Politics category: 19839 books
The Politics of Juridification
The Actor's Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Politics of Juridification offers a timely contribution to debates about how politics is being affected by the increasing relevance of judicial bodies to the daily administration of Western political communities. While most critical analyses portray juridification as a depoliticizing, de-democratizing...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A revised and enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's essential examination of differences of wealth and income between nations and within nations
Wealth, Poverty and Politics challenges the assumptions, the definitions, the evidence and the reasoning of most of what is said about differences of...
Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.
Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This...
The Politics of Being
The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Martin Heidegger's ties to Nazism have tarnished his stature as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The publication of the Black Notebooks in 2014, which revealed the full extent of Heidegger's anti-Semitism and enduring sympathy for National Socialism, only inflamed the controversy....
Killer Politics
How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
The middle class, where the greatness of this nation is rooted, is under siege by an increasingly unethical system, managed by economic vampires who are sucking the lifeblood out of the American family and ripping the heart out of democracy itself. Big money-and the politicians who are swayed by it-play...
The Establishment
And How They Get Away with it
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A major bestseller in the UK and a six-time Best Book of 2014, The Establishment is a sweeping look at how power and money have made British politics hugely undemocratic. Power, money, and undemocratic politics—wait, does that sound familiar?
Who wields power in politics? It is a question...
GAME CHANGER Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics
Inside Corbyn’s Election Machine
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
When Theresa May called a snap election in 2017, Labour was more than twenty points behind in the polls and it seemed the only question was how big her landslide would be.
The experts argued campaigns don’t move opinions much and young voters would not turn out. But Jeremy Corbyn and his...
by F. A. Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2018
Following on F. A. Hayek's previous work Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (1967), New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas collects some of Hayek's most notable essays and lectures dealing with problems of philosophy, politics and economics, with many...
Political Rules of the Road
Representatives, Senators and Presidents Share their Rules for Success in Congress, Politics and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Political Rules of the Road is a collection of informal rules that members of Congress have used to guide their political careers and private lives. Our current and former representatives, senators, governors, cabinet officials, and presidents have valuable advice to offer about how to be successful...
Out of the Wreckage
A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A thrilling new route to a better society
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. Contributors address the crisis of moral and philosophical...
The New Science of Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual...
Our Daily Bread
Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of productivity or bargaining power, a wage is a political arena in which working people's identity, culture, and politics are negotiated and developed. In Our Daily Bread, Mann examines...
From a 'Necessary Evil' to the Art of Contingency
Michael Oakeshott's Conception of Political Activity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive study of Oakeshott's conception of political activity. The author first examines Oakeshott in the contexts of liberal, conservative and Idealist thought, and then presents a detailed interpretation of the change in his conception of politics in the context of British...