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Free Download Nicholas J. Karolides, "Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds"
English | 2006 | pages: 639 | ISBN: 0816062706 | PDF | 2,0 mb
Examines the history and issues surrounding the censorship of works banned for their political content, including "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, "The Man Died" by Wole Soyinka, and "The Politics of Dispossession" by Edward Said.

Free Download Cass R. Sunstein, "Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict"
English | 1996 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 0195100824, 0195118049 | PDF | 14,0 mb
The most glamorous and even glorious moments in a legal system come when a high court recognizes an abstract principle involving, for example, human liberty or equality. Indeed, Americans, and not a few non-Americans, have been greatly stirred-and divided-by the opinions of the Supreme Court, especially in the area of race relations, where the Court has tried to revolutionize American society. But these stirring decisions are aberrations, says Cass R. Sunstein, and perhaps thankfully so. In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Sunstein, one of America’s best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking sides in broader, more abstract conflicts.

Free Download Carolyn M. Byerly, "Intersectionality, Political Economy, and Media"
English | ISBN: 1032516909 | 2024 | 208 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This textbook considers the critical relationship between gender, race, and class and the political economy of media, providing an accessible introduction for students.

Free Download How Democracy Works: Political Representation and Policy Congruence in Modern Societies By Martin Rosema, Bas Denters, Kees Aarts
2011 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 908555036X | PDF | 4 MB
In this book, a group of leading scholars analyzes the functioning of modern democracies by focusing on two basic principles: political representation and policy congruence. Drawing on recent survey data from a variety of national and international research projects, they demonstrate how political representation works and mostly leads to a fair degree of policy congruence between citizens and their representatives. They also present new insights on the sources of satisfaction with democracy and the impact of the economy on elections and political trust. This book is published on the occasion of the retirement of Jacques Thomassen as distinguished professor of political science at the University of Twente. The contributors include Russell Dalton, Hans‐Dieter Klingemann, Pippa Norris, Ola Listhaug, Hanne Marthe Narud, Jan van Deth, Peter Mair, Cees van der Eijk, Hermann Schmitt, Sören Holmberg and Rudy Andeweg. Martin Rosema, Bas Denters and Kees Aarts are affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and the Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) at the University of Twente.

Free Download Hobbes and the Paradoxes of Political Origins By Matthew H. Kramer
1997 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0333683692 | PDF | 11 MB
This book expounds an analytical method that focuses on paradoxes – a method originally associated with deconstructive philosophy, but bearing little resemblance to the interpretive techniques that have come to be designated as ‘deconstruction’ in literary studies. The book then applies its paradox-focused method as it undertakes a sustained investigation of Thomas Hobbe’s political philosophy. Hobbes’s theory of the advent and purpose of government turns out to reveal the impossibility of the very developments which it portrays as indispensable.

Free Download Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate By Gregory Koger
2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0226449645 | PDF | 4 MB
In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn’t always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislative process as a game played by the rules in which votes are the critical commodity-the side that has the most votes wins. In this comprehensive volume, Gregory Koger shows, on the contrary, that filibustering is a game with slippery rules in which legislators who think fast and try hard can triumph over superior numbers.Filibustering explains how and why obstruction has been institutionalized in the U.S. Senate over the last fifty years, and how this transformation affects politics and policymaking. Koger also traces the lively history of filibustering in the U.S. House during the nineteenthcentury and measures the effects of filibustering-bills killed, compromises struck, and new issues raised by obstruction.Unparalleled in the depth of its theory and its combination of historical and political analysis, Filibustering will be the definitive study of its subject for years to come.

Free Download Alana Cattapan, "Feministing in Political Science"
English | ISBN: 1772127329 | 2024 | 424 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1427 KB + 6 MB
Feministing in Political Science examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. This critique of mainstream Canadian political science pushes beyond typical studies of institutions and political life. Instead, the collection draws together personal essays, pedagogical interventions, dialogues, and original research to reflect on how "feministing" as an orientation and as an analytic can centre experiential knowledge and reshape our understandings of political science. Collectively, these contributions lay bare the ways that power moves in and through the academy, naming the impacts on those who are most structurally precarious, all while pointing to futures available to us through refusal, solidarity, and hope.

Free Download Thomas P. Lyon, "Corporate Political Responsibility"
English | ISBN: 1009420844 | 2023 | 410 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Behind closed doors, many large companies quietly use their political clout to influence public policy on social and environmental issues – often in a negative direction. This book seeks to create a new norm for responsible political behaviour by corporations. It brings together leading scholars of corporate political responsibility with leading organizations that have been working to support companies in adopting more responsible political practices. The contributors present new evidence on what motivates firms to become more responsible and how markets view corporate ‘dark money’ spending. They also explain how activists have pressed companies to play a more responsible role in politics. With a particular focus on climate change and the important role of corporate lobbying in supporting or blocking climate policy, this volume leads the way forward for researchers, activists and citizens who seek a future in which corporate political influence is transparent, accountable and responsible.

Free Download Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy By Suman Gupta
2001 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0745317553 | PDF | 4 MB
This book is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today.Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neo-liberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion–that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will.

Free Download Ofer Feldman, "Communicating Political Humor in the Media: How Culture Influences Satire and Irony "
English | ISBN: 9819707250 | 2024 | 321 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This anthology of studies is a follow-up to Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire, and Parody. It further examines political humor as a distinct sub-discipline of political communication, influenced and shaped by a country’s culture. The book’s contributors, experts drawn from the academic fields of political science, communication, linguistics, sociology, culture studies, political psychology, and others, offer an assortment of studies from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on political humor in the media, the authors offer a panorama of political humor―including political satire, parody, and cartooning―in Spain, Poland, Montenegro, Turkey, Japan, Australia, Iran, Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, and Indonesia, among others. They detail political humor’s multifaceted and versatile nature, suggesting that national culture and political humor expressed in the news media are intertwined; thus, understanding political humor requires looking at the cultural landscape of a given country or society. The book helps readers to better understand the factors that shape political humor across the globe in a variety of political and media systems.