Political Science category: 78432 books
The Flourishing of Islamic Reformism in Iran
Political Islamic Groups in Iran (1941-61)
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
During the 1940s and 1950s, Islamic reformism flourished in Iran. This book examines how Iranian Islamic groups came to rethink traditional accounts of religion and nurture a politicized version of Islam. The author shows how similar social and political circumstances, but different family and educational...
by Robert Winn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The two-party system that prevails in most English speaking governments began during the reign of King Charles II as a means of dividing and weakening the English Parliament. At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, political parties were not popular in the United States because an English political...
Argentina
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well below its regional neighbours such as Chile. At the same time, despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic...
The Victory Lab
The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
**UPDATED FOR THE 2016 ELECTION
The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.**
Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called...
Race Appeal
How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
In our evolving American political culture, whites and blacks continue to respond very differently to race-based messages and the candidates who use them. Race Appeal examines the use and influence such appeals have on voters in elections for federal office in which one candidate is a member of a...
Run the Other Way
Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Bill Hillsman is simply, in the words of Slate.com, "the world's greatest political adman." With his groundbreaking consulting work on Paul Wellstone's senatorial, Jesse Ventura's gubernatorial, and Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns, he was the first to publicly challenge the conventional strategies...
by Robert P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Winner of the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation. “Quite possibly the most illuminating...
Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe
Voting for Social Pacts
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Social pacts – policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations – began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s. The most common explanations for social pacts tend to focus on economic factors, influenced by industrial relations institutions such as highly...
by Ron Coleman Colonel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Just Watch Me, was the expression used by Trudeau when challenged by a reporter regarding his use of power during the FLQ crisis in Canada in 1970. This book traces the source of Trudeau's political groundings and his world travels after his formal education. It examines his early work in Quebec and...
by Paul A. Djupe, Christopher P. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Djupe and Gilbert investigate the political influence of church and how membership in organized religious bodies shapes the political life of members. Djupe and Gilbert's goal in this inquiry is to re-center scholarly attention on the voluntary association as an essential element of American civic...
Contested Holy Places in Israel–Palestine
Sharing and Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing understanding that conflicts in or over holy places differ from other territorial conflicts. A holy site has a profound meaning, involving human beliefs, strong emotions, "sacred" values, and core identity self-perceptions; therefore a...
American Marriage
A Political Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriage...
The New Leviathan
How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
At a time when the national political debate is about inequality and fairness, bestselling author David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin have written an unsettling book about the distribution of power in America. Thoroughly researched and amply documented, The New Leviathan overturns the conventional...
The H-Word
The Peripeteia of Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.
In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept,...