Political Science category: 78432 books
by Harold D. Lasswell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In spite of a cascade of criticism launched against the social sciences, they have brought a qualitative improvement in method and theory to the study of human beings and human relations. In the process of developing now commonplace foundations of social research few individuals have exercised a greater...
The Political Economy Of South Africa
From Minerals-energy Complex To Industrialisation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Democratization in South Africa has been accompanied by continuing and even deepening economic inequalities. Rather than proposing a blueprint for a more equable economic system, this book presents the results and implications of wide-ranging research on the history and current dynamics of the South...
The New Democracy
An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
When The New Democracy first appeared in 1912, it was widely regarded as one of the most influential works of the Progressive Era. Yet, despite continuing interest in the political thought of the Progressive Era, both Weyl and The New Democracy slipped into undeserved obscurity shortly after the...
Tunisia
From stability to revolution in the Maghreb
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The first edition of Tunisia was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated in Tunisia, a fact that confounded expectations about Tunisian politics. This new edition builds upon...
Edgework
Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual...
Writing Human Rights
The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on the legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice concerns within the United States. In Writing Human Rights, Crystal Parikh uses the international...
Can It Happen Here?
Authoritarianism in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party – and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates “Can It Happen Here? . . ....
Spaceships and Politics
The Political Theory of Rod Serling
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature,...
Political Concepts
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles,...
All in the Family
On Community and Incommensurability
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is often the scene of intense interpersonal conflict and disagreement. In All in...
Election Articles
An Exhaustive Look at Political Articles, Political News, Articles On The Presidential Election, Political Events, And Government Articles
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
In this compelling block-buster guide you will take an irresistible look into the world of election articles, political articles, political news, articles on the presidential election, political events, and government articles.
Timor Leste
Politics, History, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia’s newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The book pays particular attention to the historical...
Framing Democracy
A Behavioral Approach to Democratic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
The past thirty years have seen a surge of empirical research into political decision making and the influence of framing effects--the phenomenon that occurs when different but equivalent presentations of a decision problem elicit different judgments or preferences. During the same period, political...
by Miriam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in...