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Free Download Alan Siaroff, "Comparing Political Regimes: A Thematic Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition"
English | ISBN: 1487507771 | 2022 | 352 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
Comparing Political Regimes provides a current and comprehensive empirical assessment of the world’s 195 sovereign states. Alan Siaroff analyzes and classifies countries in terms of economic development, political evolution, and state strength, ultimately outlining and contrasting the aspects of four regime types: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, semi-open autocracies, and closed autocracies.

Free Download Building Theory in Political Communication: The Politics-Media-Politics Approach
by Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197634990 | 225 Pages | True PDF | 7.35 MB

Free Download Building Theory in Political Communication: The Politics-Media-Politics Approach
by Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197634990 | 225 Pages | True PDF | 7.35 MB

Free Download Ayurveda made modern : political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955 By Berger, Rachel
2013 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0230284558 | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of ‘ancient’ medical knowledge into a ‘modern’ medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in colonial India. It examines the shift between an entrenched colonial reticence to consider the Indigenous Medical Systems as legitimate scientific medicine, to a growing acceptance of Ayurvedic medicine following the First World War. Locating the moment of transition within the implementation of a dyarchic system of governance in 1919, the book argues that the revamping of the ‘Medical Services’ into an important new category of regional governance ushered in an era of health planning that considered curative and preventative medicine as key components of the ‘health’ of the population. As such, it illuminates the way in which conceptions of power, authority and agency were newly configured and consolidated as politics were revamped in the late colonial India.

Free Download Brian McNair, "An Introduction to Political Communication Ed 6"
English | ISBN: 041573942X | 2017 | 266 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1386 KB + 3 MB
At a time of radical shifts in power across the globe, the sixth edition of An Introduction to Political Communication examines the role of the media in the political process. Brian McNair reflects on the role of communication in key events such as the referendum vote for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the rise of nationalist populism in Europe, and the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election. He explores the use of communication as a weapon by Islamic State and other insurgent organisations, and by Putin’s Russia in its dealings with the West, including the hacking of Democratic Party emails in 2016. McNair argues that an expanding globalised public sphere and digital media network have transformed political communication, allowing political actors, from politicians and pressure groups to trade unions and terrorist organisations, to bypass traditional, established media in communicating their messages.

Free Download A Tibetan revolutionary : the political life and times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye By Phun-tshogs-dba?n-rgyal, Sgo-ra-na?n-pa; ʼBa-pa Phun-tshogs-dbaṅ-rgyal; Sherap, Dawei; Phun-tshogs-dbaṅ-rgyal, Sgo-ra-naṅ-pa; Goldstein, Melvyn C.; ʼBa-pa Phun-tshogs-dbaṅ-rgyal; Siebenschuh, William R
2004 | 371 Pages | ISBN: 0520240898 | PDF | 3 MB
This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao’s Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party’s administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Phünwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable with Chinese culture, and devoted to socialism and the Communist Party, Phünwang’s deep commitment to the welfare of Tibetans made him suspect to powerful Han colleagues. In 1958 he was secretly detained; three years later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Beijing’s equivalent of the Bastille for the next eighteen years.Informed by vivid firsthand accounts of the relations between the Dalai Lama, the Nationalist Chinese government, and the People’s Republic of China, this absorbing chronicle illuminates one of the world’s most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the fascinating details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet.

Free Download Richard Ruppel, "A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad"
English | 2016 | pages: 166 | ISBN: 1498505007, 0739178245 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and then for English. He attempted suicide at the age of twenty. He invested in various schemes and lost his inheritance. He married an English typist nearly sixteen years younger than himself with whom he had nothing in common. He worked as a writer though he made no money through all the years of his most important work and though he experienced terrible psychological breakdowns after completing each novel. He was warm with his friends, ingratiating with influential strangers, but also intensely irritable and easily offended.

Free Download Olivia Cheung, Steve Tsang, Rebecca Lam (Narrator), "The Political Thought of Xi Jinping"
English | ISBN: 9781696614412 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:40:00 | 293 MB
Over the course of the last half dozen years, China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world. Given how swiftly and fundamentally China’s relations with the rest of the world are changing under Xi’s rule, it is imperative that we know what Xi Jinping Thought is, how it evolved, and why it is so important.
In The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung provide an authoritative overview of what "Xi Jinping Thought" is and is not and what it means for both China and the world. Xi, now effectively leader for life, has worked to ensure that "Xi Jinping Thought" becomes cemented as the new state ideology. Clearly inspired by the doctrine of "Mao Zedong Thought," which shaped the parameters of acceptable thinking for a quarter century, Xi wants his doctrine to define what he calls the "China Dream of national rejuvenation" and serve the pathway to its fulfillment by 2050. Drawing from original research of Xi’s speeches, writings, and policies, Tsang and Cheung conceptualize Xi’s vision independently from interpretations provided by the Chinese Communist Party or other sources. They further examine and explain how Xi seeks to transform this vision into reality.

Free Download Rachel Sophia Baard, "The Political Theology of Paul Tillich "
English | ISBN: 179360889X | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 667 KB + 2 MB
The Political Theology of Paul Tillich explores the political theology of one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century, Paul Tillich, whose life and scholarship were decisively shaped by his experiences during World War I, his resistance to the rising scourge of Nazism in Germany, and his subsequent immigration to the United States. Tillich’s discerning analysis of fascism, grounded in his socialist commitments, and his continuing efforts to write theology in correlation with culture, make his voice a crucial one for contemporary political theology. The contributors to this volume represent different generations, social and cultural locations, and nationalities Together, they explore Tillich’s early work on religious socialism and its lingering presence in his later systematic theology, bring him into dialogue with liberation theologies, apply his thought to contemporary political concerns, and show the significance of his method of correlation for theological scholarship that engages culture, thereby presenting a case for the continued relevance of Tillich for political theology.

Free Download Carson Holloway, "Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith"
English | ISBN: 0875804845 | 2014 | 270 pages | EPUB | 424 KB
While the dominant approaches to the current study of political philosophy are various, with some friendlier to religious belief than others, almost all place constraints on the philosophic and political role of revelation. Mainstream secular political theorists do not entirely disregard religion. But to the extent that they pay attention, their treatment of religious belief is seen more as a political or philosophic problem to be addressed rather than as a positive body of thought from which we might derive important insights about the nature of politics and the truth of the human condition.