Politics category: 19839 books
by James Heartfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Europe is in crisis, but the European Union just gets stronger. Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland have all been told that they must submit their budgets to EU-appointed bureaucrats. The 'soft coup' that put EU officials in charge of Greece and Italy shows that the Union is opposed to democracy. Instead...
by Barry Pavier
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Written by a senior examiner, Barry Pavier, this Edexcel
A2 Government & Politics Student Unit Guide is the essential study
companion for Unit 4B: Other Ideological Traditions; clear
guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check
questions and a quick-reference index...
by Michael Moran
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book explores the crisis of the British state. Though it has been particularly apparent since the outcome of both the 2014 Scottish independence and 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendums, it stems from deep historical roots. The book traces the origins of the state to the original Act of Union of 1707...
by Frances Moore Lappé, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1985
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
According to Frances Moore Lappé, economic rules taken as dogma have allowed an increasing concentration of decision-making power over...
Dry Bones Rattling
Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Dry Bones Rattling offers the first in-depth treatment of how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) network in Texas and the Southwest is gaining national attention as a model for reviving...
Imagined Sovereignties
The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as having a special, sovereign...
by T. Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece's current political and economic failures. It argues that the sovereign debt crisis only exacerbated the malfunctioning of a democracy long ago contaminated by populist politics while also offering a more general insight into the impact of populism
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with...
Politics in the New Hard Times
The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Government and Politics
A Comprehensive Look at the System and Policies That Define Our Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The governed must know their government.
Understanding how our government functions and the political forces that influence it is vital for all Americans. As a comprehensive overview and history of the subject, this book is designed to help anyone interested in learning about our government...
The Politics of Autism
Navigating The Contested Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
In the first book devoted exclusively to the contentious politics of autism, noted political scientist and public policy expert John J. Pitney, Jr., explains how autism has evolved into a heated political issue disputed by scientists, educators, social workers, and families. Nearly everything about...
by Jonathan Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis, Jonathan Kirshner explains how the crisis altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world politics....
The Way Back
Restoring the Promise of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The promise of America is that, with ambition and hard work, anyone can rise to the top. But now the promise has been broken, and we’ve become an aristocracy where rich parents raise rich kids and poor parents raise poor kids.
We’ve been told that the changes are structural, that there’s...
Organization, Society and Politics
An Aristotelian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This thought-provoking book will appeal to both specialists and newcomers to Aristotle. Specialists will welcome the attention to original texts that underpin many of our ideas on politics, business studies, and other social sciences, whilst newcomers will appreciate the lucid summaries and applications that make Aristotle fascinatingly accessible.