Political Science - General

The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the State of Israel? In this cogent and searching study, Aviezer Ravitzky probes...

This first comprehensive commentary on The Spirit of the Laws uncovers and explicates the plan of Montesquieu's famous but baffling treatise. Pangle brings to light Montesquieu's rethinking of the philosophical groundwork of liberalism, showing how The Spirit of the Laws enlarges and enriches the...

This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and...

William Letwin's thorough, carefully argued, and elegantly written work is the only book length study of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law designed to shape the economic life of a large complex society through maintaining the "correct" level of competition in the economy. This...

In Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy, S. M. Amadae tells the remarkable story of how rational choice theory rose from obscurity to become the intellectual bulwark of capitalist democracy. Amadae roots Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy in the turbulent post-World War II era, showing how rational choice theory...

Widely acclaimed in both the mainstream and Jewish press, Jewish Power by J.J. Goldberg offers an engaging and provocative portrait of the people, institutions, and ideas that make up organized Jewish political influence in the United States. Deftly mixing anecdote and analysis, journalist Goldberg...

This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the authors in this book demonstrate that business has mobilized to shape...

In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because they offer...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The idea of the...

Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist,...

Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in terms of maximizing personal preference-satisfaction. This book offers an alternative way of understanding the moral underpinning of private ownership of property. Rather than identifying...

After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international powers became increasingly involved in Palestinian politics, and many shadows of statehood arose...

This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that India, Myanmar and Thailand face, and ways to overcome them. With a collection of essays that identify common challenges and salient features affecting diverse communities, this volume examines topics from subnational and local perspectives...

In this latest FOURTH installment in the Deep State Defector series, Attorney Rahul Manchanda brings his most brazen, illuminating and controversial findings to light, guaranteed to offend the powers that be. As a well trained and extremely experienced lawyer for 20 years in Manhattan...

My new book 9/11 and the Holy War, 21st Century Style is really a summary of the important points in my book 'Matriarch and World War III; Internal State Terrorism in Australia' written under the pen name, Daisy Snow. An opportunity popped up for...

Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1869.Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture...

Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1869.Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture...

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: A, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with womanhood in Tiv literary genres. It reinterprets gender roles in an African society. The Tiv of Middle-Belt Nigeria are a unique ethnic nationality whose...

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, University of Peradeniya, course: Multiculturalism, language: English, abstract: This article intends to examine the root causes of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, and methods that can be...

This edited book takes an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the complex dynamics involved in the incidence of online hate speech against migrants in user-generated contexts. The authors draw on case studies from Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK, bringing together...

Un fantasma recorre México: el fantasma del neoliberalismo. Todas las fuerzas del actual gobierno han lanzado una cruzada contra ese fantasma: lo ven en las pasadas administraciones - panistas y priistas - en los medios de comunicación y las ong, en los científicos y...

America is close to revolution. In preparation for socialism, the working class, the proletariat, must become class conscious. They must become aware that the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, are enemies of all working people. As such, they must be overthrown, the state...

This book gives direction to the revolution which is brewing in the country, . The capitalists must be overthrown, the state apparatus which has been set up by the tiny minority to crush the vast majority must be destroyed and replaced by a working...

I Could Have Been One provides a look into the world Donald Wm. Jeffries was born into, raised, and grew up in through historical and political events of his life. We examine the world starting in the 1940s through our modern day and see...

Xenophon (431-355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece. He...

This book gives direction to the revolution which is brewing in the country, . The capitalists must be overthrown, the state apparatus which has been set up by the tiny minority to crush the vast majority must be destroyed and replaced by a working...

Consider Power Rivals your tip sheet to the great rivalry of our age. From rare metals in the ground to cyber and weapons in space, the US-China rivalry will shape and shake the world.Will America stay a superpower - or will China become the...

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This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Sweden vs Apartheid' examines the effort by the Swedish government and civil society in Sweden to abolish the system of apartheid that was instituted in South Africa in 1948. The analysis blends both international relations and comparative political approaches to take a critical look...

This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate its authoritarian populist political agenda in a constitutionally secular...

Suppose that much of what you have learned is not true. That you have been manipulated unknowingly all your life with ideas about religion, politics, economics, history, education, health, war and peace. Suppose you find out that lies have become truths.How would you feel?...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Observed through a temporal lens, organizational life fluctuates among moments of instantaneity, enduring continuity, and imagination of distant times. This movement stems from the fact that actors are continually faced with multiple intersecting temporalities, obliging them to make choices about what to do in...

How can independent political candidates become more competitive in elections?A significant proportion of Americans are dissatisfied with the country's two-party system. They often respond with negative opinions of both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Many of them identify as independents and even more of...

22 December 1949: A conspiracy that began with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi culminated in the execution of the Ayodhya strategy. Late that night, a little-known sadhu, Abhiram Das, and his followers entered the Babri Masjid and planted an idol of Rama inside it....

This book ties together the current revolutionary American motion, which is sweeping the country, with the events of Russia, immediately before the Russian Revolution of November 7, 1917. The Russian insurrection is covered, in which the working people were first made aware of themselves...

Outposts of Change is an environmental and social justice masterpiece. It is unique, in that it provides guidance on how to accomplish fundamental, systemic level social change. Within it you will be asked to envision Earth as a living organism composed of sophisticated, interdependent...

What if the U.S. war on terror was fought not by the military but by educating the Afghan youth, and what if the trillion dollars had been spent instead on economic development in Afghanistan rather than on bombs and fighter jets? The Trillion Dollar...

Outposts of Change is an environmental and social justice masterpiece. It is unique, in that it provides guidance on how to accomplish fundamental, systemic level social change. Within it you will be asked to envision Earth as a living organism composed of sophisticated, interdependent...

In When migration becomes conflict - political group dynamics, Jonas Nilsson has collected eleven essays, with the main theme being political group dynamics. Nilsson's premiss is that groups are formed by identity. When groups thus try to favour their interests, these will possibly collide...

In the early 1990s, E.M.S. Namboodiripad (1909-1998) came across the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). Gramsci, one of the most significant communist theorists of his time, had spent his time in prison writing essays and notes to clarify the situation of the communist...

Drawing on interviews with Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull and a rare interview with Australia's spy chief, Red Zone is a gripping look at China's power and Australia's future.What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades...

Author: Hugh O'ShaughnessyISBN-10: 1899365419ISBN-13: 9781899365418Publisher: Latin America Bureau (Lab)Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1999Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d

This book examines the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) practices of international migration management and studies current transformations of migration governance and the role of international organizations outside Europe. While so-called migration crises in North Africa in 2005 and 2011 made the instability of...

This book considers specific and practical ways in which NGO's can contribute to enabling people to build on the capacities they already possess. It reviews the types of social organisation with which NGO's might consider working and the provision of training in a variety...