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Race, Ethnicity, and the Participation Gap
Understanding Australia's Political Complexion
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Race, Ethnicity, and the Participation Gap begins with the argument that political institutions in settler and culturally diverse societies such as Australia, the United States, and Canada should mirror their culturally diverse populations. Compared to the United States and Canada, however, Australia...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This is the first book to explain how to use key methods in analytical political theory. The methods discussed include contractualism, reflective equilibrium, positive political theory, thought experiments and ideological analysis. Many discussions of political theory methods describe and justify...
Poli Sci Fi
An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Poli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction allows readers, students, and instructors to explore the multiple worlds of science fiction while gaining a firm grasp of core political science concepts. This carefully composed text is comprised of sixteen brief chapters,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Focusing on the forces underlying headlines, this volume examines the processes and outcomes of political socialization-the ways in which an individual acquires the attitudes, beliefs, and values of the political culture from the surrounding environment, and takes on a role as citizen within that...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
American political development (APD) is a core subfield in American political science, and focuses on political and policy history. For a variety of reasons, most of the focus in the twentieth century APD has been on liberal policymaking. Yet since the 1970s, conservatives have gradually assumed control...
by Nerses Kopalyan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
What will the current global political order look like when American unipolarity ends? Historically, the power configurations of world political systems have been defined by four structures: multipolarity, tripolarity, bipolarity, and unipolarity. These concepts inform both the formulation and the...
Humour in Political Activism
Creative Nonviolent Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This book analyses how humour in political activism contributes to facilitating outreach, mobilisation and the sustaining of cultures of resistance. Drawing on examples of attention-grabbing stunts from around the world, Humour in Political Activism demonstrates how they succeed in turning relations...
Political Islam in Tunisia
The History of Ennahda
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Political Islam in Tunisia uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Ennahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-11 and the overthrow of Ben Ali's dictatorship, Ennahda has until now been impossible to investigate. This is...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Political polarization dominates discussions of contemporary American politics. Despite widespread agreement that the dysfunction in the political system can be attributed to political polarization, commentators cannot come to a consensus on what that means. The coarseness of our political discourse,...
Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama
Faith and the Civic Life of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith—even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist—and whether this...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy is the definitive guide to contemporary political philosophy. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more...
A Defense of Rule
Origins of Political Thought in Greece and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain...
Toward a Humanist Justice
The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The late Susan Moller Okin was a leading political theorist whose scholarship integrated political philosophy and issues of gender, the family, and culture. Okin argued that liberalism, properly understood as a theory opposed to social hierarchies and supportive of individual freedom and equality,...
Political Groups in Chile
The Dialogue between Order and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Before the Pinochet coup in 1973, Chile had a lengthy history of constitutionalism. Early in the republican era the aristocracy established order in the political system; a century later the emergent middle sectors infused politics with wider democratic practices and, relative to most of Latin America,...