Centrist democratic ideologies and movements Books
Granville Island Publishing New Liberalism
Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, liberalism was modernized to tackle the challenges of the time. Today, liberalism must again be renewed to ensure that freedom is protected for future generations. For a society to be maintained and evolve, Kalkman suggests that the notion of a common humanity extending to all people on this planet needs to be embraced.
£14.39
Zone Books Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New
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£16.19
South Dakota State Historical Society The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South
Book SynopsisNot all politics is party politics. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than within the boundaries of South Dakota. Although the state is known for its agrarian conservatism, political tradition in the land of infinite variety is more than simply Republican or Democrat. An awareness of the influence of culture lies at the core of understanding the decisions of political leaders and voters alike.In this capstone volume of The Plains Political Tradition series, editors Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller, and Paula M. Nelson gather essays from historians and other scholars who identify major influences on the political culture of South Dakota. Against a backdrop of agricultural ups and downs, varied religious beliefs, worldwide conflict, and powerful personalities, the authors examine ingredients critical to the success and failure of civic movements, legislation, and political campaigns and careers.
£22.46
Scribner Book Company The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and
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£13.60
Simon & Schuster Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
£16.14
Threshold Editions Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the
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£15.19
Simon & Schuster Ltd What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last
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£19.00
Simon & Schuster The Maga Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside
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£25.20
Atria/One Signal Publishers The Maga Diaries
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£15.19
Blackstone Publishing Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of
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£15.96
De Gruyter Democratizing the State
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£80.75
BÃhlau Verlag Wien 175 Jahre 1848
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£36.00
Duncker & Humblot Der Amerikanische Wohlfahrtsstaat: Herausgegeben
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£65.70
Brill U Schoningh Die Zeitschriften 'Eckart' Und 'Hochland':
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£68.40
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Der Deutsche Sozialstaat: Entfaltung Und
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£99.25
Books on Demand Wir sind so frei: Gegen die Versuchungen der
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£9.01
Lit Verlag Neoliberalism and Migration: An Inquiry into the
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£18.90
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Russia′s Ideology of Authenticity – Varieties of
Book SynopsisIn his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russias policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts as Eurasianism, Holy Russia, Russian civilization, Russia as a continent, Novorossia, and others. He demonstrates that these concepts reached unprecedented ascendance in the Russian public debates, tending to overshadow other political and domestic discussions. Suslov argues that the geopolitical imagination, structured by these concepts, defines the identity of post-Soviet Russia, while this complex of geopolitical representations engages, at the same time, with the broader, international criticism of the Western liberal world order and aligns itself with the conservative defense of cultural authenticity across the globe. Geopolitical ideologies and utopias discussed in the book give the post-Soviet political mainstream the intellectual instruments to think about Russias exclusion -- imaginary or otherwise -- from the processes of a global world which is re-shaping itself after the end of the Cold War; they provide tools to construct the self-perception of Russia as a sovereign great-power, a self-sufficient civilisation, and as one of the poles in a multipolar world; and they help to establish the Messianic vision of Russia as the beacon of order, tradition, and morality in a sea of chaos and corruption.Trade Review"Mikhail Suslov's book is a must-read for all those curious to capture the complexity of the notion of 'conservatism' in today's Russia. Delving into past conservative doctrines and the diversity of actors branding conservatism today, the book allows us to move away from a simplistic, Kremlin-centric vision and to get a comprehensive interpretation of the broader phenomenon." -- Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University
£28.80
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Derecha The Right
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£14.40
Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Pakistan's March to Democracy and Liberalism
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£14.24
Deep & Deep Publications Thomas Paine: Great Western Political Thinker
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£28.12
Aakar Books The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to take account of the factors through which liberlaism, the guiding doctrine of Western civilisation, emerged as an ideology to meet the needs of a new world.
