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  • Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society

    Interdisciplinary Insights

    by David Laycock ...
    Liberalism, conservatism, populism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, agrarianism, labour pragmatism, socialism, and myriad other isms. Ideology is a ubiquitous, continuously innovating dimension of human experience, but its character and impact are notoriously difficult to pinpoint within political and social life. Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society demonstrates that the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis

    Edited by Juliette Faure, Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook offers a key interdisciplinary reference to advance ideology analysis.Expert contributors from the social sciences and humanities focus on the sources and construction of ideology and related processes of ideological transmission across time and space in political and social realms. Authors examine diverse forms of ideological activity, focusing on their interplay with institutions, ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Ideologies in Action

    Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas

    Edited by Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock, Maiken Umbach ...
    Ideologies in Action: Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas explores how political ideas move across geographical, social and chronological boundaries.Focusing on North American and European case studies ranging from populist tax revolts through parenting advice manuals to online learning environments, the contributors propose new methods for understanding how political entrepreneurs, ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies

    Lessons from European, North American and Asian Experiences

    Edited by Michael Howlett, David Laycock ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to ‘next-generation’ rules and regulatory processes linked to challenges originating in a wide variety of new technological processes and applications. Can lessons learned from past and current regulatory oversights of agricultural biotechnology – and other high ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Policy Analysis in Canada

    Edited by Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, David Laycock ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • Buddhisms and Deconstructions

    by Robert Magliola, Jane Augustine, Zong-qi Cai, Simon Glynn, Gad Horowitz, Roger Jackson, E.H Jarow, Steven W. Laycock, David R. Loy, Ian Mabbett, Frank W. Stevenson, Youru Wang, Ellen Y. Zhang ...
    Series series New Frameworks for Continental Philosophy
    Buddhisms and Deconstructions considers the connection between Buddhism and Derridean deconstruction, focusing on the work of Robert Magliola. Fourteen distinguished contributors discuss deconstruction and various Buddhisms-Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese (Chan)-followed by an afterword in which Magliola responds directly to his critics. ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

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  • The State

    Past, Present, Future

    by Bob Jessop ...
    Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations.In this book, distinguished state theorist Bob Jessop provides a critical introduction to the state as both a concept and a reality. He lucidly guides readers through all the major ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Anticapitalism and Culture

    Radical Theory and Popular Politics

    by Jeremy Gilbert ...
    Series series Culture Machine
    What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century?Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions. Anticapitalism needs to develop a coherent and cohering philosophy, something which cultural theory and the intellectual legacy of the New Left can ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Globalization, Development and the Mass Media

    by Colin Sparks ...
    Globalization, Development and the Mass Media gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization.It examines two main currents of thought. Firstly, the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development. It traces the evolution of ... Read more

    $108.79 CAD

  • Political Development Theory

    The Contemporary Debate

    by Richard Higgott ...
    This book examines development theory from a political persepctive. It considers modernisation theory and public policy, as well as Marxism, the state, and the third world. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

    Edited by John A. Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna Secor, Joanne Sharp ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years. Bringing together established names in the field as well as new scholars, it highlights provocative theoretical and conceptual debates on political geography from a range of global perspectives.Discusses the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • A History of Political Science

    by Mark Bevir ...
    Series series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
    This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline itself. The history of political science is less one of scholars testing and improving theories by reference to data than of their appropriating and transforming ideas, often obscuring or obliterating former meanings, to serve new purposes in shifting ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD