Political Science category: 78432 books
Uncivil Agreement
How Politics Became Our Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization...
Why Americans Don't Join the Party
Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Two trends are dramatically altering the American political landscape: growing immigration and the rising prominence of independent and nonpartisan voters. Examining partisan attachments across the four primary racial groups in the United States, this book offers the first sustained and systematic...
Intersectionality and Politics
Recent Research on Gender, Race, and Political Representation in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Cutting-edge research on the intersection of race, gender, and politics
Traditionally, there has been a significant lack of empirical attention given to the ways in which race/ethnicity, gender, and political representation overlap. Intersectionality and Politics is the groundbreaking collection...
by Richard Dagger, Terence Ball, Daniel I. O’Neill
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes and compares political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills. It covers...
Political Institutions and Practical Wisdom
Between Rules and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Societies create rules that govern our practices. Such rules can only be effective, however, if the intermediaries between rules and practices--institutions--harness the skill, knowledge, and motivation of practitioners. Yet, everywhere institutions seem to be failing. Over-reliance on rules and incentives...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents. It provides a detailed picture of this relation in a wide number of European, American, African, and Asian states, as well as a comparative assessment of football...
LULAC
The Evolution of a Mexican American Political Organization
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is one of the best-known and active national organizations that represent Mexican Americans and their political interests. Since its founding in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1929, it has served as a vehicle through which Mexican Americans can strive...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Religion and religio-political forces have become potent influences in the domestic politics of many countries irrespective of geographical location, stages of economic growth, and systems of governance. The growing importance of religion as a marker of identity and a tool of political mobilization...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Evaluating Methodology in International Studies offers a unique collection of original essays by world-renowned political scientists. The essays address the state of the discipline in regard to the methodology of researching global politics, focusing in particular on formal modeling, quantitative...
A Conservative Walks Into a Bar
The Politics of Political Humor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Conservative critics argue that modern political satire, in the age of The Daily Show, has a liberal bias. A quick review of the humor landscape shows that there are very few conservative political satirists, and using personal interviews with political humorists this book explains why. The book explores...
Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts
Religion and Science as Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion-and-science” and our contemporary political and social landscape with a tailored eye towards the epistemological and hermeneutical impact...
Harry Potter and the Millennials
Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Without a doubt the Harry Potter series has had a powerful effect on the Millennial Generation. Millions of children grew up immersed in the world of the boy wizard—reading the books, dressing up in costume to attend midnight book release parties, watching the movies, and even creating and competing...
The Meaning of Ideology
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its analysis, emphasizing the input of different intellectual and scholarly traditions to the meaning of ideology.
The articles explore commonalities in...
The New Pluralism
William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
William Connolly, one of the best-known and most important political theorists writing today, is a principal architect of the “new pluralism.” In this volume, leading thinkers in contemporary political theory and international relations provide a comprehensive investigation of the new pluralism,...