£12.38
Brill How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s
Book SynopsisWhy do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism? And, more controversially, were the trade unions only victims of neoliberal change, or did they play a more contradictory role? In How Labour Built Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Humphrys examines the role of the Labor Party and trade unions in constructing neoliberalism in Australia, and the implications of this for understanding neoliberalism’s global advance. These questions are central to understanding the present condition of the labour movement and its prospects for the future.Trade Review“In pointing out some of the unique characteristics of neoliberalism’s triumph in Australia, Humphrys enriches our understanding of the different pathways and contexts, including the incorporation of the labour movement, that can bring about such dramatic economic and social transformation in the interests of capital without massive social unrest.” – Sarah Gregson, in: Labour History 118 (May 2020) “How Labor Built Neoliberalism is a scholarly, erudite and persuasive account of Labor’s neoliberal turn and of the Accords. It should be widely read by labour historians, political economists, unionists and Labor politicians.” – Tim Lyons, in: Labour History 118 (May 2020) "[Humphrys'] critique offers both useful conceptual tools for understanding neoliberalism and an important caution in rushing towards the state for solutions. That is a challenge, particularly in Australia, where unions have often looked to political means to solve industrial problems. Her call also resonates with a growing number of critical voices within the union movement urging a renewed focus on industrial organising." — Ben Spies-Butcher, Macquarie University, in: The Economic and Labour Relations Review (2020) "How Labour Built Neoliberalism is an important contribution to the critical study of a period of history that has largely escaped honest appraisal. It builds on the work of Tom Bramble, Rick Kuhn and others, joining a small but important offering of literature that frankly explains the genesis of the unions’ current crisis. [...] How Labour Built Neoliberalism is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand the context of today’s trade union crisis." — Steph Price, in: Marxist Left Review, Issue 18, Winter 2019 "[F]ind yourself a copy of How Labour Built Neoliberalism... [Humphrys] makes a serious, well-researched and persuasive case, which challenges a great deal that’s been written about the recent past. If you’re at all concerned about the state of the Australian left, you need to engage with her work." — Jeff Sparrow, in: Sydney Review of Books, 23 September 2019 "The book opens up a discussion about the contemporary ‘profound disorganisation of trade unions’ not with the end of lamenting that which has been lost but as the starting point for how workers can win back control over their lives. [...] How Labour Built Neoliberalism points to the dead-end that is resolving a crisis of capitalism on capitalist terms. This is the strategic value Humphrys’ work brings to the present predicament of the labour movement." — Godfrey Moase, in: Overland, 1 April 2019 "[…] I wish to pay a huge tribute to Liz Humphrys for her book How Labour Built Neoliberalism. This publication is hugely significant. I feel we have waited 30 years for this analysis." – Lee Rhiannon, in: Progress in Political Economy, 24 March 2019 "[...] Elizabeth Humphrys challenges the narrative that neo-liberalism was generally imposed onto labour by right-wing governments such as the Thatcher government in the UK and the Reagan government in the US during the 1980s. Through a detailed analysis of the Australian political economy between 1983 and 1996, she demonstrates how restructuring was also carried out by a Labour Party in close co-operation with trade unions. [...] Written in a beautiful and highly accessible prose, she makes clear that trade unions are not automatically progressive or reactionary. Ultimately, trade unions too are sites of class struggle, which decides on whether a particular trade union is a force for social justice or not. [...] Humphrys’ book is a must-read in guiding our explorations of this question and the search for alternative, progressive strategies." — Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, University of Nottingham, UK, in: Progress in Political Economy, 14 January 2019 "This book offers a groundbreaking account of the transition to neoliberalism in Australia, focusing on the role of the Labor Party and the trade unions in the economic, social and policy shifts involved in that transition. The book is scholarly and informative, and it sets the standard for studies of neoliberal transitions elsewhere. