Politics category: 19839 books
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors. The United States ranks 78th...
The Wrath of Capital
Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain...
Politics and Film
The Political Culture of Television and Movies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and controversial movies and shows American Sniper, House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, and Twelve...
A Civil Society?
Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Focusing on the traditional state-centred arenas of group and social movement influence such as Parliament, elections, the bureaucracy and the courts, this book argues that the terrain of group politics in Canada has been restructured by the transition from the Keynesian welfare state era to the era...
How to Hack a Party Line
The Democrats and Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics
Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information...
How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
“Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing...
Are You Stupid?
A Second Revolution Might Save America From Herself
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
After WWII, the world entered a phase of extreme dynamics. The USA outpaced all other countries. More than 50 years later, it no longer has the radical esprit that brought about its hegemony. Still, America of the information revolution remains the world’s only superpower. But as the necessity of change,...
No Place Like Home
Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United States, and for many Americans, buying a home is the most important financial investment they will ever make. We are deeply committed...
by C.D. Jaco, Lita Epstein MBA, Julianne C. Iwersen-Neimann
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Oil makes the world go round. Follow the fascinating story-from the fields of Kuwait to the streets of Venezuela and beyond...
An analysis of the role that oil plays in the U.S. and how it has affected our foreign policy, this book traces the evolution of the industry, including such defining...
by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled...
The Arab Uprisings Explained
New Contentious Politics in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways...
Trading Spaces
Foreign Direct Investment Regulation, 1970–2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive study of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization. Political economy FDI research has long focused on how host-country politics influence the supply of FDI, or how firms choose to invest. By contrast, this book focuses on the politics of FDI demand: the sources...
by Alan Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Three decades in the making, one of the most ambitious and comprehensive histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.
Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from...
Politics without Stories
The Liberal Predicament
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Liberal candidates, scholars, and activists mainly promote pragmatism rather than large and powerful narratives - which may be called 'alpha stories' for their commanding presence over time. Alternatively, conservative counterparts to such liberals tend to promote their policy preferences in alpha...