Political Science category: 78432 books
Ethnic Cues
The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"New theoretical propositions, original data, and rigorous empirical tests are what one looks for in cutting-edge social science. Fortunately, all three are apparent in Ethnic Cues. The author has pushed his thinking to develop new ways of understanding and explaining patterns of Latino voting...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Routledge Handbook of Political Islam provides a multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our time. Drawing on the expertise from some of the top scholars in the world it examines the main issues surrounding political Islam across the...
Hobbes and America
Exploring the Constitutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
This path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the prevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real American constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in political life.
Frank Coleman makes a persuasive case that the...
Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India
Monuments, Memory, Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The book examines the postcolonial Muslim political discourse through monuments. It establishes a link between the process by which historic buildings become monuments and the gradual transformation of these historic/legal entities into political objects. The author studies the multiple interpretations...
by Charles Merriam
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A History of American Political Theories is a comprehensive attempt to understand the full sweep of American political thought since the founding. Working within the liberal-progressive tradition, Merriam reviewed American political history in its entirety, from the founding down to his own day. He...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Race matters in both national and international politics. Starting from this perspective, African American Perspectives on Political Science presents original essays from leading African American political scientists. Collectively, they evaluate the discipline, its subfields, the quality of race-related...
Science in Democracy
Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
An argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies—from Machiavelli to Latour—for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy.
Public controversies over issues ranging from global warming to biotechnology have...
Revolution and Counterrevolution
Change and Persistence in Social Structures
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This collection of Lipset's major essays in political sociology is in a real sense a follow-up or sequel to Political Mind and The First New Nation. It provides a broad panorama of continuing interest, developing a sociological perspective in comparative and historical analysis, with particular reference...
Embodied Power
Demystifying Disembodied Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Embodied Power explores dimensions of politics seldom addressed in political science, illuminating state practices that produce hierarchically-organized groups through racialized gendering—despite guarantees of formal equality. Challenging disembodied accounts of citizenship, the book traces how...
by Lisa Pace Vetter
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Recovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation’s formative years.
The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner...
National Dialogue in Tunisia
Nobel Peace Prize 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The authentic dialogue, the compromises, the consensus which allowed Tunisia to overcome its political and institutional crisisThis book is the final product of an investigation launched in November 2014 and completed in July 2015. It has collected first-hand information from stakeholders involved in...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This collection is concerned with two fundamental concepts of social science– power and emotion. Power permeates all human relationships and is constitutive of social, economic, and political life. It stands at the centre of social and political theorizing, and its study has enriched scholarship...
Political Pluralism and the State
Beyond Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
The concept of a sovereign nation-state is a central part in many of the debates discussing the salient issues in political science today. Yet the debate on the state is fragmented and while the sub-disciplines within political science address the various possible consequences of different processes,...
The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities
Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of...