Political category: 85882 books
Nation Building
Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building
Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups,...
The Political Economy of Governance
Institutions, Political Performance and Elections
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Understanding the governance of nations is a key challenge in contemporaneous political economy. This book provides new advances and the latest research in the field of political economy, dealing with the study of institutions, governance, democracy and elections. The volume focuses on issues such...
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal
Evolution, Biology, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological,...
Roberto Esposito
Law, Community and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political provides a critical legal introduction to this increasingly influential Italian theorist’s work, by focusing on Esposito’s reconceptualisation of the relationship between law, community and the political. The analysis concentrates primarily on...
Free Speech and False Speech
Political Deception and Its Legal Limits (Or Lack Thereof)
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This book examines the history of the legal discourse around political falsehood and its future in the wake of the 2012 US Supreme Court decision in *US v. Alvarez *through communication law, political philosophy, and communication theory perspectives. As *US v. Alvarez *confirmed First Amendment...
by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks...
A Political Economy of Arab Education
Policies and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The failure of reform policies in areas of critical importance to Arab populations such as health and education played a central role in igniting the Arab Awakening, yet this policy perspective has been largely absent from recent studies of the region. Arab regimes most reliant on repression to guarantee...
A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics
Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and...
Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf
Rethinking the Rentier State
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in Bahrain and all across the Arab Gulf, ordinary citizens showed an unexpected enthusiasm for political...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1933 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about staggering depopulation, loss of land, and cultural,...
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies
The Bharatiya Janata Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Applying an intercultural and comparative theoretical approach across Asia and Africa, this book analyses the rise and moderation of political movements in developing societies which mobilise popular support with references to conceptions of cultural identity. The author includes not only the Hindu...
by Sudha Pai
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses on the different political response of the Congress party to identity assertion in Madhya...
Gandhi in Political Theory
Truth, Law and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Can Gandhi be considered a systematic thinker? While the significance of Gandhi’s thought and life to our times is undeniable it is widely assumed that he did not serve any discipline and cannot be considered a systematic thinker. Despite an overwhelming body of scholarship and literature on his...
Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia
An Analysis of Elite Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original theory of political language to narratives taken from interviews with 34 of Russia's leading political figures, Michael Urban explores...