Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Disunited Kingdom
How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
What does the future hold for Scotland? On September 18th, 2014, Scotland voted to stay in the Union. In this provocative new book, Iain Macwhirter argues that the UK will never be the same again. Disunited Kingdom explores Scotland’s political and cultural landscape in the immediate build up to,...
If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat
Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This is a book about winning elections in an age when security has trumped almost every other issue and the technology of political effectiveness is evolving with lightning quickness. Hewitt offers real-world tactics for individuals who (1) care about the future of the United States and (2) want to...
Beyond Federation
Options to renew Australia’s 1901 Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Australia has been a federation for more than a hundred years, and an independent country for more than seventy. But its system of government is still based on political compromises thrashed out in the late nineteenth century. In particular, the division of power between national and state governments...
Summary & Analysis of Fire and Fury
Inside the Trump White House | A Guide to the Book by Michael Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.
Michael Wolff takes his years of media industry reporting to the White House. In a collection of over two hundred interviews, Wolff creates a vision of the beginning of an administration peopled by the power-hungry,...
by Julio Camino
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, socialism should have passed into history, along with Marxism. Marxism is not a "science" as declared by the academics of the Communist Party in Moscow, but an enormous senseless absurdity, full of contradictions.
And...
The News Machine
Hacking, The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
There is one mystery figure at the heart of 'Hackergate' -Glenn Mulcaire, the News of the World's top private investigator. The former AFC Wimbledon footballer has never spoken publicly or in court about his work investigating and backing up front-page news stories (such as the News of the World's...
Transformations of Democracy
Crisis, Protest and Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe.
Drawing on a range of theoretical...
Partisan Balance
Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
With three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet, this system of government has functioned for well over two centuries, even through such heated partisan...
The China Wave
Rise of a Civilizational State
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
This is a best-seller in China and a geopolitical book for our times. As a leading thinker from China, Zhang Weiwei provides an original, comprehensive and engrossing study on the rise of China and its effective yet controversial model of development, and the book has become a centerpiece of an unfolding...
The Soviet Union
Empire, Nation, and System
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
My Story
Tom L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
In cooperation with The Western Reserve Historical SocietyProduced shortly before his death in 1911 and long since out of print, provides a rare personal insight into the career and philosophy of one of the most prominent figures of the American progressive Era. Influenced by the single tax proposals...
Political Parties and Partisanship
Social identity and individual attitudes
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Political Parties and Partisanship provides an up-to-date examination of the conceptualizations, causes, and consequences of partisanship in both new and established democracies in Eastern Europe.
A Savage Order
How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating...
Re:Imagining Change
How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Providing resources, theory, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change-makers, this unique book explores how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies. Re:Imagining Change is an inspirational inside look at the trailblazing...