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  • Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea

    Defiant Institutionalization

    by Sun-Chul Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Modern Korea
    South Korea provides an intellectual challenge in the fields of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and the strong influence of social movements have accompanied steady democratization for more than two decades, despite major theories having predicted otherwise.This book examines how social movements in previously authoritarian contexts evolve after democratic transition ... Read more

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  • What Is Populism?

    by Jan-Werner Müller, Jan-Werner Muller ...
    Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway ... Read more

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  • For Common Things

    Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today

    by Jedediah Purdy ...
    Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary and cultural influences--from the writings of Montaigne and Thoreau to ... Read more

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  • Days of God

    The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences

    by James Buchan ...
    A myth-busting insider’s account of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that destroyed US influence in the country and transformed the politics of the Middle East and the world.The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran was one of the seminal events of our time. It inaugurated more than thirty years of war in the Middle East and fostered an Islamic radicalism that shapes foreign policy in the United States ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Understand Politics: Teach Yourself

    by Peter Joyce ...
    This book is a complete introduction to politics and the workings of government, Focusing on the institutions of government and the political systems operating in liberal democratic states, it will give you an understanding of the operations of these political systems, the key political themes and the differences that exist between them. Using contemporary examples from all over the world, this ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Political Ideas in the Romantic Age

    Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty.?Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Populist Vision

    by Charles Postel ...
    In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam power made America and the world a much smaller place. New technologies also made possible large-scale organization and centralization. Corporations grew exponentially and the rich amassed great fortunes. Those on the short end of these wrenching changes responded in the Populist revolt, one of the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Last Crusade

    by Michael A Palmer ...
    The United States, argues Michael A. Palmer, is engaged in a political crusade to modernize the Islamic world. Americanism is in the vanguard of modernityÆs relentless advance, promoting capitalist markets and democratic institutions. To compete, Islamic societies must adopt a more secular and material approach, as have the West and South and East Asia. But these principles conflict with Islamic ... Read more

    $17.95 USD

  • Facing the Challenge of Democracy

    Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation

    Edited by Paul M. Sniderman, Benjamin Highton ...
    Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature.Paul Sniderman ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Theresa May - The Downing Street Revolution

    by Virginia Blackburn, Virginia Urquhart-Stewart ...
    'A COUNTRY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – NOT JUST THE PRIVILEGED FEW'In these historically turbulent times, the United Kingdom will need a leader for the ages, and with those words the nation's new Prime Minister underlined her commitment to creating a better Britain.Only the second woman to hold office at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May inherits the most difficult political mandate of recent times: to ... Read more

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  • Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

    Mexico's PRI

    by Joy K. Langston ...
    When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources and without a strong national executive creates both opportunity and incentive for ambitious ... Read more

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  • This Is Not America

    by Alan Friedman ...
    What has happened to America, and what's become of the American dream?Behind the self-confident image of world's most influential country, we now see a nation tearing itself apart. The United States may be arguably the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering and division, a condition only exacerbated by the election of President Donald Trump.In this searing ... Read more

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