Political Science - General

Since the 1970s the average level of unemployment in Australia has risen each decade. This has imposed huge economic, social and human costs, making unemployment one of the most pressing problems confronting Australia. This book argues that the current approaches of wage cuts and...

Between States is a two-part study compiled in one book. It is the first book to assess systematically the broad implications of interim governments in the establishment of democratic regimes and on the existence of states. Drawing on historical and contemporary democratization experiences, Shain...

Previously published as special issues of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy, this volume contains the papers devoted to the life and work of Piero Sraffa.Sraffa was a leading intellectual of the twentieth century. He...

Approval Voting proposes a compelling way to elect some 500,000 officials in public elections. Under this system, voters may vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they like in multi-candidate elections. Among the many benefits of approval voting are its propensity to...

Early studies of political behavior examined the sociological, attitudinal, and rational determinants of political behavior. However, none of these approaches provided a descriptive model of how people process political information and make political decisions under naturalistic conditions that involve limited cognitive capacity and motivation....

Now more than ever before, we are living in a world that's highly interconnected and interdependent, which means an action in one place has a very real influence elsewhere. In Finding a Better Way, an unlikely duo explores ways in which Western society has...

Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world;...

Although many people consider excessive police violence disconcerting, if, when, and how they voice their opinion or respond by taking some sort of action has generally remained empirically unknown. In the hope of understanding this process, Ross has developed a four-stage model, based on...

This includes information on: resiliency, radioactivity, politics, religion, extremely bizarre phenomena, relating card spreads to the mysteries of noumena, science in general, miniature biographies, and incisive memoirs of varying lengths. Examples: Concept of a Tarot Deck inspired by Uranium-235 Concept of a Tarot Deck...

Although much has been written about the impact of developing separatist thought on early twentieth century Irish politics, little is known about Ireland's last Home Rule generation whose expectations were shattered by the revolutionary events of 1916-22. Before the Revolution seeks to redress this...

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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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This richly annotated second edition of the now-classic pairing of Bacon's masterpieces, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration features the addition of other works by Bacon, including "The Idols of the Mind," Of Unity in Religion" and "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and...

"An unblinkered look at our imperial past . . . a perceptive work by one of our most perceptive historians."--Studs TerkelA work of remarkable prescience, Empire As A Way of Life is influential historian William Appleman Williams's groundbreaking work highlighting imperialism--"empire as a way...

Plato's fascinating dialogue about legislation and governance in an ideal state supposedly takes place among three travellers passing the time during a long journey by foot through the countryside of Crete. The participants in the conversation are an Athenian visitor, the dominant speaker; a...

Author: Edd DoerrISBN-10: 0879757086ISBN-13: 9780879757083Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1991Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.51d

A collection of short works, the first, "The Altruist in Politics," being a commencement address at Columbia College by Benjamin Cordoza, well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice. The second is "The Path of the Law," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., an American...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: EP, course: Doctor of Philosophy, language: English, abstract: The present paper investigates the effect of Western religion on governance, policies, and politics, within both the domestic...

What is real democracy? - Answered by an exposition of the Constitution of the United States is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

List of child welfare terms in English and Spanish for child welfare professionals who work with Spanish-speaking or bilingual persons. The list was created with the help of bilingual child welfare professionals, representatives from community and national organizations, and advisors at the Department of...

During the final decades of Ottoman rule, Palestine was administratively divided into two states, Jerusalem and Beirut. Both provinces exhibited a strikingly cohesive history of modernisation, and as the Ottoman Empire began to recede, the education systems, taxation and bureaucracy which were left behind...

The book discusses the economic problems we face in the world today, especially in developed countries--the stagnation and decline of household incomes and productivity growth and the growing threat to western political systems. The book clarifies how the established framework of liberal economics has...

The Armed Islamic Group, known by its French acronym, Armed Islamic Group, waged a violent war against Algeria's secular military regime during the 1990s. Though terrorism continues to plague Algerian society, the GIA's role in current violence appears to have abated. The GIA grew...

You could be a lobbyist. Lobbying is a simple job. Visit a man nine times and don't ask for anything. On your tenth visit, ask, and you will get whatever you want. They're sick of their jobs, fed up with working for someone else,...

Corruption takes many forms in China, from corrupt officials at all levels using their public office for private gain and seizing land for development to corrupt state-owned enterprises gaming the system to their advantage. Corruption also continues to be among the root causes of...

Author: Christopher PhillipsISBN-10: 1456890700ISBN-13: 9781456890704Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2011Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

For the first time, Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience makes available critical documents which have shaped debate over religion and state issues throughout the course of American Jewish history. Following a comprehensive historical introduction, Professors Sarna and Dalin present a wide...

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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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

Congress is again considering whether to permit drilling for oil and gas in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Alaska, to designate the area as wilderness, or to retain the status quo of maintaining the area as a Refuge without...

The purpose of this research was to develop a prototype liquid hydrogen boll-off recovery system. Perform analyses to finalize recovery system cycle, design detail components, fabricate hardware, and conduct sub-component, component, and system level tests leading to the delivery of a prototype system. The...

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 United States Penitentiary (USP) in Lewisburg is a high security facility housing male inmates. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum security male offenders. USP Lewisburg is located in central Pennsylvania, 200 miles north of Washington, DC and 170 miles west of Philadelphia....

This is the final report of the Fedden mission to Germany. The mission was to visit research departments and engineering works in Germany to earmark plant, equipment, books, etc. suitable for a college of aeronautics. Other investigations included the then present technique on fuel...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

There are several topics discussed in this document regarding the operations surrounding the port that was Cherbourg during the Second World War. Military planning included how plans were made and then changed. Contents revealed administering the port, clearing the waters, construction and reconstruction, the...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

Anomalous amounts of tungsten, molybdenum, and bismuth are present in the Uyaijah ring structure of the Kushaymiyah igneous complex in the eastern part of the Precambrian shield of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The complex includes four major rock units, the Murdama Group, porphyritic...

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,...

The Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps provides solutions, from a military perspective, to legal issues involving military operations, organization, and personnel, wherever and whenever such solutions are required, with primary focus on operations, accountability, Sailor legal readiness, and Navy legal readiness. The Navy Judge...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

The United States Air Force's Center for Strategy and Technology was established at the Air War College in 1996. Its purpose is to engage in long-term strategic thinking about technology and its implications for United States national security. The Center (CSAT) focuses on education,...

This document is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Organic Roots Collection. Organic Roots is a collection of the historic United States Department of Agriculture. The collection contains publications related to organic agriculture. The collection contains documents published before 1942 (before synthetic...

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...