Political Science category: 78432 books
by Yang Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Despite China’s rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, most Chinese still live in the vast countryside or have rural household registration. Although there was significant economic improvement in rural areas in the 1980s, the rural economy has been stagnating or deteriorating since then, and...
Political Succession in the Arab World
Constitutions, Family Loyalties and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Political succession is a key issue in the contemporary Middle East. In this new study the author examines the process and shows how respect for those in authority and tribal codes of loyalty have been far more influential in maintaining regimes than security institutions and political repression.
The...
Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics
Activist Nation Rising
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising demonstrates the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The rise of the modern Internet and social media platforms have allowed for the proliferation of alternative media across...
Marketing Democracy
Public Opinion and Media Formation in Democratic Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book examines mass marketing techniques in a political rather than economic context. The authors' thesis remains persuasive: democratic politics, precisely because it requires mass support for its legitimation, increases the need for public opinion to be channelized and focused. This is precisely...
by Jill Greenlee
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women’s interest, support, and participation throughout American history. Jill S. Greenlee investigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women’s political attitudes. Combining a historical overview of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book analyzes the impact of social media on democracy and politics at the sub-national level in developed and developing countries. Over the last decade or so, social media has transformed politics. Offering political actors opportunities to organize, mobilize, and connect with constituents,...
Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa
The persistence of violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Violence affects the economy of production and the ecology of reproduction— the production of economic goods and services and the generational reproduction of workers, the regeneration of the capacity to work and maintenance of workers on a daily basis, and the renewal of culture and society through...
Social Networks and Japanese Democracy
The Beneficial Impact of Interpersonal Communication in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Many who critique democracy as practiced in East Asia suggest that the Confucian political culture of these nations prevents democracy from being the robust participatory type, and limits it to a spectacle designed to create obedience from the public. Certainly some East Asian nations have had elections...
Political Cultures in Asia and Europe
Citizens, States and Societal Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This book is a study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on data from the largest cross-national survey on political culture for the last half a century, this book assesses how political culture...
Contagious Representation
Women’s Political Representation in Democracies around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Women’s participation in parliaments, high courts, and executive
offices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but this
global increase in women’s representation masks significant variation
among different democratic political systems. For example, in
December of 2009, Rwanda’s legislature...
Mindmade Politics
The Cognitive Roots of International Climate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
How integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations.
Mindmade Politics takes a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex and contentious dynamics of global climate politics....
by Itzhak Galnoor, Dana Blander
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
There is growing interest in Israel's political system from all parts of the world. This Handbook provides a unique comprehensive presentation of political life in Israel from the formative pre-state period to the present. The themes covered include: political heritage and the unresolved issues that...
Governing Borderless Threats
Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
'Non-traditional' security problems like pandemic diseases, climate change and terrorism now pervade the global agenda. Many argue that sovereign state-based governance is no longer adequate, demanding and constructing new approaches to manage border-spanning threats. Drawing on critical literature...
State Capture, Political Risks and International Business
Cases from Black Sea Region Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
In the OECD-area states provide security business to be conducted through a legal-institutional framework where state institutions, working in a legal-rational, predictable and effective manner, are often taken for granted. Worldwide, however the situation is very different. Private actors seize public...