Political Science category: 78432 books
Global Political Economy
A Multi-paradigmatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
This book applies a multiparadigmatic philosophical frame of analysis to the global political economy. Crossing two disciplines and lines of literature—social philosophy and global political economy—this book considers seven aspects of global political economy and discusses each aspect from four...
Gender Innovation in Political Science
New Norms, New Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
In this book, leading gender scholars survey the contribution of feminist scholarship to new norms and knowledge in diverse areas of political science and related political practice. They provide new evidence of the breadth of this contribution and its policy impact. Rather than offering another account...
Political Campaign Communication
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practice, Ninth Edition uses a speech-communication perspective to examine how elective politics contributes to our knowledge and understanding of the electoral process. Through historical and contemporary examples, this book offers readers a realistic...
Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism
Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Today the ethical and normative concerns of everyday citizens are all too often sidelined from the study of political and social issues, driven out by an effort to create a more “scientific” study. This book offers a way for social scientists and political theorists to reintegrate the empirical...
Strategies of Justice
Aboriginal Peoples, Persistent Injustice, and the Ethics of Political Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Political theorists often imagine themselves as political architects, asking what an ideal set of laws or social structures might look like. Yet persistent injustices can endure for decades or even centuries despite such ideal theorizing. In circumstances of this kind, it is essential for political...
The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India
Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The "Punjab crisis," a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived...
by Bob Rae
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Poised to capitalize on renewed political interest following the federal election, the trade paperback edition of What’s Happened to Politics? is sure to be necessary reading for every concerned Canadian citizen.
Segmented electorates. Political leaders avoiding debate and dialogue in favour...
by John S Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern...
Encyclopedic Liberty
Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D’Alembert
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change the way men think” about every aspect of the human and natural worlds. In his celebrated “Preliminary Discourse” to the compilation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Published since 1928, the Political Handbook of the World provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information with
more in-depth coverage of current political controversies and political parties than any other reference guide. The updated 2016–2017 Edition continues this legacy as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
A must-read for psychologists—clinical and academic alike—as well as for political scientists, policy analysts, and others working in the realm of terrorism, political violence, and extremism, this book carefully explores the theories, observations, and approaches of authorities in the field and...
The Many Faces of Political Islam
Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-style democracy. Yet very few non-Muslims would be able to venture an accurate definition of political Islam. Mohammed Ayoob's The Many Faces of Political...
by Sebastian Erckel
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: very good, University of Kerala (Department of Political Science), course: MA Political Science, language: English, abstract: The late 20th century has witnessed a confusing and seemingly...
The Outrage Industry
Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while...