Political Science category: 78432 books
by Marcia Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Feminist Therapy as a Political Act explores what is means to politicize therapy and how you can make pyschotherapy a method for creating social and individual change. You’ll find examples and strategies for discussing topics such as empowerment and identity that allow you to provide better services...
International Political Economy
Contrasting World Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE).
Written in a concise, accessible style by an experienced teacher and scholar, it combines theoretical perspectives,...
Global Political Economy
Understanding the International Economic Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political...
The Politics of the Internet
Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In The Politics of the Internet: Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism, R.J. Maratea examines the Internet’s effect on political claims-making and protest action to show how online technology is helping to shape popular opinion about political issues....
Nature, Action and the Future
Political Thought and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Climate change is one of the great challenges of modern politics. In this volume, leading political theorists and historians investigate how the history of political ideas can help us make sense of it. The contributors add a historical perspective to contemporary debates in political theory. They...
by Barry G. Rabe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.
Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels—by taxing carbon, by...
The Funding of Political Parties
Where Now?
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy.
From interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money, to scandals that have rocked UK and Australian...
Talking Politics?
What You Need to Know before Opening Your Mouth
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Honest, objective, and informed political debates are all too rare in today’s polarized and partisan climate. Public policy is increasingly driven by ideology while political spin, distortions, and even demonizing opponents by disseminating outright lies are routine practice from Washington to the...
Institutional Reform in Central Asia
Politico-Economic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms...
Modern Political Economy And Latin America
Theory And Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This is a reader that applies the newest debates in political economy to the analysis of Latin America in a way that is thematically and theoretically cohesive.. Modern Political Economy and Latin America consists of carefully selected, edited readings in Latin American political economy. The editors,...
Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism
A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume...
by Anita Danker
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
AIDS and Power
Why There Is No Political Crisis Yet
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments....
by Aurel Kolnai
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great...