Political Science category: 78432 books
Morality, Governance, and Social Institutions
Reflections on Russell Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book reflects on the research and career of political theorist Russell Hardin from scholars of Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Law, among other disciplines. Contributions address core issues of political theory as perceived by Hardin, starting with his insistence that...
Hong Kong's Governance Under Chinese Sovereignty
The Failure of the State-Business Alliance after 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
As a hybrid regime, Hong Kong has been governed by a state-business alliance since the colonial era. However, since the handover in 1997, the transformation of Hong Kong’s political and socio-economic environment has eroded the conditions that supported a viable state-business alliance. This state-business...
Stifling Political Competition
How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008
Stifling Political Competition examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The analysis synthesizes political science, economics and American...
Power, luck and freedom
Collected essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book presents thirteen essays from a leading contemporary political scientist, with a substantial introduction bringing together the themes. The topics covered include political and social power, freedom, choice, rights, responsibility, the author's unique account of luck and systematic luck...
Robert Menzies
the art of politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
A revelatory biography of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister.
Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet...
by Gregory E. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Today's Republican Party has changed dramatically from what it was just two decades ago. The once great party of moderate statesmen like Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower has now become the party of radical ideologues like Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan. How did the far right-wing take over one...
by Joseph Schaller
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
We live in an Orwellian political world of propaganda and indoctrination. Deception is the method for grasping power and control. Dedicated Republicans are even confused regarding history, economics, science, and conservative principles. I present a list of appetizing words, terms, expressions, myths,...
Compromise
NOMOS LIX
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A distinguished group of scholars explores compromise in contemporary affairs
Do lawmakers have a greater ethical responsibility to compromise than ordinary citizens? How does one rectify what is at stake when lawmakers concede to compromise for the sake of reaching resolution? Is compromise...
Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet
Comparing the US, UK, France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Internet first played a minor role in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, and has gradually increased in importance so that it is central to election campaign strategy. However, election campaigners have, until very recently, focused on Web 1.0: websites and email.
Political Campaigning,...
Realignment, Region, and Race
Presidential Leadership and Social Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Trump presidency may well be the first phase of a new American political alignment deeply rooted in identity politics. Now more than ever, it seems especially important to understand how leaders compete to engage different human motivations—how presidents, presidential candidates, and other...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The United States is experiencing remarkable demographic changes that are having an important impact on the American electorate. As the minority share of the voting-eligible population continues to grow, the political clout of non-Hispanic whites will further decline. The 2012 election demonstrated...
Asylum Policy, Boat People and Political Discourse
Boats, Votes and Asylum in Australia and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This book compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two countries since the early 1990s. While the regular and varied inflow of immigrants arriving at national airports, ferry terminals and train stations is seldom witnessed by the public, the arrival...
Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo
Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Since its founding in 1930 the Peruvian Aprista party (APRA) has occupied a place of signal importance in the Peruvian political spectrum, and it is one of the most important political parties to appear in twentieth-century Latin America. Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo is the first major...
Counterterrorism in Areas of Political Unrest
The Case of Russia's Northern Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Political transitions often create new law enforcement challenges. This Brief provides an examination of such special law enforcement challenges in the Northern Caucasas, both due to the unique structure of the crime groups that are active in the region, and to the unique social and political...