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Free Download Professor of Political Sociology Diane E Davis, "Political Power and Social Theory"
English | 2006 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 0762313404 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Volume 18 of the popular "Political Power and Social Theory" series is broken up into three parts examining political power, state formation, and economic development with examples from Africa, Russia, and Chile. It also looks at the status of opposition politics in America. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the field of political science and social theory. Part I examines political power, state formation, and economic development with examples from Africa, Russia, and Chile. Part II looks at the history and current status of opposition politics in America. Part III discusses scholarly controversy within the discipline with some of the field’s leading thinkers authoring chapters. With its international scope, this volume is a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in the field of political science and social theory.

Free Download Mike Wayne, "Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema"
English | 2001 | pages: 170 | ISBN: 0745316697, 0745316700 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Third Cinema is a cinema committed to social and cultural emancipation. In this book, Mike Wayne argues that Third Cinema is absolutely central to key debates concerning contemporary film practices and cultures. As a body of films, Third Cinema expands our horizons of the medium and its possibilities. Wayne develops Third Cinema theory by exploring its dialectical relations with First Cinema (dominant,commercial) and Second Cinema (arthouse,auteur). Discussing an eclectic range of films, from Evita to Dollar Mambo, The Big Lebowski to The Journey, Amistad to Camp de Thiaroye, Political Film explores the affinities and crucial political differences between First and Third Cinema. Third Cinema’s relationship with Second Cinema is explored via the cinematic figure of the bandit (Bandit Queen, The General, Eskiya). The continuities and differences with European precursors such as Eisenstein, Vertov, Lukacs, Brecht and Walter Benjamin are also assessed. The book is a polemical call for a film criticism that is politically engaged with the life of the masses.

Free Download Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination By David Laibman
2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0415619297 | EPUB | 6 MB
This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense. An economics-enriched political economy is, above all, empowering: working people in general can calculate, build models, think theoretically, and contribute to a human-worthy future, rather than leaving all this to their "betters."

Free Download S. Whitefield, "Political Culture and Post-Communism (St Antony’s Series)"
English | 2005 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 1403945209 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Our understanding of the dynamics of Communist systems was substantially improved by taking political culture into account. But how much does the concept of political culture add to our empirical understanding of post-Communist Russia? The book’s contributors engage with theoretical debates between political culture and competing ‘rational choice’ and institutionalist approaches to post-Soviet politics, and provide illustrative empirical studies of civic participation, views of national identity, the Russian criminal justice system and political violence.

Free Download Barbara Wejnert, "On the Cross Road of Polity, Political Elites and Mobilization "
English | ISBN: 1786354802 | 2016 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1176 KB
This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena. This includes exploring the underlying social roots or origins of politics and power; the organisation, management, and process of political power structure; and the effects of political decision-making and power structures on the surrounding society and culture.

Free Download New Challenges for Political Philosophy By Gerard Elfstrom
1997 | 211 Pages | ISBN: 0312164769 | PDF | 10 MB
The globalisation of economic activity and human life is the most potent force of the present era. This book examines the impact of this force on human political institutions and ideas. It develops the argument that globalization will erode the nation-state’s importance and transform the array of political ideas which accompany it. Sovereignty, nationalism, democracy, and political freedom will all be reshaped by globalization and must therefore be reexamined if they are to remain pertinent to human life. Many will rejoice in the decline of the nation-state for it has been a source of much human suffering in this century. However, its decline will bring important difficulties, among them a tyranny or powerlessness resulting from the lack of dominant political institutions, accentuated human alienation prompted by erosion of national ties and increased personal mobility, and a widening gulf between the world’s prosperous and impoverished.

Free Download Steven Englund, "Napoleon: A Political Life Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0674018036 | 2005 | 600 pages | PDF | 36 MB
Winner of the J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association

Free Download Ove Korsgaard, "N.F.S. Grundtvig: as a Political Thinker"
English | ISBN: 8757431418 | 2014 | 138 pages | PDF | 1529 KB
N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) is, beyond comparison, the most cited person in political debates in Denmark over the past 150 years. Even though Grundtvig is not known abroad as a political thinker (his educational writings have attracted far more attention internationally), he is rightly regarded as the single individual who has had the greatest importance in the formation of the Danish nation. This book presents a biography of N.F.S. Grundtvig and is an analysis of his contribution to current political science. [Subject: Biography, Politics, Danish Studies, History]

Free Download Mongolia: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments By Ian Jeffries
2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 041542545X | PDF | 4 MB
With Mongolia fast becoming a significant exporter of minerals and raw materials, this book provides a full account of political and economic events in this important country. It focuses on the period since the establishment of the Soviet-backed Mongolian People’s Republic in 1924 and the transition towards a democratic free market system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Covering key topics in Mongolia’s recent development, the book looks at: economic and political reform process the role of the private sector foreign aid trade and investment the attempts to tackle pressing issues such as growth, inflation, unemployment, poverty, problems of climate and weather, and pollution. This book is an important resource for anyone seeking to understand this fascinating country’s affairs.

Free Download Bidyut Chakrabarty, "Modern Indian Political Thought"
English | ISBN: 1032509082 | 2023 | 398 pages | PDF | 28 MB
This book is an unconventional articulation of the political thinking in India in a refreshingly creative manner in more than one way. Empirically, the book becomes innovative by providing an analytically more grasping contextual interpretation of Indian political thought that evolved during the nationalist struggle against colonialism. Insightfully, it attempts to unearth the hitherto unexplored yet vital subaltern strands of political thinking in India as manifested through the mode of numerous significant socio-economic movements operating side by side and sometimes as part of the mainstream nationalist movement. This book articulates the main currents of Indian political thought by locating the text and themes of the thinkers within the socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts in which such ideas were conceptualised and articulated.