Political ideologies and movements Books

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of the 'end of ideology' thesis, not as a theoretical stance but as a reaction to what appears to have been the decline of major ideological families, such as socialism, in a changing world order. Globalization,...

The relationship between a head of government (head of the executive branch) and a nation's parliament or legislative assembly (the legislative branch) has long been the focus for comment and analysis - for example, has the prime minister in the United...

The countries of the former Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union have exhibited remarkable diversity in their post-communist regime paths. Whereas some states have become demonstrably more democratic and have moved in the space of fifteen years from the...

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of...

This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements in different regions of the world,...

Renée Moreau Cunningham's unique study utilizes the psychology of C. G. Jung and the spiritual teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. to explore how nonviolence works psychologically as a form of spiritual warfare, confronting and...

Embodying Democracy analyzes the politics of electoral reform in eight postcommunist states including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine. By exploring the multiple factors that shaped the design of...

Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with past revisionist attempts. Focusing its analysis on the British Labour Party and the Italian Left, this...

In the first comprehensive treatment of its kind, Bobo Lo examines the course of Russian foreign policy in the decade following the Soviet collapse. Adopting a conceptual approach, he identifies the principal ideological and institutional factors that...

Paul Wetherly provides a restatement and defence of the classical Marxist theory of the state, developing an analytical approach that draws on G.A. Cohen's functional interpretation of Marx's theory of history. Instrumentalist and structuralist arguments...

Russia's attempt to replace the failed Soviet system and its command economy with a capitalist, democratic society has produced a health and social welfare crisis, at considerable human cost. Russia's Torn Safety Nets presents a series of essays by...

The writers in this book question whether there may be a reversion to an authoritarian system in Russia.

Dr. Velynchenko's fascinating new work compares Soveit with Polish accounts of Ukraine's past, examines how "national history" was written and how its interpretation changed in each country.

There has been a high level of conflict in American politics in recent years. Massive disagreements over government policies, including health care, seem to have pitted one group of Americans against another. In addition, politicians in different parties...

A small group of "elites" is undermining America. They've been making the people poorer while they get rich, taking away our jobs but never losing theirs, violating our rights while protecting their own, and putting us in danger while they remain...

DescriptionThe Ram temple issue has been at the epicentre of Indian politics since the mid1980s. The question-'mandir or masjid'- dominated political discourse withoutan apparent resolution - until the Supreme Court delivered its judgement on 9November...

Peter Kropotkin: Anarchistische MoralLesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-SchriftGroßformat, 210 x 297 mmBerliner Ausgabe, 2022Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor BorkenLa Morale anarchiste. Erstdruck: 1889. Hier nach der...

Erich Mühsam: Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat. Was ist kommunistischer Anarchismus?Entstanden: 1932. Erstdruck: Fanal-Verlag Erich Mühsam, Berlin, 1933.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth...

Michail Bakunin: Gott und der StaatDieu et l'Etat. Genève: Imprimerie Jurassienne, 1882. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Max Nettlau, Leipzig: C. L. Hirschfeld, 1919.Vollständige Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2015...

Oscar Wilde: Der Sozialismus und die Seele des MenschenThe Soul of Man under Socialism. Ertdruck 1891 in The Fortnightly Review. Hier in deutscher Übersetzung von Hedwig Lachmann und Gustav Landauer, Schnabel, Berlin 1904.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Chemnitz (politische Systeme und Institutionen), Veranstaltung: Konzepte und Akteure der inneren und äußeren...

Who needs to read this book? INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT MORE DISCERNMENT• You believe there's something wrong with the government• You question the pandemic story• You want to understand the methods used to deceive you• You want to be victorious in an...

Dear Democrat, Trump will not allow fair elections in November. He will steal the election like every other fascist dictator. Everything he is doing right now is in preparation of that. Trump already knows that he will not leave in November, whether he...

In The Rwandan Tutsis, Eugenie Mujawiyera, a young Rwandan Tutsi woman, discusses the story of her ancient ethnicity, weaving into her narrative the dramatic events which make up Rwandan history from independence to the present day. While the Tutsi are...

By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to...

"What Catalans Want" takes a concerned look at Catalonia at a time when the country's political future as a Spanish autonomous region is being questioned for the first time since it came into being in 1980. It does so by talking to 30 representative...

This book traces both authoritatively and analytically, the development of the ideas relating to the modern conceptualized understanding of the notions of Democracy and Capitalism.

This is Oscar Wilde's long -- and remarkable -- essay on socialism. It's not what you'd think, if you know just a little of his biography. Wilde foresaw -- from his time, long before it'd been tried as a principle of governance -- that socialism was a...

Today the integrity and unity of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are under attack by the Progressive political movement. And yet, writes Larry P. Arnn:"The words of the Declaration of Independence ring across the ages. The...

A Solution to the Problem of Authority. Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. x, [19]-398 pp. This work was intended to be a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917). Here Laski argues that sovereignty is best...

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a wave of political violence swept across the globe, causing widespread alarm. Described by the media of the day as "propaganda of the deed," assassinations, bombings and assaults carried out by...

G. K. Chesterton's famous thesis explores the subjects of poverty, agriculture, machinery, capital gain, and concentration of wealth from an anti-capitalist viewpoint.This fascinating volume argues the threat to smaller businesses as corporate companies...

A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley's book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a...

Self-Government Part 2: Communalverfassung Und Verwaltungsgerichte In England (1871) is a book written by Rudolph Gneist. It is a comprehensive study of the communal constitution and administrative courts in England during the 19th century. The book...

Zionism And The Jewish Future: By Various Writers (1916) is a collection of essays and speeches written by prominent Jewish leaders and intellectuals at the time. The book focuses on the Zionist movement, which aimed to establish a Jewish homeland in...