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Conceptualizing Politics

Author : Furio Cerutti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317037502
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Politics written by Furio Cerutti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics is hugely complex. Some try to reduce its complexity by examining it through an ideological worldview, a one-size-fits-all prescriptive formula or a quantitative examination of as many 'facts' as possible. Yet politics cannot be adequately handled as if it were made of cells and particles: ideological views are oversimplifying and sometimes dangerous. Politics is not simply a moral matter, nor political philosophy a subdivision of moral philosophy. This book is devised as a basic conceptual lexicon for all those who want to understand what politics is, how it works and how it changes or fails to change. Key concepts such as power, conflict, legitimacy and order are clearly defined and their interplay in the state, interstate and global level explored. Principles such as liberty, equality, justice and solidarity are discussed in the context of the political choices confronting us. This compact and systematic introduction to the categories needed to grasp the fundamentals of politics will appeal to readers who want to gain a firmer grasp on the workings of politics, as well as to scholars and students of philosophy, political science and history.

The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion

Author : Christopher Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136643613
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion written by Christopher Hobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do different meanings of the concept of ‘democracy’ operate in democracy promotion? How do conceptual decisions influence real political events? How is policy and reflection on democracy promotion shaped by the way different practitioners and scholars understand democracy? The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion explores the way in which the meaning, content and context of ‘democracy’ are interpreted by different actors in democracy promotion, and how these influence political decisions. Introducing a theoretically new approach to the study of democracy promotion, the volume shows how the alternate ways that democracy can be understood reflects specific interpretations of political and normative ideals, as well as being closely tied to social power relations, interests, and struggles between political actors. With original contributions from some of the most prominent specialists on democracy promotion and democratization, the book examines a number of concrete cases of democracy promotion and contestation over democracy’s meaning. Re-examining democracy promotion at its time of crisis, this book will be of interest scholars and students of democracy and democratization, politics and international relations, international law, development studies and political theory.

Political Participation in a Changing World

Author : Yannis Theocharis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351394606
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Political Participation in a Changing World written by Yannis Theocharis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with which to study it. Political Participation in a Changing World will assist both scholars and students of political behaviour to systematically study new forms of political participation without losing track of more conventional political activities.

Conceptualizing International Practices

Author : Alena Drieschova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316511391
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing International Practices written by Alena Drieschova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new directions for international practice theory, demonstrating its key strengths and benefits as an innovative research perspective.

Carceral Geography

Author : Dominique Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317169786
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Carceral Geography written by Dominique Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ’punitive turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the ’carceral’ as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective.

Toward Nationalizing Regimes

Author : Diana T. Kudaibergenova
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987570
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Toward Nationalizing Regimes written by Diana T. Kudaibergenova and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2021 CESS Book Award The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this comparative study, Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991, Latvia and Kazakhstan, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy. What explains this difference in approaching nation-building after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What can a study of two very different trajectories of development tell us about the nature of power, state and nationalizing regimes of the ‘new’ states of Eurasia? Toward Nationalizing Regimes finds surprising similarities in two such apparently different countries—one “western” and democratic, the other “eastern” and dictatorial.

Conceptualizing the World

Author : Helge Jordheim
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789200377
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing the World written by Helge Jordheim and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is—and what was—“the world”? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of “world,” “globe,” or “earth” instead suggest something limited and absolute. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume concerns itself with this central paradox: that the complex, heterogeneous, and purportedly transhistorical dynamics of globalization have given rise to the idea and reality of a finite—and thus vulnerable—world. Through studies of illuminating historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth, each contribution helps to trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

Political Analysis

Author : Colin Hay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350318000
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Political Analysis written by Colin Hay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.

Metascience and Politics

Author : A. James Gregor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351309269
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Metascience and Politics written by A. James Gregor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central problem in political inquiry is the conceptual and linguistic informality of political science. For most of its history, the discipline has been largely pursued with the analytic and logical machinery of ordinary language. Likewise, there has been little effort to standardize how language is used, or to systematize theoretical procedures to insure methodological uniformity. In an effort to better understand and defend the research processes that attend, sustain, and foster the systematic credibility of political science, Gregor argues a special conceptual language is needed to enhance the rigor, replicability, articulation, and interpretation of political science's empirical findings. Gregor reviews the conceptual inventory of the social sciences in general with particular emphasis on distinctions between descriptive, theoretical, and normative language. He analyzes what might count as "objectivity" and "truth" in a given set of circumstances in an effort to standardize how political scientists make such distinctions. How "theory" and "explanation" might be assessed in less rigorous disciplines is also considered. Gregor is opposed to the postmodernist tendency to use "language games" in the social sciences that purport to close the gaps separating the discourses of knowledge, ethics and politics, but do so at the expense of clarity, rigor, and objectivity. In Gregor's view, these alternative perspectives have exploited vagueness and ambiguity in order to accomplish what they consider to be their political tasks. A substantial postscript to this edition traces some of the postmodernist perspectives to their origins in the works of particular individuals and to their history in the thought of twentieth-century Europe. Metascience and Politics attempts to address all these issues, with brevity and seriousness of purpose, in order to provide a defensible rationale for the scientific character of social and political studies. It will be of interest to political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and intellectual historians. A. James Gregor is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley and an adjunct professor at Command and Staff College, U.S. Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia. He has also been awarded the Order of Merit by the President of the Italian Republic for his contribution to Italy as a nation through his published works. He is the author of Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism, Interpretations of Fascism, Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time, and Marxism, China, and Development, all published by Transaction.

