Political Science category: 78432 books
Political Consumerism
Global Responsibility in Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which citizens, consumers and political activists use the market as their arena for politics. This book theorizes, describes, analyzes, compares and evaluates the phenomenon of political consumerism and how it attempts to use market choice to solve...
Analytic Activism
Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized activist groups to listen. Beneath the waves of e-petitions, "likes," and hashtags lies a sea of data - a newly...
by Lee McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.
Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this...
Making Sense of Media and Politics
Five Principles in Political Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Politics is above all a contest, and the news media are the central arena for viewing that competition. One of the central concerns of political communication has to do with the myriad ways in which politics has an impact on the news media and the equally diverse ways in which the media influences...
by Dennis Kavanagh, Iain Dale
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This volume brings together for the first time the British Labour Political Party General Election Manifestos, dating back to 1900, and including the most recent General Election manifesto of 1997.
The project provides an indispensible source of data about the Labour Party's political ideologies and...
Political Capitalism
How Political Influence Is Made and Maintained
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of political...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Despite a decade of political technology's celebrated triumphs—such as online fundraising of the presidential campaigns of McCain in 2000, Dean in 2003, and Obama in 2008; or the web-enabled, socially networked campaign of Obama 2008—the field of e-politics is still at an unsolidified stage. Margin...
Political Tool Kit
Secrets of Winning Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
From city councils to governorships, from county commissioners to coroners, there are thousands of contested or vacant elected offices each year throughout the United States. In Political Tool Kit, author Ron Parsons provides a practical guide for citizens who are seeking an opportunity to participate...
by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Don’t be fooled --many legislators are corrupt and they don’t care anything about the community. They are steering people the wrong way! However, there are ways to become effective politicians, but we must learn to identify who is sincere and who is not. Who is really a voice for the people and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The term the 'Entangled political economy' was first coined by Economist Richard E. Wagner of George Mason University who challenged the "additive" political economy paradigm with his "entangled political economy," which sees public and private entities as equal and entwined players...
Rethinking Political Risk
Concepts, Theories, Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Political risk was first introduced as a component for assessing risk not directly linked to economic factors following the flow of capital from the US to Europe after the Second World War. However, the concept has rapidly gained relevance since, with both public and private institutions developing...
The Vanishing Voter
Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote.
Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voterinvestigates why—despite...
Confronting the Weakest Link
Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world. A large and ever-growing number of U.S., European, and multilateral assistance programs seek...
Political Realism
How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A free eBook that asks hard questions about why politics once worked, and how today’s politics do not.
What if idealistic reform itself is a culprit?
In Political Realism, Jonathan Rauch argues that well-meaning efforts to stem corruption and increase participation have stripped political...