Political category: 85882 books
Political Communication in the Online World
Theoretical Approaches and Research Designs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
As a consequence of the rapid diffusion of online media, the conditions for political communication, and research concerning it have radically changed. Is empirical communication research capable of consistently describing and explaining the changes in political communication in the online world both...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book showcases new work done by gender politics scholars and political psychologists, covering a variety of political psychology topics. These include stereotyping and prejudice, intergroup conflict, social identity, attitude formation, group affinity, group decision-making, anxiety, contextual...
Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan
A Political Biogaphy of Ozawa Ichirō
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Ozawa Ichirō is one of the most important figures in Japanese politics, having held the positions of Chief Secretary of the Liberal Democrat Party and, after defection from the LDP, President of the Democratic Party of Japan. Ozawa has distinctive ideas that set him apart from the average Japanese...
by Andrew Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published.
Andrew Dobson describes and assesses the political ideology...
by Jan A.G.M. van Dijk, Kenneth L. Hacker
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics. At the turn of the century, it was presumed that digital communication would produce many positive political effects like improvements to political information retrieval, support for public debate and community...
Computational Propaganda
Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries from all parts of the world currently available. Thematic chapters address advertising effects, negative ads, the perspective of practitioners and gender...
Reasoning Indian Politics
Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This volume examines the multiple forms of reasoning in Indian politics and explores a framework to understand them. In the process, it looks at a series of issues involving the relationship between politics and philosophy, including the status of political theory, political practices, identity politics,...
Assassin
Theory and Practice of Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Assassination as a political act has a long history, predating the murder of Julius Caesar and continuing into our own time. The murder of the mighty has long fascinated artists and rebels but only rarely has it been studied in a scholarly manner. In Assassin, J. Bowyer Bell combines existing historical...
Democratization in Morocco
The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
This book explores the political games of the Moroccan democratization process in the period from independence in 1956 until 2006. By combining a great degree of political theory with empirical material on Morocco, it analyzes the strategies and actions of the various political actors and evaluates...
Political Islam and Global Media
The boundaries of religious identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture.
This...
Political Parties
A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The principle of self-government through political parties, the cornerstone of democracy, has come to be regarded as a solution to the problem of nationality. This is because the principle of nationality entails the acceptance of the idea of popular government. The importance of the principle of nationality...
by Earle F. Zeigler
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Through the Eyes of a Concerned Liberal argues that the socio-political position of liberalism is the only one that can get us back on course toward the now-vanishing "enlightenment ideal". This was the vision of the "founding fathers," looking to a time when all of the conditions...
The Political Economy of Anti-dumping Protection
A Strategic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
This book deals with anti-dumping measures (AD) and investigates two questions: First, what country characteristics affect AD use and notably, do domestic political institutions have an effect? Second, (how) is the decision to impose a new AD measure affected by anticipation of trading partners’...