Political Science category: 78432 books
After the Financial Crisis
Shifting Legal, Economic and Political Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This international collection studies how the financial crisis of 2007 and the ensuing economic and political crises in Europe and North America have triggered a process of change in the field of economics, law and politics. Contributors to this book argue that both elites and citizens have had to...
Beyond Globalization
Capitalism, Territoriality and the International Relations of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Hannes Lacher presents a new critical social theory of international relations that integrates sociology, history and political geography to understand the formation and development of modern international relations.
Far from implying a return to state-centrist Realism, this essential new volume...
Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies
Social Capital, Institutions and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in general.
This is a new comparative analysis of this trend that focuses on major democracies throughout Latin America, Asia and Central Europe. It brings together...
Environmental Justice
Concepts, Evidence and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people’s lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some communities...
Political Communication Cultures in Western Europe
Attitudes of Political Actors and Journalists in Nine Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book offers new and compelling insight into the orientations that shape the cultures of political communication in nine Western democracies. It is a truly comparative account of the views of 2500 political elites and media elites between Helsinki and Madrid on their relationship and their exchanges.
by Matthew J. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Despite the recent upsurge of interest in comparative political theory, there has been virtually no serious examination of Buddhism by political philosophers in the past five decades. In part, this is because Buddhism is not typically seen as a school of political thought. However, as Matthew Moore...
Accountable Government in Africa
Perspectives from public law and political studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In the early 1990s, a wave of democratization swept the African continent, resulting in a flurry of constitution-making and constitutional revision which entrenched human rights and established various institutional mechanisms to hold governments to account. After two decades of constitutional changes...
Extreme Media and American Politics
In Defense of Extremity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics? Taylor explores these questions, and how these media affect political knowledge, trust, efficacy, tolerance, policy attitudes, and political behaviors. Using experiments and data from the National...
Israel's National Security Law
Political Dynamics and Historical Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Terror attacks on western civilian targets have stimulated interest in the dilemmas faced by liberal societies when combating threats to national security. Combining the perspectives of political science and law, this book addresses that discourse, asking how democracies seek to harmonize the protection...
by Kenneth L. Deutsch; Joseph Fornieri
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Despite the voluminous literature on the central figure in American history, no other book in the field of political science compares to Lincoln's American Dream. It addresses comprehensively the overarching themes of Lincoln's political thought and leadership through provocative and divergent interpretations...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community. It does so not with the defence of a particular normative model of political community in mind, but rather in the quest for new...
by Melani Cammett
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and social actors in the Middle East.
The...
by Michael Hudson, Mimi Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The wave of uprisings that has engulfed the Arab world since 2011 has impacted the Gulf significantly, however much the region appears to have remained unscathed. In Bahrain, the regime cracked down on protestors with the help of Saudi forces, and increasing Gulf tensions with Iran, political chaos...
by Alexander Bligh, Udi Lebel, Nissim Leon
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The 1973 Yom Kippur War did not only have external implications on Israel, but also some dramatic internal implications, particularly with regards to the civil-military relations as well as the fields of psychology and political sociology. To this day, the consequences of this war are still prevalent...