Political Science - General

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....

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...

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed how the Special Operations Command determines its force levels and the readiness of its special operations forces. GAO found that: (1) the Command has not substantially changed its force structure since 1988; (2) the Command determines its...

The Colorado State Publications Library (CoSPL) was established by the General Assembly in 1980 as a part of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Education. The mission of the library is to provide Colorado residents with permanent public access to information...

The Colorado State Publications Library (CoSPL) was established by the General Assembly in 1980 as a part of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Education. The mission of the library is to provide Colorado residents with permanent public access to information...

The collections contained within the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library are largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College. The documents in this...

The purpose of this report is to put in writing the form of a recommended check list lessons learned from the operation conducted by the 187th Airborne Infantry from 20-23 October 1950 during the Korean War. Contents include notes on the planning and preparation...

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) started in 2004 as a data preservation and accessibility project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRASER's mission is to safeguard and provide easy access to the nation's economic history-particularly the history of...

The Lunar Nautics Educator Guide has 40 activities. Students assume roles of workers at Lunar Nautics Space Systems, Inc., a fictional aerospace company specializing in mission management, lunar habitat and exploration design, and scientific research. This guide features lessons that address the basics of...

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and Health Profession Scholarship Program (HPSP), focusing on: (1) the cost of obtaining military physicians from all sources; (2) the quality of medical education...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

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...

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...

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...

This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Author: Paul Mattick Jr....

While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful socialist revolution, Marx and Engels by no means ignored developments outside this...

This volume comprises reflections from an international range of prominent political scientists all engaged in the study of ethnicity and conflict/violence. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics. Author: Erika ForsbergISBN-10: 1138742198ISBN-13: 9781138742192Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2017Pages: 122Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.61h x...

This title was first published in 2001. This informative volume gives penetrating insight into why multinational enterprises (MNEs) headquartered in Spain invested so heavily in Latin America in the 1990s.Author: Pablo ToralISBN-10: 1138725226ISBN-13: 9781138725225Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2017Pages: 246Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

Why are some states able to deliver public services to their citizens while others cannot? Why are some states beset by internal conflict that leaves many impoverished? Much of what has become known as the failed states literature attempts to engage with these questions,...

China is a continent-sized economy and society with substantial diversity across its different regions, meaning that its engagement with the global economy cannot just be understood at the national level. This book responds to this challenge by looking at the development of China's regions...

The disparity between the ideal, a democratic America, and the reality, racial oppression and poverty, is so great that serious voices among blacks, students, and others challenged the ethical foundations of the nation in the 1960sAuthor: William W. EllisISBN-10: 113854051XISBN-13: 9781138540514Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2017Pages:...

This classic study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s is a vivid, startling picture of the demoralizing influence and consequences of America's relief policies during the Depression yearsAuthor: Eli...

The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933/34-1938) have been denounced as "Austrofascism" from the left, or defended as a Christian corporate state ("Stondestaat") from the rightAuthor: Anton PelinkaISBN-10: 1138535222ISBN-13: 9781138535220Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2017Pages: 332Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Based on a study of 12,000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale study of political attitude formation in childrenAuthor: Judith V. Torney-PurtaISBN-10: 1138535125ISBN-13: 9781138535121Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2017Pages: 316Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Poland has carried out two peaceful revolutions in the span of one generation: first, the self-limiting movement of Solidarity, which undermined the legitimacy of Communism and then a negotiated transfer of power from Communism to free market democracyAuthor: Dariusz TolczykISBN-10: 1138529990ISBN-13: 9781138529991Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Nation-Building and Citizenship examines how states and civil societies interact in their formation of a new political communityAuthor: Reinhard BendixISBN-10: 1138528668ISBN-13: 9781138528666Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2017Pages: 484Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

Modern Armenia reviews Armenian politics and political thinking from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and the evolution of Armenians from peoplehood to statehoodAuthor: Gerard J. LibaridianISBN-10: 113852820XISBN-13: 9781138528208Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 340Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his workAuthor: John RoddenISBN-10: 1138524298ISBN-13: 9781138524293Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2017Pages: 532Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

