Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Planning in the Face of Conflict
The Surprising Possibilities of Facilitative Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Bikers and hikers. Sex workers and social conservatives. Agencies and activists. The people involved in planning for a site—or a community—can be like the Hatfields and McCoys. And the process brings them together face to face and toe to toe.
How can planners take conflicted communities...
by Winston Dookeran
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Power, Politics and Performance outlines a convincing case that the best route for the optimum development of Small States requires the dynamics of a Partnership Approach – with its citizens, regional institutions and the global community.
Most Hon. Percival Patterson, ON, OCC,...
Tackling Wicked Government Problems
A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
How can government leaders build, sustain, and leverage the cross-organizational collaborative networks needed to tackle the complex interagency and intergovernmental challenges they increasingly face? Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders draws on...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Comparative politics often involves testing of hypotheses using new methodological approaches without giving sufficient attention to the concepts which are fundamental to hypotheses, particularly the ability of these concepts to ‘travel’. Proper operationalising requires deep reflection on the...
Our Politics
Reflections on Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Douglas Kane, an American politician and economist, offers readers a straightforward, personal account of what it is like to run for and hold public office—the demands, conflicts, temptations, and rewards created by political, economic, and social forces. Throughout the book, Kane references Illinois...
Defying the Odds
The 2016 Elections and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Bitterness and joy, outrage and satisfaction, shame and pride, escapes to safe places and displays of celebration—these were just a few of the conflicting reactions that greeted the election of Donald Trump. One point lays beyond dispute: Donald Trump defied the odds, whether set by bookmakers or...
The Politics of Belgium
Institutions and Policy under Bipolar and Centrifugal Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been complemented...
by Robert J. Mckeever
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
A Brief Introduction to American Politicsprovides a coherent and succinct account of how contemporary American politics blends enduring principles with the realities and demands of the present day.
Beginning with a brief overview of American society today, the book introduces the constitutional...
UKIP
Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of British Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is the most significant new force in British politics for a generation. Under the leadership of Nigel Farage, the party has enjoyed a remarkable rise, winning the 2014 European Parliament elections as well as two parliamentary by-elections, and attracting mainstream...
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post...
Human Rights in Russia
Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments (from Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky) and Russia's global role (especially in relation to Ukraine) have captured world-wide attention. It is therefore...
A Return to Common Sense
Seven Bold Ways to Revitalize Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
"Waldman's book is a call to arms, which everyone who cares about our democratic system should read, absorb, debate, and then use as a signpost for change."
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
"With Thomas Paine's gift for brilliant brevity, Michael Waldman tells us exactly what's wrong with...
The Price of the Ticket
Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he should discuss issues that target the concerns of African Americans. Obama's very success,...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces...