Politics category: 19839 books
Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India
Making of the Maithili Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi–Urdu debates, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the ‘national’ language. It revisits the...
Queer Clout
Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively...
The Politics of Place
Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many Enlightenment thinkers sought to discover the right political order for all times and all places, and scholars often view Montesquieu as working within this project. In this reassessment of Montesquieu's political thought, Joshua Bandoch finds that Montesquieu broke from this ideal and, by taking...
by Harold Laski
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The essays that comprise Studies in Law and Politics are by and large academic. But Laski had a purpose in addition to the purely scholarly: he was eagerly pursuing possibilities for social and political change. Laski sought tirelessly for opportunities to act on those possibilities and, as is the...
The Imaginary Institution of India
Politics and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad....
American Religion, American Politics
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation’s history Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in the nation’s politics from colonial times through...
At the Cross
Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. At the Cross tells a story of the relationship between the death penalty and...
Transforming Politics, Transforming America
The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today. This wave of new Americans comes in disproportionately large numbers from Latin America and Asia, a pattern that is likely to continue in this...
The Authoritarian Public Sphere
Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also censor information that they find threatening. While committed opponents of the regime may be violently...
Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada
Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987...
Reformatting Politics
Information Technology and Global Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders. These new ICTs (the internet, mobile phones, satellite radio and television)...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The issue of apportionment is one of the most important problems facing citizens of most of the states in America. It underlies many other problems of state government. Growing judicial concern with apportionment is evidence of a failure of the political process in many states. A political solution...
The Politics of the American Dream
Democratic Inclusion in Contemporary American Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
The Politics of the American Dream analyzes the role of the 'American Dream' in contemporary American political culture. Utilizing analytic political theory, Ghosh creates a unique picture of Dream Politics, and shows the effect on the landscape of American politics.
Emergencies and Politics
A Sober Hobbesian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such...