Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Well, You Did Ask…
Why the UK voted to leave the EU
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The UK's vote to leave the European Union shocked the world - not to mention many people in Britain. What it revealed about our country is at least as significant for the future of politics as Brexit itself.
Drawing on more than two years of intensive research by Lord Ashcroft Polls, Well,...
by Kieron O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
A lively and sharp critique of the role of the referendum in modern British politics. The 1975 vote on Europe is the lens to focus the subject, and the controversy over the referendum on the European constitution is also clearly in the author’s sights.
Inside the Alliance
An inside account of the development and prospects of the Liberal-SDP Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
There are many examples in the history of British politics of inter-party cooperation or pacts but nothing quite like the Liberal/Social Democratic Alliance. The Alliance sought to change the political landscape itself by replacing the two-party system and the ‘single member - simple majority’...
The mexican enigma
The Mexico of organized society, de facto powers and Enrique Peña Nieto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The country´s future depends on what a conscious and organized society does, or fail to do".The mexican enigma is an informative analysis of the situation of political, social and economic crisis that Mexico is going through from the review of three key areas: the political elites —mainly...
Upsetting the Apple Cart
Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and representative government in the nation's urban...
Political Careers in Europe
Career Patterns in Multi-Level Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
European integration not only has changed career opportunities for politicians, it has expanded them. This book is dedicated to the study of political career patterns. It focuses on parliamentary careers in select European countries, but the U.S. is also included as a long-standing system with multi-level...
Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic
Ostpolitik Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This is a new exploration of how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Using social constructivism theory, it provides a comparative assessment of Germany's post-reunification relations with the Czech Republic...
Reconciling State, Market and Society in China
The Long March Toward Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Analysing post-Mao China is not an easy task, but it is essential in order to understand the rationale and scope of the reform process started by the Chinese leadership under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping at the end of the 1970s. Thirty years after the beginning of the reform process China has become...
by Meena Vaidya Malla
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
This book is on the political socialization of women in Nepal, which is a prerequisite for understanding the actual role, status, and participation of women in politics. The objective of the study is to know how Nepali women are socialized politically within different micro and macro spheres, i.e., family, religion, law, educational institution, media, and political party.
Women of power
Half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Do women national leaders represent a breakthrough for the women’s movement, or is women’s leadership weaker than the numbers imply? This unique book, written by an experienced politician and academic, is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of how...
Conventional Wisdom and American Elections
Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Many students develop misinformed opinions about the American electoral process. Conventional Wisdom and American Elections: Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions debunks some of the more common misunderstandings that have arisen about the electoral process in the past few decades. The book's...
Conscripts of Modernity
The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2004
At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior...
Interpretive Political Science
Selected Essays, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Interpretive Political Science is the second of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R.A.W. Rhodes. Volume II looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration, and draws together articles from...
by Joseph I. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
In a vigorous defense of public life, Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the most articulate and respected of our politicians, defines the duty, the honor and the privilege of public life in the face of Americans' perennial cynicism about it.
Americans have always been suspicious of government and have...