Political category: 85882 books
Changing Paths
International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. This new concern with...
by Xuetong Yan
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international order
While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question...
Moments of Truth
The Politics of Financial Crises in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The current financial and sovereign debt crisis of the European Union and the United States can be regarded as the most recent of a wave of financial and sovereign debt crises that have affected different regions of the world over the past quarter century. While there is a large and growing body of...
by A. R. M. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
First published in 1953, this seminal introduction to political philosophy is intended for both the student of political theory and for the general reader. After an introduction which explains the nature and purpose of philosophy, Dr Murray provides a critical examination of the principle theories...
by M. Govinda Rao, Nirvikar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
This is a comprehensive work on India's fiscal federalism. The book surveys and analyses the evolution of fiscal federalism from the angle of political economy and brings to bear analytical skills of a very high order to assess and relate the political and administrative dimensions of India's federal...
Political Narrations
Antigone, the Melian Dialogue, Michael Kohlhaas, the Grand Inquisitor and Ragtime
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of modern political reality. The author explores this theme in readings of the Sophocles tragedy Antigone, the Melian Dialogue of Thucydides, Heinrich von Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas,...
Climate Change and Post-Political Communication
Media, Emotion and Environmental Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly successful. Yet just at...
by Yang Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Despite China’s rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, most Chinese still live in the vast countryside or have rural household registration. Although there was significant economic improvement in rural areas in the 1980s, the rural economy has been stagnating or deteriorating since then, and...
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army
China
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 2016, economic globalization suffered a severe crisis after over half a century of smooth development, and deglobalization was running mountains high. Not only did it trigger domestic political discord in major countries like the United States, Britain, France and Germany, but also led to international...
by Nathan J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
For much of its modern history, a combination of deep nervousness and profound lack of interest seemed to inhibit or even prevent regular political conversations in the Arab World. Public spaces were devoid of political discussions: public squares in major cities showed no signs of assemblies for...
The European Union beyond the Crisis
Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This volume explores institutional and policy developments in the EU and its member states in a parallel examination of citizens’ views of the effectiveness of crisis response reflected in public trust, output legitimacy, and satisfaction with democracy. Our approach to understanding the crisis...
by Jill Greenlee
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women’s interest, support, and participation throughout American history. Jill S. Greenlee investigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women’s political attitudes. Combining a historical overview of the...
Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa
The persistence of violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Violence affects the economy of production and the ecology of reproduction— the production of economic goods and services and the generational reproduction of workers, the regeneration of the capacity to work and maintenance of workers on a daily basis, and the renewal of culture and society through...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book evaluates the role that civic engagement, political participation and active citizenship can play in promoting the establishment of a European polity. The chapters included here examine how the practice of active citizenship is managed and constructed in the context of a European drive to...