Political Science - General

This book focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, and exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations. It raises provocative questions about the social, political, and economic sources of cultural change.Author: Dmitri N. ShalinISBN-10: 0367317818ISBN-13: 9780367317812Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

This book examines the intellectual problem of Latin American poverty, and discusses some of the explanations scholars have traditionally used to account for it. It focuses on its political and military dimensions of revolution and counterrevolution in the postwar era.Author: John W. ShermanISBN-10: 0367316560ISBN-13:...

This book shows how ethics in Washington has changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. It analyzes the politicization of the ethics and reveals in telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce...

A discussion of how political rhetoric shapes the debate on welfare policy in the United States. The author considers topics such as how welfare became a programme fraught with problems and abuses, and why and when welfare was the answer to a problem and...

Investigating the complex interrelations between culture and politics in a variety of social movements in Latin America, this book focuses on the cultural politics enacted by social movements as they struggle for new visions and practices of citizenship, democracy, social relations and development.Author: Sonia...

This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historical contexts.Author: George Clement Bond, John...

This book provides a first-hand perspective on the monumental failures of the Polish version of socialism, which were largely due to decisions that led nation-state down a distinctly capitalist path to agrarian development. It is useful to those interested in Eastern European and socialist...

This book provides an insightful approach to understanding the contemporary circulations of feminist repertoires and shows how the international/transnational circulations of gender are interconnected, even coextensive, with the globalization process itself. Author: Ioana CîrstoceaISBN-10: 0367190443ISBN-13: 9780367190446Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2019Pages: 250Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.30h x...

Politics Is a Joke! situates late night comedy in the historical context of political humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for political information, and are in turn affected by it.Author: S. Robert LichterISBN-10: 0367097605ISBN-13: 9780367097608Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2019Pages: 270Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Revised and updated throughout, this multidisciplinary survey of Latin American history, politics, and society features chapters on individual countries by invited authorities. This fifth edition provides an essential foundation for introductory courses on Latin America.Author: Jan Knippers BlackISBN-10: 0367097060ISBN-13: 9780367097066Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2019Pages: 620Format:...

This chronologically organized text provides comprehensive historical coverage of Latin America's politics and development from colonial times to the twenty-first century.Author: Ronald M. SchneiderISBN-10: 0367096927ISBN-13: 9780367096922Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2019Pages: 716Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Yugoslavia managed to survive from its inception in 1918 until the early 1990s, but ethnic and regional conflicts have irrevocably fragmented the country. This updated edition explores the original concept of the "Yugoslav idea", evaluates its history and looks to the future.Author: Lenard J....

Get ready to unravel the complexities of world politics with Kesselman/Krieger/Joseph/Brown/Bauer's INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS: POLITICAL CHALLENGES AND CHANGING AGENDAS, 9th EDITION. Dive into the captivating events that have shaped the world, from the dramatic Brexit vote to the impeachment of Brazil's president, and...

What will the future of work, social freedom, and employment look like? In an era of increased job insecurity and social dislocation, is it possible to reshape economics along democratic lines in a way that genuinely serves the interests of the community? Of Labour...

Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure--as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health--are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and...

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, this book examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily.Author: Hyung-A KimISBN-10: 0415323290ISBN-13: 9780415323291Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2003Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.50h x...

Author: Sigge Winther NielsenISBN-10: 8712804290ISBN-13: 9788712804291Publisher: Gads ForlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2025Pages: 438Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 8.86h x 5.91w x 1.13d

Author: Sigge Winther NielsenISBN-10: 8712804282ISBN-13: 9788712804284Publisher: Gads ForlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2025Pages: 438Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.86h x 5.91w x 0.97d

Author: Darin L. GaubISBN-13: 9798349505577Publisher: Darin L. GaubLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2025Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.60d

"Social Psychology: The Psychology Of Political Domination" explores the psychological underpinnings of power and influence within social and political contexts. Delving into the dynamics of political domination, this work examines the psychological mechanisms that enable certain individuals or groups to exert control over others....

Author: Mary Anne MadeiraISBN-10: 1009651285ISBN-13: 9781009651288Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2025Pages: 236Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Mary Anne MadeiraISBN-10: 1009651269ISBN-13: 9781009651264Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2025Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Relying on governmental data, national polling organizations, and a combination of scholarly and media articles, Blue and Red: A Divided America identifies and examines the fundamental differences in values that Americans hold regarding issues of democracy, racial injustice, and equal economic opportunity.The main argument...

This book presents a genealogy of the social networks and power struggles of the major influential group of Indonesian-educated Muslims called "intelligentsia". In this effort, the longue durée approach is combined with an interactive, inter-disciplinary and inter-textual method to better understand the various underlying...

