Political Science category: 78432 books
by O. T. Sylvester
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
A timely analysis of political parties in the United States from 1787 to the present. It is little known that political parties were seen in the United States as deleterious to civil society by the founding fathers. This book revisits the viewpoints expressed by the founding fathers about political parties....
Political Negotiation
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The United States was once seen as a land of broad consensus and pragmatic politics. Sharp ideological differences were largely absent. But today politics in America is dominated by intense party polarization and limited agreement among legislative representatives on policy problems and solutions.
Americans...
Intimidation by Political Correctness
A Distinctively Democrat Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
-Putting on paper what others will only touch inside the sealed chambers of the mind.
-What keeps millions from exercising their right of free speech - FEAR.
- The ultimate politically incorrect political commentary---and beyond.
-Political trinitrotoluene in print.
-This...
by Rick Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The Big Picture of U.S. National Government is a comprehensive introductory text for entry-level political science or civics courses in U.S. national government and politics at the university, community college, or advanced high school level. Written by a political scientist with over een years of...
Trailblazer
A Biography of Jerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in more than thirty years, Chuck McFadden explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians in California history. Son of California political royalty who forged his own political style against the tumultuous backdrop of a huge,...
The Fight
A Secret Service Agent's Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The New York Times bestseller!
"The Fight shines a much needed light on the troubling games DC politicians and insiders play with the American people." -Sean Hannity
"The Fight is a lesson plan for fighting back against the Washington DC political machine." - Mark...
Attlee's War
World War II and the Making of a Labour Leader
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
As deputy prime minister of Britain's coalition government during World War II, Clement Attlee became one of the most powerful figures in British politics and subsequently played a crucial role in the reshaping of the post-war party-political landscape. The architect of Labour's entry into the wartime...
The Polite Revolution
Perfecting the Canadian Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
From one of this country’s best and most controversial political writers, a searing blueprint for the Next Canada.
Five years into the twenty-first century, Canada is viewed as one of the most desirable nations in the world in which to live. Despite the worries of many Canadians — our country’s...
The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe
From Communism to Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together established and younger British, European and north American experts from a variety of disciplines, including history,...
The Politics of Inequality
A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American...
Democracy for Hire
A History of American Political Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California governorship,...
Political Psychology
Situations, Individuals, and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup---beliefs, values, and so on---of those individuals? This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today. Political Psychology: Situations,...
Impeachment, A Uniquely Political Punishment
Or, How Bill Clinton Was Paid Back For Twenty Years of Predatory Behavior Toward Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book is a legal treatise on impeachment law, and something more: a meditation on the inexorable course of retribution that finally caught up with Bill Clinton, making him only the second U.S. President in history to be impeached. If you’re a student of political science or law, this book...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory (2012) initiated a quest for a new conceptual structure to replace the three political theories of liberalism, communism and fascism. His title struck my eye because my mission is “to imagine the fourth age of understanding, the age of semiotics”. So...