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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
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With entries from leading international scholars from around the world, this eight-volume encyclopedia offers the widest possible coverage of key areas both regionally and globally. The International Encyclopedia...
Political Science and Chinese Political Studies
The State of the Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer “isolated”...
Questioning Authority
Political Resistance and the Ethic of Natural Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The West is currently witnessing the slow destruction of the classical liberal tradition. The casualties are reason, the willingness to question political or religious authority, and the validity of natural science. Replacing these are a crippling intellectual relativism, political apathy, and a grave...
Analyzing American Democracy
Politics and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
How can political science help you understand the world you live in? Modern approaches to the study of politics analyze why Congress, the president, the courts, and other political actors do what they do. Learning to think critically about power, institutions, and rules helps citizens engage constructively...
Political Science Research Methods
Exploring America at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The principal goal of this textbook is to provide clear and elementary descriptions of the major statistical techniques used in political and social science research. The book is built on two basic assumptions. First, that it is possible to explain social science statistics in a simple and straightforward...
Making Political Science Matter
Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
Making Political Science Matter brings together a number of prominent scholars to discuss the state of the field of Political Science. In particular, these scholars are interested in ways to reinvigorate the discipline by connecting it to present day political struggles. Uniformly well-written and...
by Stephen M. Garrison, Professor, Gregory M. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The Political Science Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide is a practical guide to research, reading, and writing in political science.
The Political Science Student Writer’s Manual and Reader’s Guide, Eighth Edition, is a set of instructions and exercises that sequentially develop...
Education in Political Science
Discovering a neglected field
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools.
The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a...
Occupying Political Science
The Occupy Wall Street Movement from New York to the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Occupying Political Science is a collection of critical essays by New York based scholars, researchers, and activists, which takes an unconventional look at the Occupy Wall Street movement through concepts found in the field of political science. Both normative and descriptive in its approach, Occupying...
by Dr. Muhammad Hussein Noure Elahi
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
THIS work is the outcome of a demand for a short text-book that would contain in essence a clear and concise statement of the field of political science and political sociology, its scientific basis and its principles as far as these are at present known, and its purposes.In the preparation of this...
by Richard J. Gelles
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Changes in the thinking of science are usually accompanied by lively intellectual conflicts between opposing or divergent points of view. The clash of ideas is a major ingredient in the stimulation of the life of the mind in human culture. Such arguments and counter-arguments, of proofs and disproofs,...
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: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
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Via 99 entries or "mini-chapters," the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on political science highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates...
Anthropology and Political Science
A Convergent Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What can anthropology and political science learn from each other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the area of concepts and methodologies, is tremendously beneficial for both disciplines, though they also deal with some troubling aspects of the relationship. Focusing on the influence...