Political Ideologies

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...

In this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-right populism of billionaire Donald Trump, reveal...

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 9780853153863Author Antonio GramsciFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

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

A respected Chinese political philosopher calls for the Communist Party to take the lead in moving China along the path to democracy before it is too late.With Xi Jinping potentially set as president for life, China's move toward political democracy may...

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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...

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Ernest Mandel's book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837184203Author Colin LegumFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Democracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments about democratic practice. On the basis of an interpretation of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy, the...

The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland, Brazil, and even the United States--have been threatened by the rise of ultra-nationalist and populist leaders who pay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684511822Author Robert SiricoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

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...

An argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies-from Machiavelli to Latour-for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy. Public controversies over issues ranging from...

Henryk Grossman is best-known as a Marxist economist, but he also wrote valuable political interventions from his various positions within the workers' movement-first as a leader of the revolutionary organization of Jewish workers in the Polish province...

Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a wealth of information and data, including: public opinion surveys, content analysis...

In this study, distinguished international contributors project an 'open' Marxism - a rejection of the determinism and positivism which characterise so much of contemporary left-wing thought. Topics covered in the two volumes include Marxism and...

Evo Morales is one of the world's most controversial political leaders. His story is extraordinary: poor shepherd-boy, persecuted coca grower, self-professed admirer of Che Guevara, hero of the anti-globalization movement, and first indigenous president...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118094518Author Chris MooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm)...

The military victories of ISIS have overturned the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention has focused on ISIS' savage treatment of its enemies and its ability to attract foreign fighters. However, in order to explain its success, a...

When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But The Hunger Games was always more political. It's since become the defining story for a generation that's grown up with economic crisis...

There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into...

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...

In this third volume of his definitive study of Karl Marx's political thought, Hal Draper examines how Marx, and Marxism, have dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate...

Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect - with US armed forces if necessary - the territorial integrity and political independence of these...

Who votes for radical right parties and why? This book argues that the increasing popularity of the radical right in Europe originates in community bonds: strong ties to one's locality motivate support for the radical right. These parties use nostalgic...

In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where...

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...

The past few years have seen a remarkable ferment in the theory of democracy. Deliberative Democracy and Beyond is a critical tour through recent democratic theory by one of the leading political theorist in the field. It examines the deliberative turn...

When COVID-19 erupted from Wuhan, China under mysterious circumstances, the Communist Party of China covered up its existence for as long as possible. It is now apparent that there is more to COVID than what the authorities wish for us to know...

What does it mean that our most popular modern myth is a radical left story about fighting corporate authoritarianism? From its roots in the 1960s new left, Star Wars still speaks to millions of people today. By design, the saga mirrors our own time and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647733049Author Mike HuckabeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Trilogy Christian PublishingPublisher Trilogy Christian PublishingWeight(grams)...

This thought-provoking book analyses the process of labour commodification, through which the individual's ability to earn a basic living becomes dependent on the conditions of the market relationship. Building on the premise that the separation of a...

In The Labor of Job, the renowned Marxist political philosopher Antonio Negri develops an unorthodox interpretation of the Old Testament book of Job, a canonical text of Judeo-Christian thought. In the biblical narrative, the pious Job is made to suffer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501168345Author Tim MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Intended for use in courses on political philosophy or the history of political philosophy, On the History of Political Philosophy provides a critical account of Western political philosophy from classical Greece to modern times. Demonstrating the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008973770Author Karl KautskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g