Political Ideologies

In recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European democracy. Many democracy indices are reporting a year-on-year drift towards less liberal politics in the countries of the European Union. Polls regularly suggest that the voters are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954618497Author Michael L BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Leadership BooksPublisher Leadership BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In this concise but rich book, Syverson refutes the common notion that reality television is superficial or inauthentic, explaining how such criticisms fail to appreciate the way that we form social reality in the first place. By examining shows like The...

These are your elected officials. Some are slyly taking advantage of the system. They are hoping no one is savvy enough to notice. But Matt Lewis has. And this is what he's learned.Today's politicians are an unsavoury lot-a hybrid of plutocrats and...

In this timely and important work, eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political...

Pirates, warlords, guerillas, criminal organizations, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, police agencies, terrorists: these are classic insurgents whose past, present, and future is dissected in this important book. Contributing writers...

This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies. Unlike many discussions of democracy that treat authority as a problem primarily of domestic politics or normative values, this book puts the international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631462Author Vernon RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural...

Often regarded as the only true manifestation of political pluralism in the contemporary Middle East, the state of Israel has dominated the history and politics of the region for over fifty years. Yet despite its position as a regional superpower, Israel...

Since 2008, the American patriot/militia movement-right-wing antigovernment groups who portray themselves as fighting encroaching tyranny-has grown exponentially. Oath Keepers is among the most visible and vocal of these organizations. Formed in 2009,...

"For its intelligence and humanitarian achievements, for its political honesty, for its power and its beauty (there is no other word), this book deserves to be called a masterpiece." -American EthnologistJerome R. Mintz's classic study of the lives of...

Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to welfare and community. Written by one of the world's leading experts on liberalism and ideological theory, it uses new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636411637Author Floyd G BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Charisma HousePublisher Charisma House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629991702Author Todd StarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Charisma HousePublisher Charisma House

Part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, which contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. The series includes their complete...

East Central Europe Between The Two World Wars is a sophisticated political history of East Central Europe in the interwar years. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is an original contribution to the literature on the political cultures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904491224Author Rudolph RockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732884Author Thomas J. MainFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279583Author David BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm...

Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an...

According to conventional periodization, a profound break in the continuity of Western political theory occurred around 1500 and marked the beginning of "modern" political thought. In Machiavelli to Marx Dante Germino examines the scholars of this period...

Since the election of President Trump and the rise in racist and white supremacist activity, the militant antifascist movement known as antifa has become increasingly active and high profile in the United States. This book analyzes the tactics, culture,...

When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062839640Author Rich LowryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadside BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renown psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and...

On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle...

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions...

This timely book explores the complexities of the rule of law - a well-used but perhaps less well understood term - to explain why it is so often appealed to in discussions of global politics. Ranging from capacity building and the role of the World Bank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851244242Author Thomas SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864533Author Scott CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 322g

November 9, 2009, will mark twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signalled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Why was this collapse of Communism considered final, while the many failures...

Accounting for Fundamentalisms features treatments of fundamentalist movements, groups that often make headlines but are rarely understood, as part of the multivolume Fundamentalism Project. This book remains a standard reference source for comprehending...

From a leading scholar on conservatism, the extraordinary chronicle of how the transformation of the American far right made the Trump presidency possible-and what it portends for the future Since Trump's victory and the UK's Brexit vote, much of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975323Author James M BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 598g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736062821Author Glenn WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 9mm

Western State Terrorism examines the political uses to shich the U.S. and its allies have put the terrorism perpetrated by their official enemies-often small scale terrorism compared to that sponsored by the West. The contributors to this study place...

The story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, laying the groundwork for today's anti-fascist/anti-racist movements."Smash fascism! Read this book!"-Tom Morello, songwriter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authormmerman /f Joseph /i F.Book InformationISBN 9780275921323Author Joseph F. ZimmermanFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique...