Lexington Books: 3858 books
Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
The Struggle to Create Neighborhoods that Serve Human Needs
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
A Framework for Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
Social Media
Usage and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Within the past ten years, social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and others have grown at a tremendous rate, enlisting an astronomical number of users. Social media have inevitably become an integral part of the contemporary classroom, of advertising and public relations...
Medical Licensing and Discipline in America
A History of the Federation of State Medical Boards
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Medical Licensing and Discipline in America traces the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical antecedents in the 18th and 19th century to its modern structure. David A. Johnson and Humayun J. Chaudhry provide an organizational history of the Federation of State Medical...
Privacy and Fame
How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms uses Israel as a case study to examine the changes in perceptions, expectations, and actual behavior concerning privacy and privacy exposure to better understand the various ways individuals negotiate the boundaries between private and...
Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand
Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians’ brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality...
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit
Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit examines the wide latitude provided to the executive branch and to the Supreme Court by the text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing from government enforcement data, legislative history, Supreme Court rulings, the 2006 reauthorization debate on the VRA, and...
The Applied Anthropology of Obesity
Prevention, Intervention, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
by LaChrystal D. Ricke
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The Impact of YouTube on U.S. Politics provides a historical, descriptive, and conceptual analysis of the broad and evolving political impact of YouTube. It specifically addresses how politicians, campaigns, the media, and the public utilize YouTube for political campaigning, communication, and engagement....
Media, Millennials, and Politics
The Coming of Age of the Next Political Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book explores the relationship of the media and politics to America’s largest generational group, the millennial generation. As the group has become voting eligible since the 2008 election, the traditional news media has been largely critical of youth behaviors, civic engagement, and political...
Socializing the Classroom
Social Networks and Online Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, by Susan B. Barnes, examines how social media can be used in education through two research grants and real-world applications. Barnes analyzes social media including Facebook, Courseware, and Second Life, while providing a theoretical...