Political Science category: 78432 books
Telling Political Lives
The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds,...
by James Corry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
J.A. Corry, one of Canada's outstanding political scientists, in the Alan B. Plaunt Lectures for 1963 has contributed a brilliant and provocative analysis of the changed world in which politics and students of politics must operate today. He suggests first that political studies can no longer be confined...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
As China's political and economic development comes under closer scrutiny, this Dictionary will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in contemporary China. As well as proving valuable to students and academics of political science, economics, history and Asian studies, it will be of use to...
China Since Tiananmen: Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This text presents a selection of articles from the Chinese and Hong Kong press. The 109 documents record the deepening social and political changes that have emerged in China since Tiananmen Square. The articles offer contrasting views in politics, economics, society and culture, and science and...
by Tianjian Shi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Tianjian Shi shows how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior through two causal pathways, one at the individual level and one at the community level. Focusing on two key norms - definition of self-interest and orientation to authority - he tests the theory with multiple surveys conducted...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of...
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century
The Skeptical Radicalism of Judith Shklar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century offers an indispensable reexamination of the life, work, and interventions of a prominent liberal political theorist of the 20th century: Judith Shklar.
Drawing on published and unpublished sources including Shklar’s correspondence, lecture notes,...
Authority Figures
Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties...
Indian Politics and Society since Independence
Events, Processes and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Focusing on politics and society in India, this book explores new areas enmeshed in the complex social, economic and political processes in the country. Linking the structural characteristics with the broader sociological context, the book emphasizes the strong influence of sociological issues on...
Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India
States of Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and democracy.
It demonstrates how the Internal Emergency of 1975 led to increased support of groups such...
Creolizing Political Theory
Reading Rousseau through Fanon
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought,...
by Jean Hampton
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
In this sophisticated yet accessible text, Hampton neatly synthesizes the classical tradition, the giants of the modern period, the dominant topics of the 20th century, as well as the new questions and concerns that are just beginning to rewrite contemporary political philosophy. }Political philosophy,...
Patriotism
Philosophical and Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Economic and cultural globalization and the worldwide threat of terrorism have contributed to the resurgence of patriotic loyalty in many parts of the world and made the issues it raises highly topical. This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range...
by Harald Wydra
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This path-breaking book argues that practices of the sacred are constitutive of modern secular politics. Following a tradition of enquiry in anthropology and political theory, it examines how limit situations shape the political imagination and collective identity. As an experiential and cultural...