Politics category: 19839 books
by John R. Zaller
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range...
The Reputational Premium
A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary...
Preparing for Brexit
Actors, Negotiations and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book studies the developments of the Brexit process between June 2016 and June 2017. The British electorate’s decision to leave the European Union in June 2016 marks a major point in post war British politics, for it overturns the core policy of all preceding British governments since the early...
Cosmopolitan Power in International Relations
A Synthesis of Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this vision, nations require the muscle and strategies to compel compliance and achieve their full power potential. But in fact,...
Resilience
The Governance of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book...
Women, Policy and Politics
The Construction of Policy Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What's the Problem?'...
by Gary Becker
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) was known in the United States primarily as a political scientist. His best-known works--On Power, Sovereignty, and The Pure Theory of Politics--all made distinctive contributions to our understanding of the modern state, and to the creation of a political science...
Africa in International Politics
External Involvement on the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have...
Oil and Finance
The Epic Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
These political essays, which originally appeared in the Huffington Post, chronicle the financial and environment malfeasance of the oil industry during the last five years.
Oil is a commodity that is essential to the worlds economic well-being. But it is also an industry rife with corruption....
Losing Labour's Soul?
New Labour and the Blair Government 1997-2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Based on extensive original research and interviews with a wide variety of key players, this is a compelling assessment of the Labour Party in power.
Beginning with a detailed account of the development of New Labour, including the ideological tensions within the party, Eric Shaw provides a...
Conflicted Identities
Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad. Government buildings, major ensembles and urban plans have a visibility that lends them authority, while their repeated portrayals in the media cement their image...
Corporate Political Behavior
Why Corporations Do What They Do in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Corporate Political Behavior centers on why corporations do what they do in politics. The text draws upon insights from the author’s forty years of government and political experience—insights placed within an operating framework grounded in the political science and strategic issue management...
by James Tan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the case that no understanding...
by Alison Brooks, , Chanin
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Much has changed in US politics since the historic 2008 election. While the press covers the actions and agendas of the new administration, other impacts of this political shift have not received as much attention. These changes have forced the nation to rethink the necessary role of government, the...