Political Science category: 78432 books
Woman President
Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting...
by Gerald McIsaac
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The focus of the book is on the revolution which is currently raging in North America, one which will break out into open warfare any day now, just as it did in 1776. It is a class struggle, the working class against the capitalist class. The capitalists are about to be overthrown and the working...
by Raghuveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The present work is a collection of essays/articles, mainly on political theory written by Professor Raghuveer Singh, who was an eminent scholar of political philosophy, well-known in India and abroad. A highly original thinker and a mighty stalwart of classical political thought, his articles cover...
by Vera Keller
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Many studies relate modern science to modern political and economic thought. Using one shift in order to explain the other, however, has begged the question of modernity's origins. New scientific and political reasoning emerged simultaneously as controversial forms of probabilistic reasoning. Neither...
The Rise Of Peace
A Fiction Novel on World Power Politics. Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks (Muslims, Non Muslims)
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Bismillah Hirrahman Nirraheem
( In the name of God the most Merciful and the most Gracious )
*** Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks (Muslims, Non Muslims) ***
A Fiction Novel on World Power Politics. Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks (Muslims, Non...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Landscape is now on the agenda in a new way. The increasing interest in justice, power and the political landscape expresses a sea change occurring in the meaning of landscape itself, from landscape as scenery to landscape as polity and place. As Lionella Scazzosi argues "The meaning of the term...
Race, Ethnicity, and the Participation Gap
Understanding Australia's Political Complexion
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Race, Ethnicity, and the Participation Gap begins with the argument that political institutions in settler and culturally diverse societies such as Australia, the United States, and Canada should mirror their culturally diverse populations. Compared to the United States and Canada, however, Australia...
Hypocrisy in American Political Attitudes
A Defense of Attitudinal Incongruence
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book illuminates, and ultimately defends, attitudinal hypocrisy within the personal politics of Americans by utilizing statistical analyses within political history, social psychology, public opinion, and political science. Within a simple and parsimonious model of political attitudes, along...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
American political development (APD) is a core subfield in American political science, and focuses on political and policy history. For a variety of reasons, most of the focus in the twentieth century APD has been on liberal policymaking. Yet since the 1970s, conservatives have gradually assumed control...
Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama
Faith and the Civic Life of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith—even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist—and whether this...
Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation
Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Since the 1970s, quotas for female political candidates in elections have proliferated worldwide. Beyond increasing the numbers of women in high-level elected bodies and, thereby, women’s political representation, advocates claim that quotas foster gender-equal participation in democracy and create...
The Politics of Preference
Democratic Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Sunita Parikh examines the history and fate of affirmative action programs in two ethnically heterogeneous democracies, the United States and India. Affirmative action programs in the United States represent a controversial policy about which the American public feel at best ambivalence and at worst...
by Olena Nikolayenko
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The political outlook of young people in the countries of the former Soviet Union is crucial to their countries’ future political development. This is particularly relevant now as the first generation without firsthand experience of communism at first hand is approaching adulthood. Based on extensive...
by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to national office is due, in large part, to gender-friendly electoral rules such as gender quotas and proportional electoral systems, and it...