Political Science category: 78432 books
Activists Forever?
Long-Term Impacts of Political Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Activists Forever? explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life. While much of the research in this area has focused on the motivations of entire protests groups, the editors of this volume propose an approach that focuses on actors. This book examines political involvement's...
Political Psychology
A Social Psychological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
A research-based guide to political psychology that is filled with critical arguments from noted experts
Political Psychology is solidly grounded in empirical research and critical arguments. The text puts the emphasis on alternative approaches to psychological enquiry that challenge our traditional...
Field Research in Political Science
Practices and Principles
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the research in economics, political science, law, and sociology that has generated considerable insight into the politics of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as the influence of different institutional frameworks...
Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan
Violence and Transformation in the Karachi Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Synthesizing political, anthropological and psychological perspectives, this book addresses the everyday causes and appeal of long-term involvement in extreme political violence in urban Pakistan. Taking Pakistan’s ethno nationalist Mohajir party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as a case study,...
Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World
Sources and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Conspiracy theories, while not unique to the Middle East, are a salient feature of the political discourses of the region. Strongly reflecting and impacting on state-society relations and indigenous impressions of the world beyond the region, they affect how political behaviour within and among the...
The Balkans on Trial
Justice vs. Realpolitik
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This book assesses the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia’s (ICTY) legacy and examines the conflicting intersection of law and politics in the search for justice, both thematically and through close analysis of some of the major trials.
It analyses the related case brought...
Guided by the Mountains
Navajo Political Philosophy and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and the challenges faced by Indigenous nations in...
Oil States in the New Middle East
Uprisings and stability
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of Arab revolutions. However, in 2011 revolution hit Libya, the most oil dependent regime in the Middle East. The political storm winds that have swept...
Ethnocentrism
Integrated Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Ethnocentrism works to reinvigorate the study of ethnocentrism by reconceptualising ethnocentrism as a social, psychological, and attitudinal construct.
Using a broad, multidisciplinary approach to ethnocentrism, the book integrates literature from disciplines such as psychology, political...
The New York Times Book of Politics
167 Years of Covering the State of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
For 167 years, The New York Times has been in the forefront of political reporting—from memorable campaigns and elections to controversial legislation, scandals, and issues ranging from immigration, race, and gender to the economy and war.
In today’s turbulent times, the newspaper’s political...
by Sadhana Thakur
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Ideologies are the sets of basic beliefs about the political, economic, social and cultural affairs held by the majority of people within as society. Nearly every opinion on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of government policy, ranging from welfare to gun control, is a reflection of a person’s...
The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
“A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician”—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography (The Christian Science Monitor).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of...