Political category: 85882 books
The Israeli Central Bank
Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This book examines the local and global political and institutional processes that have led to the strengthening of the Israeli central bank within the context of the now predominant neoliberal regime. Using Israel as a case study to identify broader patterns around the world, the authors examine...
Collective Political Rationality
Partisan Thinking and Why It's Not All Bad
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Amidst the polarization of contemporary politics, partisan loyalties among citizens are regarded as one contributor to political stalemate. Partisan loyalties lead Democrats and Republicans to look at the same economic information but to come to strikingly different conclusions about the state of...
by Brian Calfano
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Calfano provides an examination of the pressures faced by Muslims, often considered political and social outsiders in western nations, especially in the United States. Identity is a complex concept, especially when considering the role that group attachments play in affecting how one sees her/his...
Captive Revolution
Palestinian Womens Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in their thousands for their political activism and...
Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony
The Tragedy of Postcoloniality in Michael Manley’s Jamaica and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony engages with two of the defining political sagas of the postcolonial era. The book presents Michael Manley...
by Eric Steven Kos
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book addresses a question fundamental for Oakeshott throughout his life, which is what we are doing when we read and discuss some memorable work in the history of political thought. The approach the book takes to Oakeshott’s response to this question is of particular interest in that it explores...
Critical Theory and Political Theology
The Aftermath of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
This book deals with the aftermath of the enlightenment and its legacy in the political, social, and racial context. It discusses the incomplete project of modernity in terms of social contract theory, racial justice issues, and political theology in the postcolonial context. Hermeneutical realism...
by Mariano Croce, Andrea Salvatore
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Undoing Ties claims to offer an answer to the question of what happens when the ties between traditional political institutions and citizens are being undone. The basic aim of the book is to offer an introductory and accessible overview of those paradigms and theories that are specifically concerned...
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural...
China Dreams
China's New Leadership and Future Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
With the theme “China Dreams: Opportunities and Challenges,” this book contributes to emerging debates on Chinese new leadership's adaptability to important political, economic, social, and global issues. Can China's political system sustain “China Dreams”, a slogan ushered by Chinese President...
On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics
A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas’s argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as the western...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language policies are political. They have political consequences as well as political origins. In State Traditions and Language Regimes, scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America shift focus from the consequences of language policies to how and why states make language policy choices. This shift,...
by Michael Temelini
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics, Michael Temelini outlines an innovative new approach to understanding the political implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Most political philosophers who have approached Wittgenstein have done so through the idea of therapeutic skepticism, implying...
by Gina Schouten
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
This book defends progressive political interventions to erode the gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of coercive political power. The gendered division of labor is widely regarded as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender equalization in domestic and paid labor allocations...