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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The problems of a troubled world economy and the essentially political issues of how it should be managed make up the stuff of international political economy. The overwhelming importance of these questions has drawn ever increasing numbers of students and teachers in universities, colleges and schools...
Keeping Democracy at Bay
Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong's political institutions and culture,...
Deep Roots
How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought.
A variety of approaches are...
Nature, Action and the Future
Political Thought and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Climate change is one of the great challenges of modern politics. In this volume, leading political theorists and historians investigate how the history of political ideas can help us make sense of it. The contributors add a historical perspective to contemporary debates in political theory. They...
The Political Economy of Dual Transformations
Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
In the early 1990s, scholars voiced skepticism about the capacity of Eastern Europe's new democracies to manage simultaneous political and economic reform. They argued that the surge of popular participation following democratization would thwart efforts by successor governments to enact market reforms...
Veto Players
How Political Institutions Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties,...
Explaining Politics
Culture, Institutions, and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
This unique text offers a comprehensive overview of who participates in politics and why, how social and political institutions shape that involvement, and, ultimately, what form citizen political participation takes. Drawing on a multitude of factors to explain politics and political behaviour, Woshinsky...
by David Sonius
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
In the wake of the most divisive presidential election in over a century, pundits, reporters and the public are increasingly aware of the deep and profound rifts that separate our society and threaten the fabric of American democracy. While media has obsessed with the nature of the divisions and some...
When Movements Anchor Parties
Electoral Alignments in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral...
Shattered Consensus
The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institutional and cultural adjustments that set the stage for a new phase of political and economic development....
The Political Economy of Progress
John Stuart Mill and Modern Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes today. A rereading of Mill's mature...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book combines two strands of international political economy; examining how capitalism and democracy shape and are shaped by each other. Although until now considered separately, this path-breaking book proposes an innovative view of a political-economic system that inextricably links the model...
Rethinking Global Political Economy
Emerging Issues, Unfolding Odysseys
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Rethinking Global Political Economy contains incisive analysis of history, linguistics, class, culture, empirical data and normative concerns.
This important volume presents innovative approaches to fundamental issues in global political economy. Together they provide multiple arguments and...