Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by Michael J. Daugherty
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
"The Devil Inside the Beltway". This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public. Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers...
Lotteries in Public Life
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past...
Being America
Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things*,* Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America, Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America’s relationship with a world that...
Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile States
Theory and Practice in Aid Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Aid agencies increasingly consider anti-corruption activities important for economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. In the first major comparative study of work by the World Bank, the European Commission and the UNDP to help governments in fragile states counter corruption,...
Authority in Islam
From the Rise of Mohammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
From the origins of Muhammad's prophetic movement through the development of Islam's principal branches to the establishment of the Umayyad dynasty, the concept of authority has been central to Islamic civilization. By examining the nature, organization, and transformation of authority over time,...
by Francis Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book traces the emergence of the ideas and institutions that evolved to give people mastery over their own destiny through the force of public opinion. The Greek belief in citizen participation is shown as the ground upon which the idea of public opinion began and grew. For Wilson, public opinion...
Human Manipulation
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
We have all experienced that sinking feeling that somehow, someone else just took control of our lives and that we are powerless to do anything about it. Maybe, we just accepted a heap of lies from a politician, we bought something we didn't really want, we agreed to do something we really didn't...
The Bellwether
Why Ohio Picks the President
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Since 1896, Ohio voters have failed to favor the next president only twice (in 1944 and 1960). Time after time, Ohio has found itself in the thick of the presidential race, and 2016 is shaping up to be no different. What about the Buckeye State makes it so special? In The Bellwether, Kyle Kondik,...
Da Gelli a Renzi (passando per Berlusconi)
Il piano massonico sulla «rinascita democratica» e la vera storia della ssua realizzazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2016
IL PIANO DELLA P2 E LE RIFORME DI RENZI
LA VERA STORIA DI UNA SOMIGLIANZA IMPRESSIONANTE
Licio Gelli, capo indiscusso della P2, la più potente e controversa loggia massonica italiana, non è stato semplicemente un grande cospiratore, appartenente a un’epoca ormai superata. Al contrario,...
Il ritorno del Principe
La criminalità dei potenti in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2011
“Un libro unico, indimenticabile.”
Corrado Augias
“Questo libro, nonostante sia stato scritto nel 2008, è più che mai attuale.”
Non è vero che la mafia è quella che si vede in tv, e che i corrotti e i criminali sono una malattia della nostra società. Qui, in Italia, la corruzione...
¡Ey, las ideologías existen!
Comunicación política y campañas electorales en América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Éste es un libro para la academia. Éste es un libro para la política. Éste es un libro para el periodismo y para la ciudadanía interesada.Pero es, básicamente, un libro para quienes hacen consultoría política, porque la fragilidad de los argumentos sólo produce diagnósticos apenas verosímiles y serios efectos políticos.
by Ricardo Homs
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 6, 2011
En el contexto democrático actual -caracterizado por una pérdida de confianza y credibilidad ciudadana-, la competencia electoral es una guerra de percepciones, donde lo más importante no son los hechos -ni las promesas-, sino la forma en que las propuestas del candidato se perciben en la mente...
by Donato Villalba
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2015
El libro "La variable clientelar en la política venezolana" de Donato Villaba es un recuento histórico y al mismo tiempo, un análisis de la situación que ocurre en Venezuela, desde hace doce años, cuando el elegido en las votaciones populares del año...
On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability
The Community Rights Movement in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This short primer from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explores and describes the philosophy and underpinnings of the community rights movement that has emerged in the United States—a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience based on municipal lawmaking. Humanity stands at the brink...