Political Science category: 78432 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban...
by Robert A. Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Robert Dahl’s Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to the field. Exploring problems that had been left unsolved by traditional thought on democracy, Dahl here examines two influential models—the...
by Eduardo Mendieta, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America’s—and the world’s—most important philosophers, and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneering work...
Making Communism Hermeneutical
Reading Vattimo and Zabala
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book aims to provide fresh perspectives on Vattimo and Zabala’s groundbreaking foundational text, Hermeneutic Communism, from 2011. The contributors to this collection of essays explore various facets of Vattimo and Zabala’s “anarchic hermeneutics” and “weak communism” in order to...
Palestinian Political Prisoners
Identity and community
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel on political grounds.
This is the first major study that examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system. Esmail Nashif...
Cracking the Code
How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
By the bestselling author and XM and Sirius Satellite radio host heard on more than eighty radio stations coast to coast seven days a week Shows progressives how to master the science and technology of persuasive communication and counter the right-wing message machine Offers exercises and examples...
by Ryuho Okawa
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Happy Science, a new religion representing modern-day Japan, is working to realize “the happiness that carries over from this world to the next.” Not only is Happy Science helping people return to Heaven after death, but it is also trying to make this world, a training ground for the soul, a place...
The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia
Science between Marx and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook...
The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Information Technology and Political Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are...
The Politics of Governance
Actors and Articulations in Africa and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
How do government arrangements emerge? When and how does individual agency turn into collective agency? How do sensory experiences of violence, instability, etc affect the configuration of governance arrangements? When, why, and how are governance arrangements institutionalized?
This book seeks...
Politics and Globalisation
Knowledge, Ethics and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Globalisation is widely understood as a set of processes driven by technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully defined the changing character and role of politics in global change. Political institutions such as the nation-state have been seen as undermined by globalisation,...
Gendered Compromises
Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held power. While other scholars have focused on the economic realignments and novel political pacts that...
Contemporary Political Agency
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. In light of the changing relationship between the state, the market and the society, it seeks to map both theoretically and empirically contemporary forms of global political...