Political Science category: 78432 books
by Licheng Ma
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The evolution of China's intellectual landscape, especially the battles among different influential social and political ideas, sheds light on its history. Leading Schools of Thought in Contemporary China offers a close-up look of eight major schools of thought that swept across China between 1978...
Party, Parliament and Personality
Essays Presented to Hugh Berrington
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This is a collection of essays on political psychology commissioned to commemorate the retirement of Hugh Berrington and to celebrate his contribution to the field, the authors comprise some of the best known names in Political Science in the UK, including Ivor Crewe, Vincent Wright, David Hine and...
by Philip Tether
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND THE LIBERAL CENTRE. This book is the fifth in a series of texts on government and politics designed for students and the general reader (see the author's other publications for a full list of titles). The books are linked but are designed to stand alone. Politics and political...
Renewables
The Politics of a Global Energy Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.
Wind and solar are the most dynamic components of the global power sector. How did this happen? After the 1973 oil crisis, the limitations...
by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Globalization has affected everyone’s lives, and the reactions to it have been mixed. Legal scholars and political scientists tend to emphasize its harmful aspects, while economists tend to emphasize its benefits. Those concerned about human rights have more often been among the critics than among...
The Political Economy of Robots
Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant political, social, and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book discusses the effects of Neo-Liberal policies on the transformations of architectural and urban practices and education in the transition from the era of “professionalism” to “post-professionalism.” Building on previous literature in the field of contemporary theory of architecture,...
The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security
Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe.
Political Ecology
An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
This volume offers a unique, integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource use across the global North and South. Twelve carefully selected case studies demonstrate how contemporary geographical theories and methods can contribute to understanding...
Poor People's Politics
Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“Political clientelism” is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People’s Politics to analyze the political...
by Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book provides a study of governmental digitalization, an increasingly important area of policymaking within advanced capitalist states. It dives into a case study of digitalization efforts in Denmark, fusing a national policy study with local institutional analysis. Denmark is often framed as...
by Craig Rosebraugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Within Westernized societies, particularly the United States, there has been a near-universal acceptance that nonviolent action has been the foundation on which the progress and/or success of political and social justice movements have been built. Yet, contrary to popular belief, political violence...
Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation
Bridging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding.
After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation....
Deforming American Political Thought
Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
By affirming the relativity of the American historical imagination, political theorist Michael J. Shapiro offers a powerful polemic against ethnocentric interpretations of American culture and politics. Deforming American Political Thought analyzes issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's...