Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Publicity and the Canadian State
Critical Communications Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian “publicity state.” This collection is the first to focus on the central themes in the state’s relationship with publicity practices and the “permanent...
Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints
Assessing the Multiple-Streams Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Policy issues have grown ever more complex and politically more contestable. So governments in advanced democracies often do not understand the problems they have to deal with and do not know how to solve them. Thus, rational problem-solving models are highly unconvincing. Conversely, the Multiple-Streams...
by J. M. D. Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Unlike Japan, which awoke quickly to the new industrialism of the West, China was content to glide peacefully along, ignoring the rest of the world, pursuing the wisdom of her philosophers and artists. But with the turn of the century, as the devastating effect of foreign imperialism begand to make...
Tafelberg Short: Nkandla - The end of Zuma?
The End of Zuma?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The R250-million upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla estate have tainted his image in the eyes of South Africa and the world. It may even signal the demise of his presidency. The story of Nkandla goes back to 2004 and Zuma’s connection to Shabir Shaik. In the ensuing years, there have been...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.
The Autumn of Dictatorship
Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing new to Egypt, and labor activism and political activism, most notably the Kifaya (Enough) movement,...
The Arab State and Neo-liberal Globalization, The
The Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
This collection of essays by leading academics offers an alternative approach to the study of today's Arab states by focusing on their participation in neo-liberal globalization rather than on authoritarianism or Islam. The effects of the restructuring of traditional state power engendered by globalization...
Beyond the Arab Spring
The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unravelling of the dominant 'ruling bargain' that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a new and in- choate system that redefines sources of authority and legitimacy through various devices (such as constitutions),...
Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in Mexico, 19281934
Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacán and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of the revolutionary constitution. Cárdenas sought to strengthen his position through the ruling party...
Jean Monnet and Canada
Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union. Monnet spent his early years working as an agent for his father, a cognac producer. It was this experience that took him to Scandinavia, England,...
Growing Democracy in Japan
The Parliamentary Cabinet System since 1868
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The world's third largest economy and a stable democracy, Japan remains a significant world power; but its economy has become stagnant, and its responses to the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 and the nuclear crisis that followed have raised international concerns. Despite being constitutionally...
Confederate Arkansas
The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This book fills a long standing gap in state histories dealing with the period of the Civil War in the western frontier that was Arkansas. Based on newspaper articles, legal documents, letters, diaries, reminiscences, songs, and official military reports, Dougan’s account provides a full picture...
'kill All The Gentlemen'
Class struggle and change in the English countryside
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The modern countryside is the result of centuries of environmental change, but also brutal class struggle. While Wat Tyler's Peasants' Revolt is well known, and Jack Cade and Robert Kett are remembered for their rebellions, there are countless lesser known struggles. Modern agriculture, the food we...
Polarized
A Nation Divided
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
As the 2016 Presidential Elections reach their crescendo, Public has become more sensitive about how their candidates are doing and how they are making attacks on the other candidate. This is the first part of compilations of the polls being conducted on vote.us.org with a little analytical insight...