Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Sects & Social Disorder
Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim...
Reimagining the nation
Togetherness, belonging and mobility
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by seeking to transcend ethnonational categories of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Drawing on scholarship and cases spanning Pacific Asia and Europe, it steps outside assumptions linking nation to state. Accessible...
The Senate Syndrome
The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place...
by Steven H. Shiffrin
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today. Explaining that the chosen rhetoric...
Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America
Confrontation or Co-optation?
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In recent years, the simultaneous development of prominent social movements and the election of left and centre-left governments has radically altered the political landscape in Latin America. These social movements have ranged from the community based 'piqueteros' of Argentina that brought down three...
While Dangers Gather
Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Nearly five hundred times in the past century, American presidents have deployed the nation's military abroad, on missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale wars. The question of whether Congress has effectively limited the president's power to do so has generally met with a resounding...
by Mark Lavie
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
In Broken Spring, veteran Middle East correspondent Mark Lavie provides a vivid, in-depth, hands-on view of Egypt’s society and the turmoil it is undergoing. He examines its people, its politics and its Islamic orientation, and explains how and why the West gets so many things wrong in the Middle...
Cartelisation, Convergence or Increasing Similarities?
Lessons from Parties in Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
It is often suggested that political parties are becoming increasingly alike, and that party politics has turned into an elite affair where political professionals collude to further their self-interest rather than work to represent the interests of their constituents. In recent decades this diagnosis...
An Education
How an outsider became an insider - and learned what really goes on in Irish government
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
'Fascinating' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
'It's a fascinating book. I ended up reading it till about four in the morning. It gives an incredible insight.' Shane Coleman, political editor, Newstalk
'Excellent' Sam Smyth, Irish Mail on Sunday
'A great read and I'd recommend it' Hugh Linehan, Irish Times
'One...
by Onur Ulas Ince
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
By the mid-nineteenth century, Britain celebrated its possession of a unique "empire of liberty" that propagated the rule of private property, free trade, and free labor across the globe. The British also knew that their empire had been built by conquering overseas territories, trading slaves, and...
Political Reform in Japan
Leadership Looming Large
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Political Reform in Japan argues that the quality of political leadership is the crucial determinant of whether parties in positions of dominance, like the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, pass or reject policies such as electoral system and campaign finance reforms that could harm the party's future...
Creed & Grievance
Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the country,...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
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Collective Resistance in China
Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited. In this new work, Yongshun Cai combines original fieldwork with secondary sources to examine how social...