Domination and Global Political Justice

Author : Barbara Buckinx
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317633369
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Domination and Global Political Justice written by Barbara Buckinx and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power. Domination has again become a central political concern through the revival of the republican tradition of political thought (not to be confused with the US political party). However, normative debates about domination have mostly remained limited to the context of domestic politics. Also, the republican debate has not taken into account alternative ways of conceptualizing domination. Critical theorists, liberals, feminists, critical race theorists, and postcolonial writers have discussed domination in different ways, focusing on such problems as imperialism, racism, and the subjection of indigenous peoples. This volume extends debates about domination to the global level and considers how other streams in political theory and nearby disciplines enrich, expand upon, and critique the republican tradition’s contributions to the debate. This volume brings together, for the first time, mostly original pieces on domination and global political justice by some of this generation’s most prominent scholars, including Philip Pettit, James Bohman, Rainer Forst, Amy Allen, John McCormick, Thomas McCarthy, Charles Mills, Duncan Ivison, John Maynor, Terry Macdonald, Stefan Gosepath, and Hauke Brunkhorst.

Measuring Democracy

Author : Gerardo L. Munck
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801890934
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Measuring Democracy written by Gerardo L. Munck and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on years of academic research on democracy and measurement and practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the author presents constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies that promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice. He makes the case for reassessing how democracy is measured and encourages fundamental changes in methodology. He has developed two instruments for quantifying and qualifying democracy: the UN Development Programme's Electoral Democracy Index and a case-by-case election monitoring tool used by the OAS.

Media Politics

Author : Shanto Iyengar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393664874
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Media Politics written by Shanto Iyengar and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides crucial context for important recent developments

The Struggle with Time. 2nd edition

Author : Kari Palonen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 382589293X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle with Time. 2nd edition written by Kari Palonen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents in this volume a synthesis of his long-term studies on the conceptual history of politics. He offers a rhetorical history of the horizons of conceptualizing politics an activity in terms of nine topoi: irregularity, judgment, policy, deliberation, commitment, contestation, possibility, situation and play & game. He both constructs a schema for conceptualization of the spectrum of activities that are called politics and applies it to British, French and German debates on the concept since the nineteenth century.

Conceptualising Comparative Politics

Author : Anthony Petros Spanakos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317639049
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualising Comparative Politics written by Anthony Petros Spanakos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative politics often involves testing of hypotheses using new methodological approaches without giving sufficient attention to the concepts which are fundamental to hypotheses, particularly the ability of these concepts to ‘travel’. Proper operationalising requires deep reflection on the concept, not simply establishing how it should be measured. Conceptualising Comparative Politics – the flagship book of Routledge’s series of the same name – breaks new ground by emphasising the role of thoroughly thinking through concepts and deep familiarity with the case that inform the conceptual reflection. In this thought- provoking book, established academics as well as emerging scholars in the field collect (and invite) scholarship in the tradition of conceptual comparative politics. The book posits that concepts may be used comparatively as ‘lenses’, ‘building blocks’ and ‘scripts’, and contributors show how these conceptual tools can be employed in original comparative research. Importantly, contributors to Conceptualising Comparative Politics do not simply use concepts in one of these three ways but they apply them with careful consideration of empirical variation. The chapters included in this volume address some of the most contentious issues in comparative politics (populism, state capacity, governance, institutions, elections, secularism, among others) from various geographic regions and model how scholars doing comparative politics might approach such subjects. Concepts make possible scholarly conversations including creative confrontations across paradigms. Conceptualising Comparative Politics will challenge you to think of how to engage in conceptual comparative inquiry and how to use various methodologically sound techniques to understand and explain comparative politics.

The Digital Innovation Race

Author : Cecilia Rikap
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030894436
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Digital Innovation Race written by Cecilia Rikap and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to capture new trends in modern capitalism. It shows how giant corporations establish themselves as intellectual monopolies and how each of them builds and controls its own corporate innovation system. It presents an analysis of a new form of production where Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, and their counterparts in China, extract value and appropriate intellectual rents through privileged access to AI algorithms trained by data from organizations and individuals all around the world. These companies’ specific form of production and rent-seeking takes place at the global level and challenges national governments trying to regulate intellectual monopolies and attempting to build stronger national innovation systems. It is within this context that the authors provide new insights on the complex interplay between corporate and national innovation systems by looking at the US-China conflict, understood as a struggle for global technological supremacy. The book ends with alternative scenarios of global governance and advances policy recommendations as well as calls for social activism. This book will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners (both from national states and international organizations) and professionals working on innovation, digital capitalism and related topics.

Perspectives on Political Awareness

Author : Niels Nørgaard Kristensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303090394X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Political Awareness written by Niels Nørgaard Kristensen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume presents a comprehensive framework to understand political awareness. Political awareness has become an important part of research on political attitudes and political behavior since the publication of John Zaller's work on political opinion. The authors elaborate on his theory and present a new conceptualization, which stipulates that political awareness is the attentiveness, knowledge, and understanding of politics. Hence, the book discusses different aspects, such as the concept of political awareness, its formation, significance, measurement, and exploration. The result is a new framework that addresses conceptual, theoretical, and methodological questions, such as: What does the concept mean? How to study political awareness? How is it connected to other orientations? How do children and youth develop political awareness? Addressing researchers and graduate students, as well as scholars in political science, sociology, and education, this book is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of political awareness.

Political Innovation and Conceptual Change

Author : Terence Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521351904
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Political Innovation and Conceptual Change written by Terence Ball and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform political beliefs and behaviour undergo changes related to real political events. Having set out and discussed this theme, the editors and contributors go on to analyse the evolution of thirteen particular concepts, all central to political discourse in the western world. They include revolution, rights, democracy, property, corruption, public interest, public opinion, and ideology. The volume will be illuminating to political theorists, intellectual historians, and philosophers.