Political Science - General

This book presents a range of work that seeks to move beyond stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present.Author: Yoshiaki NishidaISBN-10: 070071748XISBN-13: 9780700717484Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2003Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.44h x 6.34w x 0.91d

The first serious analysis of the Tibetan independence movement, this book is also the first to view the struggle from a comparative perspective, making an overt comparison with the Indian independence movement.Author: Jane ArdleyISBN-10: 070071572XISBN-13: 9780700715725Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2002Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.68h x...

A study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (navy) relations.Author: Ian GowISBN-10: 0700713158ISBN-13: 9780700713158Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2004Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.08w x 0.98d

Although Conservative parties did not exist in Germany until after the Napoleonic Wars, there did emerge, around 1770, traceable organized political activity and intellectual currents of a clearly Conservative character. The author argues that this movement developed as a response to the challenge of...

Initially published in Moscow in 1950 following the author's death, this book contains the first chapters of a large monograph Krylov planned entitled The foundations of physical statistics," his doctoral thesis on "The processes of relaxation of statistical systems and the criterion of mechanical...

Using new archival sources, this book shows that Prussia sought not the unity of Germany but its partition into five masses loosely enough joined to assure her control of the North. Hardenberg, not Metternich, supported the feudalistic claims of the estates suppressed by Napoleon...

The author considers the transformation of Lebanese feudalism into a communal system with burgeoning national consciousness. He places particular emphasis on the conflict between institutions and on the impact of nonpolitical organizations on the political system. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library...

Tracing the development of French political thought in the seventeenth century, Nannerl Keohane explores a quite different emphasis on the indivisibility of sovereignty and the expression of interests rather than rights. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology...

The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington were presumably justified as ethically good acts against American evil. Is such polarization leading...

A tax revolt almost as momentous as the Boston Tea Party erupted in California in 1978. Its reverberations are still being felt, yet no one is quite sure what general lessons can be drawn from observing its course. This book is an in-depth study...

Once, Australia was a world leader, resilient, bold, socially progressive. We set about giving everyone a fair go - the vote for women, a living wage, support for battlers. Governments worked for us, built things and made our lives better. Then we dropped the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

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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...

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...

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...

This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the 1970s.Author: Michael W. PoslunsISBN-10: 0415946530ISBN-13: 9780415946537Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.34w x 0.94d

To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the...

Using the notion of "framing" as a way of understanding political perception, the authors analyze the narratives told by and about Sarah Palin in the 2008 election - from beauty queen, maverick, faithful fundamentalist and post-feminist role model to pit bull hockey mom, frontier...

Pathways to Polling argues that early political pollsters, market researchers, and academic and government survey researchers were entrepreneurial figures who interacted through a broad network that was critical to the growth of public opinion enterprises.Author: Amy FriedISBN-10: 0415891426ISBN-13: 9780415891424Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2011Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight:...

First Published in 1998. Initially written in the period between 1942 and 44, with additional notes in the appendices of 1945, this volume looks at the areas of the secret Police, the secret control as developed by Fascism and National Socialism as laid on...

Nationalism and ethnicity have become, across time and space, a force in the construction of boundaries. This book analyses geographical and physical borders and symbolic, political and socio-economic boundaries, and how they impact upon nationalism and ethnic identity. Author: Jennifer JacksonISBN-10: 0415857430ISBN-13: 9780415857437Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

The recent resurgence of Islam in the Middle East is a far more complex phenomenon than is often suggested by those analyses which reduce recent developments in the area to no more than an intensification of religiosity. Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle...

This book provides a comprehensive and focused overview of the changing dynamics between public and private forms of transnational financial regulation, addressing recent and emerging trends in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.Author: Tony PorterISBN-10: 0415822688ISBN-13: 9780415822688Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/2014Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize:...

This book provides the historical framework for the shift in Native American literary studies away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives, and examines the key moments in this turn.Author: Matthew HermanISBN-10: 0415804744ISBN-13: 9780415804745Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2009Pages: 154Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.10h...

This final book from Rosemarie Said Zahlan, renowned scholar of Middle East Politics and History, explores the relationships between Palestine and the Gulf since the 1930s. She demonstrates how the regional Gulf politics will long continue to be impacted by the abiding non-resolution of...

Using a theoretical and empirical approach, this volume argues that political elites are urged to develop new strategies in order to achieve interest aggregation, to safeguard collective action, and to maintain elite autonomy and stability. Author: Lars VogelISBN-10: 0415792150ISBN-13: 9780415792158Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2018Pages: 264Format:...

An original contribution to both the literature on emerging technologies and the literature on contemporary theories and investigative techniques in forensic science. Author: Ronn JohnsonISBN-10: 041578946XISBN-13: 9780415789462Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2018Pages: 332Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India. The author moves away from assumptions that...

This book explains the continuity of economic openness using India as a case study. Arguing that open-economy policies in India were made, justified, and continued on the basis of the idea of openness much more than its tangible effect, it explains what sustained the...

This book provides an innovative and systematic analysis of the implications of the theories of globalization for national currencies; and critically examines whether, as a result, the world is heading for fewer currencies.Author: Paul BowlesISBN-10: 0415774276ISBN-13: 9780415774277Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2007Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.21h...

Covering various fields in political science, this book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.Author: Stephen McCarthyISBN-10: 0415701864ISBN-13: 9780415701860Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2006Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.52h x 6.30w x 0.89d

Presenting a study of politics at grassroots level among young Japanese, this book examines the alliance between the religious movement Soka Gakkai (the 'Value-creation Society') and Komeito (the 'Clean Government Party'), which shared power with the Liberal Democratic Party from 1999 to 2009. Author:...

This book examines feminist research methodology, including its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology and ethics and politics, and analyses research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka.Author: Maithree WickramasingheISBN-10: 0415682126ISBN-13: 9780415682121Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2011Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, the book collects Stefano Guzzini's research on power, realism and constructivism. It explores the diversity of different schools and their intrinsic tensions and fallacies by...

The book focuses on the reaction of the Eurasia authoritarian regimes to the colour revolutions in the region and shows how autocratic rulers studied various democracy promotion techniques to combat regime change in their state. This book was published as a special issue of...

Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing...

The European Court of Justice has long played a powerful role promoting deeper European integration, but today the Court faces unprecedented challenges and criticism. This book explores whether the ECJ can sustain its role as a motor of integration in the face of these...

We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives. Variegated Neoliberalism explains why its inequalities persist and how they undermine more social-minded policies towards finance in the EU. The book...

South Asia today is among the most unstable regions in the world riddled by both intra- and inter-state conflict. This book presents a comprehensive technical analysis of the trade-conflict relationship within the region, and explores how South Asia demonstrates underperformance of its potential for...

Despite Timor-Leste's high expectations when it became independent from Indonesia in 2002, the country is ranked among the least developed countries in the world. This book draws together the perspectives of practitioners, policy-makers and academics on the international efforts to rebuild the world's newest...

Placing sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation, this book explores the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices, such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest, transgenderism, and oral sex, in East, Southeast and South Asia.Author:...

This book provides local perspectives on religion, security, history, geopolitics and geostrategy in South Asia and Central Asia in an integrated manner. Presenting a holistic and updated view of the developments inside and across South and Central Asia, it offers coherent and concise analyses...

This book critically reviews the origins, policies and aspirations of independence movements and parties from the world's subnational island jurisdictions, where a distinct and separate geography tends to facilitate the emergence of an equally distinct political and cultural identity. The dynamics for any moves...

This book explores the meanings and complexities of India's experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. It focuses on the first five years - from independence on 15th August 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 - in the politics...

This book focuses on social and cultural trends in present-day Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. Author: Frode F. JacobsenISBN-10: 0415480922ISBN-13: 9780415480925Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Considering Christianity's growing prominence, and the various ways Asian nation states respond to this growth, this book examines how Christians in Asia express their religion under the spectre of the nation state and processes of globalization, bringing into sharper analytical focus the ways in...

This book examines the growth of India's information technology (IT) industry, the people who work in these industries, the nature of the work itself, and its wider social and cultural ramifications. It combines empirical research with theoretical insight to explore important questions about the...

Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that arose from the collapse of the 'Westphalian' international order. Author: Louiza OdysseosISBN-10: 0415417546ISBN-13: 9780415417549Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2007Pages: 288Format:...

This book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - looks into the development of the parliaments of Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey since the mid 1980s.Author: Cristina Leston-BandeiraISBN-10: 0415358884ISBN-13: 9780415358880Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2005Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize:...