Author: Meinders, Thomas R. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every American should read this book to return our country to the land of the free and the home of the brave. "America the Beautiful" "My American Dream" is the fourth in the series about the problem...
Author: Gerring,John / Thacker,Strom C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book outlines the importance of political institutions in achieving good governance within a democratic polity and sets forth an argument to explore what sorts of institutions do the job best. By...
Author: Mazzini, Giuseppe Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This anthology gathers Giuseppe Mazzini's most important essays on democracy, nation building, and international relations, including some that have never before been translated into English. These ne...
Author: Walter, Ryan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book?mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and?politics to?develop a detailed intellect...
Author: Walter, Ryan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book?mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and?politics to?develop a detailed intellect...
Author: Slaughter, Anne-Marie Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter ask...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should ...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should ...
Author: Marti, Jose Luis / Pettit, Philip Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When José Luis Rodríguez Z...
Author: Hanley, Ryan Patrick Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalismÃs...
Author: N/A Publisher: Pambazuka Format: Adobe PDF
Description: African perspectives on development and social justice in Africa are rarely heard and this book offers a collection of editorials from Pambazuka News that explore concerns including underdevelopment, ...
Author: Warnke, Georgia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that id...
Author: Rahe,Paul A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Modern republicanism - distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment...
Author: N/A Publisher: Pambazuka Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The current global economic crisis resurges the debate on aid to Africa-the largest global recipient-and this comprehensive volume explores the premise, history, and foundation upon which the concept ...
Author: Elster,Jon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanat...
Author: Mantena, Karuna Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by libe...
Author: Griffin, Stephen M. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to...
Author: LAWLER/SHAEFER Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics and government and political communication designed to explore fundamental political principles through cla...
Author: Maddison, Sarah / Denniss, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An Introduction to Australian Public Policy: Theory and Practice is the first book to comprehensively address both the theoretical and practical aspects of policy making in Australia. Written in an ac...
Author: Schofield, Norman Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice theory and from the work of Douglass North, Mancur Olson, and William R...
Author: Pickering, Mary Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume begins to explore the life and works of Auguste Comte during his so-called second career, the controversial period that began in 1842 and lasted until his death. This volume covers the yea...
Author: Pocock, J. G. A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fourth volume in John Pocock's great sequence on Barbarism and Religion focuses on the idea of barbarism. Barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the enl...
Author: Edwards, David B. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise o...
Author: Keene, Edward Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edward Keene argues that the conventional idea of an 'anarchical society' of equal and independent sovereign states is an inadequate description of order in modern world politics. International politi...
Author: Lee,Patrick / George,Robert P. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Profoundly important ethical and political controversies turn on the question of whether biological life is an essential aspect of a human person, or only an extrinsic instrument. Lee and George argue...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The history of British political thought has been one of the most fertile fields of Anglo-American historical writing in the last half-century. David Armitage brings together an interdisciplinary and ...
Author: Denham, Andrew Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Defines think tanks in the context of British politics, explores their impact on the climate of opinion, and calculates how effective they have been in influencing government in general and key policy...
Author: Coons, John E. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan ar...
Author: Winterling, Aloys Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a...
Author: Havercroft, Jonathan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A picture of sovereignty holds the study of politics captive. Captives of Sovereignty looks at the historical origins of this picture of politics, critiques its philosophical assumptions and offers a ...
Author: Lawrance, Alan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "China Under Communism" examines the history of the Chinese communists since their accession to power in 1949, through the tumult of ongoing revolution under Mao to the new era of economic reforms and...
Author: Bell, Daniel A. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get...
Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempt to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's v...
Author: Frantzich, Stephen E. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Apathy and antipathy toward politics are epidemic. Citizen Democracy provides the antidote. In this revised and updated edition, Stephen E. Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life--rich an...
Author: Beiner, Ronald S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Civil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The book examines four important traditions within the history of ...
Author: Compston, Hugh / Bailey, Ian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why, despite two decades of climate policy, have affluent democracies made so little progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions? We know that there are ways of doing this that are both practical and...
Author: Paine, Thomas Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776,...
Author: Paine, Thomas Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense they became an overnight success. First released in 1776 at the height of the American Revolution the treatise...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity. Internationally renowned philosophers, historians, and social scientists...
Author: Clohesy, Anthony M / Isaacs, Stuart / Sparks, Chris Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new study presents a fresh and coherent framework for students to understand today's key political ideas. It introduces students to the theoretical context of contemporary political ideas through...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How much influence do citizens have to control the government? What guides voters at election time? Why do governments survive? How do institutions modify the power of the people over politicians? The...
Author: Vernon, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-exami...
Author: Novak, David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and ...
Author: Morefield, Jeanne Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the ...
Author: Morefield, Jeanne Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the ...
Author: Hayward, Clarissa Rile Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a 'fa...
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