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Free Download Martha Doyle, "The politics of old age: Older people’s interest organisations and collective action in Ireland"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0719090474 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 0.4 mb
The politics of old age in the twenty first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life. An important aspect is the manner in which older people and their representative groups are given the opportunity to articulate their interests in the policy-making process. Drawing upon key literature in political science, social gerontology and cultural sociology, The politics of old age explores the relationship between ageing, politics and representation. It reveals the complexity of older people’s representation and how the power the organisations exercise, their legitimacy and existence remain highly contingent on government policy design, political opportunity structures and the prevailing cultural and socioeconomic milieu.

Free Download Janice Nittoli, "The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0801450853 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.5 mb
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. The tactics that have been employed to suppress voting in recent elections are not novel, she finds, but rather build upon the strategies used by a variety of actors going back nearly a century and a half. This continuity, along with the shift to a Republican domination of voter suppression efforts for the past fifty years, should inform what we think about reform policy today.

Free Download Ingolfur Bluhdorn, Ian Welsh, "The Politics of Unsustainability: Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0415466202 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.8 mb
Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues to grow, and the forceful economic development of countries such as China and India reinforces concerns that the world is moving further away from, rather than closer towards the ideal of sustainability. Given the proven failure of ecological modernisation strategies to secure sustainability, the traditional question "How may our established lifestyles and socio-economic practices be made more sustainable?" needs to be supplemented by a second, equally important, question: "How do advanced modern consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable?" Put differently, traditional research into the politics of sustainability needs to be supplemented by a new line of research into the politics of unsustainability. Exploring the recent transformation of eco-political discourses and a variety of ways in which the unfolding paradox of sustaining the unsustainable is being managed, the present volume pioneers this new research agenda.

Free Download David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel, Avery Plaw, "The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 1): Data Protection, Homeland Security and the Labor Market"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367677881, 0367359413 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 0.8 mb
This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on the governmental, economic and security issues and the study of the complex relationship between citizens and government.

Free Download Thomas Dietz, A. Claire Cutler, "The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138390879 | EPUB | pages: 330 | 0.9 mb
This edited volume provides critical reflections on the interplay between politics and law in an increasingly transnationalized global political economy. It focuses specifically on the emergence and operation of new forms of governance that are developing through a variety of transnational contractual practices, institutions, and laws in multiple sectors and areas of economic activity.

Free Download Joseph Chinyong Liow, "The Politics of Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: One Kin, Two Nations"
English | 2004 | pages: 255 | ISBN: 0415341329 | PDF | 1,2 mb
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Indonesia and Malaysia, focusing especially on how the relationship has developed in the last fifty years. It argues that the political relationship between the two countries has been largely defined by rivalry, despite the fact that the processes of national self-determination began by emphasising Indo-Malay fraternity. It shows how the two countries have different, contested interpretations of Indo-Malay history, and how the continuing suspicion of Javanese hegemony which defined much of the history of the Indo-Malay world is also a key factor in the relationship.

Free Download Margaret Sprout, "The Context of Environmental Politics: Unfinished Business for America’s Third Century"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813154669 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.7 mb
Now familiar to all is the cry that present rates of pollution, ecological disruption, and depletion of resources are leading inevitably to worldwide disaster. A multitude of immediate needs, however, compete for the staggering sums required to save the environment, and the reduction of consumption which must accompany such expenditures holds little popular appeal. The decisions, therefore, must ultimately be political ones―but what choices are governments to make?

Free Download Ilker Atac, Kim Rygiel, Maurice Stierl, "The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138734926, 0367143062 | EPUB | pages: 170 | 0.8 mb
Over the past two years, large-scale migratory movements to Europe have gained worldwide attention, and have prompted ever-greater desires to govern and control them. At the same time, we have seen the emergence of political struggles for rights to movement and demands for greater social justice, in both the global ‘north’ and ‘south’. Throughout the world, political mobilizations by refugees, irregularized migrants and solidarity activists have emerged, demanding and enacting the right to move and to stay, struggling for citizenship and human rights, and protesting the violence and deadliness of contemporary border regimes.

Free Download J.R. Oldfield, "Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0714644625 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.8 mb
In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain.

Free Download Frank Fischer, "Politics, Values, And Public Policy: The Problem Of Methodology"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367299267, 0367283808 | EPUB | pages: 246 | 0.8 mb
Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of public policy. It is designed to move policy evaluation beyond its current emphasis on efficient achievement of goals, focusing instead on the assessment of the acceptability of the goals themselves, emplo