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Free Download Economic Elites, Political Parties and the Electoral Arena: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective by Felipe Monestier
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 204 Pages | ISBN : 3031461649 | 4.6 MB
This book delves into the intricate dynamics between economic elites and the political party system in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, particularly during their democratization phases in the twentieth century. It introduces a novel framework for comprehending the diverse political strategies adopted by these countries’ economic elites during this critical period. The central premise of this book is that the interplay between the cohesion of economic elites and the mobilization of popular sectors at specific historical junctures profoundly influences the nature of elite political involvement.

Free Download Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, "Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1350360813 | 2023 | 210 pages | EPUB, PDF | 15 MB + 2 MB
By bringing together philosophers whose work on political philosophy, intellectual history, and world philosophies pushes the boundaries of conventional scholarship, this collaborative collection opens up space in political philosophy for new approaches. Garrick Cooper, Sudipta Kaviraj, Charles W. Mills, and Sor-hoon Tan respond to the challenges James Tully raises for comparative political thought. Arranged around Tully’s opening chapter, they demonstrate the value of critical dialogue and point to the different attempts cultures make to understand their experiences. Through the use of methods from various disciplines and cultural contexts, each interlocutor exemplifies the transformative power of genuine democratic dialogue across philosophical traditions. Together they call for a radical reorientation of conceptual and intellectual readings from intellectual history including the Afro-modern political tradition, Indigenous philosophies, and the lived experiences of societies in Asia. This is an urgent methodological provocation for anyone interested in the ethical, conceptual, and political challenges of political thought today.

Free Download Baogang Guo, "China’s Quest for Political Legitimacy: The New Equity-Enhancing Politics "
English | ISBN: 0739122584 | 2010 | 234 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book examines the new equity-enhancing politics in China in the context of Chinese traditional cognitive patterns of political legitimacy and its implication for Chinese political development in the near future. Based on an analysis of the new governing philosophy, the generation of political elite, and a new set of public policies, the book reaffirms the emergence of a new Chinese polity that infuses one-party rule with limited electoral and deliberative democracies.

Free Download Samuel L. Boyd, "Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy"
English | ISBN: 1506480675 | 2023 | 325 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11.

Free Download Jeremy Snyder, "Appealing to the Crowd: The Ethical, Political, and Practical Dimensions of Donation-Based Crowdfunding"
English | ISBN: 019765813X | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1507 KB + 12 MB
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Free Download Massimo Modonesi, "Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy: Constructing the Political Subject"
English | 2013 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 0745334059, 0745334067 | PDF | 2,9 mb
In this bold and innovative book, Massimo Modonesi weaves together theory and political practice by relating the concepts of subalternity, antagonism and autonomy to contemporary movements in Latin America and elsewhere.

Free Download Cecile Laborde, John Maynor, "Republicanism and Political Theory"
English | 2008 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 1405155809, 1405155795 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory.

Free Download Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009355287 | 499 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
‘Political technology’ is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political consultants do more than influence media or run campaigns: they have also helped build parallel universes of alternative political reality. Hungary has used political technology to dismantle democracy. The BJP in India has used it to consolidate unprecedented power. Different countries learn from each other. Some types of political technology have become notorious, like troll farms or data mining; but there is now a global wholesale industry selling a range of manipulation techniques, from astroturfing to fake parties to propaganda apps. This book shows that ‘political technology’ is about much more than online disinformation: it is about whole new industries of political engineering.

Free Download Kir Kuiken, "Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism"
English | 2014 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0823257673 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it.

Free Download Corporate Political Responsibility
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009420836 | 409 Pages | PDF | 6 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.