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Cover of City and Regime in the American Republic
by Stephen L. Elkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015

Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities are, can, and should be. Rejecting the idea that two goals of city politics—equality and efficiency—are opposed to one another, Elkin argues that...
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The Color of Our Shame

Race and Justice in Our Time

by Christopher J. Lebron
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing. Of course, the evidence tells a very different story. And while social scientists are fully engaged...
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Trigger Warnings

political correctness and the rise of the right

by Jeff Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

Donald Trump is the Thing-that-should-not-be. The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess — and...
Cover of The Politics of Evolution
by David F. Prindle
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a policy paradox. Two sets of values—science and democracy—are in conflict when it comes to the question of what to teach in public school biology classes. Prindle illuminates this tension between American...
Cover of Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
by E. H. H. Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002

John Stuart Mill described the Conservatives as 'the stupidest party', yet they governed the UK for nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century. Conservative leaders typically have been and are explicitly anti-intellectual, yet the party is not without an intellectual history of its own. Ideologies...
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Political Protest in Western Europe

Exploring the Role of Context in Political Action

by Mario Quaranta
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015

This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe. Building on different theoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the author provides new empirical evidence on the patterns of protest politics....
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Democracy in Peril

Restructuring Systems or Second Republic

by Brig (Retd) G B Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This book is unique. It raises the issue “What ails India and Indian democracy” and attempts to provide a perspective its riddles and paradoxes in India’s context and content. If the reader believes that Indian democracy is vibrant and resilient despite numerous threats enveloping the nation,...
Cover of European Culture Wars and the Italian Case
by Luca Ozzano, Alberta Giorgi
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015

This book aims to understand the European political debate about contentious issues, framed in terms of religious values by religious and/or secular actors in 21st century. It specifically focuses on the Italian case, which, due to its peculiar history and contemporary political landscape, is a paradigmatic...
Cover of Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017

In the Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their powerful neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU negotiate their future policies and spheres of influence. This volume explores the role of religion in the South Caucasus to describe and explain how transnational religious relationships...
Cover of Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia
by Miroslav Mareš, Martin Laryš, Jan Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the use of physical violence. How serious a threat does Russian militant right-wing extremism pose to Russia...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

One common demand in the 2011 uprisings in the MENA region was the call for ‘freedom, dignity, and social justice.’ Citizens rallied against corruption and clientelism, which for many protesters were deeply linked to political tyranny. This book takes the phenomenon of the 2011 uprisings...
Cover of Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
by George A. Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. Causality can be described as the measurable effects of the normative values of the absolute and the laws of physics (also ostensibly a product of the...
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Rejecting Refugees

Political Asylum in the 21st Century

by Carol Bohmer, Amy Shuman
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007

Many nations recognize the moral and legal obligation to accept people fleeing from persecution, but political asylum applicants in the twenty-first century face restrictive policies and cumbersome procedures. So, what counts as persecution? How do applicants translate their stories of suffering...
Cover of Foucault, Biopolitics and Resistance
by Lauri Siisiäinen
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018

Political resistance is flourishing. In this context, there is a growing interest to reread Michel Foucault’s work, especially from the late period, from the perspective of resistance, social movements and affirmative biopolitics. Yet what has been missing so far is a book-length, comprehensive...
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