The thesis offers to demonstrate the evolution of the lobbying activity and its influence over the European Union. It also proposes a framework for possible resolutions of the current situation and improvement suggestions that should contribute to the amelioration of the future lobbying activity...

In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have been re-visited and revised to enable the system to adapt...

Security is a contentious concept, which reaches its limits when applied in a non-Western context. With a strong war-like rhetoric and a strategy called 'Democratic Security, ' Alvaro Uribe Vélez (2002-2006) promised to defeat the insurgency and to strengthen the Colombian state. Uribe's strategies...

This special re-print edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey's book "The State and the Farmer" is a look at the relationship between farmers and the government during the early 20th century. Written in 1911, this classic text was originally based on a lecture given by...

A day on the border among asylum seekers.In 2017, not long after Donald Trump moved into the White House, Fomite began publishing a series of essays, contemplations and provocations in reaction, a collection called Fomite Interrogations that ultimately featured seventeen titles discussing content from...

Capitalism has long since reached the stage of monopoly, and the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, are driving our civilization into the ground. Now it is up to the proletariat, the working class, to overthrow the capitalists, smash the existing state apparatus, and establish scientific...

When students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following similar calls by students in Cape Town, the significance of these protests was felt across continents. This was not simply about tearing down an outward symbol of British...

Since the arrival of the first Tibetans in exile in 1959, a vast and continuous wave of international - especially Western - support has permitted these refugees to survive and even to flourish in their temporary places of residence. Today, these Tibetan refugees continue...

First published in 1975. From the preface: "The North Vietnamese Army units deployed just north of the demilitarized zone in 1966 posed a serious and continuing threat to the security of Quang Tri and Thua Thien, the two northernmost provinces of South Vietnam. This...

ABSTRACT Since September 11-2001, Western scholars classified the study of Islamic Jihad as one of the most important disciplines to be examined. They began to review the relevant original sources of Islam in depth. Many efforts were made by those scholars to understand The...

Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of thewar to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemiesfor the white police state. Together they were swept up in thegrowing resistance to apartheid, and...

The influence of media on society is unquestioned. Its reach penetrates nearly every corner of the world and every aspect of life. But it has also been a contested realm, embodying class politics and the interests of monopoly capital. In The Political Economy of...

Most economic theory assumes a pure capitalism of perfect competition. This book is a penetrating critique of the rhetoric and practice of conventional economic theory. It explores how even in the United States--the most capitalist of countries--the market has always been subject to numerous...

This practical guide is intended for faculty and service-learning directors, combining the how-to information and rigorous intellectual framework that teachers seek. What distinguishes this volume is that the contributors are writing for their peers. They discuss how service-learning can be implemented within political science...

China: A Rising Global Power is a historical and current perspective/analysis of modern-day China that includes a collection of articles written by different writers. A political book dealing with political issues, this includes a frank opinion on current geopolitical issues between the United States...

The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded...

"Thoughts on African Colonization" from William Lloyd Garrison. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer (1805-1879).Author: The Perfect Library, William Lloyd GarrisonISBN-10: 1511698349ISBN-13: 9781511698344Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2015Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d

As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of...

Conspiracy theories are neither delusions nor lies, neither simplistic fallacies nor psychological quirks: rather, they are a political problem. They are not so much about truth as about power. Rather than seeking to debunk conspiracy theories as the work of fringe groups and cranks,...

Taiwan is governed by a president and a parliament selected in multi-party elections. In 2012 voters re-elected President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang Party (KMT) to a second four-year term in an election considered free and fair. Authorities maintained effective control over the security...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.Author: Andy AdamsISBN-10: 1498061435ISBN-13: 9781498061438Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.80d

Implementation of the CJCS's Joint Vision 2010 and the United States Air Force's Global Engagement will lead to a strategic air campaign revolution in military affairs. The strategic air campaign of 2010 is one in which national military power is used to achieve national...

Author: Yagub MahmudovISBN-10: 1453555757ISBN-13: 9781453555750Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2010Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d

This book integrates two strands of economic development: the endogenous theory of growth and the extra-market models of evolutionary economics dominated by innovation efficiency. It presents this paradigm in terms of both theory and historical experiences.Author: Jati SenGuptaISBN-10: 1441980253ISBN-13: 9781441980250Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2011Pages: 120Format:...

Author: Carlos LukenISBN-10: 143634865XISBN-13: 9781436348652Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2008Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

The latest volume of the Political and Military Sociology annual review features empirical research on topics that focus on security, military training, culture, and the challenges of bureaucracy, law, and violence in democracies. The articles cover an impressive geographic range from Europe to Africa...