Political Science category: 78432 books
Entertaining Politics
Satiric Television and Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Tunisia's Ennahda...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT)....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The essays in this volume address the central theme of Pakistan’s enduring, yet elusive, quest for democracy. The book charts Pakistan’s struggle from its very inception, at least in the political rhetoric provided by both civilian and military leaders, for democracy, liberalism, freedom of expression,...
Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi
Social, Political and Environmental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and political landscape...
by Edward Weisband, Courtney I P Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines...
Modern Dilemmas
Understanding Collective Action in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Collective action problems are ubiquitous in situations involving human interactions and therefore lie at the heart of economy and political science. In one of the most salient statements on this topic, Elinor Ostrom, corecipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, claims that 'the theory...
Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals
The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this collection offers a thought-provoking critique of the role of the concept of reasonableness in liberal political theory, focusing on the proposed relationship between reasonableness and the establishment...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This is the second volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP...
by Jorge Valadez
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Most foundational works in political philosophy have made fundamentally false and far-reaching assumptions concerning the culturally homogeneous character of the polity.Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, andSelf-Determination in Multicultural Societies provides a much needed corrective...
Ex-Gay Research
Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Defenders and critics of the controversial Spitzer study analyze its methodologies and findings
In 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented his study on sexual conversion therapy with its controversial findings that some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation. The resulting media sensation...
Leadership and Authority in Central Asia
The Ismaili Community in Tajikistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan. The history of this region has commonly been explored through the lens of the major superpowers who competed over its territory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Britain,...
Theories Of Comparative Politics
The Search For A Paradigm Reconsidered, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Extensively revised and updated, this classic text revisits the central problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms to guide us in comparative political inquiry. Building upon the first edition's comprehensive and systematic overview of frameworks, ideologies, and theories, the second...