Author: Meinders, Thomas R. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When the federal government starts to provide the American citizens with facts about what they are doing instead of making decisions that they believe are best for the common folk. The pathetic part i...
Author: Anderson, Charles Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today those who believe in liberal democracy must reexamine and reaffirm their commitments. Here, Charles Anderson probes our urgent concerns and questions. Even those who believe that liberal democra...
Description: The views on Marxism in this book reflect foreign left-wing scholars, Marxists and socialist researchers' attitudes towards the new social and political issues in today's world. This book is a subproj...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The majority of the existing work on nationalism has centered on its role in the creation of new states. After Independence breaks new ground by examining the changes to nationalism after independence...
Author: Gottfried, Paul Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liber...
Author: N/A Publisher: Globic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Albanian Journal of Politics (AJP) is a peer reviewed academic publication of the Albanian Political Science Association (ALPSA). The purpose of the Journal is to provide a publication venue and ...
Author: Smith, Tony Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of ...
Author: Smith, Tony Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the twentieth century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith. Here for the first ti...
Author: Goldman, Emma Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyReadâ„¢ are optimized by increasin...
Author: Goldman, Emma Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical ma...
Author: Goldman, Emma Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This title is the classic collection of Emma Goldman essays which were originally published in 1910. Emma Goldman is widely known as the first major female radical and became the female face of leftis...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods (B.C. 50 – A.D. 300), important developments may be traced in the philosophy of language and its relationship to mind. Focusing on two basic iss...
Author: Holub, Renate Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A distinguished account of Gramsci's work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debate, demonstrating Gramsci's crucial position in contemporary cultural theory.
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book features completely up-to-date analysis written by high profile contributors, and will be invaluable for upper-level undergraduates and researchers in Asian Studies and Politics.
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Asian Nationalism" brings together internationally renowned experts in the field analysing current theories of nationalism. Featuring detailed chapter case studies on China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Ind...
Author: Bridges, Linda Publisher: Encounter Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers represen...
Author: Berger, Ben Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more...
Author: Harris-Lacewell, Melissa Victoria Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black coll...
Author: Epstein, Richard A. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bargaining with the State examines the threats to liberty that arise through the power of government selectively to distribute benefits and favors to its citizens. For Richard Epstein, the preservatio...
Author: Perlstein, Rick Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In an astute and surprising history of the 1960s as the cradle of the conservative movement, Perlstein's gutsy narrative history profiles the rise of Barry Goldwater, the rich, handsome Arizona Republ...
Author: Ondaatje, Michael Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Michael L. Ondaatje examines the ideas and arguments of prominent black conservative thinkers during the past three decades, charting the evolution of black conservative thought in relation to key deb...
Author: Bradley, Reb Publisher: WND Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America has a problem. Conservatives aren't helping their kids mature past that arrested development phase also known as liberalism!In this groundbreaking book, noted speaker Reb Bradley proves that s...
Author: Shapiro, Ben Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When parents send their children off to college, mom and dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute--able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to Ben Shapiro, ...
Author: Michelman, Frank I. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Brennan and Democracy, a leading thinker in U.S. constitutional law offers some powerful reflections on the idea of "constitutional democracy," a concept in which many have seen the makings of pa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern...
Author: Mueller, John Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Democracy is overrated. Capitalism, on the other hand, doesn't get enough credit. In this provocative and engaging book, John Mueller argues that these mismatches between image and reality create sign...
Author: Zhou, Jinghao Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: China's rise has become inevitable, but there is no agreement about whether China will rise peacefully or pose a threat to the United States. The author asserts that both theories of "China threat" an...
Author: Mulvenon, James C. / Tanner, Murray Scot / Chase, Michael S. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For the past decade, Chinese military strategists have keenly observed the changes in U.S. national strategy and military transformation. This report examines the constraints, facilitators, and potent...
Author: N/A Publisher: The Institute for Democracy in South Africa Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A healthy democracy needs a government that understands that it has to share some of its power with civil society, the realm in which citizens acquire a voice, enabling them to ensure that government ...
Author: Wildman, A.J. Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I describe myself as a regular American citizen with a sometimes demanding Independent political hobby. My background is a 34-year career in the Information Technology industry in Washington, DC supp...
Author: Shani,Ornit Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Belligerent Hindu nationalism, accompanied by recurring communal violence between Hindus and Muslims, has become a compelling force in Indian politics over the last two decades. Ornit Shani's book exa...
Author: White, Stephen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A survey of communism from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the late 1980s. Focusing particularly on the USSR and Eastern Europe this book examines the development of communist rule i...
Author: Lobur, John Alexander Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire, and how self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained hi...
Author: Mill, John Stuart Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this essay, Mill explores the idea that liberty is in fact, truly realized only in a nation where a representative government is elected. A representative government can be defined in fact, as a de...
Author: Mill, John Stuart Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The classic liberal philosopher of nineteenth century England, John Stuart Mill, used Considerations on Representative Government to call for reforms to Parliament and voting, calling for proportional...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Curzon Format: Adobe PDF
Description: bBelarus is unique among the states of the former Soviet bloc, in that after a decade of transition', the country remains stalled' and backward-oriented. Political and economic changes are characteris...
Author: Euben, J. Peter Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Corrupting Youth, Peter Euben explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. ...
Author: Rosanvallon,Pierre / Goldhammer,Arthur Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives t...
Description: Duan Zhongqiao, the renowned Beijing based philosophy scholar and his colleagues, have analyzed the nine influential trends and movements of the times keenly observing how their prominent representati...
Author: Moncourt, Andre / Smith, J. Publisher: PM Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In 1970 a small group of West German revolutionaries decided to go underground, to set up safe houses, and learn the skills of the urban guerilla. They were the Red Army Faction. Seven years later, a...
Author: Smith, J. / Moncourt, André Publisher: PM Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1970 a small group of West German revolutionaries decided to go underground, to set up safe houses, and learn the skills of the urban guerilla. They were the Red Army Faction. Seven years later, al...
Author: Koh, Harold Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this important collection of writings, leading legal and political thinkers address a wide array of issues that confront societies undergoing a transition to democratic rule. Bridging the gap betwe...
Author: Tilly,Charles Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust netw...
Author: Harrison, Ross Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: At a time when liberal democracy is the universally accepted and paradigmatic means of political participation, no better a book has emerged to assess democracy's heritage. Drawing upon democracy's hi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World examines three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations. It draws important conclusions about t...
Author: Schultz, Kenneth A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kenneth Schultz explores the effects of democratic politics on the use and success of coercive diplomacy. He argues that open political competition between the government and opposition parties influe...