Political Science category: 78432 books
Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity
Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements that both opposed austerity policies and created animosity towards the politicians...
Religion and Political Violence
Sacred Protest in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the modern world.
Examining the movement to restore Sharia law to a dominant place in the Egyptian government, the movement to make abortion illegal...
Rethinking the Environment for the Anthropocene
Political Theory and Socionatural Relations in the New Geological Epoch
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This book brings together the most current thinking about the Anthropocene in the field of Environmental Political Theory ('EPT'). It displays the distinctive contribution EPT makes to the task of thinking through what 'the environment' means in this time of pervasive human influence over natural...
by Philip H. Pollock, Professor Barry C. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Popular for its speed, flexibility, and attractive graphics, Stata is a powerful tool for political science students. With Philip Pollock's Fourth Edition of A Stata® Companion to Political Analysis, students quickly learn Stata via step-by-step instruction, more than 50 exercises, customized datasets,...
The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
Beyond the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities...
by Robert O. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
The United States is waging a political war against science, and the stakes are increasing. When it comes to areas in which science and politics must interact, such as genetics, climate, and energy, there are always political interests pushing to spin the relevant science, but this becomes problematic...
The Political Effects of Entertainment Media
How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Entertainment media are rife with material that touches on the political. The stories with which we entertain ourselves often show us, for better or worse, that everything can be solved by the rise of an individual hero, and that the “best way” to deal with a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with...
Macropolitics
Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A selection of essays by a pioneer in the application of systems theory to political analysis, Macropolitics develops the author's concern with the philosophical foundations of political science, and with the extension of philosophical principles into the realm of empirical analysis. For this volume,...
The Feeling, Thinking Citizen
Essays in Honor of Milton Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book is an appreciation of the long and illustrious career of Milton Lodge. Having begun his academic life as a Kremlinologist in the 1960s, Milton Lodge radically shifted gears to become one of the most influential scholars of the past half century working at the intersection of psychology and...
by Monika L. McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What influences political behavior more -- one's gender or one's gendered personality traits? Certain gendered traits have long been associated with particular political leanings in American politics. For example, the Democratic Party is thought to have a compassionate, feminine nature while the Republican...
Political Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa
Methodological and Ethical Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
In conducting political science research today, one's methodology is of paramount concern. Yet, despite the obvious chasm between theory and practice that all scholars experience in the field, there are no specific guidebooks on meeting the methodological and ethical challenges that fieldwork presents....
Political Participation in a Changing World
Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
These essays by the brilliant historian of political science Juan Linz comprise a remarkable intellectual review of the life and work of Robert Michels, his major book Political Parties, and the dimensions of democracy as a functioning system.Linz elucidates the importance of Michels in a way that...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * Authority : rigorous...