Oxford University Press, 2002. — 560 p. — ISBN13: 9780195142907. The second edition of "Takin' it to the streets" revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents of the 1960s that has become the leading reader on the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 319 p. This book addresses a major problem in contemporary American higher education: deprivations of free speech, due process, and other basic civil liberties in the name of favored political causes. Downs begins by analyzing the nature and evolution of the problem and discusses how these betrayals of liberty have harmed the truth-seeking...
Basic Books, 2001. — 384 p. Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression
New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-0-231-70048-1 It is said that war is rooted in the vested interests of the ruling class, but haven't democracies proved to be just as bellicose as other states? It is believed that political disputes should be settled by civilized negotiations, but what if the adversary is not, by accepted standards, "civilized"?...
ISBN: 0521846951 Cambridge University Press, 2005 . - 344 p. This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behavior. These changes are roughly predictable because they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernization theory presented here. Drawing on a massive...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 279 p. One of the chief tasks facing political leaders is to build and maintain unity within their parties. Party Discipline and Parliamentary Politics examines the relationship between party leaders and Members of Parliament in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, showing how the two sides interact and sometimes clash. Christopher J....
Routledge, 2006. — 557 p. 1 French political traditions in a changing context A legacy of conflict The régime The Church The politics of class Le parti du mouvement et le parti de l’ordre Nationalisms State traditions The common core Liberty, equality, fraternity Dirigisme The state: image and reality The changing context of French political traditions Post-war boom: the trente...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 220 p. In this inquiry author inspect he problem of consensus in different position - in politics, social connection and others. What is consensus? How can we reach it, what use it have, what evaluation does it have and can be consensus the strong pillar of social order in the future.
New York : New York University Press, 2008. - 320 p. ISBN: 0814776035 Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency — from Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush — along with a discussion of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Focusing on blind spots in recent American presidential politics, Rubenstein examines symptomatic moments in political rhetoric, popular culture, and presidential...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 400 p. This original volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically how ‘culture’, defined in the widest sense, was exploited...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 335 p. In The Heart of Judgment, Leslie Paul Thiele explores the historical significance and present-day relevance of practical wisdom. Though primarily a work in moral and political philosophy, the book relies extensively on the latest research in cognitive neuroscience to confirm and extend its original insights. While giving credit to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 279 p. What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic increase in women’s participation in American politics and an explosion of research on women, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a...
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