Author: Reinhard Bendix
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: course, industrialization, management, ideologies, authority, industry, work
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1974-08-29
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0520026284
ISBN-13: 9780520026285

Reinhard Bendix is a sociologist and political scientist who brought a comparative approach to a range of topics in organization theory, social stratification, political systems, and intellectual history. Bendix’s best-known work, Work and Authority in Industry (1956), is a comparative, historical examination of the evolution of bureaucracy and managerial ideology from the pre-industrial models of the early nineteenth century to the large-scale industrial societies of the twentieth century.

Author: Chetan Bhatt
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: modern, myths, ideologies, origins, nationalism, hindu
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859733484
ISBN-13: 9781859733486

The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book examines the history and ideologies of Hindu nationalism and |i|Hindutva|/i| from the end of the last century to the present, and critically evaluates the social and political philosophies and writings of its main thinkers.Hindu nationalism is based on the claim that it is an indigenous product of the primordial and authentic ethnic and religious t

Author:
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studie
Keywords: groups, ideologies, institutions, intrest, crisis, economy, international, financial, political
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2010-05-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9812301135
ISBN-13: 9789812301130

Author: Philip Mendes
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: politics, ideologies, players, wars, welfare, australia
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0868404853
ISBN-13: 9780868404851

Considers the roles played by the key political parties, lobby groups and ideologies in determining Australia’s current welfare-related outcomes.

Author: Michael C. Dawso
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: american, political, ideologies, african, contemporary, visions, roots, black
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0226138615
ISBN-13: 9780226138619

This stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and black political identity and behavior. Ranging from Frederick Douglass to rap artist Ice Cube, Michael C. Dawson brilliantly illuminates the history and current role of black political thought in shaping political debate in America.

Author: Philip Mendes
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: politics, ideologies, players, revisited, welfare, wars, australia
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 086840991X
ISBN-13: 9780868409917

This represents a substantial revision of Philip Mendes’ successful textbook Australia’s Welfare Wars, in which the author explains—and questions—many of the values and assumptions that underpin contemporary social welfare policies. In particular, the book is critical of the Neo-liberal or Economic rationalist ideas that now dominate the welfare debates in Australia and overseas, and instead demonstrates and reaffirms the ongoing relevance of social-democratic and welfare-state ideals.

Author: Jack F. Jr. Matlock
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: astray, return, reality, america, ideologies, illusions, myths, false, superpower
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300137613
ISBN-13: 9780300137613

Former U.S. ambassador to the USSR Jack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure—with wide-ranging implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union and that the Cold War ended in a negotiated settlement that benefited both sides. He posits that the end of the Cold War diminished rather than enhanced American power; with the removal of the Soviet threat, allies were less willing to accept American protection