Politics category: 19839 books
Reorganizing Popular Politics
Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations...
by Susan B. Glasser
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In a new Brookings Essay, Politico editor Susan Glasser chronicles how political reporting has changed over the course of her career and reflects on the state of independent journalism after the 2016 election.
The Bookings Essay: In the spirit of its commitment to higquality, independent research,...
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence
Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain, Ghana, and Cameroon,...
Racism in the Nation's Service
Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. However, by 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. Eric S. Yellin argues that the Wilson administration's...
Globalization
The Return of Borders to a Borderless World?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Written by two leading scholars of global politics, Globalization: the return of borders to a borderless world? is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and...
Encounters with World Affairs
An Introduction to International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book is designed to familiarise students with leading International Relations (IR) theories and their explanation of political events, phenomena, and processes which cross the territorial boundaries of the state. Thus, students will be exposed to the interplay between power, interest, ideas,...
by Scott Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book probes the hollow rhetoric of debt, deficits and austerity. It explores the decisions of parties of the left which have attempted to deflect criticisms of economic mismanagement and gain trust by depoliticising the budget process and financial management with various rules, albeit with elements...
Political Game Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information, repeated games, bargaining theory,...
The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan
Youth, Politics, Identity, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
In the past twenty years, the countries that used to make up the former Soviet Union have seen plenty of change. There have been revolutions, youth-led protest movements, and other forms of incredible political upheaval. At the center of all of this were young leaders fighting to be heard and clamoring...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
After two terms as president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin handed over to his hand-picked successor Dmitri Medvedev on 7 May 2008, and became prime minister. As president, Putin moved swiftly and effectively to overcome the chaotic legacy of his predecessor, post-Soviet Russia’s first...
Uncontrolled
The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted-except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited...
by Christopher Pierson
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics...
by William H. Overholt
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy...
Scandalous Economics
Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current...