Political category: 85882 books
De Gaulle
Statesmanship, Grandeur and Modern Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This analysis of the thought and action of Charles de Gaulle explores the intellectual foundations of Gaullist statecraft. Mahoney's careful exegesis of de Gaulle's major writings and speeches, reveals a penetrating political thinker as well as a major political actor. He explains de Gaulle to an...
by Matthew J. Walton
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This is the first book to provide a broad overview of the ways in which Buddhist ideas have influenced political thinking and politics in Myanmar. Matthew J. Walton draws extensively on Burmese language sources from the last 150 years to describe the 'moral universe' of contemporary Theravada Buddhism...
Political Economy and Sociolinguistics
Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues. After the preface, in which the author sets the scene for the content of the book, Chapter 1 is an extensive, though selective,...
Forcing the Spring
Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
“[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train...Becker's...
A Pact with Vichy
Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Angelo Tasca, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian political history, and indeed European history, is frequently overshadowed by his Fascist opponent Mussolini or his Socialist and Communist colleagues (Gramsci and Togliatti). Yet, as Emanuel Rota reveals in this captivating biography, Tasca—also...
Transformative Political Leadership
Making a Difference in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders...
America at the Ballot Box
Elections and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics....
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630–1789
The Legacy for Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1991
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America describes and explores the emergence of a directly democratic political culture in America, the Federalists' theoretical campaign against that culture, and the legacy of the struggle over democracy for politics today. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in...
Political Survival in Pakistan
Beyond Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Presenting a framework that incorporates macro-level forces into micro-level strategic calculations, this book explains key political choices by leaders and challengers in Pakistan through the political survival mechanism. It offers an explanation for continuing polity weakness in the country, and...
Municipal Politics in Turkey
Local Government and Party Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
There is a large and growing literature on Turkish politics in general, and the AKP in particular. However, local government and party organization, although very important topics, are strikingly understudied.
This book compares local politics in two Central Anatolian cities, Konya and Eskişehir,...
Where Women Run
Gender and Party in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Why don’t more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties narrow the national gender gap? Where Women Run addresses these important questions through a rare and incisive look at how candidates are...
Entertaining Politics
Satiric Television and Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's...
Beyond Liberal Democracy
Political Thinking for an East Asian Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal Democracy, which continues the author's influential earlier work, is divided into three parts that correspond...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Tunisia's Ennahda...