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Free Download Frank Stilwell, "Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy"
English | ISBN: 1035334240 | 2024 | 520 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This Handbook provides an overview of established and cutting-edge contributions to political economic thought. Chapters by leading and emerging scholars showcase the diverse approaches and productive debates among researchers.

Free Download Theodore H Cohn, "Global Political Economy Ed 8"
English | ISBN: 0367512505 | 2020 | 446 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context and has been updated to cover the rise of populism, Brexit, the USMCA, US-China trade wars, tariffs, refugees and global migration, the Keynesian-monetarist debate, Fordism, automation, the "gig" economy, global value chains, climate change, cryptocurrencies, and the residual effects of global economic crises and regional relationships and impacts. Written by leading IPE scholar Theodore Cohn, now joined by his prolific colleague Andy Hira, this book equally emphasizes theory and practice to provide a framework for analyzing current events and long-term developments in the global economy. This text is suitable for both introductory and advanced IPE courses.

Free Download Timur Kuran, "Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East"
English | ISBN: 1009320017 | 2023 | 350 pages | PDF | 6 MB
According to diverse indices of political performance, the Middle East is the world’s least free region. Some believe that it is Islam that hinders liberalization. Others retort that Islam cannot be a factor because the region is no longer governed under Islamic law. This book by Timur Kuran, author of the influential Long Divergence, explores the lasting political effects of the Middle East’s lengthy exposure to Islamic law. It identifies several channels through which Islamic institutions, both defunct and still active, have limited the expansion of basic freedoms under political regimes of all stripes: secular dictatorships, electoral democracies, monarchies legitimated through Islam, and theocracies. Kuran suggests that Islam’s rich history carries within it the seeds of liberalization on many fronts; and that the Middle East has already established certain prerequisites for a liberal order. But there is no quick fix for the region’s prevailing record of human freedoms.

Free Download Petra Ahrens, "European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times "
English | ISBN: 303094011X | 2022 | 311 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This open access book provides the first ever authoritative collection of scholarly insights, based upon original research, into the political groups of the EP tackling the fundamental changes since the Lisbon Treaty and the upsurge of radical right parties. It analyses political groups and their importance from multiple perspectives critically assessing their role and significance in EU politics. Each chapter is authored by leading scholars in the field, working on key topics in relation to political groups: political group formation and function, their role in parliamentary and EU policy-making, the way that Eurosceptic MEPs influence (or not) the Parliament, and the nature and form of interactions with external actors. In doing so, each chapter opens hitherto unexplored ‘black boxes’ in the political work of the EP, such as the internal practices of, and power relations within the political groups, and informal arenas of intra-group decision-making.

Free Download Ethics of Political Commemoration: Towards a New Paradigm
by Hans Gutbrod and David Wood
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031315936 | 172 Pages | True PDF | 3.18 MB

Free Download Ivan Cerovac, "Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy"
English | 2020 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 3030446042, 3030446018 | PDF | 3,0 mb
This compelling new book explores whether the ability of democratic procedures to produce correct outcomes increases the legitimacy of such political decisions. Mapping and critically engaging with the main theories of epistemic democracy, it additionally evaluates arguments for different democratic decision-making procedures related to aggregative and deliberative democracy.

Free Download Clyde W. Barrow, "Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science "
English | ISBN: 1800375905 | 2024 | 812 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An indispensable and exemplary reference work, this Encyclopedia adeptly navigates the multidisciplinary field of critical political science, providing a comprehensive overview of the methods, approaches, concepts, scholars and journals that have come to influence the discipline’s development over the last six decades.

Free Download Critical theory and the critique of political economy : on subversion and negative reason By Bonefeld, Werner
2014 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 1441161392 | PDF | 6 MB
Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business. It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society. Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx’s critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.

Free Download Bede Harris, "Constitutional Reform as a Remedy for Political Disenchantment in Australia: The Discussion We Need"
English | 2020 | pages: 279 | ISBN: 9811536015, 9811535981 | PDF | 2,6 mb
The central argument of this book explores the disillusionment that Australians feel with regard to the way politics is conducted. The book explores causes of that disillusionment, and argues that because these are ultimately traceable to defects in the constitution, it is only through constitutional reform that government can be improved.

Free Download Alan Siaroff, "Comparing Political Regimes: A Thematic Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition"
English | ISBN: 1487507771 | 2022 | 352 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
Comparing Political Regimes provides a current and comprehensive empirical assessment of the world’s 195 sovereign states. Alan Siaroff analyzes and classifies countries in terms of economic development, political evolution, and state strength, ultimately outlining and contrasting the aspects of four regime types: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, semi-open autocracies, and closed autocracies.