Politics category: 19839 books
by Marcus W. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The truthful anecdotes and fictional characters take you on an insightful and exciting journey that is serious, witty and redeemingly triumphant. It is a gripping account which depicts how the media, unbridled capitalism, residual racial bias and politics as usual collude to control, suppress and...
A House Divided
What Would We Have to Give Up to Get the Political System We Want?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Every American is affected by the divisions and outrage that prevent us from making progress on urgent problems. This issue guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. These are difficult questions, and there are no easy answers:
Should we require...
Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta
Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers...
A Republic of Men
The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms...
Foreign Policy Making in Taiwan
From Principle to Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Following President Chen Sui-bian’s victory in the controversial 2004 presidential election, this book examines the future direction of Taiwan’s foreign policy, focusing on the internal and external forces that influence and shape the countries foreign policy decisions today. The author suggests...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Fifteen eminent social scientists from North America and Eastern Europe met under the auspices of Northwestern University's Comparative Politics Program to discuss the significance and characteristics of changes in political leadership in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union since World War II. The...
Why Mugabe Won
The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe and their Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The 2013 general elections in Zimbabwe were widely expected to mark a shift in the nation's political system, and a greater role for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. However, the results, surprisingly, were overwhelmingly in favour of long-time...
Mandela's Kinsmen
Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei,...
by James Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
By any measure, the story of the Scottish National Party is an extraordinary one.
Forced to endure decades of electoral irrelevance since its creation in the 1930s, during which it often found itself grappling with internal debate on strategy, and rebellion from within its own ranks, the SNP...
Institutions of American Democracy
The Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While the framers of the Constitution granted power to the president, they likewise imbued the legislative and judicial branches of government with the powers...
Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
From Charisma to Canonization
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on modern political and social thought? Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought is the first comprehensive account of Weber's...
West Germany (RLE: German Politics)
Politics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This book, originally published in 1981, provides the student and general reader alike with a fascinating account of the dynamic re-emergence of Germany after the Second World War as one of the world’s leading and most powerful states. The book gives extensive coverage to all aspects of the former...
by Myron J. Arnoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel, and intellectually equally at home in political...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Following the popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world beginning in 2010, armed forces remained pivotal actors in politics throughout the region. As demonstrators started to challenge entrenched autocratic rulers in Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a, and Manama, the militaries stormed back into the limelight...