Political category: 85882 books
Talking Politics?
What You Need to Know before Opening Your Mouth
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Honest, objective, and informed political debates are all too rare in today’s polarized and partisan climate. Public policy is increasingly driven by ideology while political spin, distortions, and even demonizing opponents by disseminating outright lies are routine practice from Washington to the...
Monetary Divergence
Domestic Policy Autonomy in the Post-Bretton Woods Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
"In a meticulously researched study, David Bearce demonstrates that, contrary to predictions, financial globalization has not resulted in a systematic convergence of national monetary policies. The book is a must-read for students of the political economy of international finance. Highlighting...
The International Political Economy of Risk
Rationalism, Calculation, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
The discipline of international political economy faces a number of critical challenges at present, as it seeks to incorporate a number of relatively new issues, one of these being "risk". This captivating and enlightening study redresses the neglect of "risk" in this field by...
Thinking Like a Political Scientist
A Practical Guide to Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts...
Climate Leviathan
A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two...
by Benjamin J. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by some of the worlds leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated...
by Wojciech W. Gasparski
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The need for solutions to environmental problems is urgent. Expanded environmental research and knowledge, along with interest in environmental issues, has focused attention on the social, political, and practical aspects of environmental problems. Environmental Political Philosophy searches for common...
Privatization in Malaysia
Regulation, Rent-Seeking and Policy Failure
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
In recent years, privatisation has fallen out of favour in many countries because the underlying political factors have not been well understood. This book examines Malaysia’s privatisation programme, focusing on how political constraints resulted in the failure of four major privatisations: the...
by Kevin Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Do you think you live in a democracy? Well, you don’t and never have. The United States of America was never designed to be a democracy. Manifesto for a New Constitution was written to show how weak the structure of our political system really is. We vote for others to make decisions on our behalf,...
Institutional Reform in Central Asia
Politico-Economic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book is about the status of political equality under global political conditions. If political equality generally is considered a core feature of democracy, it has received little attention among theorists concerned with global governance. Given the enormous emphasis on democracy as legitimizing...
Political Straight Talk
A Prescription for Healing Our Broken System of Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a solid political basis. What they wrote was the political map that future representatives would need to follow to conduct the people's business in an efficient and effective...
The State of Copyright
The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws.
While mapping out the primary actors in the context of globalization and the modern political economy of information ownership, the argument is made that alternatives to further...
by Jennifer Lees-Marshment
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
With the Obama campaign universally acknowledged as the most successfully marketed presidential campaign of all time, the future of political marketing is fiercely contested, provoking a wealth of high quality scholarship from across the globe. This work provides an accessible introduction to the...