Politics category: 19839 books
Governing the World?
Cases in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.
Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global...
The Great Gap
Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
The relationship between socioeconomic inequality and democratic politics has been one of the central questions in the social sciences from Aristotle on. Recent waves of democratization, combined with deepened global inequalities, have made understanding this relationship ever more crucial. In The...
Bodies in Resistance
Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions...
Exposing the Demagogues
Right-wing and National Populist Parties in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Europe’s right-wing and national populist parties are on the upswing, even despite some recent electoral setbacks. They have entered parliaments across Europe and some parties are even participating in national governments. What is remarkable is that right-wing and national populist parties have...
The New Prince
Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince has been one of the most widely read and quoted book about politics during the past five centuries. But in the democracies of the information age, new ideas are needed to make government prosper through the next century. Now, Dick Morris, who contributed significantly...
Contested Communities
Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 1998
In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self...
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics
China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back...
The Already Dead
The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "the new chronic." Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses targeted drug therapies and biotechnology...
Climate Clever
How Governments Can Tackle Climate Change (and Still Win Elections)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Why, despite two decades of climate policy, have affluent democracies made so little progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions? We know that there are ways of doing this that are both practical and affordable. It is politics that is the problem. Stringent climate policies may lead companies to...
Reworking Race
The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly...
by Denis Dillon, Bryan Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history, politics and social geography of the high profile London Borough of Haringey,...
The Big Disconnect
Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Now that communication can be as quick as thought, why hasn’t our ability to organize politically—to establish gains and beyond that, to maintain them—kept pace? The web has given us both capacity and speed: but progressive change seems to be something perpetually in the air, rarely manifesting,...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Public Affairs books in his book “What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this...
by Jodi Dean
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A critical introduction to the political thought of one of the most important, original and enigmatic philosophers writing today. Zizek's Politics provides an original interpretation and defence of the Slovenian philosopher's radical critique of liberalism, democracy, and global capital.