Politics category: 19839 books
African American Environmental Thought
Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Choice Outstanding Book
African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental...
Politics, Media and Campaign Language
Australias Identity Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Politics, Media and Campaign Language' is an original, groundbreaking analysis of the story of Australian identity, told in Australian election campaign language. Stephanie Brookes argues that the story of Australian identity is characterized by recurring cycles of anxiety and reassurance, which betray...
by Gad Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
This important new study in Canadian politics discusses the role of socialism in Canada. By means of comparison between the English-Canadian and the American political importance of socialism in Canada than the United States. In this section Louis Hartz's theory of "fragment" cultures is...
Reclaiming Democracy
Judgment, Responsibility and the Right to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Democracy is in shambles economically and politically. The recent economic meltdown in Europe and the U.S. has substituted democratic deliberation with technocratic decisions. In Athens, Madrid, Lisbon, New York, Pittsburgh or Istanbul, protesters have denounced the incapacity and unwillingness of...
Friendship Reconsidered
What It Means and How It Matters to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In the history of Western thought, friendship's relationship to politics is checkered. Friendship was seen as key to understanding political life in the ancient world, but it was then ignored for centuries. Today, friendship has again become a desirable framework for political interaction. In Friendship...
by Mark Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Rule-based global order remains a central object of study in International Relations. Constructivists have identified a number of mechanisms by which actors accomplish both the continuous reproduction and transformation of the rules, institutions, and regimes that constitute their worlds. However,...
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys
North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells the story of the Scotts and how they dominated Tar Heel politics. Three generations of Scotts—W....
India's 2009 Elections
Coalition Politics, Party Competition and Congress Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
India's 2009 Elections is an inquiry into the 15th General Elections of India. It explores how the elections played out, what factors influenced the electorate, and how the elections are an important contribution to India's democracy.
Authored by renowned scholars and analysts from...
The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia
Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
It is a political study of the controversy surrounding the issue of the uniform civil code vis-à-vis personal laws from a South Asian perspective.
At the centre of the debate is whether there should be a centralized view of the legal system in a given society or a decentralized view, both...
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic
Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic argues that sustainability is a political concept because it defines and shapes competing visions of the future. In current Arctic affairs, prominent stakeholders agree that development needs to be sustainable, but there is no agreement over what it is...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Jerusalem is not just another city that illustrates the conflict between interests of professional planners and competing political perspectives. It is the Holy City, with a history of some 3,000 years. Moreover, numerous layers of historical remains have importance for intense and competitive religious...
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...
From virtue to venality
Corruption in the city
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
From virtue to venality examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995. It is not a conventional study of the politics of local government since it seeks to place corruption in urban societies in a wider cultural context. The accounts of corruption in...
Gender, Nationalism and Conflict Transformation
New Themes and Old Problems in Northern Ireland Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Utilising Northern Ireland as a case study, this book presents an analysis of the gender and sexual politics of conflict transformation.
The book synthesises a vast array of international sources with the author’s empirical and theoretical research to produce a powerful gendered critique...