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Free Download Ivan Cerovac, "Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy"
English | 2020 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 3030446042, 3030446018 | PDF | 3,0 mb
This compelling new book explores whether the ability of democratic procedures to produce correct outcomes increases the legitimacy of such political decisions. Mapping and critically engaging with the main theories of epistemic democracy, it additionally evaluates arguments for different democratic decision-making procedures related to aggregative and deliberative democracy.

Free Download Clyde W. Barrow, "Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science "
English | ISBN: 1800375905 | 2024 | 812 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An indispensable and exemplary reference work, this Encyclopedia adeptly navigates the multidisciplinary field of critical political science, providing a comprehensive overview of the methods, approaches, concepts, scholars and journals that have come to influence the discipline’s development over the last six decades.

Free Download Critical theory and the critique of political economy : on subversion and negative reason By Bonefeld, Werner
2014 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 1441161392 | PDF | 6 MB
Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business. It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society. Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx’s critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.

Free Download Bede Harris, "Constitutional Reform as a Remedy for Political Disenchantment in Australia: The Discussion We Need"
English | 2020 | pages: 279 | ISBN: 9811536015, 9811535981 | PDF | 2,6 mb
The central argument of this book explores the disillusionment that Australians feel with regard to the way politics is conducted. The book explores causes of that disillusionment, and argues that because these are ultimately traceable to defects in the constitution, it is only through constitutional reform that government can be improved.

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.