Political Science category: 78432 books
by Colin Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
`This text provides an up to date account of how things currently stand in political philosophy, and will provide an excellent introduction for students from any background. It gives a lucid and careful account of the central controversies and sites of disagreement in political theory over the last...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Interviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital...
Southern Political Party Activists
Patterns of Conflict and Change, 1991-2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
" The South continues to be the most distinctive region in American politics. Over the last half century, Democratic dominance in the South has given way to the emergence of a truly competitive two-party system that leans Republican in presidential elections. In some ways, the region is increasingly...
The World of Political Science
A Critical Overview of the Development of Political Studies around the Globe: 1990-2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
How well is the field of political studies doing and where is it headed? These questions are answered by this broad world overview of political science, its advances and shortcomings, along with prescriptions for the future in the first decades of the 21th century. The volume includes three world...
Power without Force
The Political Capacity of Nation-States
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Decolonization after World War II led to a significant global increase in the number of states. Each new nation was born with high expectations. But these hopes were soon eroded by the ineffectiveness and capriciousness of many of the new regimes. In many states military juntas have become the order...
Institutional Change in American Politics
The Case of Term Limits
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Legislative term limits adopted in the 1990s are in effect in fifteen states today. This reform is arguably the most significant institutional change in American government of recent decades. Most of the legislatures in these fifteen states have experienced a complete turnover of their membership;...
Political Discussion in Modern Democracies
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The study of political discussion has been broken into sub-categories including deliberative democracy, discursive studies, dynamics of interpersonal communication, and discussion network analyses, with substantial numbers of books and articles covering each. However, these areas are often treated...
by Charles Dannreuther, Lew Perren
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
For many, small firms are everyday realities of the economy and visible in every high-street and industrial estate. Their existence and importance is unquestionable. Such beliefs are understandable, but the authors of this new book would suggest they are misguided. The Political Economy of the Small...
The Revolt Against the Masses
And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title. "The revolutionaries of contemporary America do not seek to redistribute privilege from those who have it to those who do not. These radicals wish to arrange a transfer of power...
Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority
Knowledge and action in liberal democracies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the sovereign...
Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability
Synergies and divergences
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science are examined and analyzed in this innovative volume. Comprised of 11 commissioned chapters as well as introductory...
by Jan A.G.M. van Dijk, Kenneth L. Hacker
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics. At the turn of the century, it was presumed that digital communication would produce many positive political effects like improvements to political information retrieval, support for public debate and community...
Free Books for Lovers of Political Science
Over 100 Free, Downloadable Books on Political Science for You to Enjoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
WELCOME to a treasure chest of FREE books on Political Science presently available on the Internet at no cost!
In this book you will have free access to over 100 works organized in relevant topics. Great classics that have shaped our world such as The Communist Manifesto, by Kark Marx, Socialism:...
Politics and Web 2.0
The Participation Gap
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
A point of departure for this book is the paradox between the seemingly limitless promise modern web technologies hold for enhanced political communication and their limited actual contribution. Empirical evidence indicates that neither citizens nor political parties are taking full advantage of online...