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Author : Adrian Leftwich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0416736009
Author : Adrian Leftwich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415555868
The book provides a clear framework for analyzing politics in all human groups from families to multinational companies, and from villages to modern nation states. Throughout, it is concerned to extend the range of politics beyond its usual institutional focus, to stress its interdisciplinary requirements and to expand the conception of politics in societies.
Author : David Osborne,Ted Gaebler
Publisher : Plume
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0452269423
"A landmark in the debate on the future of public policy."—The Washington Post.
Author : Adrian Leftwich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135025908
This book challenges conventional conceptions of politics which focus largely on the institutions of government and the associated struggles for power around them. It argues that politics is involved in all the activities of cooperation and conflict whereby people organize the use, production and distribution of human, natural and material resources. Found in all human groups, institutions and societies, politics everywhere influences and reflects the structures of power, social organization, culture and ideology. These central themes are illustrated by drawing on a wide range of societies, including the !Kung hunter-gatherers, the pre-Columbian Aztecs and the Pastoral Maasai, as well as modern Britain and Third World societies from Chile to China. Other examples - of village communities, a typical university department and the World Bank - show how institutions may also be analyzed in terms of the definition of politics used here. It is equally central to the argument that many of the most critical problems occurring in societies can be attributed to their politics, and this theme is explored looking at such problems as poverty, famines, epidemics, violence and unemployment in Britain and throughout the world.
Author : Yasmeen Abu-Laban,Radha Jhappan,Francois Rocher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442604384
It is no longer sufficient to examine discrete nation-states in isolation from each other. In Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations, prominent authors from Canada, the United States, and Mexico explore the politics of redefining the institutional, economic, geographic, and cultural boundaries of North America. The contributors argue that the study of politics in the twenty-first century requires simultaneous attention to all levels (local, national, and international) as well as, increasingly, to continents. This argument is explored through the historical and contemporary social and political forces that have created competing visions of what it means to belong to a North American political community. In this process, new debates emerge in the book concerning the appropriate role for the state, as well as the meaning of sovereignty, democracy, and rights.
Author : Michiel Schwarz,Michael Thompson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : 081221319X
This book provides a down-to-earth account of the virtues and failures of environmental risk assessment. The assessment process involves politics, technology, and issues of social choice, an unstructured grouping that often presents contradictory and confusing standpoints: the virtues of science and the scientific method are extolled on the one hand and condemned on the other; no viable solutions are offered; and there is no real understanding of the issues being discussed. This chaotic situation is analyzed using cultural theory, to offer a powerful and groundbreaking account of such topics as technological decision making, politics, energy, engineering, and technology as a whole.
Author : Thibault Muzergues
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000727432
This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the extent that no politician or political party can exist today without claiming to be speaking on their behalf, and no politician can hope to win an electoral majority without building a coalition among these classes. Based on a four-fold analysis - Urban and Liberal Creatives, Suburban Middle Class, White Working Class and the Millennials - this book shows that while many have focused on a supply-side vision of politics to explain the upheavals in our political party systems, a vision centred on demand – and the Weberian take on political parties as vehicles for class interests – is more compelling. In 2016, our political world was changed forever by the victories of Brexit in the UK and Donald Trump in the USA. Far from being confined to the Anglosphere however, changes have also rocked the political landscapes in Europe. As the crisis of 2008 has shaken the foundations of Western societies, shrinking the size of the previously all-powerful middle class, new classes have emerged, and with them a new political demand that new (or old) parties have tried to satisfy. This book will be of key interest to political practitioners (politicians, advisors/consultants, journalists, political pundits, party builders, and government officials) and more broadly to academics, students and readers of European and Western politics, political sociology, party politics and political parties, and electoral demographics.
