Political Science - General

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Established by the National Science Foundation Act in 1950, the NSF's mission statement is "to promote the progress...

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...

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 Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays on the most important questions faced by today's writers, critics, audiences, theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated, its multiple perspectives address the...

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal crises in creating major political crises. Goldstone shows how state breakdowns in both western monarchies...

It is difficult to imagine forces in the modern world as potent as nationalism and religion. Both provide people with a source of meaning, each has motivated individuals to carry out extraordinary acts of heroism and cruelty, and both serve as the foundation for...

The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism centers...

This book examines the social bases of the European welfare state, and the interests developed in or against social policy by various classes of society, during the period 1875-1975 in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. By analyzing the competing concerns of different social...

First published in 1956. Arthur Waley here presents an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his time. Gaiety is the keynote of his works and the poet was a friend of the Manchu official with...

News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for...

Distinguished historians examine the genesis, development, and impact of slavery in America and explore related areas of study.Author: Allen WeinsteinISBN-10: 0195024702ISBN-13: 9780195024708Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/1979Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.38w x 0.69d

In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be...

Like its African neighbors, Eritrea attained colonial statehood under a European power, in this case Italy. Yet, during decolonization, its people were singularly excluded from the right to self-determination, for external reasons: superpower rivalry over the country's strategic position on the Red Sea; a...

Highly original and insightful, Billig and Marinho's book investigates how politicians misuse official statistics. Setting this problem in its historical context - and offering vivid case studies of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and G?rald Darmanin - the authors demonstrate that the manipulation of statistics...

Democracy for Sale explores how corporate influence, dark money, and neoliberal ideology have eroded democratic institutions. The book examines the ways in which businesses, wealthy elites, and lobbying groups manipulate public policy, elections, and media narratives to serve their interests, often at the expense...

Ethnosociology: The Foundations is a systematic presentation of the main principles and analytic strategies of the discipline of ethnosociology, written by Alexander Dugin, one of the major Russian philosophers and political analysts of the present day. Through study of the main sources and schools...

Critics of populism and advocates of elitist democracy often place greater confidence in political elites than in the general public. However, this trust may be misplaced. In five experiments with local politicians, state legislators, and members of the public, the author finds a similar...

Using novel leadership data from eleven developed parliamentary democracies between 1980 and 2020, this Element asks how gender conditions party leaders' candidacy, selection, and survival. It examines the life cycle of party leadership careers of 276 leaders with a focus on three categories of...

This book aims to elucidate the divergent institutional trajectories of lithium policies in Latin America, shedding light on how industrial development of mining activities can emerge in specific extractivist contexts. While focusing primarily on Chile's lithium policy, the study is further enriched by shadow...

Nominated in 1858 by the infant Republican party to oppose Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln challenged the incumbent Democratic senator from Illinois to a series of debates. This volume contains their masterful arguments as well as two speeches, one by each candidate. Paving the...

The Future of Transportation: Innovations in Mobility by Jim Stephens explores the rapidly evolving landscape of transportation technology and its profound impact on society. This comprehensive guide delves into a range of groundbreaking advancements, from Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles and commercial spacecraft to...

Understanding Law for the Social Sciences provides students with essential tools to study Canadian law from various disciplinary perspectives. It introduces key legal principles and concepts, ensuring that social science students build a strong foundation to engage confidently with legal topics. The book focuses...

Understanding Law for the Social Sciences provides students with essential tools to study Canadian law from various disciplinary perspectives. It introduces key legal principles and concepts, ensuring that social science students build a strong foundation to engage confidently with legal topics. The book focuses...

When A History of the Mexican-American People was first published in 1977 it was greeted with enthusiasm for its straightforward, objective account of the Mexican-American role in U.S. history. Since that time the text has been used with great success in high school and...

Author: Meredith Maloof LokenISBN-10: 1009494678ISBN-13: 9781009494670Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2025Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Amnon Rubinstein and Alexander Yakobson explore the nature of Israel's identity as a Jewish state, how that is compatible with liberal democratic norms and is comparable with a number of European states.Author: Alexander Yakobson, Amnon RubinsteinISBN-10: 0415464412ISBN-13: 9780415464413Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize:...

Multiculturalism and Diversity in the United States: A Political and Sociological Reader is an anthology designed to help students tackle leading themes in American multiculturalism within the modern political climate. The articles in Unit I are introductory theoretical readings and demographic studies, which present...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1, University of Catania (Department of Social and Political Sciences), language: English, abstract: The Security Council of the United Nations is criticized for failing to reflect membership...

This 1910 study of sectionalism in Virginia illustrates how the east and west of Virginia were destined to separate into two states.Author: Charles H. AmblerISBN-10: 1933202211ISBN-13: 9781933202211Publisher: West Virginia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2008Pages: 444Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 7.79h x 5.05w x 0.99d

The dramatic increase since the 1980s in the global prevalence of tuberculosis, a disease destined as recently as thirty years ago for complete eradication, is a story of medical failure. A pandemic whose geography defies simple categorization, it ranges from schools in the UK...

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reported on the Export-Import Bank's (Eximbank) export credit insurance program, specifically the: (1) need for government involvement in export credit insurance; (2) need to employ an agent to administer the program; and (3) efficiency and effectiveness of using...

The NASA John H. Glenn Research Center has developed a revolutionary 32 in. diameter Levitated Ducted Fan (LDF) conceptual design. The objective of this work is to develop a viable non-contact propulsion system utilizing Halbach arrays for all-electric flight, and many other applications. This...

The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office...

Habitat for Humanity International has produced more than 60,000 homes since its founding in 1976. As one of the most successful homeownership programs for low-income families, its housing production volume easily puts it in the ranks of the Nation's top 20 homebuilders. Making Homeownership...

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a government law agency ran by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE is responsible for protecting our nations borders and an abundance of national security such as: drug smuggling, human trafficking, terrorism, fraud, gangs,...

Describes techniques to evaluate bridges for their historic significance under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service manages over 8,000 bridges, many of which need substantial maintenance or should be replaced. Any bridge that is 50 years...

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a government law agency ran by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE is responsible for protecting our nations borders and an abundance of national security such as: drug smuggling, human trafficking, terrorism, fraud, gangs,...

This study contains a narrative of operations by the Russian Armies, and is based on the book "La batalla de Galizia" by General Golovine of the Imperial Russian Army. Conclusions about the outcome are included.Author: Manuel B. NavasISBN-10: 1288284004ISBN-13: 9781288284009Publisher: BibliogovLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2012Pages: 40Format:...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government. Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over 10,000 employees that collect, monitor,...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed...

The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising gasoline prices and a suite of Federal bioenergy policies, provides evidence of how farmers altered their land-use decisions in response to increased demand for corn. As some forecasts had...

Nearly three years have passed since China's successful antisatellite (ASAT) test ushered in a new era of space competition. China still offers no answers to one of the most troubling strategic space questions of the twenty-first century: why is China building space weapons? Fundamental...

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 Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John...

In many countries, social differences, such as religion or race and ethnicity, threaten the stability of the social and legal order. This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenge of difference. The book brings together lawyers, political scientists,...

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of...

Tinker. R.A.V. Ollman. Hustler-Falwell. Reno-ACLU. Nebraska Press Association. These names are synonymous with contemporary First Amendment litigation. To explore these landmark cases more deeply, author Joseph Russomanno interviewed the people at the core of these and other influential First Amendment cases, and he presents...

Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy reveals the struggles of Asian American women at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder where hunger, illness, sweatshop labor, exposure to hazardous chemicals and even involuntary servitude are everyday realities. Asian American...