Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Empantanados
Una alternativa federal al sóviet carlista
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2018
«¡Estoy dispuesto a partirme la cara para que ustedes puedan ejercer su derecho a votar sobre la independencia de Cataluña, pero no si lo hacen pisando los derechos del resto de ciudadanos!»
El 7 de septiembre de 2017 la voz de Joan Coscubiela resonó con fuerza en el Parlament de Cataluña....
Una lección para todas
Aciertos y errores de tres mujeres en campaña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 27, 2015
¿Qué hay que hacer para que a las mujeres se les haga más fácil llegar al poder? ¿A qué se enfrentarán durante ese camino y cómo deben prepararse? Éstas y otras preguntas son respondidas por tres destacadas mexicanas que buscaron la Presidencia de México.
A través de entrevistas...
by Noralou Roos, Sharon Manson Singer, Kathleen O'Grady
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Canadian Health Policy in the News is a compendium of the commentaries (or OpEds) we have published in major newspapers across the country since the birth of EvidenceNetwork.ca in April 2011 up to October 2012. It is a timely, balanced and non-partisan snapshot of what’s new and controversial...
Ethnic Cues
The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"New theoretical propositions, original data, and rigorous empirical tests are what one looks for in cutting-edge social science. Fortunately, all three are apparent in Ethnic Cues. The author has pushed his thinking to develop new ways of understanding and explaining patterns of Latino voting...
Public Opinion in the United States
Studies of Race, Religion, Gender, and Issues That Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Public Opinion in the United States tracks developments in American society since World War II through the lens of public opinion. The authors assess national public opinion poll data from 1945 to 2008, targeting opinions about African Americans, Jews, Muslim Americans, gays and lesbians, immigration,...
by Elisabeth Jean Wood
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did...
A Better Guide Than Reason
Federalists and Anti-federalists
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In this seminal volume, M. E. Bradford defines the Old Whig political tradition in American thought, showing that the inheritance of the prescriptive anti-federalists still lives. For Bradford, important elements in our heritage from the American Revolution have been systematically hidden from our...
Sangre, sudor y paz
La Guardia Civil contra ETA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Este no es un libro neutral y tampoco lo es el relato que contiene.
Su asunto, el nacimiento, auge, caída y extinción forzada de uno de los grupos terroristas más letales y persistentes del último siglo en Europa Occidental, está narrado desde un lado de la grieta que su actuación provocó...
Historia de un desafío
Cinco décadas de lucha sin cuartel de la Guardia Civil contra ETA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Han sido numerosos los libros publicados en estos últimos años sobre la historia de ETA, y desde muy diversas perspectivas. En la mayoría, el protagonismo de la Guardia Civil es muy importante, como no puede ser de otra manera, pero faltaba un ángulo fundamental, la crónica real, cruda, estremecedora...
We the People
The Economic Origins of the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of...
Women and Elective Office
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
Since the publication of the first edition of this book, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun's campaign for the presidency in 2004 and the widespread discussion of a run in 2008 by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have significantly raised the profile of women on the national political stage. At...
by Marc Estrin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite would like to step outside its normal literary publishing practice, and add to its offerings a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint.
King of the Mountain
The Nature of Political Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
"People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause...
New Mayflower
Saving America Through Secession and Refounding
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The United States of America is similar to a computer: At one time, its hardware was new, its software worked well, and users respected the system. But the hardware has aged, malware has infected its circuits, and users have run amok. The entire country is locking up and crashing. Theres only one...