Political Science category: 78432 books
by Robert McKellar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In a competitive and increasingly internationalised business world, many companies rely on the high risk/reward ratio of operating in unstable areas. Those companies willing to engage in emerging or developing countries can often be exposed to a politically volatile environment over which they have...
by William S. Bike
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Winning Political Campaigns: A Comprehensive Guide to Electoral Success, by William S. Bike, is a handbook for planning, organizing and executing a successful campaign for elective office. Written in an easy-to-use format, the book is designed for both novice campaigners and experienced workers.Winning...
Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, Second Edition
The Political Economy of the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.
Sinicization and the Rise of China
Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China....
Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements
A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective,...
Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups...
Democratic Deficit
Critical Citizens Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on 'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state diverges from public expectations. Pippa Norris examines the symptoms by comparing system support in more than fifty societies...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn...
How to Hack a Party Line
The Democrats and Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics
Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information...
How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
“Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing...
Governing under Stress
Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial...
Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey
Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms. The authors explore the rationales of the main political actors in Turkey in order to increase our understanding of the...
The Arab Uprisings Explained
New Contentious Politics in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways...
Paradigm Theory & Policy Making
Reconfiguring the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A review of clashes between global and local economics, reveals a new insight for anticipating the economic future.
Paradigm Theory and Policy Making is a wideranging and thoughtprovoking treatise on the forces that have shaped the political economies of the developed and developing world...