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the emergence of neoliberalism in Australia, or the contradictory role trade unions can play during an economic crisis." — Alfredo Saad Filho, King's College London "Humphry’s brilliant How Labour Built Neoliberalism utterly transforms our understanding of modern Australian politics and compels us to rethink established ideas about the role of the trade union movement in the making of neoliberalism. I consider this to be a landmark work in Australian political sociology and an invaluable contribution to the literature on global neoliberalism." — Melinda Cooper, University of Sydney, Author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Zone Books, 2017) “Elizabeth Humphrys’s How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project is a well-organized book that takes up the role of organized labor and the Australian Labour Party (ALP) in the construction of Australian neoliberalism, focusing on a social contract between the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the ALP called ‘‘the Accord,’’ between 1983 and 1996… [The book] is a valuable, theoretically grounded, well-documented analysis of the role of labor-left in Australia’s neoliberalization.” – Stephanie L. Mudge, University of California-Davis, in: Contemporary Sociology 50/1 (2021) “The great strength of Humphrys’ book is its almost forensic examination of what others have said and why the evidence suggest we need to tell a quite different story. This book is crisply and clearly written.” – Rob Watts, in: Journal of Australian Political Economy 86 (2020/2021)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1The ALP & ACTU Accord 2The Social Contract’s Gala Dinner 3Neoliberalism’s Corporatist Origins 4A Hegemonic Political Project 5Corporatist ‘involucro’ 6A Note on Method 7Structure of the Book 2 Theorising the State–Civil Society Relationship 1Introduction 1.1Some Preliminary Comments 2Marx’s Critique of Hegel 3From Critique of Politics to Critique of Political Economy 4From Marx to Gramsci 4.1Lo stato integrale 5Gramsci contra Marx? The Limits of Integration 6Conclusion 3 Corporatism in Australia 1Introduction 2Understanding Corporatism 3Panitch’s Approach 4Corporatism and the Accord 5The Context of Arbitration 6Conclusion 4 Destabilising the Dominant Narrative 1Introduction 1.1Conceptual Diversity 2The Dominant Narrative 2.1Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism 2.2Klein: The Shock Doctrine 2.3Peck, Theodore, Tickell and Brenner: ‘Neoliberalisation’ 2.4Destabilising the Dominant Narrative 3A Class Approach to Neoliberalism 3.1Harvey: ‘The restoration of class power’ 3.2Davidson: ‘An entirely new political regime’ 3.3A Hegemonic Political Project 4Conclusion 5 Periodising Neoliberalism 1Introduction 2Periodising Neoliberalism in Australia 3Proto-neoliberal stage: 1973–1983 3.1The Economic Crisis 3.2The Whitlam Government 3.3The Fraser Government 4Vanguard Neoliberal Stage: 1983–1993 4.1The Impasse of the 1970s 4.2Developing the Accord 5Piecemeal Neoliberalisation Stage: 1993–2008 5.1Howard’s Piecemeal Neoliberalism 6Crisis stage: 2008 Onwards 7Conclusion 6 The Disorganisation of Labour 1Introduction 2The Accord Agreement 3Wages and the Accord 3.1The First Accord (1983) 3.2Accord Mark II (1985–1987) 3.3Accord Mark III (1986–1987) 3.4Accord Mark IV (1988–1989), V (1989–1990) & VI (1990–1993) 3.5Accord Mark VII (1993) & VIII (Draft Only) 4Wage Suppression 4.1Labour Disorganisation 5Conclusion 7 An Integral State 1Introduction 2Accord Divergences 2.1The National Economic Summit and Communiqué 2.2Prices 2.3‘Big bang’ and Other Neoliberal Reforms 2.4Trade Liberalisation 3Privatisation 4Social Wage and Contested Understandings 4.1Medicare 4.2Superannuation 4.3Worth the Cost? 5The Concord of Neoliberalism and the Accord 5.1A Brace against Neoliberalism? 5.2Theorising the Corporatism–Neoliberalism Connection 5.3An ‘informal Accord’? 5.4The Accord asinvolucro 6Conclusion 8 How Labour Made Neoliberalism 1Introduction 2From Worker Agency to State Agency 2.1The Shift to Support the Accord 2.2Planning as a Solution to Crisis? 2.3Consultation on, and Support for, the Accord 2.4Sticking with the Accord 2.5Industry policy and Australia Reconstructed 3Managing Dissent and Disorganising Labour 3.1Civil Legal Action against Labour Disputes 3.2Deregistration of the Builders Labourers’ Federation 3.3Pilots’ Dispute 4Enterprise Bargaining and the Antinomies of the Accord 4.1Hegemony Unravelling 5Conclusion 9 A Return to the International 1Introduction 2A Brief Detour in the Antipodes 3The British Social Contract (1974–1979) 4The Carter Administration (1977–1981) and Prior 5New York City Council Fiscal Crisis (1975–1981) 6Contemporary Finland 7Conclusion 10 Conclusion: Neoliberalism at Dusk 1Internal Relations 2Antinomies and Residues 3Neoliberalism at Dusk Appendices Appendix B: Timeline of Predecessors to the AMWU References Index
