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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutions to act on human rights concerns. This book identifies activism as a key means of realizing human rights and as a new form of politics.
Fighting...
Running Steel, Running America
Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in
contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses
the steel industry--long considered fundamental to the U.S.
economy--to examine liberal policies and priorities after World
War II. In a provocative revision of postwar American...
The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition
Multipolarity, Politics and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean is in transition. What is being evinced is a situation of continuous volatility, centering on developments such as the ’Arab Spring,’ the Greek sovereign debt crisis, Islamic terrorism, the continuation of deadlock over the Cypriot and Palestinian...
Crisis and Promise in the Caribbean
Politics and Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Caribbean is made up of a complex, enigmatic region, characterised by great disparities in size, population, geography, history, language, religion, race and politics. This is a region in which harmony and discord work in tandem, trying to link economic logic with political logic. This book is...
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, Updated and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes...
Inequality
An Entangled Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
‘This book is a thoroughly researched and well written exploration of one of the most divisive topics in modern democratic discourse. Novak brings careful and clear thinking to a topic too often clouded in emotion and guided by moral intuition. ‘
—Peter Boettke, Professor of Economics and Philosophy,...
Democratic Statecraft
Political Realism and Popular Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the strategies and manoeuvres of privileged agents, whereas the theory of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is statecraft destined to remain the preserve...
Deep Roots
How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights,...
by Andreas Busch
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Does globalization erode the nation state's capacity to act? Are nation states forced to change their policies even if this goes against the democratic will of their electorates? How does government action change under conditions of globalization? Questions like these have not only featured highly...
The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany
Containing Social Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms, this book explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative and historical...
Prisoners of the American Dream
Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation...
Collapse
Europe After The European Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
It is now commonplace to hear people say the EU is embroiled in an existential crisis. Indeed, Brexit may mean the process of EU disintegration has already begun. However, while much political and journalistic attention is centred on describing the EU’s woes, far less attention is being paid to...
Veto Players
How Political Institutions Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties,...
by Stephen Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in world affairs?
In this book, Stephen...