Political Science category: 78432 books
by Ravi Ranjan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Political philosophy has all of these in its nature, but confines itself mostly to that part of life which is political, or directly connected with politics. It seeks laws of political behaviour and government. It presents man with alternative visions of the good life in the good community. It may...
Administrative Law in the Political System
Law, Politics, and Regulatory Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Emphasizing that administrative law must be understood within the context of the political system, this core text combines a descriptive systems approach with a social science focus. Author Kenneth F. Warren explains the role of administrative law in shaping, guiding, and restricting the actions of...
Ground Wars
Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such...
by Axel Kaehne
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era. The book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and theoretical attempts by Russian scholars and political thinkers to make sense of the challenges of post-communism and the trials of...
by Brian McNair
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
At a time of radical shifts in power across the globe, the sixth edition of An Introduction to Political Communication examines the role of the media in the political process. Brian McNair reflects on the role of communication in key events such as the referendum vote for the UK’s withdrawal from...
Politics at Work
How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's...
by Markham Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
RMS Titanic sank in 1912, a US presidential election year; and in the very first days of the great House of Commons debate on Home Rule for Ireland. The Marconi companies were heroes to the press and the public, who credited them with saving the lives that were saved; JP Morgan, who owned the shipping...
LGBTQ Politics
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A definitive collection of original essays on queer politics
From Harvey Milk to ACT UP to Proposition 8, no political change in the last two decades has been as rapid as the advancement of civil rights for LGBTQ people. As we face a critical juncture in progressive activism, political science,...
Homer Simpson Goes to Washington
American Politics through Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
The modern landscape of American entertainment is filled with commentary on the state of the union. Many people now get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report instead of Fox or CNN, and satirical political films such as Bulworth and Wag the Dog resonate with audiences and reviewers...
The Republican Noise Machine
Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States.
Brock, a former right-wing insider...
Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government
A Political Biography of Notes on the State of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and initial dissemination. Building upon a close reading...
Einstein on Politics
His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times, from the two world wars and the Holocaust, to the atomic bomb and the Cold War, to the effort to establish a...
The Socratic Turn
Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
The Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong. Reputedly, Socrates was the first philosopher to make the attempt. But Socrates was a materialistic natural scientist in his youth, and it was only much later in life—after he...
by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Political Works: Leviathan + De Cive (On the Citizen) + The Elements of Law + Behemoth, or The Long Parliament ” contains 4 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Collected...