Political Science category: 78432 books
The Biopolitics of Development
Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
This book offers an original analysis and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault’s works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political...
A Crisis of Civility?
Political Discourse and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
The state of political discourse in the United States today has been a subject of concern for many Americans. Political incivility is not merely a problem for political elites; political conversations between American citizens have also become more difficult and tense. The 2016 presidential elections...
Political Violence, Crises and Revolutions (Routledge Revivals)
Theories and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
First published in 1983, this extraordinary study provides a comprehensive systematic evaluation of cross-national theorizing and quantitative empirical evidence on four interrelated phenomena:
Political violence
Crises
Military Coups D’ État
Revolutions.
Findings from social-psychological...
Complex Political Decision-Making
Leadership, Legitimacy and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Political and societal elites are increasingly confronted with complex environments in which they need to take collective decisions. Decision-makers are faced with policy issues situated at different intertwined levels which need to be negotiated with different actors. The negotiation and decision-making...
The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants
A Transatlantic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
With the progress in communication and transport technologies, it has never been easier for migrants to stay connected with their country of origin. Facing the wide range of activities in which immigrants are involved, governments in the country of origin and the country of destination have endeavoured...
Egyptians in Revolt
The Political Economy of Labor and Student Mobilizations 1919–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Egyptians in Revolt investigates the political economy of the Egyptian labor and student movements. Using elements of social movement theory within a broad political economy framework, it assesses labor and student mobilizations in four eras of contemporary Egyptian history: the pre-1952 era, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning what education is being used for and what the effects of the politicisation of education are on Asian societies in the era of globalisation. Education has been used as a political tool throughout the ages and across the whole world to...
Nation Building
Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building
Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups,...
Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence
Understanding the Tensions between Politics and Expertise in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations. Under the evidence-based mandate, both experts and non-experts often assume that policy problems are sufficiently tractable and that...
The Assassination of William McKinley
Anarchism, Insanity, and the Birth of the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book is an examination of the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born purported anarchist. This work offers a new and different way to approach historical crime stories. Rather than accepting the idea that Czolgosz was inherently dangerous because of his...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from multiple...
by Ashutosh Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Comparative politics involves both a comparative study of the political structures and functions of national political systems of various states and also a comparative study of the political institutions at work within a single state. The former is called horizontal comparative studies and the latter...
The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance
Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability.
Taking...
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal
Evolution, Biology, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological,...