Political category: 85882 books
Political Elites in Canada
Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian politics and how power brokers are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing worldwide, and the rise and fall of political influencers permeates national headlines. In many areas, traditional...
by Alexander L. George, Juliette L. George, Stephen G. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Woodrow Wilson’s presidential campaign in 1912 marked the beginning of a remarkable personal and political collaboration between Wilson and Colonel Edward M. House. The book traces the complexities of Wilson’s life and career along with his relationship with House, who for almost a decade was...
Dangerous Liaisons
Organized Crime and Political Finance in Latin America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The relationship between criminal syndicates and politicians has a long history, including episodes even from the earliest years of America's colonies. But while organized crime may not get the headlines it once did in North America, the resurgence of such criminal activity in Latin America, and in...
iPolitics
Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to exercise political power. Citizens around the world also use these tools to vent political frustrations, join political groups and organize revolutions. Political activists blog to promote candidates, solicit and coordinate financial contributions...
by Lahouari Addi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction. While the revolutionary regimes promised economic and social development and sought the unity of Arab...
The Challenge of Political Islam
Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position. As The Challenge of Political Islam reveals, Egyptian Islamists today are more integrated into the political arena than ever, and are voicing a broad...
The Political Future of Hong Kong
Democracy within communist China
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
On July 1st, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated the 10th anniversary of its return to the People’s Republic of China, but the past decade has been a bumpy ride for both the Hong Kong people and the central leaders in China. In fact, in 2003 Beijing had already succumbed to public pressure within the fairly...
by Michael M. Franz, Paul B. Freedman, Kenneth M. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
It has been estimated that more than three million political ads were televised leading up to the elections of 2004. More than $800,000,000 was spent on TV ads in the race for the White House alone and presidential candidates, along with their party and interest group allies, broadcast over a million...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national political discourse. While it is widely acknowledged...
Democratic Processes and Financial Markets
Pricing Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The renaissance in Hegel scholarship over the past two decades has largely ignored or marginalized the metaphysical dimension of his thought, perhaps most vigorously when considering his social and political philosophy. Many scholars have consistently maintained that Hegel’s political philosophy...
The Return of Ordinary Capitalism
Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic work ethic (even if it means working...
Two Presidents Are Better Than One
The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
“Many Americans are unsatisfied with politics. Simultaneously, we are hesitant to question the basic soundness of our constitutional system. In this refreshingly provocative book, David Orentlicher explains why it is due time for us to reconsider dominant ideas about the presidency, now arguably...
The Biopolitics of Development
Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
This book offers an original analysis and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault’s works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political...