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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Political Polarization in American Politics provides short, accessible chapters about the nature and extent of political polarization within the American public and in American political institutions. These chapters capture the central ideas and debates in political science research on polarization,...
Sonic Agency
Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.
In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and...
Fascinating Hindutva
Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
In the present socio-political scenario of India, Dalits have emerged as a major force in the electoral arena and politically mobilising them has almost become a compulsion for all political parties.
Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation is a deconstruction of the fascinating...
Gay Conservatives
Group Consciousness and Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Discover why LGBT voters support conservative political platforms that don’t benefit the LGBT community
Recent studies show that the vast majority of the LGBT community considers itself politically liberally. Yet nearly 25% of all LGBT voters helped re-elect George W. Bush in 2004-who are...
The Only Constant Is Change
Technology, Political Communication, and Innovation Over Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Over the course of American political history, political elites and organizations have often updated their political communications strategies in order to achieve longstanding political communication goals in more efficient or effective ways. But why do successful innovations occur when they do, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
The development of a nation can be influenced by a wide range of factors. In the modern era of globalization, under-developed countries must strive to catch up to developed nations and establish themselves in the global market. The Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...
Television Drama in Contemporary China
Political, social and cultural phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream...
by Terry Maley
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through...
Political Sociology
Oppression, Resistance, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Designed to help students analyze and understand political developments in the world around them, this unique text covers a wide array of political sociology concepts and theoretical perspectives. The book's multidimensional view emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple oppressions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Since the early 1990s, a series of major scandals in both the financial and most especially the political world has resulted in close attention being paid to the issue of corruption and its links to political legitimacy and stability. Indeed, in many countries – in both the developed as well as...
Growing Apart
Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the most natural opportunities for comparative study. Peter Lewis, one of America's best scholars of Nigeria, has produced...
The Politics of Rights
Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the...
The Political Economy of Dual Transformations
Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
In the early 1990s, scholars voiced skepticism about the capacity of Eastern Europe's new democracies to manage simultaneous political and economic reform. They argued that the surge of popular participation following democratization would thwart efforts by successor governments to enact market reforms...