Tag: Politics

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

Free Download Paul R. Gregory, "Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0817910352 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.3 mb
Drawing from Hoover Institution archival documents, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world’s first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the tragic story of Stalin’s most prominent victims:Pravdaeditor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina.

Free Download Carolyn Hirsh, "Politics, Death and Addiction: A Powerful Story of a Mother’s Reaction to Her Daughter’s Suicide"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1922175455 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.0 mb
Politics, Death and Addiction tells how an active Member of Parliament, psychologist and mother became addicted to alcohol and ‘pokies’, while rearing her granddaughter and working as a Member of Parliament, following her daughter’s suicide. Grounded in the reality of Labor Party politics and public policy making, it exposes the impact on Carolyn Hirsh’s public life of unacknowledged grief and undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. The book offers insight for others suffering from similar challenges, by providing a professional self-analysis. Through blending current dilemmas with childhood flashbacks, the reader gets a real sense of why Hirsh reacted as she did to the humiliation of being told to resign from the Labor Party over her misdemeanours. Politics, Death and Addiction is much more than a political who, what and when: Hirsh shines an unforgiving light on people and processes during her time in the media spotlight and beyond. The manuscript was shortlisted for the Finch Memoir Prize, 2013.

Free Download Kostas Vlassopoulos, "Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1845118456 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.0 mb
Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which ‘gave’ the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the globe is one of the most powerful driving motors in present-day geopolitics: not least in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, a lively and well informed treatment of the nexus between politics in antiquity and political discourse in the modern era is both timely and apposite. As Kostas Vlassopoulos shows, much can be learned about the practice of politics from a comparative discussion of the classical and the contemporary. His starting point is that the value of looking back to a political system with different assumptions and elements can help us think, and even shape, what the future of modern politics might be.

Free Download Tim Markham, "The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0719085284 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.5 mb
The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usually go unacknowledged. Is journalistic authority really only about doing the job well? Do the ethics of war reporting emerge simply from the ‘stuff’ of journalism? This book asks why it is that the authoritative reporter increasingly needs to appear authentic, and that success depends not only on getting things right but being the right sort of journalist. This, in turn, depends on the uncalculating mastery of practices both before and during a journalist’s career.

Free Download Susana Borras, Claudio Radaelli, "The Politics of the Lisbon Agenda: Governance Architectures And Domestic Usages Of Europe"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415689635 | EPUB | pages: 155 | 0.9 mb
In the year 2000, in Lisbon, the European Union launched an agenda for growth, jobs, sustainability and competiveness with a ten-year target. In 2010, the agenda was re-launched with different specific objectives but with the same final goals. Why do the European Union leaders engage with these ten-year plans? What exactly do they commit to when they do so? Do they learn from the results, or is this a rhetorical exercise that complex organizations need to raise attention to certain issues?

Free Download Inga M. Jacobs, "The Politics of Water in Africa: Norms, Environmental Regions and Transboundary Cooperation in the Orange-Senqu and Nile Rivers"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1441149821, 1628922907 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.0 mb
Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics. In Africa, for example, hydropolitics affect politics and policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. To investigate water politics, this unique work focuses on the issue transboundary water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa.

Free Download Jens Stissing Jensen, Matthew Cashmore, Philipp Späth, "The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Knowledge, Power and Governance"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367664879, 1138479659 | EPUB | pages: 182 | 1.0 mb
Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges. Socio-technical systems are at the heart of these challenges as they configure central aspects of urban life: from mobility and energy infrastructures to leisure activities and patterns of mobility. This observation has led to substantial interest in how societies might initiate and actively steer radical transitions in these systems in the pursuit of sustainable urban futures.

Free Download Theodore Rueter, "The Politics of Race: African Americans and the Political System"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1563245655, 1563245647 | EPUB | pages: 412 | 0.9 mb
A study of the relationship between race and American politics, organised around the institutions and processes of American government. It includes readings by individuals like Bill Clinton, Charles Hamilton, and Carol Swain, across a wide variety of ideological perspectives.

Free Download Xavier Mathieu, Pol Bargués-Pedreny, "The Politics of Peacebuilding in a Diverse World: Difference Exposed"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367729466, 0367209748 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 1.0 mb
This book challenges the understanding of ‘difference’ in the field of peacebuilding and offers new ways to consider diversity in the context of international interventions.