Political Science category: 78432 books
Political Social Work
Using Power to Create Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics. It prepares social workers and social work students to impact political action and subsequent policy, with a detailed real-world framework for turning...
Banking on Reform
Political Parties and Central Bank Independence in the Industrial Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, political parties have sought to draw on the political credibility of an independent central bank to cope with electoral consequences of economic...
The Crisis and Renewal of U.S. Capitalism
A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Despite the reversal of America’s fortune from the triumphalism of the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained surprisingly unchanged. In fact, if the crisis questioned the sustainability of the US capitalist...
The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Economic Liberalization, Mobilizational Resources, and Ethnic Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
At the point of independence in 1948, Sri Lanka was projected to be a success story in the developing world. However, in July 1983 a violent ethnic conflict which pitted the Sinhalese against the Tamils began, and did not come to an end until 2009. This conflict led to nearly 50,000 combatant deaths...
Political Complexity
Nonlinear Models of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This collection illustrates how nonlinear methods can provide new insight into existing political questions. Politics is often characterized by unexpected consequences, sensitivity to small changes, non-equilibrium dynamics, the emergence of patterns, and sudden changes in outcomes. These are all...
by Jason D. Mycoff, Dr. H. () T. Reynolds, Janet B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Understand the “how” and the “why” behind research in political science.
Step by step, Political Science Research Methods walks students through the logic of research design, carefully explaining how researchers choose which method to employ. The Eighth Edition of this trusted resource...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
The Social Citizen
Peer Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
'Bara and Pennington's edited volume successfully fills a huge void in the market for introductory textbooks to comparative politics which previously offered either descriptions of political processes and systems or overviews of the methodology of comparative analysis. By applying major political...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This book examines the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science. It reviews the work of the leading proponents of this perspective and presents a comprehensive view of biopolitics as a framework to structure political inquiry. The book's chapters present a range...
Maya Political Science
Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization,...
by John Douglas Macready
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Professor John Douglas Macready offers a post-foundational account of human dignity by way of a reconstructive reading of Hannah Arendt. He argues that Arendt’s experience of political violence and genocide in the twentieth century, as well as her experience as a stateless person, led her to rethink...
100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment
An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote. The struggle for suffrage lasted over six decades and involved more than a million women; yet, even at the moment of the amendment's enactment, women's activists disagreed...
Where Women Run
Gender and Party in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Why don’t more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties narrow the national gender gap? Where Women Run addresses these important questions through a rare and incisive look at how candidates are...