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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has...
Thinking about Democracy
Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.
Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together...
Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Building on the strengths of the first edition, this accessible and user-friendly textbook explores the strategies of comparative research in political science. It begins by examining different methods, then highlights some of the big issues in comparative politics using a wealth of topical examples...
The Politics of American Foreign Policy
How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In this provocative book, Peter Gries directly challenges the widely held view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both domestic and foreign policy and...
by A. Ware
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Recently, there has been a high level of conflict in American politics. Massive disagreements over government policies have pitted one group of Americans against another. This book explores how and why this style of politics developed and argues that fundamental disagreements between Americans have always been at the root of its politics.
The Apartisan American
Dealignment and the Transformation of Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This provocative book sheds new light on the dealignment trend with the emergence of an independent voter Dalton is calling the Apartisan American. Utilizing 60 years of electoral surveys, Dalton's friendly and concise narrative shows students just who these apartisans are and how they're introducing...
Virginia Politics & Government in a New Century
The Price of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
The modern political landscape of Virginia bears little resemblance to the past. The commonwealth is a nationally influential swing state alongside stalwarts like Florida or Ohio. But with increased power comes greater scrutiny--and corruption. Governor Bob McDonnell received a jail sentence on federal...
The Politics of Child Protection
Contemporary Developments and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
From Every Child Matters and the Munro Review, to changing shifts in thinking from Coalition government; the child protection system has seen dramatic political and policy developments over recent years.
This book brings you a critical analysis of these developments from a leading writer and...
The Strains of Commitment
The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Building and sustaining solidarity is a compelling challenge, especially in ethnically and religiously diverse societies. Recent research has concentrated on forces that trigger backlash and exclusion. The Strains of Commitment examines the politics of diversity in the opposite direction, exploring...
Culture and Security
Symbolic Power and the Politics of International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book examines the role of culture in contemporary security policies, providing a critical overview of the ways in which culture has been theorized in security studies.
Developing a theoretical framework that stresses the relationship between culture, power, security and strategy, the volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This volume examines a variety of philosophical approaches that seek to formulate practical guidelines or norms for human actions and behavior in different areas of society, including politics, cultural traditions, the environment, business management, architecture, and medicine.
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Leadership and the Labour Party
Narrative and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The relationships between narrative and leadership, between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucial to party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians and scholars. This study analyses the ‘performance of leadership’ in the UK Labour Party, and...
by Andrey Davydov
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
If we rely on logic of history of political and legal teachings, then this implies that this history began in Rus’ at the time when pagans were huddled into a river. This fact in itself is of little interest. What is of interest is the following: what is the essence of this fact?In his time,...
Religion, National Identity, and Confessional Politics in Lebanon
The Challenge of Islamism
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change.