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The Many Faces of Political Islam

Religion and Politics in the Muslim World

by Mohammed Ayoob
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009

Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-style democracy. Yet very few non-Muslims would be able to venture an accurate definition of political Islam. Mohammed Ayoob's The Many Faces of Political...
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Analyzing American Democracy

Politics and Political Science

by Jon R. Bond, Kevin B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

How can political science help you understand the world you live in? Modern approaches to the study of politics analyze why Congress, the president, the courts, and other political actors do what they do. Learning to think critically about power, institutions, and rules helps citizens engage constructively...
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by Marcia Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Feminist Therapy as a Political Act explores what is means to politicize therapy and how you can make pyschotherapy a method for creating social and individual change. You’ll find examples and strategies for discussing topics such as empowerment and identity that allow you to provide better services...
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by William S. Bike
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

Winning Political Campaigns: A Comprehensive Guide to Electoral Success, by William S. Bike, is a handbook for planning, organizing and executing a successful campaign for elective office. Written in an easy-to-use format, the book is designed for both novice campaigners and experienced workers.Winning...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010

The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters...
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Banking on Reform

Political Parties and Central Bank Independence in the Industrial Democracies

by William T. Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009

Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, political parties have sought to draw on the political credibility of an independent central bank to cope with electoral consequences of economic...
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Global Political Economy

Understanding the International Economic Order

by Robert Gilpin
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011

This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political...
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Making Sense of Political Ideology

The Power of Language in Democracy

by Bernard L. Brock, Mark E. Huglen, James F. Klumpp
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005

Political positions in the United States today are ideologically chaotic, and there are significant prices to pay for that chaos. The nation has not reached a crisis yet in her modern political gridlock, but predicting the time when the current generation will face the difficulties of earlier times...
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Doing Research in Political Science

An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics

by Dr Paul Pennings, Dr. Hans Keman, Dr Jan Kleinnijenhuis
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005

This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research… an excellent introduction to the comparative method giving an authoritative overview over the research process - Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern Doing Research in Political Science is the book for mastering...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012

This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy. From interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money, to scandals that have rocked UK and Australian...
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Political Risk

How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

by Condoleezza Rice, Amy B. Zegart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it. The world is changing fast. Political risk-the probability...
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by Craig Rosebraugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

Within Westernized societies, particularly the United States, there has been a near-universal acceptance that nonviolent action has been the foundation on which the progress and/or success of political and social justice movements have been built. Yet, contrary to popular belief, political violence...
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Deforming American Political Thought

Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre

by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006

By affirming the relativity of the American historical imagination, political theorist Michael J. Shapiro offers a powerful polemic against ethnocentric interpretations of American culture and politics. Deforming American Political Thought analyzes issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's...
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Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political

Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux

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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017

This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Jacques Taminiaux and examines the primacy of the political within phenomenology. These objectives support each other, in that Taminiaux's own intellectual itinerary brought him increasingly to an affirmation of the importance of the political. Divided into...
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