Political Science - General

The term "Prisoner's Dilemma" comes from the original anecdote used to illustrate this game of strategy. Two prisoners, held incommunicado, are charged with the same crime. They can be convicted only if either confesses. If both prisoners confess, their payoff is minus one. If...

Anglo-America is a clearly identifiable part of what is commonly referred to as the West. The West exists, this book argues, in the form of multiple traditions that have currency in America, Europe, the Americas, and a few outposts in the Southern hemisphere. Led...

Political Games uses bold visuals and cases from contemporary politics to present forty-nine of the most compelling insights from game theory, illuminating the common logics underlying political problems. Each game is depicted graphically and accompanied by a concise explanation and technical notes. Collectively, these...

The Federal Convention of 1787 engaged in the great and complex labor of framing the Constitution for the union of the states. For thirty years afterward, little was known of its deliberations, and nothing official was published about them. The variety of versions that...

In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and...

Introduced by presidential historian Ted Widmer, this work offers both the original texts and insightful essays by leading historians on each of the presidential inaugural addresses--from George Washington to Joseph Biden.Every four years, the incoming president of the United States delivers an inaugural address...

Introduction to Political Science helps you to think critically about a wide range of political topics, and become more comfortable with politics itself as a result. The text covers a variety of political practices and ideologies as well as the differing explanations for why...

For courses in Public Policy An introduction to public policy that helps students learn how to think critically about politics. Understanding Public Policy provides an introduction to the study of public policy, as well as an overview of the models that political scientists use...

RAW could fix the whole mess we're in right now. The memes herein are the sigil magick and stand-up comedy that could re-orient both the alt-right and woke left to the hilarious precarity of their positions, all while teaching them how to delight in...

Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA's involvement in one of the most controversial topics in American history. Featuring intelligence gathered from CIA agents who...

"A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars... It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making sense of the messiness without losing hope of changing things." - Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong "A must read for everyone...

"A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars... It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making sense of the messiness without losing hope of changing things." - Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong "A must read for everyone...

How can Shining Path's growth, and its mounting internal political crisis, be explained? Why are its perspectives so destructive to the working class in Peru and worldwide? What is the alternative for workers and peasants fighting to defend their interests against the landlords and...

- Two weeks after Johnny Moore was discharged from a psychiatric hospital, the deeply troubled teenager took a lethal overdose of the antidepressant prescribed by his psychiatrist. - Dennis Gould suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He let a streetcar cut off his right arm rather...

Ben-Ami Scharfstein is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought; Of Birds, Beasts, and Other Artists: An Essay on the Universality of Art; The Dilemma of Context; and Ineffability:...

This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas--among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry Wives of...

Author: Leo StraussISBN-10: 1587319667ISBN-13: 9781587319662Publisher: St. Augustine's PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 211Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.18d

First published in 1947. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Dialecticians and Logicians, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu,...

International mobility is not a new concept as people have moved throughout history, voluntarily and forcibly, for personal, familial, economic, political, and professional reasons. Yet, the mobility of technical talent in the global economy is relatively new, largely voluntary, structurally determined by market forces,...

Author: Roselyn HsuehISBN-10: 1108472133ISBN-13: 9781108472135Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 422Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

Author: Roselyn HsuehISBN-10: 110845903XISBN-13: 9781108459037Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 422Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Securing Red is an after-action report written by the former North Carolina State Strategic Initiatives Director during the 2020 reelection campaign for Donald J. Trump.Author: Matthew DulaISBN-10: 1034284622ISBN-13: 9781034284628Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2022Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today, with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors, representing several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and media and literary studies, situate the...

Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory.Since the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, memory politics in Serbia has undergone drastic changes in the way in which the Second...

Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation - most commonly understood as a linguistic community - is entitled to its own state. Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination of the peculiarly...

Weaving together political, sociological, psychological, and epidemiological analyses, Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 Crisis provides revealing insights into the transformations wrought by the pandemic and the social divisions it has exposed. Accounting for the realities of the pandemic across the globe, with...

In this book, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the 'homosexual propaganda' laws to the Sochi Olympics and the Ukraine war, and explores the role of visibility in the production and contestation of belonging to a political community....

The Broken Promise of Global Advocacy addresses two key normative debates associated with the rise of transnational advocacy: whether global interest communities are biased in favor of wealthier countries; and whether the growth of global advocacy implies the emergence of a global civil society...

James Tully's scholarship has profoundly transformed the study of political thought by reconstructing the practice of political theory as a democratising and diversifying dialogue between scholars and citizens. Across his writings on topics ranging from the historical origins of property, constitutionalism in diverse societies,...

International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in developing states. Disasters, whether man-made or natural, have always tested governments and their bureaucracies. Despite numerous research efforts, existing empirical literature does not...

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are...

This book addresses the conceptual lapse in the literature regarding the relationship between cultural production and participatory politics by examining their connections in a range of national and political contexts.Each chapter examines how youth engage cultural production as part of their political participation, and...

The politics of the body is often highly contested, culturally specific, and controlled, and this book calls our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity.With governments regulating bodies in ways that mark the political boundaries of who is a citizen,...

This book explores how the structures of international organizations have become increasingly complex and considers why states choose to become part of networks of international organizations alongside non-state actors. While granting participation rights to non-state actors, states have been actively involved in establishing complex...

The Russia Scare assesses the scope, character and extent of Russian interference in the affairs of liberal democratic states. This book examines the 'Russia scare' in a dynamic manner, stressing the interaction between threat perception, responses and subsequent policies. What forms did this threat...

Author: Ana Catalano WeeksISBN-10: 1009167839ISBN-13: 9781009167833Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dReview Citation(s): Choice 08/01/2023

Author: Adnan NaseemullahISBN-10: 1009158414ISBN-13: 9781009158411Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2022Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73dReview Citation(s): Choice 03/01/2023

In politics, money is often the name of the game. Politicians enrich themselves while in office, spend campaign money to finance their re-election, and accept lucrative 'golden parachute' jobs after leaving office. Money in Politics argues that these different forms of capital are part...

In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life. Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern's longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not follow the trade rules set by the leading powers of the...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

Why have particular systems of government come into being? How do they succeed? What makes them fail? What effect does government have on the way in which society is structured, and how does a governmental system affect the economic and cultural life of its...

Fly in the Ointment chronicles the history of two school districts in the Upper Mill Creek (Ohio) Valley of the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan area. The creation of both the black Lincoln Heights School District and the predominately white Princeton School District in the 1950s...

Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however, academic geographers have not focused squarely on...

Series Editors: Joseph M. Hawes, University of Memphis and N. Ray Hiner, University of KansasThis series examines the history of American children from colonial times to the present. It includes chronological volumes which survey the experience of children over specific historical periods as well...

After four years of unspeakable horror and sacrifice on both sides, the Civil War was about to end. On March 4, 1865, at his second inauguration, President Lincoln did not offer the North the victory speech it yearned for; nor did he blame the...

This book looks at the role played throughout history by translators and interpreters in international relations. It considers how political linguistics function and have functioned throughout history. It fills a gap left by political historians, who seldom ask themselves in what language the political...