Practical Politics category: 1369 books
How language works in politics
The impact of vague legislation on policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
There were more colons used in legislation in 2015 than there were words enacted in 1900. Using analysis from machine readings of all legislation enacted between 1900 and 2015, this book discusses the social impact of increasingly elastic legislative language on the contemporary workings of the British...
Federalism
A Normative Theory and its Practical Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Using case studies from around the world, this book develops a new theory of federalism, showing that it can enhance deliberative democracy and civil society.
by Mariano Morillo B.Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Of universal origin, born in Dominican Republic and a traveler around the world, has faced the changes or vicissitudes of earthly life, gaining a vast experience that qualifies him to touch issues of general interest in the social field. A Ph.d. in International Law, a degree holder in Social Communications...
Government for a new age
The transformation agenda
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Expectations of governments have never been higher, and the challenges they face, from pandemics to technology, never greater. In Government for a new age Rabih Abouchakra and Michel Khoury provide a realistic, practical and powerful transformation agenda for the governments of the world. With a foreword...
Grassroots
Politics . . . But Not as Usual
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This offbeat true story is a comedy and a tragedy about politics, from anti-globalist protest to domestic turmoil. It's about idealism, obsession and failure in Seattle, a progressive city on the fringe of America's continent and consciousness. Grant Cogswell is a poet, a punk rock-fan, an anarchist,...
Destiny Calling
How the People Elected Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
On a bitter cold day in 2007—nearly 150 years after Abraham Lincoln's inauguration—United States Senator Barack Obama of Illinois gathered his supporters at the old state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Very new to the national political arena, he made an audacious announcement: "If you...
Corruption in contemporary politics
A new travel guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The book provides an accessible account of the significance of political corruption, its causes, consequences and remedies.
by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2015
L’opera del più grande filosofo brasiliano di tutti i tempi. Roberto Mangabeira Unger è stato uno dei più ascoltati consiglieri del Presidente Luiz Inácio Lula, ora Ministro per gli Affari Strategici del governo Rousseff. Alla radice della teoria di Unger c’è l’idea di «società come creazione...
The Natural
The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened–to the military,...
The Way It Works
Inside Ottawa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for.
As Jean Chrétien’s right-hand man for thirty years in Ministries all over Ottawa, Eddie Goldenberg got to know how things worked — especially from 1993 to 2003, when he was Senior Policy Advisor to the...
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears...
Bobby Kennedy
A Raging Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized” (Associated Press).
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of...
by Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
Re/presenting Class
Essays in Postmodern Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2001
Re/presenting Class is a collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxian conception of class in order to theorize the complex contemporary economic terrain. Both building upon and reconsidering a tradition that Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff—two of this volume’s editors—began...