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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies. Under the hegemonic influence of Christian Democracy in the early post-World War II decades, Italy went through a period of rapid growth and political...
by Fortunato Musella
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency. Based on data covering a large set of Western countries, and focusing on the trends of personalisation of politics, the volume is one of the first empirical investigations into how party leaders are elected, how long they stay in office,...
Contemporary West Asia: Perspectives on Change and Continuity
Perspectives on Change and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of change and continuity in West Asia, its society, religion and politics. An overview of the region’s political, social and economic characteristics brought into sharper relief with the on-going turmoil in the region constitutes the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
What legacies have previous reformers like Zhao Ziyang left to today’s China? Does China have feasible political alternatives to today’s repressive ‘market Leninism’ and corrupt ‘state capitalism’? Does Zhao’s legacy indicate an alternative to the past and for the future?
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by Robert Jervis, Robert Jervis
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Since its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by the New York Times as "the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology." This new edition includes an extensive preface by the author...
After Queer Theory
The Limits of Sexual Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between...
The Politics of Peace
A Global Cold War History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them...
The Revolt Against the Masses
And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title. "The revolutionaries of contemporary America do not seek to redistribute privilege from those who have it to those who do not. These radicals wish to arrange a transfer of power...
Building Your IR Theory Toolbox
An Introduction to Understanding World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Building Your IR Theory Toolbox provides undergraduate students with the theoretical framework for understanding events in world politics. It covers all the major IR theories—realism, liberalism, Marxism, social constructivism, feminism, and postmodernism—along with various iterations, including...
The Politics of Imprisonment
How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
The attention devoted to the unprecedented levels of imprisonment in the United States obscure an obvious but understudied aspect of criminal justice: there is no consistent punishment policy across the U.S. It is up to individual states to administer their criminal justice systems, and the differences...
Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance
(De)constructing the Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped...
Tracing the political
Depoliticisation, governance and the state
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. It demonstrates how the field of international environmental politics has evolved and identifies key questions, topics and approaches to guide future research.
Politics and the European Commission
Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book...