-century Serbia was an economically and socially backward country with an urban population of approximately 3 percent and a literacy rate in the countryside of less than 10 percent. Still, during that century it created a functioning democracy with a constitution, independent courts, political...
Us against Them
The Political Culture of Talk Radio
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Us against Them: The Political Culture of Talk Radio examines the phenomenon of talk radio and the role that it plays in the American political process as well as popular culture. Among the central questions addressed is a basic one regarding why people choose to listen to political talk instead of...
Political Pioneer of the Press
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This handbook aims to challenge ‘gender blindness’ in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power. Until very recently...
Against Democracy
New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more...
The Political Value of Time
Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Waiting periods and deadlines are so ubiquitous that we often take them for granted. Yet they form a critical part of any democratic architecture. When a precise moment or amount of time is given political importance, we ought to understand why this is so. The Political Value of Time explores the...
Shaped by the State
Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. But while crisis-centered frameworks can make sense of certain dimensions of political culture, partisan...