Political Science category: 78432 books
Strategy and Politics
An Introduction to Game Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students with no background in formal theory to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible text covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the reader constantly in touch...
by Qiang Fang, Xiaojia Hou, Sherman Xiaogang Lai
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in China by addressing this important topic from a historical perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort among Chinese-American scholars interested...
by Anirban Ganguly, Shiwanand Dwivedi
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The story of Amit Shah's political life, struggles, rise and triumph is little known. For a leader who is often referred to as the Chanakya of Indian politics, who has dominated India's fast-paced and complex political stage since 2014, has altered its electoral map by leading the Bharatiya Janata...
Equal Citizenship and Public Reason
A Feminist Political Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This book is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism. The first half of the book develops and defends a novel interpretation of political liberalism. It is argued that political liberals should accept a restrictive account of public reason and that political liberals' account of...
POLITICAL PARTIES
A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
First published in German in 1911, Robert Michels’ ‘Political Parties’ is a classic of political and social science; it analyses the evolution of oligarchical power structures within political parties and trade unions, particularly those, ostensibly, most committed to egalitarian and democratic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1985
Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced...
by John Sides & Lynn Vavreck
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
This is the first of a series of free ebook preview chapters--scheduled to be released between August and December 2012--from a groundbreaking book in progress about the 2012 U.S. presidential election. What are the odds that Barack Obama will be reelected in November, despite a weak economy?...
Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote
Reflections on an Embedded Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is often seen in very positive terms by electoral reformers, yet relatively little is known about its actual workings beyond one or two specific settings. This book gathers leading experts on STV from around the world to discuss the examples they know best, and...
by Charles de Montesquieu
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever written. French philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu wrote this piece under the inspiration of such political theorists as René Descartes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apart from politics, that rights in fact hold at bay intrusions of state policy. The essays in Identities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the field, combined with an appreciation...
Leo Strauss's Defense of the Philosophic Life
Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?"
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Leo Strauss’s What Is Political Philosophy? addresses almost every major theme in his life’s work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Yet precisely because the book is so foundational, if we want to understand Strauss’s notoriously careful and complex thinking...
Classical Social Contract Theory
The Classical Social Contract Theories of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau Compared
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 80%= good, University of Kerala (Department of Political Science), course: Political Theory- Liberal Tradition, language: English, abstract: This essay compares the classical social contract...
Overheated
The Human Cost of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew Guzman, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine,...