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by Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of political communication based on ideology.
Rather than beginning with voters and diffuse, atomistic preferences, Hinich and Munger explore why large...
by Damien Kingsbury
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development.
Political Development returns the key issues of human rights and democratization to the centre of...
by Kenneth L. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
An Essential Guide to American Politics and the American Political System by Kenneth Hill clarifies many of the trends influencing American politics today. You will find in this book a clear analysis of the underlying structure of the American political system, emerging trends, and enduring problems....
AIDS and Power
Why There Is No Political Crisis Yet
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments....
by Jeffery J. Mondak
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior is the first study in more than 30 years to investigate the broad significance of personality traits for mass political behavior. Drawing on the Big Five personality trait framework, Jeffery J. Mondak argues that attention to personality provides...
Reviewing Political Criticism
Journals, Intellectuals, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Reviewing Political Criticism examines the rise of the ’review’ form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The review belongs to a long tradition of written political criticism that first advised, then revised, and with the increased confidence...
The Primacy of the Political
A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts...
by Cecilia Sjoholm
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century and is best known for her work in linguistics. Even though her work has been very influential, the political implications of her writings have so far been neglected. Kristeva and the Political is the first book...
Political Science
Political Theory and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This is a book on political science and political theory on American politics and West African politics. It discussed the systems of government, political behaviors, and analysis. It offers crucial political ideas and ways to achieving good governance, leadership, equality, and freedom. Political...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book continues the editors' work (started in the volume “Masters of Political Science”) of highlighting and re-evaluating the contributions of the most important political scientists who have gone before. Its basis is the belief that the future development and sophistication of the discipline...
Struggle on Their Minds
The Political Thought of African American Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In...
Transforming Brazil
A History of National Development in the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
In this book, Rafael R. Ioris critically revisits the postwar context in Brazil to reexamine traditional questions and notions pertaining to the nature of Latin America’s political culture and institutions. It was in this period that the region lived some of its most intense and successful experiences...
by Matthew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as described by Matthew Holden in his introduction, is to "lead to new information, insights, and findings" into the social and political status...
Unequal and Unrepresented
Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resources
The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresentative....