Practical Politics category: 1369 books
The Wartime President
Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
“It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding...
The Virtues of Exit
On Resistance and Quitting Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit—the act of leaving—is often thought of as purely instinctual, a part of the...
Getting to 67
The Post-Cold War Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
All four post-Cold War presidents have attempted to negotiate and ratify at least one major arms control agreement. However, their experiences with arms control treaty ratification have differed greatly from those of their Cold War predecessors. The main theme of this book is that domestic politics...
When Rebels Become Stakeholders
Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
When Rebels Become Stakeholders: Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India explores the agency of ordinary men and women in the making of democratic social change in India. The study is specific to India, but the issues that it examines are of wider significance. The authors join the debate on...
The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia
Conflict and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launched a coup in 2006, the Philippine armed forces expanded...
Eleventh Hour
The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Pres. Jimmy Carter issued last-minute rules immediately before leaving the White House, creating frustration for the incoming Reagan Administration. As George W. Bush prepared to cede the Oval Office to Barack Obama almost three decades later, he ordered more than thirty last-minute policy changes,...
Taking Our Country Back
The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade. Drawing on interviews with more than sixty political staffers, fieldwork during the 2008 primaries and general election, and archival research, Daniel...
Designing public policy for co-production
Theory, practice and change
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and suggest co-production as a more democratic...
The Dynamics of Political Communication
Media and Politics in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
What impact do news and political advertising have on us? How do candidates use media to persuade us as voters? Are we informed adequately about political issues? Do twenty-first-century political communications measure up to democratic ideals? The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics...
Political Campaign Craftsmanship
A Professional's Guide to Campaigning for Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Over one billion dollars are spent in presidential election years on an expensive art form: political campaigns. Many political observers believe that at least half that amount is wasted. But, which half? Edward Schwartzman answers that question based upon experience gained in seventy-five campaigns....
by Magnus Boström, Michele Micheletti, Peter Oosterveer
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
The global phenomenon of political consumerism is known through such diverse manifestations as corporate boycotts, increased preferences for organic and fairtrade products, and lifestyle choices such as veganism. It has also become an area of increasing research across a variety of disciplines. Political...
International Relations' Last Synthesis?
Decoupling Constructivist and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Many scholars, intentionally or unintentionally, have entangled constructivisms and critical theories in problematic ways, either by assigning a critical-theoretical politics to constructivisms or by assuming the appropriateness of constructivist epistemology and methods for critical theorizing. IR's...
Is Non-Western Democracy Possible?
A Russian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book, with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and Africa), their political process and political cultures, describes and analyses the influence of political culture on political process in the Eastern world. It gives readers an opportunity...
It Can Be Done in Government
An Approach for Improving Efficiency in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
It Can Be Done: An Approach for Improving Efficiency in the Public Sector, provides a roadmap describing a simple approach for improving processes using teams. This book is ideal for process improvement initiatives, academic institutions, organizational change practitioners, public entities, and administrators...