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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The sixth edition of Canadian Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a highly respected group of political scientists. For this edition, the editors have organized the book into six parts. Part I examines Canadian citizenship and political identities, while...
by Matthew Hindman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers...
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian discusses “the Cold War, political parties, the presidency, and many broader philosophical issues [with] incisive wit” (Library Journal).
A celebrated historian, speechwriter, and adviser to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. draws on decades...
by Mark D. Brewer, Richard Powell, Chad Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic...
Politics: Another Perspective
Commentary and Analysis on Race, War, Ethics and the American Political Landscape in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Over the past 8 years there have been significant shifts in the American political landscape. The election of Senator Barack Obama as America’s 44th and first African American president signaled a giant leap forward in the American social, cultural, and political landscape. It has taken America...
Standing up Against Injustice
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Standing Up Against Injustice Standing Up Against Injustice is both inspirational and instructive, emotional and riveting. A key element of this book is a focus on The Gambias human rights situation and political landscape political turmoil; prison conditions and the plight of prisoners; the death...
by Ben Dupre
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
At a time of widespread popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the basic concepts of politics has never been greater.
The forces of Fundamentalism endanger our Liberty and Security, while government responses to it may pose a basic threat to Justice, Democracy...
Partisan Publics
Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth...
Iraq after America
Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
More than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, most studies of the Iraq conflict focus on the twin questions of whether the United States should have entered Iraq in 2003 and whether it should have exited in 2011, but few have examined the new Iraqi state and society on its own merits. Iraq...
The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton: Volume 2, 1789–1804
Volume II, 1789 – 1804
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Volume II: 1789–1884: Few of America's founders influenced its political system more than Alexander Hamilton. He played a leading role in writing and ratifying the Constitution, was de facto leader of one of America's first two political parties, and was influential in interpreting the scope of...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Few of America's founders influenced its political system more than Alexander Hamilton. He played a leading role in writing and ratifying the Constitution, was de facto leader of one of America's first two political parties, and was influential in interpreting the scope of the national government's...
Power, Place, and State-Society Relations in Korea
Neo-Confucian and Geomantic Reconstruction of Developmental State and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
No book has addressed the simultaneous phenomena of Korea’s rapid economic development and its vibrant democratization in a single coherent paradigm. The late developmentalist approach emphasizes the strong role of Korea’s state and bureaucratic efficiency but does not explain how political development...
The Nixon Effect
How Richard Nixons Presidency Fundamentally Changed American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The Nixon Effect examines the 37th president’s political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways, some...
Scandinavians in the State House
How Nordic Immigrants Shaped Minnesota Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Beginning in the 1850s, thousands of immigrants from Nordic countries settled in Minnesota and quickly established themselves in the political life of their new home. These Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Finns, and Icelanders first sowed their political seeds at the local level—as town clerks, city...