Political Science category: 78432 books
The Dynamics of Political Communication
Media and Politics in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
What impact do news and political advertising have on us? How do candidates use media to persuade us as voters? Are we informed adequately about political issues? Do twenty-first-century political communications measure up to democratic ideals? The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics...
Post-Soviet Power
State-led Development and Russia's Marketization
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
This book seeks to provide readers with a cross-national perspective concerning the art of political communication in a field increasingly affected by globalization, fragmentation of political audiences, and the rise of professional communications experts - a field concerned not only with how leaders...
Contours of African American Politics
Volume 2, Black Politics and the Dynamics of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry. African American politics emanates from the demands of the prolonged struggle for black liberation and empowerment. Hence,...
Trust in the European Union in Challenging Times
Interdisciplinary European Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies collection. This volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on trust in the EU from the vantage point of political science, law and economics. It applies insights from a number of different dimensions – political institutions,...
Political Ecology and the Role of Water
Environment, Society and Economy in Northern Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems associated with common property resource management have been common themes in this debate, yet insufficient attention has been paid to how traditional...
Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union
The unsettled political order of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
To many, the rejections of the Constitutional Treaty by Dutch and French voters in 2005 came as a shock. However, given the many tensions and the many unresolved issues it was quite unsurprising. The challenges facing the Constitutional debate go to the core of the European integration process as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The politics of land are vital. They stretch from fights over fracking, gentrification, and taxation to land grabs, dispossession, and border conflicts. And they raise crucial questions about power, authority, violence, populism, and neoliberalism. This volume of Research in Political Sociology seeks...
by Doug McAdam
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest:...
The Political Economy of Human Happiness
How Voters' Choices Determine the Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Data, methods and theories of contemporary social science can be applied to resolve how political outcomes in democratic societies determine the quality of life that citizens experience. Radcliff seeks to provide an objective answer to the debate between left and right over what public policies best...
Progressive Punishment
Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book Award
The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation...
by Leslie Paul Thiele
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the discipline’s core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of critical thinking and practical judgment. The field’s interdisciplinary strengths are deployed to grapple with emerging issues and engage afresh...
Altering Party Systems
Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
New political parties have regularly appeared in developed democracies around the world. In some countries issues focusing on the environment, immigration, economic decline, and regional concerns have been brought to the forefront by new political parties. In other countries these issues have been...
Beyond the Turnout Paradox
The Political Economy of Electoral Participation
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
This Brief uses game-theoretic analysis to debunk the turnout paradox and offers an alternative economic model to elucidate the patterns behind the socioeconomic bias in turnout. The author argues that the turnout paradox—the idea that rational, strategic actors would not vote in an election—is...