This book examines the increasingly topical subject of the political process and assesses: The nature of the relationship between mass media and the political process ; the impact of media-ization on existing political frameworks ; and the implications of media-ized politics.
This is an intelligent, insightful, and entertaining exploration of the serious issue of how modern science is being misrepresented and distorted. Is global warming just scaremongering by climatologists conspiring to protect their jobs? Is evolution 'just a theory?'. The answer …
"Learning Civil Societies explores democratic planning and governance in relation to civil society formation and social learning. In analysing the shifting contexts and perspectives that need to be considered in understanding engagement in civil societies, the contributors to th…
This book explores the transformation of the Japanese state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on two case studies: ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s, which experienced a disjuncture and significant transformation within the period w…
In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. The demos disintegrates into bits of human capital; concerns with justice bow to the mandates of growth rates, credit ratings, and investment climates; liberty submits to the imperative of human capita…
The author rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus and Sophocles, through t…
From the earliest times, people have used lotteries to make decisions--by drawing straws, tossing coins, picking names out of hats, and so on. We use lotteries to place citizens on juries, draft men into armies, assign students to schools, and even on very rare occasions, selec…
"Studies of village society and analysis of the relationship between the village and 'larger society' are rare to come by. This volume fills the gap by studying village politics and the changes brought about in rural society through political developments." "This volume will be …
