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Free Download Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life by Jason Blakely
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 1788216628 | 192 pages | EPUB | 0.44 Mb
Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and competing ideas in order to better understand why ideology in the modern era can be so divisive.

Free Download Miguel Vatter, "Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt"
English | ISBN: 0197546501 | 2021 | 360 pages | PDF | 2 MB
It is often assumed that modern democratic government has a special link with Christianity or was made possible due to Christianity. As a challenge to this belief and echoing a long-held assumption in the republican tradition, Hannah Arendt once remarked that "Washington’s and Napoleon’s heroes were named Moses and David." In this book, Miguel Vatter reconstructs the political theology of German Jewish philosophers during the twentieth century and their attempts to bring together the Biblical teachings on politics with the Greek and Roman traditions of political philosophy.

Free Download Heinrich Meier, "Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem "
English | ISBN: 0521856477 | 2006 | 206 pages | AZW3 | 454 KB
This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss’s thought, is the first to examine the theme that Leo Strauss considered to be key to his entire intellectual enterprise. The theologico-political problem refers to the confrontation between the theological and the political alternative to philosophy as a way of life. In this study, Heinrich Meier clarifies the distinction between political theology and political philosophy and sheds new light on the unifying center of Strauss’ philosophical work. The book is the culmination of his work on the general topic of the theologico-political problem.

Free Download Kenneth Olwig, Donald Mitchell, "Justice, Power and the Political Landscape"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0415448131, 0415483042 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 3.2 mb
Landscape is now on the agenda in a new way. The increasing interest in justice, power and the political landscape expresses a sea change occurring in the meaning of landscape itself, from landscape as scenery to landscape as polity and place. As Lionella Scazzosi argues "The meaning of the term ‘landscape’ has become broader than that of a view or panorama, which characterized many national protection laws and policies until the middle of the 20th century, and that of environment or nature, to which it has often been limited during the recent years of environmentalist battles." This is reflected in the new European Landscape Convention, for which: "’Landscape’ means an area, as perceived by people." The tide thus has turned towards J. B. Jackson’s view of landscape as not "a scenic or ecological entity but as a political or cultural entity, changing in the course of history." It is in this socio-political context that it becomes necessary to consider the role of power, and the importance of justice, in the shaping of the landscape as an area of practice and performance with both cultural and environmental implications.

Free Download Garrison Nelson, "John William McCormack: A Political Biography"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1628925418, 1628925167 | EPUB | pages: 848 | 3.0 mb
In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public’s mind. John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack’s triumphs.

Free Download Tarek Osman, "Islamism: A History of Political Islam from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Rise of ISIS"
English | ISBN: 0300230966 | 2017 | 328 pages | PDF | 17 MB
An incisive analysis of Islamist movements in the Middle East

Free Download Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa "
English | ISBN: 1009441612 | 2024 | 350 pages | PDF | 56 MB
This pathbreaking work integrates African countries into broader comparative theories of how spatial inequality shapes political competition over the construction of markets, states, and nations. Existing literature on African countries has found economic cleavages, institutions, and policy choices to be of low salience in national politics. This book inverts these arguments. Boone trains our analytic focus on the spatial inequalities and territorial institutions that structure national politics in Africa, showing that regional cleavages find expression in both electoral competition and policy struggles over redistribution, sectoral investment, market integration, and state design. Leveraging comparative politics theory, Boone argues that African countries’ regional and core-periphery tensions are similar to those that have shaped national economic integration in other parts of the world. Bringing together electoral and economic geography, the book offers a new and powerful map of political competition on the African continent.

Free Download Ndongo Samba Sylla, "Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt "
English | ISBN: 1802624848 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South’s debt back into the spotlight. With declining export earnings and tax revenues, many countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia have found themselves objectively unable to service their foreign currency debt. This situation, reminiscent of the international debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, is the backdrop of the 38th volume of the Research in Political Economy series edited by Ndongo Samba Sylla.

Free Download Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music"
English | ISBN: 0226923002 | 2019 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In I’d Fight the World, Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics, from the nineteenth-century rise of fiddler-politicians to more recent figures like Pappy O’Daniel, Roy Acuff, and Rob Quist. These performers and politicians both rode and resisted cultural waves: some advocated for the poor and dispossessed, and others voiced religious and racial anger, but they all walked the line between exploiting their celebrity and righteously taking on the world. La Chapelle vividly shows how country music campaigners have profoundly influenced the American political landscape.

Free Download Zsuzsa Csergö, Ada-Charlotte Regelmann, "Europeanization and Minority Political Agency: Lessons From Central and Eastern Europe"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367586738, 1138614408 | EPUB | pages: 108 | 1.1 mb
Zsuzsa Csergö is Associate Professor and Head of the Political Studies Department at Queen’s University in Canada. She is also the President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). Her research addresses questions of nationalism, democratization, and the influence of EU integration on state-minority relations in post-Cold War Europe.