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The book discusses, employing the findings from empirical research, the role of political marketing within the UK General Election of 2005. -- .

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Since 1998, U.S. House incumbents have won a staggering 98 percent of their reelection races. Electoral competition has also declined in some state and primary elections.

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As editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Clayborne Carson, with the assistance of his staff at Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, had access to a variety of documents relating to all aspects of Dr. King's life and career.

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A dictionary of the key terms and concepts in Karl Marx's writings, his major works and influences, from a philosophical perspective. It also includes entries on Marx's major philosophical and political influences and contemporaries. It is suitable for those who are reading or studying Marx or Nineteenth-Century Political Thought more generally.

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Presents seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking. This title traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. It captures his views on humanity, his contributions to the theory of revolutionary warfare, and more.

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"Thorough account of Dec. 1981 massacre of villagers by Salvadoran armed forces includes details of subsequent cover-up. Guerrillas acknowledged many civilian victims were rebel supporters, but El Mozote was Protestant stronghold unreceptive even to liberation theology. Good overview of military, d

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The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil explores the consequences of globalization in emerging-market economies using Brazil as a case study. This insightful book elaborates a new interpretation of Brazilian society by showing the relationship between political thought and economi...

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Examining its relation to ancient and Renaissance political thought, George M. Logan sees Thomas More's Utopia whole, in all its ironic complexity. He finds that the book is not primarily a prescriptive work that restates the ideals of Christian humanism or warns against radical idealism, but an exploration of a particular method of political study

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Including late-breaking data from the Iraq occupation and the disastrous CBS News reports on Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard Service, acclaimed media scholars Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter examine news coverage of military policy, economic policy, and scandals ...

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Frances Gottfried offers a thorough-going critique of municipal civil service systems and the principles of meritocracy that underlie them, focusing especially on the social inequities and entrenchment of power that continue to bedevil the public sector.

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Crikey correspondent Bernard Keane explains capitalism, identity and Why Everything Is Awful

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Demonstrating how candidates and their campaigns affect the economic vote, this book provides a different way of understanding past elections - and predicting future ones. It offers a theory of campaigns that explains why electoral victory requires more than simply being the candidate favored by prevailing economic conditions.

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From the bestselling author of Renegade, THE MESSAGE draws upon Richard Wolffe's insider access to Barack Obama's communications team, as they struggle to redefine a presidency in a tumultuous election year.

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In tracing the history of U.S./Korea encounters, this book stresses that as America opened a Pandora Box with an initial raid, thereby unleashing the Korean Question, the United States now needs to uphold its initial peaceful treaty commitment by normalizing relations with Pyeongyang, thus bringing closure to the "Korean Question."

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Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders are stepping up and powering the nation forward. In The Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley highlight success stories and the people behind them.

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Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders u mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists u are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doin

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This text examines the historical roots of the Mexican right, who play a critical role in contemporary Mexico. It focuses upon the pivotal decade of the 1930s and the failure of Cardenas, assuring the rule of a corrupt regime which employs revolutionary rhetoric, whilst suppressing aspirations.

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This new book tells the story of Mexico's dominant political party, the Partido Revoluconario Institucional (PRI), detailing its impact on the country's political system.