Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence
Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain, Ghana, and Cameroon,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
After two terms as president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin handed over to his hand-picked successor Dmitri Medvedev on 7 May 2008, and became prime minister. As president, Putin moved swiftly and effectively to overcome the chaotic legacy of his predecessor, post-Soviet Russia’s first...
Uncontrolled
The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted-except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited...
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Europe After The European Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
It is now commonplace to hear people say the EU is embroiled in an existential crisis. Indeed, Brexit may mean the process of EU disintegration has already begun. However, while much political and journalistic attention is centred on describing the EU’s woes, far less attention is being paid to...
Veto Players
How Political Institutions Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties,...
Opting Out of Congress
Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book provides a candidate entry explanation for partisan polarization in Congress. Danielle M. Thomsen draws on quantitative data to show that ideological moderates are less likely to run for and remain in Congress than those at the extremes. The book introduces a party fit argument for why moderates...
Comparing Democracies
Elections and Voting in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This book provides you with a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and voting behaviour. It explores important work taking place on new areas, whilst at the same time covering the key themes that you’ll encounter throughout your studies.
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by John R. Zaller
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range...
Resilience
The Governance of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book...
by Alison Brooks, , Chanin
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Much has changed in US politics since the historic 2008 election. While the press covers the actions and agendas of the new administration, other impacts of this political shift have not received as much attention. These changes have forced the nation to rethink the necessary role of government, the...
by Andrey Davydov
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Consideration of the term "political elite" as a synonym of the concept of "political power" is largely an attempt to look at new values from the viewpoint of a political historian, who seeks analogues in the past. Unfortunately, today such excursus is unlikely to end in success because it is...
by Gregory Parker, Allen West
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
With the ascension of relativism and the denial of absolutes and objectivity in everyday life, progressives and socialists have redefined the word 'tolerance' to mean the blanket acceptance of anything no matter how unpalatable or absent of truth. Those who challenge this fraud of tolerance, who invoke...
Pioneering the Possible
Awakened Leadership for a World That Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy, a realist with 40 years' experience at the sharp end of politics and conflict, presents a bold but realistic vision for the future in Pioneering the Possible. Human beings worldwide are anxious, afraid for their children's futures, dissatisfied...
Understanding Iraq
The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Dramatic History of Iraq in One Concise Volume
The destinies of Iraq and America will be tightly intertwined into the foreseeable future due to the U.S. incursion into this complex, perplexing desert nation -- the latest in a long history of violent outside interventions. A country sitting...