Political Science category: 78432 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The Political Psychology of Women in U.S. Politics is a comprehensive resource for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in women and politics. Highly original and drawing from the best available research in psychology and political science, this book is designed to summarize and extend...
EMU and Political Science
What Have We Learned?
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2009. Before its birth many observers were concerned about its viability. This volume examines a number of noteworthy concerns that were heard a decade ago and it assesses what has become of them. The contributors to...
by Dr. Addis Ababa Othow Akongdit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The main theme of this study is chosen in response to the general consensus on the importance of conducting a comprehensive study that may shape the economic policies and promote the business sector as well as the government and other organizations. However, the key question posed by this study is...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
There are many avenues for displaying political agendas, with a prominent one being literature. Through literature, the voices of political parties and ideals can enlighten those in the present, and can even be preserved for centuries to come. Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature...
Greening Berlin
The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.
Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of...
Challenges to Political Decision-making
Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.
The book examines why, in some contexts, individuals consider something as evident and relevant...
by William Dunning
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
A HISTORY of political theories must begin with the thought of that brilliant aggregation of Mediterranean peoples whose astonishing development in intellectual culture, twenty-three centuries in the past, is still the wonder and despair of civilized man. Probably in no field save that of art are...
Navigating Contemporary Iran
Challenging Economic, Social and Political Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This detailed examination of contemporary Iran addresses the most important current social, political, and economic issues facing the nation and the way it is perceived by the outside world. The volume brings together some of the most important scholars and researchers in the field, working in such...
Urban Politics
Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
"Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction"
- Setha M. Low, The Graduate Center of the City University of...
by Nils Bubandt
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal,...
Essays in Political Economy
In Honour of E.J. Urwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
This volume of essays in Political Science is a tribute to the character and work of Professor Edward Johns Urwick who in June, 1937, retired under the age limit from the chair of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. It is the first volume of a series in Political Economy to be published...
Political Leadership, Parties and Citizens
The personalisation of leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the significance of personality in political leadership has...
The European Council and European Governance
The Commanding Heights of the EU
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
In recent years, the failure of the constitutional process, the difficult ratification and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the several crises affecting Europe have revitalized the debate on the nature of the European polity and the balance of powers in Brussels. This book explains...
The Erasure of Arab Political Identity
Colonialism and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book explores the long history of the evolution of Arab political identity, which predates the time of the Prophet Muhammad and is characterized by tolerance, compassion, generosity, hospitality, self-control, correct behaviour, equality and consensus. The author argues that present-day struggles...