Author : Peter McHugh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773558182
Peter McHugh (1929–2010) was an internationally known sociologist within the field of anti-positivist social theory. As the only collection of McHugh's sole-authored writings, Redefining the Situation presents a comprehensive yet surprising view of this key theorist's influence in his field. Redefining the Situation is a compendium of McHugh's published and unpublished short-form writings, along with three new essays on McHugh's work, one by his long-time collaborator and friend Alan Blum. The collection contributes to the project of reinventing social theory by providing a new perspective from which to imaginatively rethink the development of sociology over the last fifty years. It locates McHugh's work not only within the modern and postmodern sociological tradition but also within contemporary social theory broadly, including hermeneutics, critical theory, deconstruction, and Hannah Arendt's political theory. The essays in this volume show the development of a method to analyze everyday behaviour in light of fundamental questions, exploring conflicts and connections between socialization and recidivism, fragmentation and ethnic cleansing, justice and affirmative action, teaching and university politics, and intimacy and aesthetics. This book moves beyond contemporary debates about big data/postmodernism, and along the way it identifies convergences in Anglo-American and Continental thought. By tracing the development of Analysis, the tradition of social inquiry, from its beginnings until today, Redefining the Situation re-establishes a prominent sociologist as one of the leading intellectuals in the field of interpretive social theory.
Author : L. Black
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230250475
A history of 1950s and 1960s British political culture, Redefining British Politics interrogates ideas, movements and identities bordering social and political change: consumer organisations; campaigns about TV, morality and culture; Young Conservatism; and how party politics used media like TV and was represented in popular culture.
Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781896357973
An engaging introduction to the vibrant history of the political left in Canada
Author : Kevin R. Carriere
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031076190
This book takes an insider perspective of the psychological issues of creating policy. Instead of considering what the products of policy are - often the case in psychological and political science work - this book examines the individual processes present in proposing and engaging with policy. The individual who engages with the policy and its meanings, the individual who resists the policy through conformity, and the individual who writes the policy for their own ideological purposes are all political actors in a psychological system. This book puts forward a cultural political psychology as the psychological study of the process of values, policy, and power dynamics. Through exploring public policy through private policy generation and individual interaction, this book pushes theoretical understandings of policy and activism in new ways. Centering on an individual’s own values in facing various policy restrictions from governments, parents, or peers, the importance of examining collective actions and also collective inactions of individuals is noted and expanded on in the text. The book provides applications of its arguments through examining the processes of unionization and actualized democracy. It seeks to point out new research avenues, including the hypogeneralization of values, one’s exclusion through activism, and everyday revolutions. This book addresses the centrality of the individual and meaning-making systems when considering where policy, politics, and psychology intersect. This book is primarily addressed to psychologists and political scientists interested in how to make change in public policy. While the experiences within the book are United States-centric, the thoughts and theories behind them are meant to be applicable to a wide variety of political systems. As there is currently very little literature on the topic, this book seeks to fill the gap and offer concise information on such an important dimension of cultural and political psychology. It is expected that the book will be of great interest for researchers in these areas, as well as for graduate-level students. In particular, this book will be relevant to researchers and students working on political psychology, public policy, development, community psychology, social representations, semiotics, activism, and social movements, to name a few.
Author : Michelle Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684854410
Explains the distinctive political orientation of America's young adults, outlining six key attributes, from lack of party affiliation to computer skills, that promise to transform the political landscape.
Author : Lawrence C. Mayer
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019623662
Over the past three decades, comparative politics has undergone significant change. It has been transformed from geographically defined studies to comparative analysis and the construction of explanatory theory. This book evaluates the current state of, and trends within, comparative politics. The author reviews the literature in the field and the major topics of research. He argues that the transformation of the discipline, the `revolution in comparative politics', fell well short of its expectations.
Author : H. T. Wilson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110854961
Author : G. Talshir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403919892
Has a new political ideology emerged in the aftermath of the Sixties? Gayil Talshir examines the ideological evolution of green parties in Britain and Germany and traces the formation and transformations of a new type of ideology - a modular ideology. In the 1980s, the 'extraordinary opposition', New Left and ecology movements developed, a distinct and social vision that paved the political road for the transformation of democracy. Talshir explores this journey from the politics of nature to changing the nature of politics.
