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Free Download Elite Networks: The Political Economy of Inequality by Vuk Vuković
English | May 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0197774237 | True PDF | 384 pages | 31.5 MB
Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power.

Free Download Yoshinori Nishizaki, "Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand "
English | ISBN: 0299338304 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The political history of Thailand since the overthrow of absolute monarchy in 1932 has conventionally been interpreted as a long series of popular struggles for representative democracy and against military authoritarian rule. Yoshinori Nishizaki argues that this history can be better understood as one of struggles by elite political families for and against "dynastic democracy"-a form of democracy that is characterized by the patrimonial transmission of power between members of select ruling families. Dynastic Democracy suggests it is these familial-based contestations for political ascendancy that underlie the tumultuous politics of Thailand, a country that has experienced no fewer than twenty-two coups over the course of the past century.

Free Download Katy Hayward, Elizabeth Meehan, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, "Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138361976, 1138196002 | EPUB | pages: 258 | 1.1 mb
This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the wider UK and European contexts in which they are nested. It makes a significant and unique contribution to wider European and international debates over state and nation and contested borders, looking at the dialectic between political action and institutions, examining party politics, ideological struggle and institutional change. It goes beyond the binary approaches to Irish politics and looks at the deep shifts associated with major socio-political changes, such as immigration, gender equality and civil society activism. Interdisciplinary in approach, it includes contributions from across history, law, sociology and political science and draws on a rich body of knowledge and original research data.

Free Download Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology "
English | ISBN: 1942130910 | 2024 | 336 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discounting

Free Download Jim Seroka, "Developed Socialism in the Soviet Bloc: Political Theory and Political Reality"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367019272, 0367169142 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 1.2 mb
This book traces the evolution of Soviet and East European responses to the multifaceted pressures of a rapidly changing world and looks at the implications of ideological developments in the Soviet bloc for economic reforms, general policymaking, and political and social change. The authors discuss the concept of developed socialism and its essential components as seen in communist societies; analyze current policy and likely future policy directions in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia in light of the concept; and assess the impact that ideological trends have had, and are likely to have, on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in general.

Free Download Herbert E Alexander, Rei Shiratori, "Comparative Political Finance Among The Democracies"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 081338852X | EPUB | pages: 214 | 1.2 mb
This book is about the financing of politics, political parties, candidates, and elections. Recognized authorities have contributed excellent case studies from thirteen countries, presenting country-by-country comparisons and offering a conceptual framework that enables the reader to understand the context and implications of funding sources, campaign expenditures, and regulatory systems.

Free Download Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx: Beyond the Dualism of Realms (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) by Levy del Aguila Marchena, translated by Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre
English | November 24, 2021 | ISBN: 303082893X, 3030828964 | True EPUB | 302 pages | 0.5 MB
This book investigates communism in Marx’s writings, incorporating a consideration of communist politicity. The author outlines the arguments by which it is possible to sustain―from Marx―the idea that human emancipation against capital also means the elimination of the State, the public, and the political dimension of praxis. He also posits that the concrete tasks of the "management of the common" in a communist society require political mediations that allow us to confront the difference inherent to the personality of freely associated producers, as well as the ontological finitude from which no technical power can evade. Finally, assuming Marx as a starting point whose work remains an inescapable source for "thinking communism," the book proposes a research agenda from Marx and beyond to continue in this imperative task.

Free Download Martín Description research professor of political theory CONICET and IDAES Argentina and Re, "Chaos and Cosmos: The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges "
English | ISBN: 1538178672 | 2024 | 252 pages | PDF | 1391 KB
Chaos and Cosmos offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as a thinker of what continental twentieth century political theory called the political. While not a political writer in the traditional sense, Borges was indeed an author whose response to the advent of totalitarianism, in particular in its Nazi form, generated the most experimental, insightful, and rigorous short fiction and non-fiction political interrogation.

Free Download Anek Laothamatas, "Business associations and the new political economy of Thailand: From bureaucratic polity to liberal corporatism"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9813016051, 0367016346, 0367166216 | EPUB | pages: 202 | 1.1 mb
This book provides detailed empirical data regarding chambers of commerce, their peak organizations, and trade associations of Thailand that has moved away from a pure form of bureaucratic polity to liberal corporatism.

Free Download Tony Penikett, "Breaking Trail: A Northern Political Journey"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1412014611 | EPUB | pages: 278 | 0.4 mb
Political memoirs and more from a former Yukon Premier: the nature of the North, how to govern effectively, relations between aboriginal peoples and settlers and the fate of political ideals in the global marketplace.