Politics category: 19839 books
by David J. Bodenhamer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers designed to limit power, often has made political...
by William Bernhard, Tracy Sulkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one’s district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage with the media to cultivate a national reputation?...
Campaign Confessions
Tales from the War Rooms of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
**A National Bestseller!
Canada’s Only Full-Time Political Campaign Manager — 50 Campaigns in 45 Years with 30 Victories**
John Laschinger opens the doors to the backrooms and war rooms of the political campaigns he has run, providing lessons for aspiring campaign managers, and exposing what really happens behind the scenes.
Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations
Choosing Issues, Taking Sides
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The formation of a group identity has always been a major preoccupation of Mexican American political organizations, whether they seek to assimilate into the dominant Anglo society or to remain separate from it. Yet organizations that sought to represent a broad cross section of the Mexican American...
US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty
Essays on a New Reality
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
The book takes on the measure of the Democratic Party and mainstream liberal organizations, who have shown themselves to be completely inadequate to address the key questions facing working people today. It further seeks to understand the Trump phenomenon in the international context of rising right-wing populism emerging from the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession.
Why Democracy is Broken
A Blueprint for Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Democracy is being held hostage to the adversarial nature of party politics. We, the people, deserve better!
Since its inception in ancient Greece, democracy has stood the test of time for over 2,500 years. But it is under threat by the populist revolt - fuelled by the flames of voter discontent....
by Jonathan H. Earle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation...
by Joseph Nye, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational hierarchies have given way to fluid networks of contacts, and when mistrust of leaders is on the rise, our ideas about leadership...
Writing on the Wall
Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
"Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal
His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently. Black man, old-school jazz man, freedom fighter, revolutionary-his...
Key States, High Stakes
Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
The Great Betrayal
How the Government with the Largest Majority in the History of the Irish State Lost its People
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
From penalty points to water charges, funding cuts to tax hikes, The Great Betrayal is a cutting assessment of the upheavals, egos and scraps that shaped the 31st Dáil by Ireland’s most sagacious political pundit-turned-political operator
As the curtain falls on this government’s term...
The Rise of the Right to Know
Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Modern transparency dates to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s—well before the Internet. Michael Schudson shows how the “right to know” has defined a new era for democracy—less focus on parties and elections, more pluralism and more players, year-round monitoring of government, and a blurring line between politics and society, public and private.
Freud's 'Outstanding' Colleague/Jung's 'Twin Brother'
The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Otto Gross was the first analyst to link his work with radical politics, connecting inner, personal transformation with outer, collective change. Since his death in 1920 his work has been suppressed, despite his seminal influence on the developing analytic discipline and on the fields of sociology,...
Dumbing Down the Courts
How Politics Keeps the Smartest Judges Off the Bench
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Judges have enormous power. They determine whom we can marry, whether we can own firearms, whether the government can mandate that we buy certain products, and how we define “personhood.” But who gets to occupy these powerful positions? Up until now, there has been little systematic study of what...