Political Behavior and Participation Books

New and Published Books

1. National Myths

   Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

   Edited by Gérard Bouchard

   National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance

   A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities

   By Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor. As a significant contribution to the on-going debate on the role of neoliberal states in reproducing gender-race-class...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Public Relations and Nation Building

   Influencing Israel

   By Margalit Toledano, David McKie

   Series: Routledge New Directions in Public Relations & Communication Research

   All public relations emerges from particular environments, but the specific conditions of Israel offer an exceptional study of the accelerators and inhibitors of professional development in the history of a nation. Documenting and analyzing the contribution of one profession to building one...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. Civil Society and Democratization in India

   Institutions, Ideologies and Interests

   By Sarbeswar Sahoo

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Developing a distinctive theoretical framework on civil society, this book examines how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) contribute towards democratization in India and what conditions facilitate or inhibit their contribution. It assesses three different kinds of politics within civil society...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
5. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

   Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

   On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Religion and Democratizations

   Edited by Jeffrey Haynes

   This book examines key debates on religion and democratization from three main perspectives: Religious traditions have core elements which are more or less conducive to democratization and democracy; Religious traditions may be multi-vocal – but at any moment there may be dominant voices more or...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Trust and Confidence in Government and Public Services

   Edited by Sue Llewellyn, Stephen Brookes, Ann Mahon

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less - identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US, goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media exposure in the UK about MP expenses has...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Consumer Law and Policy in Australia and New Zealand

   By JUSTIN MALBON, Luke Nottage

   This book examines the 2010 'Australian Consumer Law' reform package in broader context. It considers parallel re-regulation of consumer credit and other financial markets impacting on consumers. It also compares recent reform initiatives in New Zealand, Australia’s closest economic and...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Federation Press
9. Heritage in the Digital Era

   Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

   By Rodanthi Tzanelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to...

   Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Post-Racial Society is Here

    Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State

    By Wilbur C. Rich

    Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

    In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants...

    Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge