Political category: 85882 books
Just Responsibility
A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems...
Ethnic Cues
The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"New theoretical propositions, original data, and rigorous empirical tests are what one looks for in cutting-edge social science. Fortunately, all three are apparent in Ethnic Cues. The author has pushed his thinking to develop new ways of understanding and explaining patterns of Latino voting...
by Donatella della Porta
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented toward theory building, Della Porta develops her...
Political Tolerance in the Global South
Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? This book moves beyond the extensive research on this question in western contexts to focus on the global south, offering unique empirical studies of political tolerance in plural societies where poverty is...
by Jason Frank
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political thinkers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publius. Frank's revisionist...
Political Victory
The Elusive Prize of Military Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Success in war has always been difficult to measure. What is judged successful by military leaders may not be judged so by political leadership, nor by the wider public, at least in a Western-style democracy. The public is generally inclined to applaud military victory, but it instinctively reserves...
Ernesto Laclau
Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science. The editors...
Language of Terror
How Neuroscience Influences Political Speech in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Building on the emerging field of biopolitics of security, this research monograph demonstrates that political speech can be crafted to manipulate segments of the voting population who are inherently predisposed to being receptive to certain language. The authors, who come from both political science...
by S. P. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
From its inception in 2001, the United Russia Party has rapidly developed into a hugely successful, organisationally-complex political party and key component of power. This book provides a much needed analysis on United Russia by exploring the role of the party in the Russian political system, from...
Machiavelli's Legacy
"The Prince" After Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual...
Bahrain
Political Development in a Modernizing Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
The book is a study of political development in Bahrain during the first five years after its independence in 1971. It is based on field research done by the author as the first senior Fulbright scholar in that country. The book was banned in Bahrain for 30 years but was allowed to be published in...
The Propriety of Liberty
Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, he brings into focus how this major vision of liberty developed...
Vargas of Brazil
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954 was a highly contradictory and controversial personality. Getúlio Vargas, from the pampas of the southern frontier state of Rio Grande do Sul, became the dictator who ruled without ever forgetting the lower classes. Vargas was a consummate artist...
The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau
Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Today, Henry David Thoreau's status as one of America's most influential public intellectuals remains unchallenged. Recent scholarship on Thoreau has highlighted his activism as a committed antislavery reformer and proto-environmentalist whose life became a seminal model for the image of the liberal...