Political ideologies and movements Books

The alt-right has been the most important new far-right grouping to appear in decades. Written by researchers from the anti-racist advocacy group HOPE not hate, this book provides a thorough, ground-breaking, and accessible overview of this...

This book studies the Lega Nord in Italy and the Front national in France, and tackles how gender shapes the parties' strategies as well as their activists' experiences. It will be of interest to those studying gender, as well as nationalism, racism,...

You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how engaging with the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to understand the problems of contemporary organizing much more clearly. Anarchism is a theory of organizing,...

In The Post-Liberal Imagination, Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism in a critical spirit by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics in the Bush-Obama era. The book explores how contemporary popular culture plays a formative...

As the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from a European imperial power, Ghana has always occupied a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination. This is due in no small part to the indelible impression...

The demonstrations and occupations that emerged across Europe in 2011-12 struck a chord in public opinion in a way that has not been true for many years. Based on research carried out across the continent, this volume investigates why this is occurring...

In Against Orthodoxy, the author engages some of the most provocative thinkers of the 20th century, including Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Marx, Harry Braverman and Paulo Freire. All of these social and political theorists were...

The internet is changing the way we interact and communicate. But how is it impacting on more historically traditional institutions like the British Conservative Party? This book examines the role of specific internet technologies like ConservativeHome,...

This study introduces and systematizes the concept of global modernity as a paradigm for the analysis of the contemporary era. Building on Parson's distinction between social, cultural, personal and organismic systems, it presents a four-dimensional...

Who is Mr Lukashenka? Do Belarusians support him out of fear and/or because they are blinkered, or there are other factors that help to explain his longevity as a national leader?The book seeks answers to these questions on the premise that Lukashenka's...

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is one of China's most strategically important, resource-rich and largest regions but also one of the country's most troublesome, the region now being synonymous with ethnic conflict and nationalist movements. This...

This unique book provides a critical perspective on identity in questioning how Israeli Jews manage and manifest their concern for the Palestinian Other, eschewing presenting identities as concrete and, rather, examines their creation through...

Since the late 1970s China has undergone a great transformation, during which time the country has witnessed an outpouring of competing schools of thought. This book analyzes the major schools of political thought redefining China's transformation and...

In a relevant and cutting edge analysis, this book examines policy-making in Russia as a process of social learning, using the case of housing policy. Centering its study around three explanatory variables - actors, institutions and ideas - it argues...

The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics were seen as a success and the hosts were praised for the promotion of equality, tolerance and unity as well as inspiring a legacy to continue these values. This volume contains a collection of sociological case...

Ming-sho Ho applies Marxist theoretical perspective to understand the postwar trajectory of Taiwan's state-sector workers. A global and comparative framework is used to examine the particularity of Taiwan's working class. It revises the stereotypical...

Many of America's political debates stem from media-constructed opposition between the religious right and secular left. However, the contentious dialogue between two seemingly-contrasting camps is based upon assumptions and stereotypes, rather than...

In this volume, William Davidshofer sets forth an insightful comparative analysis of Marxist and Leninist revolutionary theory. Beginning with the influence of the Hegel's dialectic and the political propositions of historical materialism on Communist...

How does ideology in some states radicalise to such an extent as to become genocidal? Can the causes of radicalisation be seen as internal or external? Examining the ideological evolution in the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust and during the break up of...

Since the late 1920s, social democracy has been preeminent in the politics of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, through dominant parties and ideological hegemony of the centre-left. The Nordic Model of Social Democracy relates the concept of the Nordic model...

This book traces the development of the political institutions, electoral systems, parties, civil society, economic and social policies and foreign affairs of the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania over the last quarter century.

In America, liberals continue to vote for their favorite candidate so long as she has a capital D next to her name. But they need to stop and think -- why? This compendium of all the reasons liberals have for being liberal shows just how silly and...

In this thought-provoking work, H. H. John argues for the importance of mercy and forgiveness as crucial components of a just and equitable society. Drawing on philosophical and theological traditions, John makes a compelling case for the pardoning power...

This collection brings together the major works of Edmund Burke, one of the most influential political thinkers of the late 18th century. Burke's writings on the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the nature of government have had a lasting...

Discover the tactics and strategies used by Communist lawyers to subvert the legal system in this eye-opening book from the Central Intelligence Agency. Drawing on declassified documents and firsthand accounts, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into...

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a nineteenth-century French philosopher and socialist whose contributions played an integral role in anarchist and socialist thought. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Proudhon's political theories, including his ideas...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Revolutionary Education, Theory and Practice for Socialist Organizers Promoting socialist consciousness is one of the central tasks of building a revolutionary movement in the U.S. This requires the organized and intentional efforts of an...

This book is a unique account of trade union and political struggles in the Morris Motors (later British Leyland) car assembly plant in Cowley, where Alan Thornett began work in 1959. He became a shop steward for the lorry drivers, deputy TGWU convener...

Kevin Keating is a trade union activist, a long-standing opponent of social partnership in the Irish Trade Union movement and advocate of rank and file organisation. Jonathan Morrison is a researcher with a wide knowledge of the political development of...

The dream of America flowered from an idea that was irrational and audacious-a man from LaMancha "impossible dream". Every American must know what dreams people were arguing about 100 years ago.It all began with an intellectual disagreement of abstract...

While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and...

Japan's nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly visible ways.Hall investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan's ongoing historical and territorial disputes. He explores the emergence of two...

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West's defining conflict in the modern age. Drawing on a plethora of evidence from politics and culture in the West, it argues that these two positions,...

This book explores the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Western Europe, North America and beyond from 2001 and onwards. Driven by terror attacks and other moral shocks, the anti-Islamic cause has undergone four waves of transnational...

The paperback edition of the inspirational story of the first black to hold a Republican leadership position--J.C. Watts, Jr.

This book provides the information that Liberals do not want you to know. With over four decades of experience as a military officer and senior intelligence analyst, John T. Armeau provides analysis, facts, humor, and personal stories about the "Thought...

Marked by cultural revolution and bold, new ways of thinking and living, including revolutions in philosophical thought, economic practices, and cultural touchstones such as music and dress, the 1960s ushered in a new era. However, in Generation '68: The...

दादा धर्माधिकारी एक व्यक्ति से अधिक व्यक्तित्व थे- सर्वोदय-दर्शन के जीवन्त प्रतीक पुरुष! जीवन-समर्थक गतिविधियों के प्रति समर्पित दादा ने अनासक्त- योग की ऐसी प्रबल साधना की, कि सांसारिक स्वार्थों से परे होकर सर्वोदय के पहरुए के रूप में आजन्म खड़े रहे।...

कैरेबियाई देशों में हिन्दी शिक्षा ओर सूरीनाम हिन्दी परिषद शीर्षक से इस पुस्तक को मैंने उस समय पूरे विश्व में हिन्दी की अलख जगाने वाले देश के प्रधानमंत्री स्व. अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी जी को उनकी कविता 'जंग न होने देंगे' के अंग्रेजी अनुवाद सहित समर्पित की।...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: 1, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten, mit denen man den Zuckerkonsum in...