Political Science category: 78432 books
Gendering Politics
Women in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
What are the cultural and structural mechanisms that exclude women from politics in general and from local politics in particular? What meaning is ascribed to women's political activity?
Gendering Politics explores the place of women in democratic politics by means of a detailed study of women...
by Drude Dahlerup
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political interest. To date, research on these measures has focused primarily on quota design, adoption, and effects on the numbers of women elected. While this remains a crucial...
Doctors and Demonstrators
How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Since Roe v. Wade, abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries’ shared heritage. Doctors and Demonstrators looks beyond simplistic cultural or religious explanations...
American Immigration Policy
Confronting the Nation's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Collaboration can be a painful process, especially between authors of different disciplines. This book is an outgrowth of discussions between a Political Scientist and Economists at the School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville. The Economics perspective is found in Chapter 3 and...
Parties and Party Systems
Structure and Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Parties and Party Systems will interest upper-level and graduate students of political science (particularly students of Canadian politics), scholars of political science (including comparative party scholars), party officials and activists, public servants, journalists, and political aficionados.
The Lisbon Treaty
Law, Politics, and Treaty Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The Lisbon Treaty reformed the foundations of the European Union and marked the culmination of a process of Treaty reform that began after the Treaty of Nice and spanned almost a decade. This book addresses the main innovations made by the new Treaty, examining its legal and political consequences...
Political Theology of the Earth
Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the...
Radicalisation and Media
Connectivity and Terrorism in the New Media Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence.
There is a new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there appears to be emerging threats...
Bonhoeffer on Resistance
The Word Against the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Bonhoeffer thought and wrote a great deal about political life, but he did so neither as a political theorist nor a political activist but rather as a Christian pastor and theologian. Most of what he said about political resistance was said as a theologian, as one speaking on behalf of the church....
Ambivalent Miracles
Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities. The movement, which seeks to build cross-racial relationships...
Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland
Making and Breaking a Divided Island
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the wider UK and European contexts in which they are nested. It makes a significant and unique contribution to wider European and international...
Ending the Culture War
A Devoted Conservative and a Diehard Liberal Make Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Professor Phil Neisser and Jacob Hess interviewed by Dr Nicholas Beecroft. “You’re not as crazy as I thought. (but you’re still wrong) Conversations between a Devoted Conservative and a Die-Hard Liberal” by Phil Neisser and Jacob Hess is an inspiring attempt by its authors to show how we can...
by Sara Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Blood Will Tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the...