Political Science category: 78432 books
Forging Trust Communities
How Technology Changes Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Bloggers in India used social media and wikis to broadcast news and bring humanitarian aid to tsunami victims in South Asia. Terrorist groups like ISIS pour out messages and recruit new members on websites. The Internet is the new public square, bringing to politics a platform on which to create community...
Political Women
The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the women's...
by Neelam Pandey
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Political theory is the categorization of social thought by a group or by the persuasion or beliefs of a geo-political mass. Many political theories are founded as critiques toward existing political, economic and social conditions of the theorist’s time. Political theory can also be considered...
by Philip J Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Find out the real impact political marketing has on the democratic process
Winning Elections with Political Marketing is a unique look at the election process on both sides of the Atlantic, providing rare insight into how modern political communication and marketing strategies are used in the...
Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders
Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."
---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico
"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."
---James...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Captures the 17th-19th century origins and developments ofpolitical economy by editing original texts and illuminatingtheir relevance for today's political debate
Political economy from the 17th century to the present can be captured in two narratives originating with Locke and Rousseau. Those...
by Adedara S. Oduguwa
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Chief Obafemi Awolowo: The Political Moses is a story of a man who dedicated the entirety of his life to serve humanity and the development of mankind. The Author makes use of the noun Moses to depict the tiresome journey of an activist who fought rigorously alongside others to gain independence for...
The Strategy of Campaigning
Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political careers and rose to the highest elected offices in their respective countries.
The...
Party Reform
The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and...
by Joe Painter, Dr Alex Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
"A very good overview. Covers the key topics well and in an accessible and engaging style."
- Dr Daniel Hammett, Department of Geography, Sheffield University
This is a revised and updated edition of a core undergraduate resource for political geography. Focusing on the social and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters...
America at Risk
Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
America at Risk gathers original essays by a distinguished and bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are some of the greatest dangers facing America today? The answers, which range from dwindling political...
Positive Political Theory I
Collective Preference
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular...
by Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of political communication based on ideology.
Rather than beginning with voters and diffuse, atomistic preferences, Hinich and Munger explore why large...