Practical Politics category: 1369 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
As the central feature on the American political landscape, it is only natural that scholars and commentators focus on the presidency. So much is written about the subject, in fact, that it is often difficult to know where we stand in our understanding of it. The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency...
The Four Pillars of Politics
Why Some Candidates Don't Win and Others Can't Lead
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The Four Pillars of Politics provides a uniform foundation for evaluating political campaign strategies. The four pillars identified in this book—fear, national narcissism, consumerism, and religion—serve as attitudinal anchors that American voters use in making their voting decisions. The dominant...
Beyond Power and Resistance
Politics at the Radical Limits
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Has political resistance has lost its ability to confront political and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb it and turn it towards their own ends.
Since...
Warrior Politics
Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
“The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted.” —Sun-Tzu
We live in dangerous times, when a new kind of leadership is required. Visionary and ruthlessly strategic,...
Think Big and Kick Ass in Politics
How a Republican Billionaire Masterminded His Way into the White House
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is about power, success, strategy, seduction, thinking big, the law of attraction, winning, and kicking ass in real-life politics, period. It obliterates the lies and misconceptions surrounding the 2016 billionaire Republican presidential nominee and proves, with certitude, that, rather...
Politics and Society in Modern Israel
Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
With full coverage of recent dramatic events in Israeli politics from the Rabin assassination through the May 1996 elections, this work provides an up-to-date introduction to Israeli politics and society. It seeks to convey a strong sense of everyday life in Israel, the nuances and contradictions...
Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India
Making of the Maithili Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi–Urdu debates, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the ‘national’ language. It revisits the...
The Authoritarian Public Sphere
Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also censor information that they find threatening. While committed opponents of the regime may be violently...
Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada
Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The issue of apportionment is one of the most important problems facing citizens of most of the states in America. It underlies many other problems of state government. Growing judicial concern with apportionment is evidence of a failure of the political process in many states. A political solution...
Politics of Inclusion
Castes, Minorities, and Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Post-Mandal, the demand for reservations by various groups has become a consistent feature of Indian politics. Yet, the focus remains on caste, with little attention paid to the under-representation of religious minorities in India. The book takes up the case of relative disadvantage and interogates...
Culture of Opportunity
Obama's Chicago: The People, Politics, and Ideas of Hyde Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Rebecca Janowitz's portrait of Hyde Park-the Chicago South Side neighborhood long noted for its progressive politics-offers an expert, insider's social and political perspective on this intriguing community that in many ways nurtured Barack Obama's political career and made possible his run for the...
Moved to Action
Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Wealthy, educated, and more privileged people are more likely to participate and be represented in politics than their poorer, less educated, and less privileged counterparts. To reduce these inequalities, we need a better understanding of how the disadvantaged become motivated to participate. Moved...
by Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Political theorist Wendy Brown has argued recently that contemporary neoliberalism, with its relentless obsession on the economy, has all but undone the tenets of democracy. The focus on maximizing credit scores and capital has, over time, promoted a politics that operates beyond and below the institutional...