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by Andreas Heuer
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Columbia Universität New York, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In this paper I examine two main thinkers who articulated the theologico-political conflict as a major problem of politics and modern...
Cultural Studies and Political Economy
Toward a New Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural studies and political economy. Drawing on the works of Harold Innis, Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, and other major theorists in the two fields, Robert E. Babe shows that political economy...
Read & Riot
A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
"Stylish, striking, and elegantly packaged...as indispensible to confronting, say, your domineering mother-in-law or your local city council as it is to helping foment an ongoing and ever-escalating insurrection against, say, a sexist, racist, nepotistic power-mad oligarchy threatening to destory...
The Problem with Work
Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition...
Political Economy: A Comparative Approach, 3rd Edition
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
As 21st-century political debate becomes polarized across ideological lines, students and citizens need to understand the underlying values on which contending arguments are based. The current political gridlock calls for a deeper appreciation of the competing perspectives in political economy. Now...
The Political Bubble
Why Australians Don't Trust Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Australians once trusted the democratic process. While we got on with our lives, we assumed our politicians had our best interests at heart.
Not anymore. That trust has collapsed.
Mark Latham joined the Labor Party in the late 1970s hoping to improve people's lives through parliamentary...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero, M. T. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1991
De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination...
Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling
Women and Congressional Elections
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Is there a "political glass ceiling" for women? Although women use the same strategic calculations as men to decide when to run, the decision regarding where to run is something else. While redistricting has increasingly protected...
The Fat Tail
The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that charts both the frequency of these events and the...
The Power of Populism
Geert Wilders and the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book discusses the Party for Freedom (PVV), a political party in the Netherlands, founded and led by Geert Wilders. Attaining between 10 and 18% of the votes, the PVV has become one of the largest parties in the Netherlands and is the only political party worldwide without members. Between 2010...
Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel
White Jews, Black Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This is the first book in English to examine the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing in particular on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. The book analyses the ongoing cultural encounter between Zionism and Israel on one side and Mizrahi Jews...
The Social Contract
or, Principles of Political Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights (French: Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face...
by Bernard Bailyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
"An astonishing range of reading in contemporary tracts and modern authorities is manifest, and many aspects of British and colonial affairs are illuminated. As a political analysis this very important contribution will be hard to refute...."
—Frederick B. Tolles, Political Science Quarterly
"He...
Outrage, Inc.
How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From Derek Hunter—one of the most entertaining political writers today—comes an insightful, alarming look at how progressives have taken over academia, pop culture, and journalism in order to declare everything liberal great, and everything great, liberal.
Progressives love to attack conservatives...