Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by Raoul Vaneigem
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.
Dedication
Introduction
Part I. The Perspective of Power
Chapter 1. The Insignificant Signified
Impossible Participation or Power as the Sum of Constraints
Chapter 2. Humiliation
Chapter...
Expect Us
Online Communities and Political Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their online political activity into the offline world of activism? In Expect Us, Jessica L. Beyer looks at political consciousness...
by Reinhard Pohanka
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Freiheit ist nicht ein Wert unter vielen, sondern d e r Grundwert schlechthin. Individuelle Rechte und Freiheiten wurden dem Menschen im Lauf der Geschichte nicht immer freiwillig zugestanden, sondern mussten oft in langwierigen Verhandlungsprozessen, oder aber durch Gewalt und Krieg erkämpft-, und...
Bleeding Heart Conservatives
Why It's Good to Be Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The human spirit is at the heart of Conservatism. Conservatives have become a marginalized and misunderstood demographic in our pop-political culture. They are not as they are often portrayed: greedy, racists, sexist, homophobic and violent. Rather, they believe in equality, opportunity, accountability,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament breaks new ground in the study of legislatures. It combines mainstream historical and social science approaches with cultural theory to consider how parliamentary ritual is constructed through ceremony, space and socialisation. The focus is on the marginalised...
Nontaxation and Representation
The Fiscal Foundations of Political Stability
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Does oil make countries autocratic? Can foreign aid make countries democratic? Does taxation lead to representation? In this book, Kevin M. Morrison develops a novel argument about how government revenues of all kinds affect political regimes and their leaders. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Morrison...
Il Cavaliere nero
La biografia non autorizzata di Silvio Berlusconi
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Nella vita di Berlusconi è il denaro che spiega tutto. Il successo negli affari. La nascita delle televisioni. L’ingresso in politica. I guai giudiziari. Dopo la prima edizione di questo libro, a meno di un anno dalla condanna del Cavaliere per frode fiscale, si è chiuso anche il processo all’amico...
This Is Not Florida
How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman led by a slim 215 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots. Minnesota's...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Observers of media-government relations most often think first of conflicts with the executive branch, yet interactions between Congress and the media have been extensive and varied since the first Washington "correspondents" began sending dispatches from the sessions of Congress. In recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
As the most prominent figure of the U.S. government, the president is under constant scrutiny from both his colleagues and the American people. Questions about the proper role of the president have been especially prevalent in the media during the current economic crisis. The Presidency in the Twenty-first...
Venezuela Reframed
Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories.
Considered a beacon of twenty-first century socialism by many, Venezuela is witnessing the paradoxical emergence of ‘indigenous capitalisms’ as...
America Votes 31
2013-2014, Election Returns by State
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Thorough, extensive in scope, and meticulously researched,** America Votes** includes official, state-certified election returns and key data by county and by district for the House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections for the 2013-2014 election cycle. This volume is an essential acquisition for university, school, public, and professional libraries.
Who Donates in Campaigns?
The Importance of Message, Messenger, Medium, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
While much is known about who votes in American elections, much less is known about who donates. In this book, the authors utilize a unique and historically unprecedented data set of donors from the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections to answer longstanding questions: What is the relationship between...
Public Opinion
Measuring the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The fifth edition of Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to public opinion in the United States and describes how public opinion data are collected, how they are used, and the role they play in the U.S. political system. Bardes and Oldendick...