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Cover of Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction
by Tino Mager
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of reconstruction go far...
Cover of Much More Than Academic Abilities
by David Chan
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019

Academic abilities play a critical role not only in school settings but also in practical work situations and other problem-solving contexts that involve important intellectual task demands. However, we will not achieve the intended positive outcomes if we give too much emphasis to academic abilities...
Cover of The prince by Nicolo Machiavelli (FREE Audiobook Included!)
by Nicolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed...
Cover of Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973
by Christopher P. Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian...
Cover of Spinning for Labour: Trade Unions and the New Media Environment
by Paul Manning
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019

First published in 1998, this volume asks: are groups or organisations beyond the sphere of Westminster politics doomed to be marginalised in mainstream news coverage, or can the currently fashionable emphasis upon media techniques and 'spin doctoring' offer such non-official news sources a means...
Cover of European Union and Environmental Governance
by Henrik Selin, Stacy D. VanDeveer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Over the past five decades, the European Union (EU) has developed into the most legally and politically authoritative regional organization in the world, wielding significant influence across a wide range of issue areas. European Union and Environmental Governance focuses on the growing global role...
Cover of Constructing Transnational Political Spaces

Constructing Transnational Political Spaces

The Multifaceted Political Activism of Mexican Migrants

by Stephanie Schütze
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

This book analyzes Mexican migrant organizations in the US and their political influence in home communities in Mexico. By connecting multifaceted arenas of Mexican migrant’s activism, it traces the construction of transnational political spaces. The author's ethnographic work in the state of Michoacán...
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Illiberal China

The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China

by Daniel F. Vukovich
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018

This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C. How do mainland politics and discourses challenge ‘our’ own, chiefly liberal and anti-‘statist’ political frameworks? To what extent...
Cover of Military, Monarchy and Repression: Assessing Thailand's Authoritarian Turn
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018

Thailand’s politics has been contentious in recent years. With a military coup in 2006 and another in 2014, the country has moved from being a promising electoral democracy to a military dictatorship. Electoral politics was embraced enthusiastically by some groups, including those in rural areas...
Cover of Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship
by Professor Jon Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015

For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a...
Cover of Democracy in Small States

Democracy in Small States

Persisting Against All Odds

by Jack Corbett, Wouter Veenendaal
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018

Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand the history of this form of regime: why it has thrives and fails. But, existing studies are limited by their focus on...
Cover of Feminism, Prostitution and the State

Feminism, Prostitution and the State

The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism

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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of state policy which aims to abolish prostitution through legislation, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the buyer of sex but not the seller. It is currently law...
Cover of The Politics of Parliamentary Pensions in Western Democracies

The Politics of Parliamentary Pensions in Western Democracies

Understanding MPs Self-Imposed Cutbacks

by Anna Caroline Warfelmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

The author takes a close look at the politics of parliamentary pensions in Australia, Austria, Canada, and Germany and enlightens the reasons of self-imposed cuts by Members of Parliament. Members of Parliament in western democracies have been under growing pressure since they legislated first retrenchments...
Cover of Ideology and Interests in the German State (RLE: German Politics)
by Gary Bonham
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014

This book addresses major theoretical issues in the fields of public administration and comparative politics. It discusses the role which ideology played as a unifying force for at least parts of the German state bureaucracy in Wilhelmine Germany . The examination of a modernizing ideology in the...
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