Practical Politics category: 1369 books
The Unbroken Machine
Canada's Democracy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
What if it is not our political system that is broken, but our understanding of it?
Everybody thinks that it’s the system that’s broken in politics; but what if it’s not the system that’s broken but rather our understanding of it? What if everyone’s...
Modern Dilemmas
Understanding Collective Action in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Collective action problems are ubiquitous in situations involving human interactions and therefore lie at the heart of economy and political science. In one of the most salient statements on this topic, Elinor Ostrom, corecipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, claims that 'the theory...
Framed
Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book should sit on every journalist’s desk next to the Canadian Press Stylebook. It will be of tremendous interest to scholars and students of political science, immigration and citizenship, multiculturalism, communications, journalism, media studies, women and gender studies, as well as politicians and policy analysts.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Are the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established? The scholarly and policy debates over this question have never been more urgent. In 1970, Dankwart A. Rustow's clairvoyant article "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model"...
Whither China?
Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2002
Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that...
New Magna Carta
A Psychiatrist's Prescription for Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The New Magna Carta is a bold vision and strategy to rejuvenate Western Civilization. On the 800th anniversary of the original ‘Great Charter,’ Dr Nicholas Beecroft proposes a clear vision of who we are, what we believe, what we value, where we want to get to and the necessary steps to get...
by Thomas Medvetz
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of “research”...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The study of voting behaviour remains a vibrant sub-discipline of political science. The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour is an authoritative and wide ranging survey of this dynamic field, drawing together a team of the world's leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art review that sets the agenda...
by Catherine E. De Vries
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The European Union (EU) is facing one of the rockiest periods in its existence. No time in its history has it looked so economically fragile, so unsecure about how to protect its borders, so divided over how to tackle the crisis of legitimacy facing its institutions, and so under assault of Eurosceptic...
Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign
Simulation and its Social Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Between 2009 and 2012, the city of Chongqing came into the national, and even international spotlight, as it became the geographical centre of the ‘Singing Red, Smashing Black’ campaign, and later the political storm that swept China. Chongqing’s Red Culture Campaign drew an incredible amount...
After Their Establishment
Right-wing Populist Parties in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Right-wing populist parties have developed into a stable institution and a long-term feature of European politics. Again and again they prove themselves capable of gaining electoral success at national level. Yet right-wing populist parties rarely succeed in coming into government, and even if they...
by Mark Lavie
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
In this second edition of "Broken Spring," veteran Middle East Correspondent Mark Lavie examines the region from the inside, starting with a new chapter about why it's impossible to get accurate news reporting from Gaza or anywhere else. Combining his four decades in the region with his...
The Political Power of Protest
Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Gillion demonstrates the direct influence that political protest behavior has on Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court, illustrating that protest is a form of democratic responsiveness that government officials have used, and continue to draw on, to implement federal policies. Focusing on...
Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box
50 Things You Need To Know About British Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED... ... what emotions really influence where your cross goes on the ballot paper? ... whether people are claiming to vote when they haven't? ... which party's supporters are the kinkiest in bed? In the run-up to the most hotly contested and unpredictable election in a generation,...