Politics category: 19839 books
China: Fragile Superpower : How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise
Fragile Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Once a sleeping giant China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones laptop computers and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: The Fragile Superpower Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics...
The Politics of Affective Relations
East Asia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reproduced, and utilized throughout history. Sparked by a strong dissatisfaction with the state over many...
Politics in Time
History, Institutions, and Social Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to influence the course...
by Andrew Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural...
Extreme Politics
Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology,...
by Professor Stephen B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
In an age of financial globalization, are markets and democracy compatible? For developing countries, the dramatic internationalization of financial markets over the last two decades deepens tensions between politics and markets. Notwithstanding the rise of left-leaning governments in regions like...
by Dr. charulata Singh
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
The book is an in-depth study on the various issues involved in the politics of Bangladesh. The efforts have been made all through to find out what remains the basis as far as the functioning of military and politics is concerned. The polity of Bangladesh has been analysed through its establishment and...
Multicultural Odysseys : Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity
Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing international scrutiny regarding their treatment of ethnocultural groups, and are expected to meet evolving international...
The Exceptional Negro
Racism, White Privilege and the Lie of Respectability Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Lawyer. Mother. Elected Official. Target. Traci O’Neal was thrust into the national spotlight in 2017 when local threats grew into a national racist outcry after a former GOP Presidential candidate singled her out on social media. What followed was a deeply disturbing and widespread campaign...
Work and Academic Politics
A Journeyman's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Over the course of a long and distinguished academic career William Form has gained renown as a major scholar in the areas of American labor politics, institutional analysis, and educational issues surrounding the experience of ethnicity and assimilation. Much of his scholarly work derived from his...
Building a Business of Politics
The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants who carefully curate the images of politicians, advise candidates on polling and analytics, and shape voters' perceptions through marketing and advertising techniques. More than half of the $6 billion spent in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but instead centres of private commerce and consumption, and even surveillance and police control. "The...