Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Essays

The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election that ended the 12-year Liberal reign in Canadian politics and saw the House of Commons shift from one minority government to another. The chapters, composed by leading political writers, commentators, and pollsters, examine the strategies, successes, and blunders of the major players the Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Quebecois, and Greens and also explore the role of the media coverage and the performance and influence of public opinion polls.

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Over the years millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes. His television programs covering topics ranging from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas have made him one of America s most recognized and honored journalists. In these pages, Moyers presents, for the first time, a powerful statement of his own personal beliefs political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today s politics, Moyers delivers perceptive and trenchant insights into the American...

For over half a century, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) has been among the most visible of public intellectuals. His articulate and controversial best-selling books-including The Affluent Society, Economics and the Public Purpose, and The New Industrial State-and his very partisan liberal Democrat political and public service activities secured a place for him among the rich and famous of his time.

He worked as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, served as U.S. ambassador to India...

Radical politics have been defined in modern times-and distinguished from earlier traditions of protest-by the idea that economic, social and political structures are contradictory. Systems of exploitation create not only wealth and prosperity for the powerful, but at the same time bring into being the forces which ensure their own eventual downfall. But it is a large step from the general assertion that social forms contain their own contradictions to analysis of the specific contradictions which occur in a given historical context, their interaction and movement, and their possible...

Since 1964, the "Socialist Register" has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. This issue examines the new U.S.-led imperialist project that is currently transforming the global order, its impact on different regions of the world, and on gender, media, and popular culture.

Contributors and essays include:

Stephen Gill, American Supremacy and the New World OrderChris Rude, Financial Discipline: Imperial Strategy Since the Asian CrisisChandra Mohanty, Patriarchy in the New World OrderVivek Chibber, The New Imperialism and the South:...