Political Science category: 78432 books
Modernism at the Barricades
Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, he follows the rise of...
by Mark G.E. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and progressive...
After the End of History
The Curious Fate of American Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
"Robert E. Lane is one of the most prominent and distinguished critics of both the human impact of market economies and economic theory, arguing from much research that happiness is more likely to flow from companionship, enjoyment of work, contribution to society, and the opportunity to develop...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study aims to improve our understanding of the causes and implications of political assassinations by utilizing a comprehensive data set and by employing quantitative analyses. The findings illustrate the trends that...
by Paul Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The **Second Edition** of ***How to Debate the Left on Islam*** which was released on the 16th of April, 2017, has been professionally edited, improved and contains even more chapters.
Reviews
"Lots of good hard facts here, and critical thinking. (...) He argues well with good...
Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes
Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua. To do so, it draws on in-depth fieldwork, analysis of media texts, and decolonial and other cultural theories. There are two main...
Making Citizens
Political Socialization Research and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book assembles what political scientists, sociologists, and communication analysts have learned in almost six decades of research on political socialization (the lifelong process by which we acquire political beliefs). It also explores how people develop political values, attitudes, identities,...
by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks...
The People's House of Commons
Theories of Democracy in Contention
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2007
Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. The House has also faced challenges...
Constructing Public Opinion
How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance with each new election or poll taken.
Here...
Politics without a Past
The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
In Politics without a Past Shari J. Cohen offers a powerful challenge to
common characterizations of postcommunist politics as either a resurgence of
aggressive nationalism or an evolution toward Western-style democracy. Cohen
draws upon extensive field research to paint a picture of postcommunist
political...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
As the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning its increasingly self-confident national identities. This volume explores the new dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings...
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET
Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing...
Globalizations and Social Movements
Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization...