Political Science - General

Reform is in the air. Chronic problems are getting a look. Fixes are showing up, not just in America, but around the world. Why now? This book helps answer not only this question, but points to one step reformers ought to consider, upgrading America's...

What if race is not what we think it is?In Black, Brown & White Racial Identity, Admire T. Kadenge challenges one of the most deeply rooted concepts in human society-racial classification.Through a powerful blend of personal experience, historical insight, and bold analysis, this book...

This 250th Anniversary Edition of With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials in the Early 20th Century That Helped Shape Today's America compares our fragile democracy under threat in 2026 to the context of headline-grabbing criminal trials from the early 1900s. Pearlman's book...

This Element examines how gender shapes political participation across Europe, analyzing eight forms of political activity over 10 waves of the European Social Survey (2002-2020) in 26 democracies. Challenging the assumption that women participate less than men, we find evidence for gender differentiation: women...

"Can we survive this?" worried friends ask Lamar Alexander.A US senator who started in JFK's Justice Department, worked in the Nixon White House, turned down serving as GOP Watergate counsel and as Ford's campaign manager, walked for six months across Tennessee to become governor,...

Author: Keyi TangISBN-10: 100973315XISBN-13: 9781009733151Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2026Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Lucia MotoliniaISBN-10: 1009651552ISBN-13: 9781009651554Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2026Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

Author: Jeong Hyun Kim,Yesola KweonISBN-10: 1009461052ISBN-13: 9781009461054Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2026Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Author: Susan Hannah Allen,Frank C. ThamesISBN-10: 1009430653ISBN-13: 9781009430654Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2026Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

Why do some electoral commissions earn public trust while others collapse under pressure? Why Elections Need Parties offers a sharp and timely exploration of how democracies succeed or stumble at the ballot box. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, elite interviews, and...

This book challenges you to re-consider how and what you know about critical ideas related to inequality, redistribution, race, gender, violence, and justice. It takes you on a historical journey across capitalist and (former) socialist countries and societies to illustrate why these well-established Anglophonic...

Energy Justice examines who truly benefits from modern power systems-and who quietly pays the highest price.Written by practising electrical engineers, this book explores how energy infrastructure reflects long-standing social inequities, environmental racism, and economic exclusion. Blending technical insight, global case studies, and real community...

There are numerous conflicts around the world concerning the ownership of territories, annexations, and secessions. Discussions between the parties involved often bring up emotionally charged historical events that are intended to prove or disprove claims. This book shows that this type of argumentation is...

"State Constitution-making, With Especial Reference to Tennessee" offers a detailed review of state constitutions, focusing particularly on Tennessee. Published in 1916, this work examines the important provisions of state constitutions and explores current thought on various constitutional questions. It provides an outline of constitutional...

HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AMERICANS offers three possible mechanisms on how to finance a proposal for America's healthcare. While offering a historical assessment of America's healthcare Post-World War II, Dr. Paguyo analyzes some of the best universal healthcare systems around the world and offers recommendations...

In February 1843 Flora Tristan began to write a journal as she set out on her tour of France wherein she recorded her experience of feminist socialist militancy. This is a unique record of gender politics and political and socio-economic conditions in twenty-two towns...

With the phasing out of the Cold War, not only the countries of the former Eastern bloc faced challenges in their internal and external policies, but also those of the Western bloc. Countries belonging to the Western alliance had to deal with indigenous problems...

The volume presents analysis of conscription models in six European countries, four of which continuously kept conscription (Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Switzerland), and two re-established conscriptions in recent years (Lithuania and Sweden). The first part of the book provides a description of country-specific aspects...

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750-1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. Part...

While the use of the so-called Nutrition Improvement Projects (NIPs) to combat malnutrition in poor countries, particularly in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, seems inevitable, knowledge about how these projects actually work and how they should be designed for effective outcome is lacking. The...

IS THE RAPE OF NANKING A BOOK BASED ON FACTS? China has been rapidly gaining strength in recent years and is about to establish its status as a hegemony. At the same time, the Chinese government is taking the Nanking Massacre up to a...

The clatter of ancient typewriters banging out stories that would be set into hot metal in the furnace-like conditions of a subterranean composing room. That was the way of life that greeted Paul Dale as he began his career in journalism 45 years ago....

Wishes in Black & White offers insight and ideas for healing human relations with compassion, understanding, and honest communication. It is filled with heartfelt interviews and photographs of well-known figures in the fields of education, entertainment, and social sciences. By getting at the core...

