Political Science category: 78432 books
Politics in Morocco
Executive Monarchy and Enlightened Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Democratization and the process of political reform is a critical issue in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. This book looks at the situation in Morocco and examines the role of the monarchy and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Islamic and secular/liberal groupings campaigning...
by Maximilian Spinner
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Document from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: A, Central European University Budapest (Department of Political Science), course: The New Political Economy of Development, language: English, abstract: Oil seems to prevent the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political science and many other disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy takes stock of deliberative democracy as a research field,...
Rebellious Civil Society
Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized...
Advancing Genocide Studies
Personal Accounts and Insights from Scholars in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Advancing Genocide Studies follows in the footsteps of the editor's earlier volume, Pioneers of Genocide Studies. Here a new generation of scholars presents personal essays that reveal their motivation to study genocide, the passion that drives them to continue its study, their primary scholarly interests...
Making A Voice
African Resistance To Segregation In South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Since apartheids dissolution in the early 1990s and its formal abolishment in April 1994, there has been increasing interest in the early history of African struggles against segregation and apartheid. This book focuses on the resistance to segregation in the eastern cape town of Port Elizabeth, long...
The Logic of Japanese Politics
Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese...
by Ishac Diwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
For the millions of citizens in the Arab World who came together in 2010–2011 to discover their common yearning for dignity and liberty, the real revolutions only began after the wave of protests. Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings reassess the interests, potential and constraints...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for communication and political action. This adaptation is crucially dependent on researchers being equipped with the necessary methodological tools to extract,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book analyzes the phenomenon of xenophobia across African countries. With its roots in colonialism, which coercively created modern states through border delineation and the artificial merging and dividing of communities, xenophobia continues to be a barrier to post-colonial sustainable peace...
Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance
(De)constructing the Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped...
Political Opportunities for Climate Policy
California, New York, and the Federal Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Analysis of climate change policies focuses mainly on the prospects for international agreements or how climate policies should be designed. Yet effective domestic climate policies are essential to any global solution, and we know too little about how and why such policies are adopted. Political Opportunities...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Covering key issues ranging from education to political mobilization to racial stratification, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the Obama Presidency.
• Investigates linkages among micro and macro political issues, including voting rights, patterns, and Get Out the Vote (GOTV)...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
There is increasing awareness of growing similarities in political marketing practices around the world. Global political marketing is a comprehensive analysis of why, how and with what affect parties use political marketing in a range of political systems - presidential, parliamentary, two and multi-party,...