Political Science category: 78432 books
Beyond Soccer
International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
As the world’s most popular game, soccer is unique in its ability to reflect and impact culture, society, and politics. Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game provides students with a new and innovative way to learn about political science and international...
Socialism and Religion
Roads to Common Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 -...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Artistic expression is a longstanding aspect of mankind and our society. While art can simply be appreciated for aesthetic artistic value, it can be utilized for other various multidisciplinary purposes. Music as a Platform for Political Communication is a comprehensive reference source for the latest...
The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey
From Protest to Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book provides an interpretive and critical analysis of Kurdish identity, nationalism and national movement in Turkey since the 1960s. By raising issues and questions relating to Kurdish political identity and highlighting the ideological specificity, diversity and the transformation of Kurdish...
Political Alienation in Libya
Assessing Citizens' Political Attitude and Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this book, Mabroka al-Werfalli examines the extent and effects of political alienation in Libya. Using a variety of measures, the author highlights links between legitimacy and alienation and underlines certain types of political behaviour commonly associated with political alienation, in an attempt...
The Political Economy of Aid and Accountability
The Rise and Fall of Budget Support in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The provision of aid is increasingly under scrutiny with increasing demands for results. This raises the question: what are our expectations from aid and are they realistic? Too often accountability is argued for without questioning if what is understood by the term is relevant or applicable. The...
by Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Is whether we contract cancer—and whether we survive the disease, if we get it—largely just a result of good versus bad luck, or are these outcomes regarding cancer tied to the policies and actions of our federal government? Cancer-treating drug development and approval is overseen by the U.S....
Social Media and European Politics
Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This volume investigates the role of social media in European politics in changing the focus, frames and actors of public discourse around the EU decision-making process. Throughout the collection, the contributors test the hypothesis that the internet and social media are promoting a structural transformation...
Human Manipulation
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
We have all experienced that sinking feeling that somehow, someone else just took control of our lives and that we are powerless to do anything about it. Maybe, we just accepted a heap of lies from a politician, we bought something we didn't really want, we agreed to do something we really didn't...
Pride Parades and LGBT Movements
Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe,...
A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia
Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that...
The Republican War Against Women
An Insider's Report from Behind the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
In 1980, Republicans used appeals to sexist and racist bigotry to win the Presidency. The party adopted an electoral strategy that included getting votes by playing on the fear and uncertainty engendered by the civil rights and women's political movements, and continued to use this strategy in the...
by Michael Leifer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This comprehensive Dictionary provides descriptive and analytical coverage of the turbulent political history and striking changes which have occurred both regionally and in key countries since the end of the Second World War. Substantially rewritten to take into account the dramatic political events...
Defining the Peace
World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia's veterans--black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union--all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In Defining the Peace, Jennifer E. Brooks shows how...