Politics category: 19839 books
Billionaires
Reflections on the Upper Crust
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know.
With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires...
Next Generation Democracy
What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The problems of the 21st century are of unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care: all of these are political issues that could be managed with ease on a much smaller scale. But with an enormous global population, that kind of change is...
How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013
The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies. Leading scholars from...
Financial Citizenship
Experts, Publics, and the Politics of Central Banking
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Government bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise; new regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim...
by Halophe Phemmy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The book is replete with lucid biblical and contemporary examples of men who had great influence yet did not abuse it. With focus and total reliance on God the world system could not make them soil their robes.
Pension Reform in Europe
Politics, Policies and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfare models and pathways, population reactions, and observed and expected outcomes.
Pension reform has been a top policy priority for European governments...
Global Finance in Crisis
The Politics of International Regulatory Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
From the vantage point of the key powers in global finance including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and China, this highly accessible book brings together leading scholars to examine current changes in international financial regulation. They assess whether the flurry of ambitious initiatives...
by Matt Margolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“I’m proud of the fact that [...] we’re probably the first administration in modern history that hasn’t had a major scandal in the White House.”
So President Barack Obama boldly declared before leaving office, and numerous times since. But is it true?
Not according to Matt...
by Michael B. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that...
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers
The Economic Engine of Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers presents a simple, economic framework for understanding the systematic causes of political change. Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López take up three interrelated questions: Why do democracies generate policies that impose net costs on society? Why...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Despite a decade of political technology's celebrated triumphs—such as online fundraising of the presidential campaigns of McCain in 2000, Dean in 2003, and Obama in 2008; or the web-enabled, socially networked campaign of Obama 2008—the field of e-politics is still at an unsolidified stage. Margin...
Congress Online
Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and their Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
While more than a million e-mails clog the inboxes of Congress each day, some legislators can't even find their own websites without the help of their staffers. In fact, laptops aren't even allowed on the floor of the House or Senate.
But, as Dennis W. Johnson demonstrates in Congress Online,...
Environmental Problem-Solving A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT
An Overview of the Tools of Environmental Policy-Making and Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The book is divided into four sections: The first section focuses on how certain environmental problems can only be solved through active government effort to implement policies that effectively take science and politics into account. This section introduces readers to foundational concepts, including...
by Professor Elizabeth A. Theiss-Morse, Michael W. Wagner, William H. Flanigan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The 2016 elections took place under intense political polarization and uncertain economic conditions, to widely unexpected results. How did Trump pull off his victory?
Political Behavior of the American Electorate, Fourteenth Edition, attempts to answer this question by interpreting data from...