Political Science category: 78432 books
Mechanisms of Democracy
Institutional Design Writ Small
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
What institutional arrangements should a well-functioning constitutional democracy have? Most of the relevant literatures in law, political science, political theory, and economics address this question by discussing institutional design writ large. In this book, Adrian Vermeule moves beyond these...
Markets and Medicine
The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how such...
Nationalism, Political Realism and Democracy in Japan
The thought of Masao Maruyama
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Masao Maruyama was the most influential and respected political thinker in post-WWII Japan. He believed that the collective mentality, inherent in the traditional Japanese way of thinking, was a key reason for the defeat in WWII and was convinced that such thought needed to be modernized. In this...
by Paul Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combining insights from psychology, political science and labour market research, this book offers new theories and evidence on the political repercussions of temporary jobs.
by Moisei Ostrogorski
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the...
Appeals to Interest
Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these...
Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy
Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
No study of international relations is complete without consideration of foreign policy processes and an understanding of state security, conflict in global politics, and the relationship between the world economy and international behavior. Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political...
Unhealthy Politics
The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine
The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously...
Political Campaign Communication
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The eighth edition of Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices provides a clear understanding of the strategic decisions made and tactical communication practices used in contemporary political campaigns.
The authors:
incorporate examples from all levels—local, statewide,...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
Contested Transformation
Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership (GMCL) National Database and Survey, it provides...
Sourcebook for Political Communication Research
Methods, Measures, and Analytical Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.
The need for this Sourcebook...
Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere
Participation, Democracy, and Political Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The creation of a new public realm through the use of the Internet and ICT may positively promote political liberties and freedom of speech, but could also threaten the political and public autonomy of the individual. Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere: Participation, Democracy,...
Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions
Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
In defiance of the predominant pattern of reading liberal political thought in isolation from the metaphysical and theological investigations of its classic thinkers, Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions: Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke seeks to place their writings in context. Asaf...