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Brill Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in
Book SynopsisIn Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century. After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured on wage relations: workers are at the same time members of the organisations. Why, how and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?Trade Review"Denise Kasparian’s Co-operative Struggles provides an in-depth study of two worker co-operatives in the Buenos Aires area today to reveal how co-operatives emerge, are governed, and disappear. She successfully confronts people’s implicit assumptions about co-operatives with observations from everyday realities of working in Argentinian worker co-operatives in the 2000s and 2010s. Her research thereby puts several dominant myths about the co-operative economy into perspective [...] Sociological research provides a litmus test that checks which myths have become invalid or are not applicable to a particular economic sector. Kasparian has admirably shown how such a test would work in the specific political and economic conjuncture of contemporary Argentina". Tim Christiaens, in Critical Sociology, 8 April 2022. Critical Sociology “El libro amplía los horizontes teóricos sobre el conflict laboral, proponiendo nuevas categorías para visibilizar y conceptualizar las contiendas en el nuevo cooperativismo de trabajo del siglo XXI”. In Centro de Estudios de Sociología del TrabajoUniversidad de Buenos Aires, 21/04/2022. "This book, made up of two unlikely types of cooperatives, one formed voluntarily and the other formed through state-sponsorship, contributes to the literature of self-management and co-operatives and provides a deeper understanding that aspects of the democratization of conflict in co-operatives are context-specific. Future research should deepen and expand the study of self-management and conflict in the broader ecosystem of worker-recuperated, state-sponsored and traditional worker co-operatives, and thus contribute further to generalizable ideas about self-management." Stefan Ivanovski, in ILR Review, ILR ReviewTable of ContentsForeword The Democratisation of Conflict Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Images Introduction 1 The Question of Work Conflicts in New Co-operatives 2 Dimensions of New Social Conflicts in Co-operative Socio-productive Contexts 3 The Challenge of Comparing Paradigmatic but Non-equivalent Experiences: Studying a Whole That Acts as a Whole 4 The Structure of the Book 1 Co-operatives ‘Made in Argentina’ The Process of Enterprise Recuperation by Their Workers 1 The Socio-genesis of the Processes of Enterprise Recuperation 1.1 When Worker Resistance Becomes an Offensive Movement 1.2 The Widespread Crisis of 2001–2002, or Adding Fuel to the Fire 1.3 The Movement of the Flames 2 The Evolution of Enterprise Recuperation Processes 2.1 The Fuel of the Growing Economy Keeps the Flames of Production Moving 2.2 The Moral Economy of Work in the Continued Presence of Enterprise Recuperations 2.3 “Argentina Is One Big, Recuperated Factory”: Public Policies for Recuperated Enterprises 2.4 The Movement’s Fragmentation, Co-operative Convergence and Union Rapprochement 2 Incubated Co-operatives Co-operative Formation under the Argentina Works Programme 1 Social Schemes with Work Requirement: From Workfare to the Argentina Works Programme 2 The Mediation of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations: Civil Associations, Productive Units and Co-operatives 3 The Dual Logic of the Argentina Works Programme’s Socio-genesis: Creating Jobs and Co-ordinating Local Politics 4 Induced Co-operatives? The Struggle of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations 4.1 The Evolution of the Argentina Works Programme 4.2 The Intensity and Dynamics of Contentious Action 4.3 The Demands and Forms of Contentious Action 3 Keeping and Having a Job A Milestone in Constitutive Conflicts 1 ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’ … and Have! 2 From ‘Induction’ to the ‘Co-operative without Brokers’ 3 A Comparative Lens on Constitutive Conflicts 4 The Recuperated Enterprise and Social Power in Production 1 Recuperators, Activists and the ‘Born and Bred’ 2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Differential Appropriation of the Fruits of Labour 