Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Corruption
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the field of International Relations, analysing systems of formal rules and institutions. This book offers a radically different perspective - it shows how...
by L. Sandy Maisel
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Democracy requires conversations about how its practice can be improved. This is an enduring theme in American politics, and demands for change in how we conduct elections are highly salient today. The crisis of the 2000 presidential election generated demands for changes in election rules, but the...
Dublin Easter 1916 The French Connection
The French Connection
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
All revolutionary movements since 1789 have looked instinctively to the French model. In this book, Bill Mc Cormack demonstrates that the French influence in Ireland was indeed profound, especially in the years leading up to the Easter Rising.
However, it was not the traditions of the Tennis...
Australia Reconstructed
Bold steps to improve voter representation and the political landscape
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book is a plea for system change in Australia, referring to the various systems that underpin and shape governance. As the 2013 federal election approaches the many flaws in the system of government in Australia are again evident. However, they do not themselves form the focus of the election debate....
False Choices
The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it’s thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a...
The Madisonian Turn
Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy....
Do Facts Matter?
Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter?...
In the Balance of Power
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Historically, most black voters in the United States have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties: the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal and, since the New Deal—and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement—the Democratic Party....
Liberalism without Democracy
Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to liberate its people has produced new forms of domination that have hindered rather than encouraged the...
The Mask and the Flag
Populism, Citizenism, and Global Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
From the Arab Spring to the Spanish Indignados, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Nuit Debout in Paris, contemporary protest bears the mark of citizenism, a libertarian and participatory brand of populism which appeals to ordinary citizens outraged at the arrogance of political and financial...
Transformative Political Leadership
Making a Difference in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders...
Making Policy, Making Law
An Interbranch Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing them, and the courts applying the laws as written—as long as those laws are constitutional. Making Policy,...
by Helen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
One of the most misunderstood and oft-caricatured jobs in British politics whips are the unseen unsung heroes of the parliamentary system without whom governments would doubtless crumble and legislative business would almost certainly grind to a halt. Whips are shrouded in mystery however often portrayed...