This is the first in a continuing series of reminders that the past informs the present as it infuses the futureAuthor: Benj DemottISBN-10: 1138523593ISBN-13: 9781138523593Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2017Pages: 464Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

This is the second volume in the First of the Year SeriesAuthor: Benj DemottISBN-10: 1138523607ISBN-13: 9781138523609Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2017Pages: 316Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

These fourteen essays by leading Austrian historians and political scientists serve as a basic introduction to a small but sometimes trend-setting European countryAuthor: Gino Germani, Gunter BischofISBN-10: 1138519073ISBN-13: 9781138519077Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 378Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Provides a broad description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe and focusses on the critical issues linked with environmental impact, poverty and health, factors in HIV/AIDS and health care resourcesAuthor: David PhillipsISBN-10: 1138178012ISBN-13: 9781138178014Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2016Pages: 348Format: HardcoverWeight:...

The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary; taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate.Author: Paula R. BackscheiderISBN-10: 1138180114ISBN-13: 9781138180116Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2017Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. In his vigorous new survey, Professor Robbins provides the background to the changing attitudes to the nation state. He considers the development as well as the possible...

Europeanization as Discursive Practice adopts a poststructuralist reading of Europeanization to study the effects of EU accession in the light of political territoriality and consequent state-building processes in the EU and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and the Western Balkans, from 1990-2013. Focusing...

Through theoretical discussions and case studies, this volume explores how processes of contestation about knowledge, norms, and governance processes shape efforts to promote sustainability through international environmental governance.The epistemic communities literature of the 1990s highlighted the importance of expert consensus on scientific knowledge for...

The fifth volume of the [Institute] series "Comparative Studies in Economics and Economic Systems" treats the problems of monetary relations between East and West. The author, Dr. Adam Zwass brings his extensive knowledge of monetary relations in Eastern Europe, gained while he held a...

This title was first published in 1975. The Young People of Leningrad by E. K. Vasil'eva (which was first published in the USSR under the title The Socio-Occupational Level of Urban Youth) is an important attempt to unravel the complex process by which young...

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the fentanyl supply chain, discussing the nature of criminal and state actors and the links between regions around the globe. Fentanyl will be an excellent resource to students and researchers across the social sciences.Author: Jonathan D. RosenISBN-10:...

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 Element studies how career support from romantic partners affects career patterns and costs in politics. It argues that a lower level of career support from romantic partners leads to a lower likelihood for political promotion among women politicians (the partner support hypothesis), as...

The Feeling, Thinking Citizen　illustrates the centrality of Lodge's work in constructing a psychologically plausible model of the democratic citizen.Author: Howard LavineISBN-10: 0815379390ISBN-13: 9780815379393Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2018Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth-...

In this book, first published in 1958, the social choice theorist and economist Duncan Black aims to formulate a pure science of politics. Focusing on the mathematics of committees and, accordingly, of elections, Black's writing engages with the theories of Condorcet, Borda and Laplace...

A coherent text that tracks the historical development of diplomatic relations and methods from the earliest period to current transformations in today's post Cold War world.Author: Keith Hamilton, Richard LanghorneISBN-10: 0415497655ISBN-13: 9780415497657Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2010Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

This book includes papers, presented at the workshop on "Reduction and Predictability of Natural Disasters" held in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1994, on various ways to reduce and mitigate the occurrence of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and landslides.Author: John...

This book explores the regional governing of metropolitan America in a comprehensive and systematic fashion. It reviews the financial system of state and local government at the broadest possible level and explores the relationships between the federal government and the fifty state governments.Author: David...

This book describes how American society has evolved over the past half century by examining the cultural context for political change. It explores the profound alterations that have occurred in American political process and discusses the reforms that have altered the American politics.Author: G....

This book traces the changing role of race within the American political system since the Civil Rights Movement. It charts the author's striking evolution of political ideas, moving toward a political analysis of multicultural democracy, social justice, and egalitarian pluralism.Author: Manning MarableISBN-10: 0367318016ISBN-13: 9780367318017Publisher:...