3 The Logic of Production and the Issue of Sustainability in Recuperated Enterprises 4 The Political Dimension: Between Self-management and Delegation 5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: Opportunity Hoarding, Enterprise Projects and Work Generations 5 The Argentina Works Co-operative and State Power in Production 1 The Labour and Socio-spatial Precarity of Argentina Works Programme Workers 2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Autonomy 3 The Logic of Production: Between Subsistence and Political Accumulation 4 The Political Dimension: State Power and Co-management 5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: State Officials, Co-operative Members and Activists 6 The Production of Co-operative Conflict 1 Board Removals: Conflicts over the Running and Expansion of the Productive Process 2 Regulations, Sanctions and Exclusions: From ‘Founder Members’ to ‘Founderer Members’ 3 “We Fought over the River Module”: The Conflict over Autonomous Work 4 Between Subsistence Consumption and Political Accumulation in the Social Organisation 5 A Comparative Lens 7 Conclusions 1 The New Twenty-First-Century Co-Operativism and Its Struggles Around Work 2 What Patterns of Conflicts are There without Bosses? Towards a Theory of Unrest in Worker Co-operatives 3 From Prelude to Present: A Toolbox for New Research Questions Bibliography Index
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Deliberative Democracy
Book SynopsisDeliberative democracy can be seen as a part of the agenda of deepening democracy, wherein the public deliberation of citizens forms the basis of legitimate decision-making, with the people participating directly in the deliberations or making of decisions that affect them. Although political theorists have long contended that democracy should not be based merely on voting but also on informed public debate and despite diverse attempts at deliberative democracy having been made in various parts of the world, it is only during the recent decades that such initiatives have gained momentum. In terms of procedural democracy and the working of democratic institutions, India's record is considered to be noteworthy.
£36.57
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Liberalism Unveiled: Forging A New Third Way In
Book SynopsisSince 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Action Party's signature style of technocratic elitism has come under increasing criticism by a new generation of left-leaning progressive scholars and activists condemning the excesses of neoliberalism. The PAP's mode of governance that prioritizes economic growth is criticised in favour of a vaguely European-style welfare state and greater state intervention.Bryan Cheang and Donovan Choy break this traditional pro-PAP versus anti-PAP dichotomy by providing a fresh classical liberal perspective. The authors contend that both sides discern only parts of the political puzzle correctly. This book envisions a new path forward for Singapore's policy-making, one characterised by greater competition & freedom. It critiques the conservative-right through a fresh take on the philosophical underpinnings of the 'Singapore Consensus': communitarianism, meritocracy and technocracy. The authors also engage with the new social democratic orthodoxy, demonstrating the dangers of egalitarian interventions & state-based environmentalism.Applying the interdisciplinary insights of political philosophy and political economy, this novel account recommends epistemic liberalism, a system of governance based on intellectual humility, limited government, and decentralisation.
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NUS Press Liberalism and the Postcolony: Thinking the State
Book SynopsisExtricating liberalism from the haze of anti-modernist and anti-European caricature, this book traces the role of liberal philosophy in the building of a new nation. It examines the role of toleration, rights, and mediation in the postcolony. Through the biographies of four Filipino scholar-bureaucrats—Camilo Osias, Salvador Araneta, Carlos P. Romulo, and Salvador P. Lopez—Lisandro E. Claudio argues that liberal thought served as the grammar of Filipino democracy in the 20th century. By looking at various articulations of liberalism in pedagogy, international affairs, economics, and literature, Claudio not only narrates an obscured history of the Philippine state, he also argues for a new liberalism rooted in the postcolonial experience, a timely intervention considering current developments in politics in Southeast Asia.
£26.06
Bombardier Books A Savage Republic: Inside the Plot to Destroy
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