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Ambitious Politicians
The Implications of Career Ambition in Representative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
"[T]hose people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it." This is how writer Douglas Adams neatly expressed the common view of political ambition. And yet, it’s hard to imagine any politician getting far without it. Ambitious Politicians brings a welcome...
Excluded Within
The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? And how does their political unintelligibility shape political bodies, and the terms of political agency, from which they are excluded? In this groundbreaking book,...
by Professor Joan Cocks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Winner of the 2015 David Easton Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they...
Popular Culture as Art and Knowledge
A Critique of Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy. It turns to art, more specifically popular culture, to demonstrate the validity of continental philosophy. Drawing on the philosophy of Georg Hegel (perhaps the most important of continental philosophers), James Kreines holds...
Services Economy, A Political Fiction
Political Fictions Revealed, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The third episode of Political Fictions Revealed exposes the political fiction known as a Services Economy. This concept is political spin on an attempt at social cannibalism. It masks the conspiracy between government and special interest groups to hide the fact that there are more workers than jobs...
Manipulating Democracy
Democratic Theory, Political Psychology, and Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate, election...
America's Middlemen
Power at the Edge of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Throughout American political history, the US government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and rebels. Sometimes, these alliances have been successful, dramatically reshaping the battlefield. But these alliances have also risked creating larger wars in regions where the United States had...
by Claudia Baczewski
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 2,0, Southern Connecticut State University (Department of Political Science), course: Proseminar: Comparative Politics, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'Comparativists...
by Narayan Das
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Dr. Ambedkar in 1943, argued that, " A democratic form of Government presupposes a democratic form of society. The formal framework of democracy is of no value and would indeed be a misfit if there was no social democracy". He further emphasized, "The politicals never realized that...
Issues in American Political Life
Money, Violence and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
A core text for undergraduate courses in American Public Policy, or supplemental reading in such courses as Introduction to American Government or Politics, American Public Policy Analysis, Introduction to Political Science. A substantive alternative to typical "issues" texts-which cover...
by Robert Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Thomas Paine is a legendary Anglo-American political icon: a passionate, plain-speaking, relentlessly controversial, revolutionary campaigner, whose writings captured the zeitgeist of the two most significant political events of the eighteenth century, the American and French Revolutions. Though widely...
by Antonia Zervaki
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The analysis of the formation processes and manifestations of political culture in the domain of international relations and organization lacks a concrete theoretical and methodological framework. However, the main theoretical and methodological deficits seem to be related to the need for a clear-cut...
Anti-Party Parties in Germany and Italy
Protest Movements and Parliamentary Democracy
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Populist, extremist or anti-system parties are not new in the European political scene. At various times in contemporary history, Europe has experienced the rise and development of political movements that have made extremism the particular characteristic of both their political message and their...
by Terence Ball, Richard Dagger, Daniel I. O’Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills. It covers a wide...