Practical Politics 71

En un momento como el actual, en el que los ciudadanos manifiestan escasa confianza en los máximos representantes de la democracia española y los candidatos a serlo, nuestra sociedad demanda más y m……続きを見る

Can security automata (robots and AIs) make moral decisions to apply force on humans correctly? If they can make such decisions, ought they be used to do so? Will security automata increase or decre……続きを見る

The development and introduction of a new technology to society can be viewed as an experimental process, full of uncertainties, which are only gradually reduced as the technology is employed. Unexp……続きを見る

Die Bundestagswahl 2017 hat gezeigt: Das Wahlsystem für den Deutschen Bundestag bedarf dringend einer erneuten Reform. Das im Jahr 2013 zuletzt reformierte Bundestagswahlgesetz gilt als zu komplizie……続きを見る

Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three ……続きを見る

America’s number one citizen Ralph Nader’s latest book shows us how unchecked corporate power has led to the wrecking ball that is the Trump presidency. Nader brings together the outrages of the Tru……続きを見る

A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you, how to empathize with them, and how to (possibly) change their minds America is more polarized th……続きを見る

Bikers and hikers. Sex workers and social conservatives. Agencies and activists. The people involved in planning for a siteーor a communityーcan be like the Hatfields and McCoys. And the process bri……続きを見る

When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based ……続きを見る

This book analyses the exponential growth of independent news portal (INPs) in Malaysia and discusses the extent of impacts generated from these portals in Malaysian electoral conduct especially dur……続きを見る

Politicians distribute money to voters during campaigns in many low-income democracies. Many observers call this practice 'vote buying'. Money for Votes develops an alternative theory of electoral c……続きを見る

Global partnerships have transformed international institutions by creating platforms for direct collaboration with NGOs, foundations, companies and local actors. They introduce a model of governanc……続きを見る

This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s politic……続きを見る

True Tales from the Campaign Trail finds Democratic and Republican political consultants putting aside their differences to offer entertaining and honest insights into the art of the political campa……続きを見る

To get a better sense of power dynamics in global politics, this book presents an innovative theoretical framework, combining a critical engagement with, and further development of, Michel Foucault’……続きを見る

Around the world, citizens have lost faith in their political and economic institutionsーleading to unprecedented levels of political instability and economic volatility. From Moscow to Brussels, fr……続きを見る

Commentaries on today's federal politics of climate change and clean energy technologies like wind, solar and energy efficiency. The author highlights efforts of the Trump administration to roll bac……続きを見る

The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of ‘the ghetto’ over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchi……続きを見る

¿La justicia es igual para todos? Sí, es igual… para todos los iguales. Desde la primera sensación del juez Castro al encontrar, por casualidad, una carpeta con el núcleo escandaloso del Caso Nóos, ……続きを見る

Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies, power originates with citizens. While citizen participation in government remains a central tenet of dem……続きを見る

For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the ……続きを見る

Mapping BRICS Media is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the emerging media landscape in the world’s most dynamic and fastest growing markets. This pioneering collection focuses on on……続きを見る

This book presents essays from Comparative Politics which analyze the Third World in terms of commonally shared intra-state dynamics. It draws attention to the internal attitudinal, behavioral, and ……続きを見る

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere, which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass media. The media draw together the different strands ……続きを見る

Ethiopia is the darling of development economists: since 2005, the country’s economic growth rate has consistently been over the 10% mark. Ethiopia is also a regional superpower with political influ……続きを見る

Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationalism of the rich’, defined as a type of nationalist d……続きを見る

As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful devol……続きを見る

Over the last decade, anti-government demonstrations worldwide have brought together individuals and groups that were often assumed unlikely to unite for a common cause due to differences in ideolog……続きを見る

"How are democracy and market reforms faring in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union? Is civil society expanding or shrinking? Are the media free or fettered by official constraints? To w……続きを見る

"Latin America constitutes a region well-endowed with sovereign nations, cultural differences, and varying states of development and political stability. The end of the cold war and the decline of r……続きを見る