Political Science category: 78432 books
Sunbelt Cities
Politics and Growth since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Between 1940 and 1980, the Sunbelt region of the United States grew in population by 112 percent, while the older, graying Northeast and Midwest together grew by only 42 percent. Phoenix expanded by an astonishing 1,138 percent. San Diego, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Tampa, Miami, and Atlanta quadrupled...
Strategy in Information and Influence Campaigns
How Policy Advocates, Social Movements, Insurgent Groups, Corporations, Governments and Others Get What They Want
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Information and influence campaigns are a particularly cogent example of the broader phenomenon we now term strategic political communication. If we think of political communication as encompassing the creation, distribution, control, use, processing and effects of information as a political resource,...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Pre-colonial political systems are the types of traditional government that existed before the advent of colonialism in Nigeria.
Pre-colonial political systems are the governments based on the customs and conventions of the indigenous people of Nigeria.
It is in this lucid manner that...
Political Religion and Religious Politics
Navigating Identities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Profound demographic and cultural changes in American society over the last half century have unsettled conventional understandings of the relationship between religious and political identity. The "Protestant mainline" continues to shrink in numbers, as well as in cultural and political...
The Islamic State in the Post-Modern World
The Political Experience of Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Islamic State in the Post-Modern World is a study of the political development of Pakistan. This study consists of three parts. The first addresses the concept of the 'state' as it has evolved historically. The approach is comparative and involves a brief review of Islamic political theory. The...
Socio-Economic and Education Factors Impacting American Political Systems
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
America has the reputation of being one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world, yet within its borders social problems persist and negatively impact Americans. Though profound changes are taking place in the social, economic, and cultural contexts of America, they are precipitated...
Communication and Political Crisis
Media, Politics and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Communication and Political Crisis explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media scholar Brian McNair argues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
AIDS has a unique political history. As fears grew of a global pandemic on the scale of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS was briefly treated as an issue of high politics in the international arena and generated significant resources for country programmes. That initial commitment is now declining,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Traditional explorations of war look through the lens of history and military science, focusing on big events, big battles, and big generals. By contrast, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspective*** ***views war through the lens of the social sciences, looking at the causes, processes...
Improper Influence
Campaign Finance Law, Political Interest Groups, and the Problem of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Why is there still so much dissatisfaction with the role of special interest groups in financing American election campaigns, even though no aspect of interest group politics has been so thoroughly regu-lated and constrained? This book argues that part of the answer lies in the laws themselves, which...
Politics and Traditional Culture
The Political Use of Traditions in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book examines the political use of China's traditions by the party-state in contemporary China. It argues that the party-state has taken an official Marxist stance in terms of the political use of tradition. Besides looking at the official Marxist stance, this book also looks at critiques of...
Singapore Perspectives 2013
Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system comprises fragments of the past and the emergent alongside the dominant. The book focuses on ‘governance’ or how a society governs itself across the state, business and civic sectors...
Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi
The democratic dividend
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Malawi is among the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has witnessed significant improvements in relation to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It exhibits some of the main challenges facing African democracies while they attempt to consolidate the benefits of democratisation.
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