Politics category: 19839 books
Defending Politics
Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the capacity of democratic politics to resolve pressing...
Analyzing American Democracy
Politics and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
How can political science help you understand the world you live in? Modern approaches to the study of politics analyze why Congress, the president, the courts, and other political actors do what they do. Learning to think critically about power, institutions, and rules helps citizens engage constructively...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinary...
by Jenny Edkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari’s work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a particular politics, and dismantling the face is also a politics.
This book explores the politics of such diverse issues as images and faces in photographs and...
Means Without End
Notes on Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and...
The Politics of the Governed
Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups....
Contemporary Politics in Australia
Theories, Practices and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Contemporary Politics in Australia provides a lively and wide-ranging introduction to the study of Australian politics. Written by a diverse range of experts, the book offers a comprehensive overview of current theories, debates and research in Australian political science and looks forward to new...
City Politics
The Political Economy of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme – that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity – City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics. Its...
International Politics and Performance
Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics. Whilst examination of political aesthetics, aesthetic politics, and politics of aesthetic practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Comparative politics often involves testing of hypotheses using new methodological approaches without giving sufficient attention to the concepts which are fundamental to hypotheses, particularly the ability of these concepts to ‘travel’. Proper operationalising requires deep reflection on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Successive waves of global protest since 1999 have encouraged leading contemporary political theorists to argue that politics has fundamentally changed in the last twenty years, with a new type of politics gaining momentum over elite, representative institutions. The new politics is frequently described...
Cowboy Politics
Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns from The Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns...
Our Politics
Reflections on Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Douglas Kane, an American politician and economist, offers readers a straightforward, personal account of what it is like to run for and hold public office—the demands, conflicts, temptations, and rewards created by political, economic, and social forces. Throughout the book, Kane references Illinois...
Politics and the Concept of the Political
The Political Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley’s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more...