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Political Turbulence
How Social Media Shape Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective...
Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy
Practical Lessons in Design and Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the ‘political’ and the ‘social’, the ‘public’...
Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge
Robert A. Dahl and his Critics on Modern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their society and, related to this, their personal life, has become rather limited. We can only address this...
Imagined Democracies
Necessary Political Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious collective imagination that generates ever-changing visions of legitimate power and authority, which compete for enactment and institutionalization in the political arena. If, in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how, Europeans view and evaluate democracy: what are their conceptions of democracy, how do they assess the quality of democracy in their own country, and to what extent do they consider their country's democracy...
The Postwar Transformation of Germany
Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
As Germany celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany--the former West Germany-- leading scholars take stock in this volume of the political, social, and economic progress Germany made as it built a democratic political system and a powerful economy, survived...
Global Women Leaders
Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric demonstrates the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, on a global level. This collection fits into the robust research area of international...
Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political...
Mind the Gap
Political Participation and Representation in Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Mind the Gap is a book on the difficult times of modern representative democracy, and on the way in which political science is trying to make sense of it. Forecasting election results has become a very risky business, and explaining the often-surprising results must increasingly rely on case-by-case...
Overcoming Political Impotence in the Ghetto with Goodwillism
Leave the Rat Race to the Rats, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The ghetto is suffering political impotence. The goodwillism of the Goodwill Revolution is the political Viagra that will restore their potency. Too long the ghetto has been ignored and forsaken because of this. By rejecting the rat race and adopting goodwillism we will mobilize the ghetto and change...
by Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Turn your degree into a career
Designed to help students consider their career options and opportunities, The CQ Press Career Guide for Political Science Studentsoffers a practical collection of employment resources, career-path options, and real-life tips for how to get ahead. Providing...
Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote
The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in the effects of electoral laws on important aspects of politics such as party competition. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars looks at the impact of one set of electoral rules--the single non-transferable vote--on electoral...
The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory
The Fourth Political Theory vol. II
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
The sequel to the bestseller The Fourth Political Theory, expanding further on the fourth political theory. All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism....