Politics category: 19839 books
by Jonathan Vickery
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: A2
Subject: Government & Politics
First Teaching: September 2012
First Exam: June 2014
Perfect for revision, this updated guide explains the unit requirements, summarises the content and includes specimen questions with graded answers.
This full-colour New Edition...
The Politics of Urban Water
Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbors, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process,...
A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia
Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that...
An Introduction to Australian Public Policy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The public policy arena is a complex framework of actors, politics and instruments. An Introduction to Australian Public Policy, Second Edition examines the broad range of models, influences and players that shape the development of public policy in Australia, and equips students with a working knowledge...
Pension Politics
Consensus and Social Conflict in Ageing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Population ageing and slower economic growth have raised serious questions about the willingness and ability of governments to maintain current social policies. Within this new reality, discussions on the future of public pensions have been predominant in political debates across Europe.
This...
by Nigel F. B. Allington, Sébastien Caré, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This collective work examines the different conservatisms displayed in the UK and US, particularly in the areas of the meaning of rights, their foreign policy mission, the role of religious activism within their respective party politics, and the impact of the current economic crisis on free-market...
by Rebekah L. Herrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Minorities and Representation in American Politics is the first book of its kind to examine underrepresented minorities with a framework based on four types of representation—descriptive, formalistic, symbolic, and substantive. Through this lens, author Rebekah Herrick looks at race, ethnic, gender,...
by Terri-Ann Gilbert Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In The Politics of Integration, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts examines the validity of a highly charged statement Dr Ralph Gonsalves made in 2007, warning that CARICOM may expire in 2017 if its government structures are not addressed. To this end, the author examines the political culture, personalities...
War, Identity and the Liberal State
Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical in the Armed Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
In recent years, political scientists and journalists have taken a great interest in the question of whether the American electorate is "sorting" into communities based on partisan affiliation. That is, there is concern that American communities are becoming increasingly politically homogenous...
State, Institutions and Democracy
Contributions of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy. Modern political economy has implied the interaction between politics and economics to understand political, electoral and public issues in different nations, and...
The Indian Constituent Assembly
Deliberations on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Indian Constituent Assembly laid the foundations of the largest democracy in the world. The debates between the members of the Assembly form the bedrock of the Indian Constitution. The chapters in this volume propose a range of methodological perspectives from which these critical debates might...
The Erasure of Arab Political Identity
Colonialism and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book explores the long history of the evolution of Arab political identity, which predates the time of the Prophet Muhammad and is characterized by tolerance, compassion, generosity, hospitality, self-control, correct behaviour, equality and consensus. The author argues that present-day struggles...
Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century
Offshore finance, local élites and contentious politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This edited collection examines the realities of the last remnants of the European colonial empires in the Caribbean, namely the British, Dutch and French overseas territories.
Although known and perhaps infamous for their role as high-end tourist destinations and financial centres, these small...