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Political Stability and Sustainability as Key Success Factors in Developing Malaysia
Perdana Discourse Series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Before Malaya's independence in 1957, the British segregated the Malays from the non-Malays for the British administration's own political and economic benefits, the outcome of which was a lack of inter-ethnic interaction and harmony. The communities were driven further apart by ethnic-specific economic...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle...
by Sabine Putzgruber
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, University of Vienna (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The following pages try to analyze the way the state of Sudan functions and to...
Recall!: California's Political Earthquake
California's Political Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In politics, as in so many other areas, California is unique. The state's economy - the largest in the nation, and sixth largest in the world - is given to dramatic swings. Its legislative system is often defined by gridlock on matters large and small. The use of the initiative, one of the tools of...
The Israeli Central Bank
Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This book examines the local and global political and institutional processes that have led to the strengthening of the Israeli central bank within the context of the now predominant neoliberal regime. Using Israel as a case study to identify broader patterns around the world, the authors examine...
Collective Political Rationality
Partisan Thinking and Why It's Not All Bad
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Amidst the polarization of contemporary politics, partisan loyalties among citizens are regarded as one contributor to political stalemate. Partisan loyalties lead Democrats and Republicans to look at the same economic information but to come to strikingly different conclusions about the state of...
by Brian Calfano
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Calfano provides an examination of the pressures faced by Muslims, often considered political and social outsiders in western nations, especially in the United States. Identity is a complex concept, especially when considering the role that group attachments play in affecting how one sees her/his...
Captive Revolution
Palestinian Womens Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in their thousands for their political activism and...
Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony
The Tragedy of Postcoloniality in Michael Manley’s Jamaica and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony engages with two of the defining political sagas of the postcolonial era. The book presents Michael Manley...
Making Law and Courts Research Relevant
The Normative Implications of Empirical Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
One of the more enduring topics of concern for empirically-oriented scholars of law and courts—and political scientists more generally—is how research can be more directly relevant to broader audiences outside of academia. A significant part of this issue goes back to a seeming disconnect between...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language policies are political. They have political consequences as well as political origins. In State Traditions and Language Regimes, scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America shift focus from the consequences of language policies to how and why states make language policy choices. This shift,...
by Birgit Schippers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time. While she is best-known for her interventions into feminist debates on gender, sexuality and feminist politics, her focus in recent years has broadened to encompass some of the most pertinent topics of interest...
Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland
Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Reforming food in post-famine Ireland: Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922 is the first dedicated study of how and why Irish eating habits dramatically transformed between the famine and independence. It also investigates the simultaneous reshaping of Irish food production after the famine....
by Colin Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Now revised and updated and containing several entirely new chapters, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to political philosophy. It discusses historical and contemporary figures and covers a vast range of topics and debates, including immigration, war, national and global economics,...