Political Science category: 78432 books
by Peter Natchez
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
When survey research, statistics, and electronic data processing were first introduced, they held out promise that a new level of political knowledge would be created. Applied to the study of voting behavior, survey research promised an understanding of the factors determining the outcome of an election,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Given the centrality of political parties in modern democracies, most research on these systems either directly address their internal functioning and activities or question their critical role. Political science has moved from describing institutions to the thorough analysis of behavior within...
Political Communication in Real Time
Theoretical and Applied Research Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Much has been made of the speed and constancy of modern politics. Whether watching cable news, retweeting political posts, or receiving news alerts on our phones, political communication now happens continuously and in real time. Traditional research methods often do not capture this dynamic environment....
Reform Processes and Policy Change
Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
George Tsebelis’ veto players approach has become a prominent theory to analyze various research questions in political science. Studies that apply veto player theory deal with the impact of institutions and partisan preferences of legislative activity and policy outcomes. It is used to measure...
by Melissa Boehm, Samuel Boerboom, Beth E. Bonnstetter
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
The Political Mel Brooks analyzes both Mel Brooks’s more popular films and his lesser known work to explore how his use of parody and satire, his keen sense of the history of Jewish comedic conventions, and his deep awareness of social issues encompasses a political project that, while often implicit,...
Democracy and Institutions
The Life Work of Arend Lijphart
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Institutions are the channels of political power. This volume explores Arend Lijphart's life work--the design of political institutions. All the contributors to this volume share the fundamental insight that the design of political institutions matters in how democracies work.
The essays in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Though disability scholarship has been robust in history, philosophy, English, and sociology for decades, political theory and political science more generally have been slow to catch up. This groundbreaking volume presents the first full-length book on political theory approaches to disability issues....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Written by an international team of experts, this fully revised fourth edition offers cutting-edge coverage from fundamental to contemporary issues. Integrating guides to further reading...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This timely publication offers a fresh scholarly assessment of political advertising across the EU, as well as an insight into differing political and regulatory systems related to political advertising in the individual member states. With a detailed focus on the images and communication styles that...
Political Parties
A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The principle of self-government through political parties, the cornerstone of democracy, has come to be regarded as a solution to the problem of nationality. This is because the principle of nationality entails the acceptance of the idea of popular government. The importance of the principle of nationality...
From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?
Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of political parties. This volume systematically examines these two prominent developments in contemporary democratic politics...
Entrepreneurship in the Polis
Understanding Political Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Dynamics of entrepreneurship have attracted growing attention from scholars of political science, policy studies, public administration and planning, as well as more recently, from the realms of international relations and foreign policy analysis. Under the banner of political entrepreneurship, this...
Latino Politics en Ciencia Política
The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
More than 53 million Latinos
now constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group in
the United States, and the nation’s political future may well be shaped by
Latinos’ continuing political incorporation. In the 2012 election, Latinos
proved to be a critical voting bloc...
Political Booms
Local Money and Power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle “classes” promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy brought no boom and barely...