Politics category: 19839 books
by Paul Hainsworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
The Extreme Right in Western Europe is a concise introduction to one of the most persistent facets of late twentieth-century history, politics and society.
The legacy of the Nazi era and the increasingly unacceptable face of extremism all militated against the success of far right-wing parties...
The Great Wall of Money
Power and Politics in China's International Monetary Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
As an economic superpower, China has become an increasingly important player in the international monetary system. Its foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and its exchange rate policy has become a major subject of international economic diplomacy. The internationalization of the...
by Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
This is a newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer's personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which culminated in a libel action against "The Times" newspaper. The book reveals the dirty tricks...
The City Is the Factory
New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a...
Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat...
Whites, Blacks, and Racist Democrats
The Untold Story of Race and Politics Within the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
On March 18, 2008, after the Jeremiah Wright incident, Senator Barack Obama went on national television and delivered what many called one of the most inspiring and thought provoking speeches ever delivered on the issue of race. After the speech, several news organizations reported that it was time for...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary...
Sunbelt Capitalism
Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Few Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this metropolitan region. In Sunbelt Capitalism, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer tells the story of the city's expansion and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades. However, few attempts have been made to connect these concerns with the growing body of research on biases and blind spots in decision-making....
Greening Berlin
The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.
Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of...
The Democratic Party of Japan in Power
Challenges and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized by a two-party system. However, in addition to the triple disasters of March 2011, the DPJ faced numerous difficulties arising from its controversial...
The Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty
The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Tocqueville’s thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interaction between religion and politics has once again...
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations
The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued.
This book explores the reality of the lives of North...
Global Powers of Horror
Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror’s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror’s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity...