Politics Is for Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics Is for Power write by Eitan Hersh. This book was released on 2020-01-14. Politics Is for Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism—treating politics like entertainment—and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news, but do not take political action. Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes) and occasionally sign a petition or attend a rally. But we mainly “engage” by consuming politics as if it’s a sport or a hobby. We soak in daily political gossip and eat up statistics about who’s up and who’s down. We tweet and post and share. We crave outrage. The hours we spend on politics are used mainly as pastime. Instead, we should be spending the same number of hours building political organizations, implementing a long-term vision for our city or town, and getting to know our neighbors, whose votes will be needed for solving hard problems. We could be accumulating power so that when there are opportunities to make a difference—to lobby, to advocate, to mobilize—we will be ready. But most of us who are spending time on politics today are focused inward, choosing roles and activities designed for our short-term pleasure. We are repelled by the slow-and-steady activities that characterize service to the common good. In Politics Is for Power, pioneering and brilliant data analyst Eitan Hersh shows us a way toward more effective political participation. Aided by political theory, history, cutting-edge social science, as well as remarkable stories of ordinary citizens who got off their couches and took political power seriously, this book shows us how to channel our energy away from political hobbyism and toward empowering our values.
Power Politics
Power Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power Politics write by Martin Wight. This book was released on 2002-06-18. Power Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This account of state-systems, which derives not from theoretical models but from the study of state-systems that have actually existed, emphasizes their moral or normative bases. It argues that a system of states presupposes a common culture. The essays deal with the concept of systems of states: the state-systems of Hellas; Hellas and Persia; the geographical and chronological boundaries of the modern states-system; international legitimacy; and triangles and duels. An introductory chapter by Hedley Bull draws the essays together and provides an account of Martin Wright's life and thought.
The Beginning of Politics
The Beginning of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beginning of Politics write by Moshe Halbertal. This book was released on 2019-06-18. The Beginning of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The Beginning of Politics mines the story of Israel's first two kings to unearth a natural history of power, providing a forceful new reading of what is arguably the first and greatest work of Western political thought. Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes show how the beautifully crafted narratives of Saul and David cut to the core of politics, exploring themes that resonate wherever political power is at stake. Through stories such as Saul's madness, David's murder of Uriah, the rape of Tamar, and the rebellion of Absalom, the book's author deepens our understanding not only of the necessity of sovereign rule but also of its costs--to the people it is intended to protect and to those who wield it. What emerges from the meticulous analysis of these narratives includes such themes as the corrosive grip of power on those who hold and compete for power; the ways in which political violence unleashed by the sovereign on his own subjects is rooted in the paranoia of the isolated ruler and the deniability fostered by hierarchical action through proxies; and the intensity with which the tragic conflict between political loyalty and family loyalty explodes when the ruler's bloodline is made into the guarantor of the all-important continuity of sovereign power.--
Politics, Position, and Power
Politics, Position, and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics, Position, and Power write by Harold Seidman. This book was released on 1975. Politics, Position, and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forests.org, Inc., an organization that aims to contribute to ending deforestation and conserving all forests, provides access to a searchable database on forest conservation. Searching tips are provided for users.
Politics Among Nations
Politics Among Nations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics Among Nations write by Hans Joachim Morgenthau. This book was released on 1985. Politics Among Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
