Practical Politics category: 1369 books
The Myth of Mob Rule
Violent Crime and Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when race and class biases are invoked. This is especially true in the United States, which has the highest imprisonment...
Controlling the EU Executive?
The Politics of Delegation in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. But delegation is carefully controlled. Traditionally, control has been exerted through a system of committees of member state representatives ('comitology'). However,...
The Impotent Giant
How to Reclaim the Moral High Ground of America's Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The Impotent Giant has nothing to do with being a Democrat or Republican. It has everything to do with what it means to be an American. Alarmed about who and what the United States of America represents, author Dr. H. John Lyke articulates how citizens can help to regain the moral and political leadership....
by Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has dedicated over sixty years of his life in service of the country. He served the country as member of Parliament for five decades and as Prime Minister of India for six years. He is an orator par excellence, whose speeches are listened with attention by friends and foes inside...
Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene
An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Anthropocene captures more than a debate over how to address the problems of climate change and global warming. Increasingly, it is seen to signify the end of the modern condition itself and potentially to open up a new era of political possibilities. This is the first book to look at the new...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Scale is an overlooked issue in the research on interactive governance. This book takes up the important task of investigating the scalar dimensions of collaborative governance in networks, partnerships, and other interactive arenas and explores the challenges of operating at a single scale, across...
Augmenting Democracy
Political Movements and Constitutional Reform During the Rise of Labour, 1900-1924
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
First published in 1999, Andrew Chadwick provides an important new interpretation of British radical, suffrage-feminist and socialist movements during the first quarter of the twentieth century, based on analysis of their visions of democratic constitutional reform. He argues that a shared discourse...
Sharing Power
Women, Parliament, Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The representation of women in parliament is a subject of extensive research and a focus for political action in the last decade. The wide variation in women's parliamentary presence contradicts the expectation that established or consolidated democracies are more supportive of the presence of women...
Constitutional Bargaining in Russia, 1990-93
Institutions and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The years 1990-93 were a critical moment in Russia’s political development. This book provides a systematic explanation of outcomes of constitutional bargaining processes in Russia, which radically reshaped the institutions of the Russian state: removing Russia from constitutional subordination...
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage
How Australia Got Compulsory Voting
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
It’s compulsory to vote in Australia.
We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote.
Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake...
American Insecurity
Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn't...
Organizing Leviathan
Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government worldwide, this book argues that the organization of bureaucracy is an often overlooked but critical factor. Countries where merit-recruited...
Democratic Oak Tree
Messages for My Party
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
A collection of political essays and correspondence by the writer Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009) addressing crucial questions in American politics, including: why political parties matter, why citizens should register and vote as Democrats, what the Republican Party really wants, and what Democrats...
Money for Votes
The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Politicians distribute money to voters during campaigns in many low-income democracies. Many observers call this practice 'vote buying'. Money for Votes develops an alternative theory of electoral clientelism that emphasizes the role of monetary handouts in conveying information to voters, helping...