Political Science category: 78432 books
Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century
Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and political actors are increasingly confronted with rapid economic and societal transformations that, at least according to some...
Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness
Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
"Jones and McDermott restore meaning to democratic responsibility by finding that public evaluations affect Congress. In contrast to the popular depiction of the representatives controlling the represented
rampant in the political science literature, Jones and McDermott show that the people are...
Dynamics of Political Violence
A Process-Oriented Perspective on Radicalization and the Escalation of Political Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Dynamics of Political Violence examines how violence emerges and develops from episodes of contentious politics. By considering a wide range of empirical cases, such as anarchist movements, ethno-nationalist and left-wing militancy in Europe, contemporary Islamist violence, and insurgencies in South...
by Jeffrey Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of...
Political Self-Sacrifice
Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Over the last decade the increasing phenomenon of suicide terrorism has raised questions about how it might be rational for individuals to engage in such acts. This book examines a range of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning and non-violent martyrdom,...
Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health
A New Theoretical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of security issues and applies this to the case of health.
Building on the work of the ‘Welsh School’ of Security Studies, and drawing on contributions from the wider critical security literature, the book provides an emancipatory...
Political Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
From Holy War to Modern Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Religious political violence is by no means a new phenomenon, yet there are critical differences between the various historical instances of such violence and its more current permutations. Since the mid-1970s, religious fundamentalist movements have been seeking to influence world order by participating...
by John M. Hoberman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology—a phenomenon John Hoberman terms "ideological differentiation." Taking this...
Non-Sovereign Futures
French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions—or even paradoxes—in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity—challenging...
by Thomas J. Strang
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
What is the relationship between politics and political power? What is political power? What is political behavior? What is the relationship between political power and political behavior? What is the relationship between political power and public policy? What is the ultimate purpose of political...
Rethinking Rights
Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
As reports of genocide, terrorism, and political violence fill today’s newscasts, more attention has been given to issues of human rights—but all too often the sound bites seem overly simplistic. Many Westerners presume that non-Western peoples yearn for democratic rights, while liberal values...
River of Hope
Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865--1954
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform...
In-Your-Face Politics
The Consequences of Uncivil Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Americans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all the noise really make a difference? Drawing on numerous studies, Diana Mutz provides the first comprehensive look at the consequences of in-your-face politics. Her book contradicts the...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1500s to 1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little...