Political Science category: 78432 books
Political Bargaining
Theory, Practice and Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today. It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights...
Understanding Political Science Statistics
Observations and Expectations in Political Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
In politics, you begin by asking theoretically interesting questions. Sometimes statistics can help answer those questions. When it comes to applied statistics, students shouldn’t just learn a vast array of formula—they need to learn the basic concepts of statistics as solutions to particular...
by Nicholas P. Guehlstorf
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
The purpose of this study is to question whether liberal political theories ought to inform the way policymakers and administrators analyze risk in proposed courses of environmental practice. In order to explore the relationship of liberal theory to rational practice in environmental policy, this...
Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond
Paradigms Defected
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar “battlefields” of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise institutionalized during the Cold...
Power and Society
A Framework for Political Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Power and Society, Harold D. Lasswell collaborates with a brilliant young philosopher, Abraham Kaplan, to formulate basic theoretical concepts and hypotheses of political science, providing a framework for further inquiry into the political process. This is a classic book of political theory written...
Murder and Politics in Mexico
Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election...
Black Mosaic
The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States....
Political and Military Sociology
Volume 38: An Annual Review
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Political and Military Sociology continues a mission of publishing cutting-edge research on some of the most important issues in civil-military relations. In this inaugural volume of the new annual publication, Won-Taek Kang tackles the issue of nostalgia for Park Chung Hee in South Korea, and analyzes...
Understanding Political Science Statistics using Stata
A Manual with Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This manual walks students through the procedures for analysis in Stata and provides exercises that go hand-in-hand with online data sets. The manual complements the textbook Understanding Political Science Statistics: Observations and Expectations in Political Analysis, by Peter Galderisi, making...
Understanding Political Science Statistics using SPSS
A Manual with Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This manual walks students through the procedures for analysis in SPSS and provides exercises that go hand-in-hand with online data sets. The manual complements the textbook Understanding Political Science Statistics: Observations and Expectations in Political Analysis, by Peter Galderisi, making...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and political...
The Plebeian Experience
A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political...
Political Theologies in the Holy Land
Israeli Messianism and its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice and theology which has shaped Israeli identity.
The author...
Barack Obama's America
How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
"White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences."
---Richard Wirthlin, former pollster for Ronald Reagan
"This delightfully written and accessible book is the best available account of...