Political Science category: 78432 books
Transforming Politics, Transforming America
The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today. This wave of new Americans comes in disproportionately large numbers from Latin America and Asia, a pattern that is likely to continue in this...
by Robert C Oberst
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This comprehensive but accessible text provides students with a systematic introduction to the comparative political study of the leading nations of South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. The seventh edition is extensively revised and updated, benefiting from the fresh perspective...
Peasants and Revolution in Rural China
Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period.
Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal...
by Richard Howson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.
Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the field of political sociology through a close reading and analysis of postmarxism and its relationship...
Nationalism, Social Movements, and Activism in Contemporary Society
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Nationalist movements have become a force in contemporary American politics regardless of the political party. As social issues plague America, civilian participation in activism is experiencing a resurgence. Nationalism, Social Movements, and Activism in Contemporary Society: Emerging Research and...
Refiguring Democracy
The Spanish Political Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Spain has become a remarkable democratic laboratory in which millions of citizens are experimenting with new forms of political expression. This book examines the dynamics of this political laboratory, showing that the upheavals it is experiencing are likely in the near future to affect democracies...
The Violence of Democracy
Political Life in Postwar El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence. In El Salvador, the end of war has brought about a violent peace, one in which various forms of violence have become incorporated into Salvadorans’ imaginaries and enactments of democracy. Based on ethnographic...
Classical Confucian Political Thought
A New Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The intellectual legacy of Confucianism has loomed large in efforts to understand China's past, present, and future. While Confucian ethics has been thoroughly explored, the question remains: what exactly is Confucian political thought? Classical Confucian Political Thought returns to the classical...
by Martin Loughlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Political jurisprudence is the branch of jurisprudence that treats law as an aspect of human experience called 'the political'. This is an approach that many contemporary jurists, those whose work presupposes the autonomy of legal order, tend to suppress. In this book, Martin Loughlin assesses the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Until recently, discussions of compromise have been largely absent in political theory. However, political theorists have become increasingly interested in understanding the practice and justification of compromise in politics. This interest is connected to the increased concern with pluralism and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Political Theory offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on some of the most pressing public concerns of our times.
The volume includes a dozen articles that draw upon a wide spectrum of social sciences and humanities (political science, sociology,...
Political Theology
Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign.
Kahn works out his...
by Stuart Isaacs
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Michael Oakeshott was a leading Political theorist described by The Telegraph in 1990 as "the greatest political philosopher in the Anglo-Saxon tradition since Mill – or even Burke". There has been sustained interest in his work, and a developing body of literature, over recent years....
Political Philosophy versus History?
Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with the realities of political life? This volume brings together some of the world's leading political philosophers...