Politics category: 19839 books
Interplay of Domestic Politics and Foreign
Security Policy of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Domestic political dynamics have been playing critical role since 1979 in shaping Iran’s foreign and security policy. The Revolution 1979 erupted due to Shah’s despotic domestic policies and his heavy dependence on the West and the United States. The expression of domestic circumstances on Iran’s...
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630–1789
The Legacy for Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1991
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America describes and explores the emergence of a directly democratic political culture in America, the Federalists' theoretical campaign against that culture, and the legacy of the struggle over democracy for politics today. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This timely book will explain, via a number of thematic and case studies, that international economics is not an independent terrain of economic activity reproducing itself throughout history, but a complex articulation of social, political and culturally determined actions that are inextricably linked....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Governance in the Middle East is topic of interest to scholars, activists and policy makers. The currently proposed book is intended to present the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political, economic, and government...
Weak States, Strong Societies
Power and Authority in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the previously well-established organisation of world politics has been thrown into disarray. While during the Cold War, the bipolarity of the world gave other powers a defined structure within which to vie for power, influence...
Still a House Divided
Race and Politics in Obama's America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Why have American policies failed to reduce the racial inequalities still pervasive throughout the nation? Has President Barack Obama defined new political approaches to race that might spur unity and progress? Still a House Divided examines the enduring divisions of American racial politics and how...
by Michael Thom
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Taxes are an inescapable part of life. They are perhaps the most economically consequential aspect of the relationship between individuals and their government. Understanding tax development and implementation, not to mention the political forces involved, is critical to fully appreciating and critiquing...
Governing Subjects
An Introduction to the Study of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This introduction to the study of politics explores the multiple meanings of "governance" as well as the several senses of what it means to be a "subject." It takes the reader on a journey through and across the domains of law and institutions, markets and power, and culture and...
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 Michael Grunwald in his book “The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics Paradise”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not...
by S. Frederick Starr, Karen Dawisha
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Criminal Capital
Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a...
When the People Speak:Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
All over the world democratic reforms have brought power to the people-but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. Do we want a democracy inspired by Madison or by Madison Avenue? A democracy animated by deliberation or by manipulation?...
by Colleen Harris, Simon Lemieux
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Exam Board: AQA
Level: A2
Subject: Government & Politics
First Teaching: September 2012
First Exam: June 2014
Written by Colleen Harris and updated by Simon Lemieux this updated New Edition Student Unit Guide provides support throughout the course.
Feel confident you understand the unit:...
Eco-socialism as Politics
Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes...