Political Science category: 78432 books
Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement
The Challenge from Online Campaigning and Advocacy Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book considers the radical effects the emergence of social media and digital politics have had on the way that advocacy organisations mobilise and organise citizens into political participation. It argues that these changes are due not only to technological advancement but are also underpinned...
Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health...
Typing Politics
The Role of Blogs in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The power of political blogs in American politics is now evident to anyone who follows it. In Typing Politics, Richard Davis provides a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the growing role played by political blogs and their relationship with the mainstream media. Through a detailed content analysis...
Cartography and the Political Imagination
Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name — “Luyia” — appeared on the official census in 1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic “invention.” At the same time, current restrictive theories privileging ethnic...
Obama's Political Saga
From Battling History, Racialized Rhetoric, and GOP Obstructionism to Re-Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Many conservative extremists have argued that Obama was advancing a socialist agenda, immersing himself in African-American radicalism, and pushing big government liberal policies during his first term. The Republican Party, we once knew, has been pushed to the extreme right and has rendered itself...
China's Embedded Activism
Opportunities and constraints of a social movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the streets...
The China Model and Global Political Economy
Comparison, Impact, and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Since the beginning of China's phenomenal rise in the international system, our knowledge of the country has grown rapidly. But those who have debated the China issue in policy circles mostly focus on the implications of China’s rise, often without a firm understanding of why the country is rising...
Political Asylum Deceptions
The Culture of Suspicion
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This book explores the legitimacy of political asylum applications in the US and UK through an examination of the varieties of evidence, narratives, and documentation with which they are assessed. Credibility is the central issue in determining the legitimacy of political asylum seekers, but the...
Civil-Military Relations in Latin America
New Analytical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
The armed forces may no longer rule nations throughout Latin America, but they continue to influence democratic governments across the region. In nine original, thought-provoking essays, this book offers fresh theoretical insights into the dilemmas facing Latin American politicians as they struggle...
Political Ethnography
What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Scholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospitable to qualitative methods of research. Lauding the results of this effort and highlighting its potential for the future, Political Ethnography makes a compelling case for one such method in particular. Ethnography,...
Party Politics in Southeast Asia
Clientelism and Electoral Competition in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Contributing to the growing discourse on political parties in Asia, this book looks at parties in Southeast Asia’s most competitive electoral democracies of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. It highlights the diverse dynamics of party politics in the region and provides new insights into...
Against Democracy
New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more...
by Donatella della Porta
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented toward theory building, Della Porta develops her...
Ernesto Laclau
Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science. The editors...