Politics category: 19839 books
by C. Herman Pritchett
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
THE ROOSEVELT COURT is a brilliant analysis of Supreme Court decisions during a crucial decade in the Supreme Court’s history, by a political scientist “interested in the social and psychological origins of judicial attitudes and the influence of individual predilections on the development of...
Governor General and the Prime Ministers, The
The Making and Unmaking of Governments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Since Canada may be faced with a period of minority governments, it has become increasingly important to understand the role of the Head-of-State, the Governor General, in facing the challenge of dysfunctionality. Edward McWhinney clearly lays out the present powers and responsibilities of the office,...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that democracy's...
On the Side of the Angels
An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic theorists--ignore or disparage parties as grubby...
Beyond Capitalism?
The Future of Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
How to move 'beyond capitalism' and whether indeed it is possible to do so, has become a question of general interest, rather than simply the preserve of left-literary discussion, since the credit crisis of 2008. This book examines the social nature of the austerity crisis, and whether an anticapitalist...
Engaging Enemies
Hayek and the Left
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Friedrich Hayek was a founding figure of the neo-liberalism that flourished in the 1980s. Yet, despite his antagonistic relationship with socialism, his work became a surprising source of inspiration for several influential thinkers on the left. This book explains the left’s unusual engagement with...
The Crisis of Theory
E. P. Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Crisis of Theory, available in paperback for the first time, tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E. P. Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work,...
After Work, After Play, After All
A political memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
AFTER WORK, AFTER PLAY, AFTER ALL is the story of Dr John Cornwall’s remarkable life from modest beginnings to an outstanding reformer as a Labor Government Minister. Spanning eight decades it covers a childhood in Bendigo, two decades of veterinary practice from the 1950s to the 1970s, and life as...
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Philosopher and historian, second son of Joseph Hume, of Ninewells, Berwickshire, was born and educated in Edinburgh, and was intended for the law. For this, however, he had no aptitude, and commercial pursuits into which he was initiated in a counting-house in Bristol proving equally uncongenial,...
Money, Markets, and Democracy
Politically Skewed Financial Markets and How to Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another. In this relationship, politics is the ultimate controlling force. The kinds and prices of financial instruments that get traded and the individuals and institutions that get to trade them,...
Modern Budget Forecasting in the American States
Precision, Uncertainty, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book, by Michael J. Brogan, examines government budgeting through the lens of public budget forecast errors. In examining this aspect of the budgetary process, Brogan helps readers understand levels of political and financial risk that policymakers are willing to accept in estimating the likelihood...
Big Medicine:
The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Elaina George, MD, is an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) specialist practicing in Atlanta, Georgia. "All I ever wanted to do was be a doctor. Taking the time to sit with a patient, get to know what makes them who they are in order to help them is the foundation of good medicine." Big Insurance,...
by Craig Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Craig Berry assesses UK economic policy in the wake of the financial crisis through the lens of the austerity agenda, focusing on monetary policy, economic rebalancing, industrial and regional policy, the labour market, welfare reform and budgetary management. He argues that austerity is geared towards...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it's high time we ask: just exactly how corrupt is Britain?*BR**BR*David...