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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow. In a career spanning six decades, Richard Ned Lebow has made important contributions to the study of international relations, political and intellectual history, motivational and...
Free Speech and False Speech
Political Deception and Its Legal Limits (Or Lack Thereof)
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This book examines the history of the legal discourse around political falsehood and its future in the wake of the 2012 US Supreme Court decision in *US v. Alvarez *through communication law, political philosophy, and communication theory perspectives. As *US v. Alvarez *confirmed First Amendment...
The Rise of Japanese NGOs
Activism from Above
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Over the past two decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnational politics. Why, however, do some countries nonetheless have more active NGO sectors than others?
Using the case of Japan, this book uncovers...
A Political Economy of Arab Education
Policies and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The failure of reform policies in areas of critical importance to Arab populations such as health and education played a central role in igniting the Arab Awakening, yet this policy perspective has been largely absent from recent studies of the region. Arab regimes most reliant on repression to guarantee...
A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics
Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and...
by Professor Perri 6
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory...
Political Communication in the Online World
Theoretical Approaches and Research Designs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
As a consequence of the rapid diffusion of online media, the conditions for political communication, and research concerning it have radically changed. Is empirical communication research capable of consistently describing and explaining the changes in political communication in the online world both...
Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf
Rethinking the Rentier State
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in Bahrain and all across the Arab Gulf, ordinary citizens showed an unexpected enthusiasm for political...
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies
The Bharatiya Janata Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Applying an intercultural and comparative theoretical approach across Asia and Africa, this book analyses the rise and moderation of political movements in developing societies which mobilise popular support with references to conceptions of cultural identity. The author includes not only the Hindu...
Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia
An Analysis of Elite Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original theory of political language to narratives taken from interviews with 34 of Russia's leading political figures, Michael Urban explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries from all parts of the world currently available. Thematic chapters address advertising effects, negative ads, the perspective of practitioners and gender...
The Administrative State
A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This classic text, originally published in 1948, is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration...
Reasoning Indian Politics
Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This volume examines the multiple forms of reasoning in Indian politics and explores a framework to understand them. In the process, it looks at a series of issues involving the relationship between politics and philosophy, including the status of political theory, political practices, identity politics,...
Democratization in Morocco
The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
This book explores the political games of the Moroccan democratization process in the period from independence in 1956 until 2006. By combining a great degree of political theory with empirical material on Morocco, it analyzes the strategies and actions of the various political actors and evaluates...