Political Science category: 78432 books
by Kenneth F Warren
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Emphasizing that administrative law must be understood within the context of the political system, this core text combines a descriptive systems approach with a social science focus. Author Kenneth F. Warren explains the role of administrative law in shaping, guiding, and restricting the actions of...
Community Practice
Theories and Skills for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures. In this third edition, a wealth of new charts and cases...
Nomadic Theory
The Portable Rosi Braidotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original...
European Politics
Pasts, presents, futures
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial...
by Steven P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century....
The Unheavenly Chorus
Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political...
Sayyid Qutb - an Islamic fundamentalist
an Islamic fundamentalist
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: A (1), Lebanese American University (Political Science Department), course: Graduate Seminar: Modern Arab Political Thought, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
Political Thought in Canada
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of...
by Ralph Negrine, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Has the communication of politics become professionalised? Who are the ‘professionals’ and what part do they play in the political process? Can the process of professionalisation be observed in different political systems? These, and related questions, about the changing nature of practices in...
The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement for the Hispanics
Do they benefit from it?
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: 2,3, University of Hamburg (Institute of Political Science), course: Mittelseminar: Introduction to the American Political System (Lecturers: Ph. D. M. Pfau/Dr. Beckmann-Schulz), language: English,...
by Aristotle Papanikolaou
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology...
Confucian Perfectionism
A Political Philosophy for Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance that can retain the spirit of the Confucian ideal while tackling problems arising from...
Sri Lanka
History and the Roots of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In the past decade, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by political tragedy as successive governments have failed to settle the grievances of the Tamil minority in a way acceptable to the majority Sinhala population. The new Premadasa presidency faces huge economic and political problems with large sections...
Vision and Strategy in Indian Politics
Jawaharlal Nehru’s Policy Choices and the Designing of Political Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The 1950s in India were a crucial transition phase where the legacy and institutions of British rule had to be transformed to fit the needs of a post-colonial state. This period is closely associated with India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru (1947 – 64). Selecting three key policies...