Over the years local governments across America have increasingly turned specialized functions over to autonomous agencies. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the causes and consequences of special-purpose governments in more than 300 metropolitan areas in the United States.
How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives
This book provides theory and empirical research on entertainment media's effects on political perspectives. Included are experimental and survey research on the impact of shows such as Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and The Colbert Report, the genre of science fiction, and villain and leader character types.
Class, Theories of Representation, and Imagining a Ruling Elite
The Political Fiction of Ward Just uses literary, political, and diplomatic frameworks to demonstrate how the upper-class status of the ruling elites in Ward Just's political fiction influences the way they represent the interests of the nation's citizens domestically and the interests of the nation as a whole internationally.
This book examines the increasingly combative arena of live televised political interviewing in the twenty-first century. It draws into question not just the evasion and slipperiness of politicians but also the ethics and neutrality of journalists in a broadcast environment where "interview" can readily morph into "argument."
Roland D. Sawyer was a Western Massachusetts state legislator who, over a half-century in politics, tackled some of the state's thorniest issues. The Political Life of Reverend Roland D. Sawyer by Tyler L. Wolanin offers insight into legislative politics in Massachusetts as it underwent political and economic transitions, urbanization, and unrest. ......
This is the first comprehensive study by the world's leading scholars about the political logic of the U.S.-China trade war that started during the Trump administration. The book is divided into three parts. The first part looks at changed leadership styles of the two countries in the last few years. It also examines the liberal international ......
This collection examines the political logic of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. The contributors examine a number of theories behind the trade war, the historical background in which the trade war emerged, and the international contexts.
This book argues that the political novel as a genre in the South Slavic intercultural context is a contradictory, borderline, polyphonic, subversive product of a modernist project that tells the story of an alienated man (political rebel) in totalitarian political regimes.
