Political Science category: 78432 books
Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America
Stealing for the Team
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
An important question for the health and longevity of democratic governance is how institutions may be fashioned to prevent electoral victors from drawing on the resources of the state to perpetuate themselves in power. This book addresses the issue by examining how the structure of electoral institutions...
Making Sense of Political Ideology
The Power of Language in Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Political positions in the United States today are ideologically chaotic, and there are significant prices to pay for that chaos. The nation has not reached a crisis yet in her modern political gridlock, but predicting the time when the current generation will face the difficulties of earlier times...
by Joseph V. Femia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Pareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher’s importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics, laissez-faire vs. social engineering, and value relativism vs. moral absolutism.
Joseph...
by Lutz Lindenau
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 8,0 von max 10, University of Amsterdam (FMG), 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As a participant of the course 'Abandoning Development: Africa and the Contemporary Economic...
Canadian Issues
Essays in Honour of Henry F. Angus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Topics of widespread concern to Canadians interested in the social sciences and to the general reading public are dealt with in this volume of essays by a group of Canada's leading scholars in political science and history. The book is presented in honour of Henry Forbes Angus, Head of the Department...
Polanyi in times of populism
Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The rise of populism across Europe and the US – first in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and then in the shape of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Brexit vote in 2016 – are indicative of a seismic shift in the terrain of economic ideas in public discourse. Settled liberal...
by Dylan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This bookcontends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist ‘common sense’ among activists. The author argues that the vital dynamics of anarchism and social movements need to be combined with a reappraisal of the Communist party and state. While cynicism towards...
Corruption in the Contemporary World
Theory, Practice, and Hotspots
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the...
Political Risk
How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it.
The world is changing fast. Political risk-the probability...
The Comparative Political Economy of Development
Africa and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become...
The Civic Web
Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people.
There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join...
China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution
Social changes and state responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...
Working with Political Science Research Methods
Problems and Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Practice makes perfect. This new, fourth edition of Working with Political Science Research Methods continues to support student learning by offering the perfect opportunity to practice each of the methods presented in the core text. Designed to be paired with the text chapter for chapter, the workbook...
East Asian Transformation
On the Political Economy of Dynamism, Governance and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy....