Politics category: 19839 books
Nature, Action and the Future
Political Thought and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Climate change is one of the great challenges of modern politics. In this volume, leading political theorists and historians investigate how the history of political ideas can help us make sense of it. The contributors add a historical perspective to contemporary debates in political theory. They...
Greece in the 21st Century
The Politics and Economics of a Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
For most of the first part of the 21st century Greece has been seen as a critical battlefield for the survival of the powerful and the adjustment or extinction of the weak, as if all the historical contradictions of the global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis were concentrated in that tiny...
Representing the Advantaged
How Politicians Reinforce Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Political inequality is a major issue in American politics, with racial minorities and low-income voters receiving less favorable representation. Scholars argue that this political inequality stems largely from differences in political participation and that if all citizens participated equally we...
Beyond Black and White
From Civil Rights to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time
Many in the United States, including Barack Obama, have called for a “post-racial” politics; yet race still divides the country politically, economically, and socially....
Politics of Economic Planning
Papers on Planning and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The issue of planning prompted some of the fiercest debate in mid-twentieth century economics. Politics of Economic Planning collects together a number of papers from journals and contributed books that examine the problems of economic planning in a free society. They fall into three groups:
Part...
by Jessica Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Written by experienced teacher Jessica Hardy this Student Guide for Politics:
-Identifies the key content you need to know with a concise summary of topics examined in the AS/A-level specifications
-Enables you to measure your understanding with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers...
The Politics of European Competition Regulation
A Critical Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The Politics of European Competition Regulation provides an original and theoretically informed account of the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades.
Applying a critical political economy perspective, this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking....
by Matthias Baumgarten
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0 / 85%, University of Warwick (Politics and International Studies), course: International Political Economy (Dissertation), language: English, abstract: In this work I analyze commodity futures markets...
Vanguard of the Imam
Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Iran's Revolutionary Guards are one of the most important forces in the Middle East today. As the appointed defender of Iran's revolution, the Guards have evolved into a pillar of the Islamic Republic and the spearhead of its influence. Their sway has spread across the Middle East, where the Guards...
News
The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
For over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field—it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting and expanding mediaverse that resembles a big bang...
Taking power back
Putting people in charge of politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Faith in the UK’s political system has reached new lows. Politicians and commentators are lining up to offer answers, but what if the problem goes beyond left and right, trust and bureaucracy? What if the system puts too much power in the hands of politicians in London and not enough in the hands...
by Mark A. Pisano
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The field of demographics does not focus on the economic impacts and the funding issues resulting from demographic change. Similarly, economics does not take into account demographic changes. The omissions in both fields are negatively impacting the nation: income reductions caused by demographic...
Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics
Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic...