Political Science - General

This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executive-legislative relations, claiming that the way in which the governments may be challenged or dismissed has far greater impact than previously understood. The chapters in this book were originally published in...

Why did Denmark develop mass education for all in 1814, while Britain created a public-school system only in 1870 that primarily educated academic achievers? Cathie Jo Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. Danish writers imagined...

Global Environmental Politics is the perfect introduction to this increasingly significant area. This fully revised and updated new edition combines an accessible introduction to the most important environmental theories and concepts with a series of detailed case studies of the most pressing environmental problems....

Literature Review from the year 2023 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 16, University of Lisbon, language: English, abstract: In the 21st century climate and security are two intertwined concepts, as it is not possible to present them separately...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the political impact of the COVID-19 emergency in central and eastern Europe and Eurasia. Offering a theoretical framework linking the authoritarian, post-Soviet institutional legacy with patterns of political behavior, support and governments' policies, the expert contributors argue...

One of the most fundamental dilemmas characterizing the end of the twentieth century is the tension between consumerism, on one hand, and the threats to our health and environment on the other. John Buell and Thomas S DeLuca provide a trenchant analysis of the...

This book explores the role of external powers and international organisations in media assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through analysis of key documents, media reports and interviews with key participants it examines the main actors, their roles and the way in which they influenced...

White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed Jim Crow constantly had to remake itself over time even as white southern politicians struggled to extend its grip....

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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 book is a comprehensive introduction to dalits in India (who comprise over one-sixth of the country's population) from the origins of caste system to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution, dalits are largely excluded...

Global Financial Networked Governance provides a careful analysis of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the standard-setters under its umbrella to show how such government networks harness the power of public reputation to herd their members into compliance. The FSB's track record in coordinating...

As we move towards a world without superpowers, the dynamics within and between regions are of growing significance. Against this backdrop, this book explores the links between South Asia and the Gulf, which have existed for centuries but are undergoing important shifts in the...

Capitalism, Coronavirus and War investigates the decay of neoliberal financialised capitalism as revealed in the crisis the novel coronavirus triggered but did not cause, a crisis that has been deepened by the conflict over Ukraine and its repercussions across the globe. Leading domestically to...

American higher education faces a challenging environment. Decreasing state appropriations, rising costs, and tightening budgets have left American colleges and universities scrambling to achieve their missions with ever more limited resources. Campus leaders have therefore increasingly relied upon institutional research and strategic planning departments...

Understanding Municipal Fiscal Health provides an in-depth assessment of the fiscal health of cities throughout the United States. The book examines the tools currently available to cities for designing a revenue structure, measuring fiscal conditions and measuring fiscal health. It explains how artificial policies...

Terrorism, Gender and Women: Towards an Integrated Research Agenda encourages greater integration of gender-sensitive approaches to studies of violent extremism and terrorism. This book seeks to create and inspire a dialogue among scholars of conflict, terrorism and gender by suggesting the necessity of incorporating...

From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights...

Gulf stability is coming to play a larger role in the foreign policy calculus of many states, but the evolving role of Asian powers is largely under-represented in the International Relations literature. This volume addresses this gap with a set of empirically rich, theory...

First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists in the month following the disaster; New York's Kennedy Airport, where...

Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way. Is religion central or irrelevant, positive or negative in world politics today? So much...

First published in 1984, This Mighty Dream traces and interprets the development of popular movements for social change in the United States. Agrarian protest, the labour struggle, the black freedom movement, and community organizing are vividly depicted. The authors address the practical dilemmas of...

A daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxical figure, at once a believing Christian and a vociferous critic...

Tribal college professor emeritus Stephen Wall marshals his broad understanding of both Indigenous and Western legal traditions as well as nearly a half century of experience interfacing with tribal governments in this new volume from Tribal College Press. The first book of its kind,...

I was tired of listening to people around me and in the media talking about things related to race, economics, and politics that were based on disconnected sound bites, or a deep-seated and usually unfounded and out-of-date ideology handed down to them by their...

Accessible and engaging throughout, this introductory text examines politics from a Canadian, comparative, and international perspective. Guiding students through the basics of political ideologies and institutions before moving on to more complex concepts, this text covers essential questions regarding politics, such as who has...

The 1948 Declaration of Human Rights demanded a collaboration among exponents from around the world. Embodying many different cultural perspectives, it was driven by a like-minded belief in the importance of finding common principles that would be essential for the very survival of civilization....

This book, covering the period since 1920, attempts to answer Colombia's failure to properly utilize its vast reserves of coal, hydroelectricity, and petroleum. It examines Colombia's policies concerning a broad range of representative energy development projects.Author: René de la PedrajaISBN-10: 0367162571ISBN-13: 9780367162573Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

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...

Large-scale social changes are taking place in American society, often even without technological change. America's Future examines these transformations. An introduction lays the groundwork for five of the most significant areas where social changes are occurring: population, politics, education, economics, and media. An underlying...

Interpreting The Americans through a socially charged lens, this special issue offers a compelling insight into the legal and cultural undertones of family dynamics, as well as those at the heart of conservative American politics.Author: Austin SaratISBN-10: 1837539952ISBN-13: 9781837539956Publisher: Emerald Publishing LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2023Pages:...

This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth. Weaving together four major themes--population,...

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Author: Ted GoetzelISBN-10: 0879757558ISBN-13: 9780879757557Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1992Pages: 428Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.40w x 1.45dReview Citation(s): School Library Journal 04/01/1993 pg. 152Publishers Weekly 05/04/1992

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the 'War on Terror', based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses 'gendered orientalism' as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W....

This book combines history and politics to explain the phenomenon of Brexit. In this book the author seeks to dive deep into British politics to get a new and fresh understanding of Brexit. It also provides the story of the life of Boris Johnson...

This book outlines Boris Johnson's brilliant plan for economic prosperity through Brexit. (Hint: The book is blank, and should be considered a comedy book.)Author: EnglishISBN-10: 1086601580ISBN-13: 9781086601589Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2019Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d

The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California's efforts to ensure...

The historical modification and regulation of the hydro- logic patterns in the Florida Everglades have resulted in changes in the ecosystem of South Florida and the Florida Everglades. Since the 1970s, substantial focus has been given to the restoration of the Everglades ecosystem. The...

Author: Charles III RiddleISBN-10: 1479762261ISBN-13: 9781479762262Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2012Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

This monograph is a testament to the efforts of many people overcoming multiple technical challenges encountered while developing the XV-15 tilt rotor research aircraft.Author: Demo J. Giulianetti, Daniel C. Dugan, Martin D. MaiselISBN-10: 1478239573ISBN-13: 9781478239574Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2012Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize:...

Eminent domain is integral to a government's legal ability to take private property for a public purpose. If used correctly, the owners are paid the fair market value for their property, few citizens are inconvenienced and everyone benefits. Bad-faith abuses of eminent domain typically...

Author: Jock PanISBN-10: 1450086691ISBN-13: 9781450086691Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2010Pages: 766Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69d

The UAE's relatively open borders and economy have won praise from advocates of expanded freedoms in the Middle East while producing financial excesses, social ills such as human trafficking, and relatively lax controls on sensitive technologies acquired from the West. Moreover, the social and...

At HIGH NOON on January 20, 2009, the Presidential Oath of Office will be officially administered to His Excellency Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. The journey to that momentous and most anticipated occasion of the 21st Century...

This volume brings together a range of papers that fruitfully engage with the theme of the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, held in San Diego, California: Interventions.Author: Adrienne ShawISBN-10: 1433148153ISBN-13: 9781433148156Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2018Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The American Political Narrative is a succinct yet poignant narrative about the development of the American political system and what is needed to maintain it. The material helps students to identify their own place in that narrative and to recognize that they each play...

The Politics of Exile in Latin America addresses exile as a major mechanism of institutional exclusion used by all types of governments in the region against their own citizens, while they often provided asylum to aliens fleeing persecution. The work is the first systematic...

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