Politics category: 19839 books
The Business of America is Lobbying
How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money buy?...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the region....
Politics in Wired Nations
Selected Writings of Ithiel De Sola Pool
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Ithiel de Sola Pool was a pioneering social scientist, a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one of the most original thinkers in the development of the social sciences. Passionately engaged in politics, he continued his role of leadership throughout his life, building the MIT Political...
Power & Choice
An Introduction to Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
W. Phillips Shively’s Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics, both domestic and international, through the use of multiple comparative perspectives and theoretical approaches. The major theme reflected in the title is based on Shively’s definition of politics as...
Giddens and Politics beyond the Third Way
Utopian Realism in the Late Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Assessing the political dimensions of Anthony Giddens' work from the 1970s to the present, this book highlights new directions for politics distinct from his Third Way. Kolarz provides an assessment of Giddens' political relevance and utility for present-day political endeavours, reflecting on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists, critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities or if they simply reinforce relations...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers. It provides a deep understanding of Nigeria's socio-political evolution and experience by covering broad range of political issues and historical eras....
Politics Across the Hudson
The Tappan Zee Megaproject
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The State of New York is now building one of the world’s longest, widest, and most expensive bridges—the new Tappan Zee Bridge—stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson, urban planner Philip Plotch...
by Bozena C. Welborne, Aubrey L. Westfall, Özge Çelik Russell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the U.S. setting, but rather it accentuates...
Politics and the Art of Commemoration
Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between states...
Politics of Segmentation
Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties. This book examines how party competition and party systems affect reforms of social protection. Featuring a historical comparison of Italy and Germany post-1945, the book shows how a high...
Atheists in American Politics
Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Today atheists, it seems, are everywhere. Nonbelievers write best-selling books and proudly defend their views in public; they have even hired a lobbyist. But, as political scientist Richard J. Meagher shows, atheist political activism is not a new phenomenon. From the "Freethought" movement of the...
by Claudrena N. Harold, Bryant Simon, Jane Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York–based intellectuals and revolutionary transformations in Europe, but also by people, ideas, and organizations rooted in the South. Claudrena N. Harold probes into critical events...
by Richard T. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1996
Debates over postmodernism, analyses of knowledge and power, and the recurring issue of Heidegger's Nazism have all deepened questions about the relation between philosophy and the social roles of intellectuals. Against such postmodernist rejections of philosophical theory as mounted by Rorty and...