Politics category: 19839 books
by Melissa Ziegler Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution. This book offers a political geography explanation for those observed patterns. Each of these institutions...
Pilgrimage, Politics, and International Relations
Religious Semantics for World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
A standout contribution to post-secular IR theory, this book addresses issues of global politics, from cooperation to conflict, and shows how a religious metaphor, the pilgrim, can help us to rethink our concepts of self, agency, and community in a time of changing world order.
by Anne Brontë
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1991
Leif Lewin examines more than two hundred studies of democracy in action from seventeen countries, to address the question of whether Western politics is dominated by self-interest or public interest. - ;Is it self-interest or public interest that dominates Western politics? This question has been debated...
The Politics of Total Liberation
Revolution for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book argues that there is an ongoing planetary crisis, in both the social and natural worlds, that is of urgent importance. This demands a new politics, a politics of total liberation, one that grasps the need to unite the disparate movements for human, animal, and earth liberation. In the book, Best outlines a way forward despite challenges.
by P. J. Brendese
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
George Orwell famously argued that those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. In this study of the relationship between democracy and memory, P. J. Brendese examines Orwell's insight, revealing how political power affects what is available to...
Thinking Freedom in Africa
Toward a theory of emancipatory politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom...
by Louise Chappell, John Chesterman, Lisa Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Australia has traditionally lacked a strong 'rights' culture. While fairness and equality have been proudly exalted as trademarks of the national mindset, the authors of The Politics of Human Rights in Australia argue that these same characteristics may equate to a form of cultural complacency. The...
The Second Birth
On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births. Drawing on mythical, philosophical, religious, and political thought from around the globe—including America, Europe, the Middle...
Faith in Politics
Religion and Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
No account of contemporary politics can ignore religion. The liberal democratic tradition in political thought has long treated religion with some suspicion, regarding it as a source of division and instability. Faith in Politics shows how such arguments are unpersuasive and dependent on questionable...
Indigeneity and Political Theory
Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges to
traditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past two
decades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereignty
as they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics,...
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Politics, Ethics, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013) was a noted ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Her four decades of scholarship defy easy categorization: she wrote both seminal works of theory and occasional pieces for the popular press, and she was variously viewed as radical and conservative,...
by Anne Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The human is a central reference point for human rights. But who or what is that human? And given its long history of exclusiveness, when so many of those now recognised as human were denied the name, how much confidence can we attach to the term? This book works towards a sense of the human that...
Ambition in America
Political Power and the Collapse of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected officials. The structure of political representation and the separation of powers detailed in the United States Constitution were intended to restrain self-interested...
The Cities on the Hill
How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and South,...