Political category: 85882 books
To Dare More Boldly
The Audacious Story of Political Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Ten lessons from history on the dos and don’ts of analyzing political risk
Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the...
Crossing the River
The Coming of Age of the Internet in Politics and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
The political process is seeing the impact of disruptive technologies that are leading to dramatic changes in the marketplace of ideas and action. Crossing the River: The Coming of Age of the Internet in Politics and Advocacy, Karen A.B. Jagoda, Editor, documents how attitudes changed about the convergence...
What Government Does
How Political Executives Manage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives
succeed in accomplishing an Administration’s objectives, business-in-government
experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings
of a four-year study of top political appointees in the Obama Administration.
The...
by Professor Elizabeth A. Theiss-Morse, Michael W. Wagner, William H. Flanigan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The 2016 elections took place under intense political polarization and uncertain economic conditions, to widely unexpected results. How did Trump pull off his victory?
Political Behavior of the American Electorate, Fourteenth Edition, attempts to answer this question by interpreting data from...
Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems
Learning to Lose
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question examined in this book is what happens to dominant political parties when they lose or face the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Identity plays an important part in terms of how we imagine our relationship with the state and governing bodies. If we know who we are, then we can know and articulate what we want as political actors.
This book examines the relationship between identity and political dissent in the context...
Unfree Speech
The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
At a time when campaign finance reform is widely viewed as synonymous with cleaning up Washington and promoting political equality, Bradley Smith, a nationally recognized expert on campaign finance reform, argues that all restriction on campaign giving should be eliminated. In Unfree Speech, he presents...
Television Drama in Contemporary China
Political, social and cultural phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream...
by Terry Maley
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through...
Political Sociology
Oppression, Resistance, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Designed to help students analyze and understand political developments in the world around them, this unique text covers a wide array of political sociology concepts and theoretical perspectives. The book's multidimensional view emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple oppressions,...
International Political Economy
Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Broadly viewing the global economy as a political competition that produces winners and losers, International Political Economy holistically and accessibly introduces the field of IPE to students with limited background in political theory, history, and economics. This text surveys major interests...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Since the early 1990s, a series of major scandals in both the financial and most especially the political world has resulted in close attention being paid to the issue of corruption and its links to political legitimacy and stability. Indeed, in many countries – in both the developed as well as...
Patronage and Power
Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese...
Growing Apart
Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the most natural opportunities for comparative study. Peter Lewis, one of America's best scholars of Nigeria, has produced...