Practical Politics category: 1369 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters. This volume represents an indispensable companion to other...
by Claudio M. Radaelli
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
One of the most common and strongest criticisms of the EU is that power is held by a select few who are unaccountable technocrats sitting in Brussels who without consultation formulate policies.
A fresh and innovative new series, written by leading authorities, providing students and researchers...
The Everyday Life of the State
A State-in-Society Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and uneven. While it is almost always possible to trace the formal rules governing human interaction to the...
American Discontent
The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider to win the White House in over a century and the wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats and...
David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice
An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
David Bruce (1898-1977) was a prominent American diplomat, who served in France, Germany, and the UK. His work is examined here to provide an in-depth look at the practice of diplomacy and the role of the ambassador as diplomatic actor.
This thorough survey aims to investigate the relevance...
A Cornerstone of Modern Diplomacy
Britain and the Negotiation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) was signed at the height of the Cold War more than fifty years ago. The agreement and its negotiation have become a cornerstone of diplomatic law.
A Cornerstone of Modern Diplomacy, which is based on archival research in the National Archives...
by Bryon J Moraski, William M Reisinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
In The Regional Roots of Russia’s Political Regime, William M. Reisinger and Bryon J. Moraski examine Russian politics at the subnational level in order to discover why democracy failed to take root and how Putin’s authoritarian regime materialized. Since the national regime needed dominant victories...
By the Way
Essays and Atavisms
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
BY THE WAY will appeal to book-lovers who enjoy titbits of history, economics, politics and religion, among other bookish morsels. In discussing global issues old and new and as varied as colonialism, economic development, militarism and Christianity, Dereck C. Sale explores vistas that expand on...
Revolution Stalled
The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Can the internet fundamentally challenge non-free regimes? The role that social networking has played in promoting political change in the Middle East and beyond raises important questions about the ability of authoritarian leaders to control the information sphere and their subjects. Revolution Stalled...
Analyzing the Third World
Essays from Comparative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Many Faces of Populism
Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Populism comes in many guises. Both Berlusconi's personalization of politics and the Northern League's antiimmigrant regionalist movement are viewed as examples of the phenomenon of populism. A type of leftwing populism embodied by Hugo Chavez swept across Latin America. Insurgent and antisystem movements...
by David C. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Why do people adopt attitudes of political alienation--attitudes of estrangement from, or lack of identification with, the political system? Why do some politically alienated people react to their alienation by engaging in revolutionary behavior, while others similarly alienated--become reformers...
A Defense of Rule
Origins of Political Thought in Greece and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain...
War and Democratic Constraint
How the Public Influences Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others? What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war? War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a government determines...