Political Science category: 78432 books
Political Consultants and Campaigns
One Day to Sell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell examines the differences between how political science theory suggests campaigns should be run and how political consultants actually run campaigns. In the wake of consultants who effortlessly move from campaigners to policymakers, the dearth of...
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy
Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This new volume, Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture reflects major research focuses across religion, race, gender, culture, and of course, politics. Themes...
by Matthew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as described by Matthew Holden in his introduction, is to "lead to new information, insights, and findings" into the social and political status...
by James E. Monogan III
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book provides a narrative of how R can be useful in the analysis of public administration, public policy, and political science data specifically, in addition to the social sciences more broadly. It can serve as a textbook and reference manual for students and independent researchers who wish...
Gender and Political Violence
Women Changing the Politics of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism. Political violence has historically been viewed as a male domain with men considered the perpetrators of violence and power, and women as victims without power. Whereas...
Managing Democracy in the Digital Age
Internet Regulation, Social Media Use, and Online Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political...
Party Government
American Government in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
What do we need to know about political parties in order to understand them? In his classic study E. E. Schattschneider delineates six crucial points: A political party is an organized attempt to get control of the government. Parties live in a highly competitive world. The major parties manage to...
Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics
Political Development and Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics, volume 17 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR), is divided thematically into two books, available separately or as a set. The first concentrates on the institutional aspects of Black politics. The second book addresses various dimensions...
by Klaus Beyme
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award of Political Science (2012). In honour of his 80th birthday this book addresses political culture, cultural policy, art and politics. The first part on transformation theory analyses: “Historical...
Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes
Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of public policy, political discourse, and public libraries, this book seeks to understand the origins and implications of the current standing of public libraries in public policy...
by George E. Gordon Catlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Professor Catlin in the course of his career has contributed a number of major works in the fields of politics: The Science and Method of Politics (1926), Principles of Politics (1930), History of the Political Philosophers (1938). These books were considered "refreshing," "brilliant,"...
The Development of Political Science
A Comparative Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
In recent years the history of political science has become recognised as an important but neglected area of study. The Development of Political Science is the first comprehensive discussion of the subject in a comparative international perspective.
Offering a wide-ranging account of the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy...