Political Science category: 78432 books
John G. Gunnell
History, Discourses and Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
John Gunnell has compelled political theorists to rethink their relation to political science, the history of political thought, the philosophy of social science and political reality. His thinking has been shaped by encounters with Heidegger and Plato, Wittgenstein and Austin, the Berkeley School...
Modern Political Science
Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena. What caused this change? Modern Political Science--the first authoritative...
by Wayne Steger, Sean Kelly, Mark Wrighton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Understand the theoretical-and practical-aspects of political marketing!
Over the past few years political marketing strategies have been refined with the help of new findings in political science research. Campaigns and Political Marketing clearly discusses the most recent political science...
Doing Research in Political Science
An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research… an excellent introduction to the comparative method giving an authoritative overview over the research process
- Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern
Doing Research in Political Science is the book for mastering...
Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics
An Uneasy Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically...
Political Attitudes
Computational and Simulation Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Political Science has traditionally employed empirical research and analytical resources to understand, explain and predict political phenomena. One of the long-standing criticisms against empirical modeling targets the static perspective provided by the model-invariant paradigm. In political science...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the study of politics. It provides the first definitive survey of the field edited by two of its pioneers....
by Harold D. Lasswell
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Harold D. Lasswell is arguably the quintessential face of political science to the larger public of the past century. However, there is a side to Lasswell less well known, but of special importance in this day and age: the place of the profession of politics as an academic activity. This book, written...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
For a while now, political science as a discipline has been big enough (in terms of the number of academics) and analytically mature enough to justify reflections on and reviews of its achievements. In fact, there is no lack of general handbooks, dictionaries and 'state of the art' assessments (as...
The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science
Transforming the American Regime
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
We cannot understand our current political situation and the scholarship used to comprehend our politics without taking full account of the Progressive revolution of a century ago. This fundamental shift in studying the political world relegated the theory and practice of the Founders to an antiquated...
Political Science Revitalized
Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle with Metatheory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Political science has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with many specializations and subfields that do not talk to one another. This book offers a solution that will advance the field from mid-level theory to engage in cross-fertilization through metatheoretical paradigms. The book begins with a...
Critical Political Ecology
The Politics of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between environmental science and politics. In this timely and wide-ranging...
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
Interruptions and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism.
Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading scholars from anthropology, geography, urban...