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Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics
Citizenship and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics, volume 17 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR), is divided thematically into two books, available separately or as a set. The first concentrates on the institutional aspects of Black politics. The second book addresses various dimensions...
The Citizen Marketer
Promoting Political Opinion in the Social Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes on social media, the landscape of political communication is being transformed by the grassroots circulation of opinion on digital platforms and beyond. By exploring how everyday people assist in the promotion of political media messages to persuade...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain...
Broadening and Deepening Democracy
Political Innovation in Karnataka
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book examines certain changes in the political make-up of Karnataka, between the early 1970s and the late 1980s, which, in turn, led to the birth of a unique democracy in the state.
In a departure from most studies on political science and political history which pay little or no attention...
Japanese Governance
Beyond Japan Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Japan Inc was once used to describe the powerful political and economic system that delivers Japan's transformation to an industrial power. This book is about the breakdown and failure of policy coherence in Japan in the 1990s and how the political economy of Japan has changed in response. The essays...
Prospects for the American Age
Sovereignty and Influence in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Prospects for the American Age, is about the new world order. The book consists of seven chapters that revolve around theory, history, emergence, current status and future of the world order. Drawing on his academic training and practical experience, Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi reveals the ultimate...
The Search for a European Identity
Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union. Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, the editors have developed a theoretical framework to examine the interplay between...
by Myron J. Arnoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel, and intellectually equally at home in political...
Political Communication in Canada
Meet the Press and Tweet the Rest
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Changes in technology and media consumption are transforming the way people communicate about politics. Are they also changing the way politicians communicate to the public? Political Communication in Canada examines the way political parties, politicians, interest groups, the media, and citizens...
New Body Politics
Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to...
Understanding Political Science Research Methods
The Challenge of Inference
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This text starts by explaining the fundamental goal of good political science research—the ability to answer interesting and important questions by generating valid inferences about political phenomena. Before the text even discusses the process of developing a research question, the authors introduce...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars...
The Future of Political Science
100 Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
This book contains some of the newest, most exciting ideas now percolating among political scientists, from hallway conversations to conference room discussions. To spur future research, enrich classroom teaching, and direct non-specialist attention to cutting-edge ideas, a distinguished group of...
by John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Old powers are falling. New states are emerging. The gap between East and West is narrowing. What are the problems facing the emerging new world order? Can action at the community level affect global issues?
An Introduction to Political Geography, in its first edition helped shape the study of the...