Sydney University is Australia's pre-eminent finishing school for politicians, and its Students' Representative Council is the nursery where generations of future leaders have cut their first dodgy preference deals and performed their first backstabbings. Comrades is the story of one student President, Eddie O'Hara,...

Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines explores the journalism coming out of the current Afghan war from the frontline and from the greater comfort of the library. It is an unusual hybrid: the testimony of some of the best frontline correspondents of...

In 1986, when she was 26, Catherine Hill was travelling home from India when her Pan Am flight was hijacked. Terrorists took over the aircraft and the hostages endured nearly 17 hours of terror. Convinced that Pakistani troops were about to try and rescue...

Since Qaddafi's ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of the country today, one must look to its past. With great clarity and precision, renowned regional expert Ronald Bruce St John examines Libya's long struggle...

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville,Alexis De TocquevilleISBN-10: 1425553591ISBN-13: 9781425553593Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2006Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.97d

The precipitous rise in global and national economic inequality, which the inexorable force of globalization promised to address with affluence and abundance for all, has returned with a vengeance. The problem of worsening socioeconomic inequality and how best to ameliorate this pernicious resurgence occupies...

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The USAF was initially a part of the U.S. Army, but was formed as a separate branch of the military in 1947 under the National Security...

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric....

William Mark Felt (1913-2008), commonly known as Mark Felt, joined the FBI in 1940 as a special agent. He rose through the ranks in several Bureau field offices, including Seattle, New Orleans, and Kansas City, and later headed the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology analyses Niebuhr's The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness eighty years after publication and argues that it provides pertinent lessons for the contemporary era. Author: Charles McDanielISBN-10: 1032884932ISBN-13: 9781032884936Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2025Pages: 230Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book explores the main concerns for grappling with increasing environmental disasters and examines how environmental disasters are understood by states, corporations, and non-government organizations nationally and internationally.Author: Susan ParkISBN-10: 1032496754ISBN-13: 9781032496757Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2024Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.26d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

From its earliest days the Tax Justice Network has been formulating an alternative to the governing consensus on tax. Along the way the writings of its members and allies have raised profound questions about the relationship between the state and the most powerful actors...

This collection of mostly already-published articles illustrates the tension over the years between nascent Palestinian nationalism as articulated by the PLO and Islam as incorporated by Hamas. The latter's victory in the 2006 elections makes the matter all the more pertinent. Contents include: Introduction:...

In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote, and female suffrage would forever change the landscape of German political life. Women now constituted the majority of voters, and political parties were forced to address them as political actors for the first time.Analyzing...

This book is a study of the making of Britain's Irish policy in the period immediately preceeding and during the Great Famine of 1845-50. It looks particularly at interpretations of and responses to the 'land question', in the context of debates on the reconstruction...

During his years in Congress, Barney Frank (D-MA) has built a reputation as a respected leader on many fronts: as an expert debater, a master parliamentarian, and a point man for his party on legislation. The first openly gay congressman, Frank is unafraid to...

This book was first published in 1975. The process of electing governments and replacing them in a peaceful and constitutional manner has characterised Ceylonese politics since 1947. Against the background of Ceylon's political development, Professor Wilson presents a detailed description and analysis of the...

First published in 1981, this book, a political history of organised labour in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, broke ground in research on the Japanese socialist movement by examining the movement from the perspective of the unions, which then provided the socialist parties...

Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania provides a comprehensive examination of Tanzania's informal economy, highlighting its critical role as both a survival mechanism and a force for political and economic change. Amid the economic crises of...

The introduction to Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia explores the unique social, economic, and political dynamics that shaped the 1917 Russian Revolution. Unlike other modern revolutions, such as the French or English cases, where industrialization played a secondary role, the Russian Revolution was...

This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of...

Against the Odds is a Machiavellian study of the machinations of three senior politicians in quite different developing countries who adroitly played the tough political game in ways that reduced poverty. The three--former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda,...

Author: Steve Eugene ConnerISBN-13: 9798295890055Publisher: Book Writing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2026Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

"Psychopathology and Politics" is a foundational work in the field of political psychology, exploring the intricate relationship between individual personality traits and political behavior. Harold D. Lasswell applies clinical psychological methods and life-history analysis to understand why certain individuals are drawn to political power...