Political Science - General

North Korea's conventional capabilities have eroded but remain significant, including its sizeable contingent of special operations forces. Meanwhile, Pyongyang continues the vigorous development of its nuclear and missile programs, and has ongoing chemical and biological weapons programs. Perhaps the biggest unanswered questions concern North...

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 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 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...

"Stories and Sketches of William O. Bradley" offers a collection of anecdotes and biographical sketches illuminating the life and career of William O'Connell Bradley (1847-1914), a prominent figure in Kentucky politics. Bradley served as the 32nd Governor of Kentucky and as a United States...

A wide-ranging and authoritative history of SOGAT, which provides a valuable insight into the paper and printing industries during a period of great change, and an examination of crucial moments in recent UK industrial relations history.Author: Peter Bain,John GennardISBN-10: 1138994170ISBN-13: 9781138994171Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2021Pages:...

The globe is warming and while no one knows what will happen as a result, it is clear that slowing the process is a necessary goal. Other studies have considered 'warming fates', this one brings sophisticated computer modeling to bear on ways of minimizing...

First Published in 1968. This book charts the sea voyages of John Tradescant the Elder, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Richard Chancellor, Nelson and Others. Starting at the mouth of Dwina in 1553 and ending with expeditions for the Russia Company from 1612 and an account...

Focusing on what can be referred to as the 'precarity-agency-migration nexus', this comprehensive volume leverages the political, economic, and social dynamics of migration to better understand both deepening inequality and popular resistance. Drawing on rich ethnographic and interview-based studies of the United States and...

This title was first published in 2001. Ethical considerations play a key role in both the theoretical and practical functioning of the welfare state. The contributors to this book examine these ethical issues, and demonstrate how value judgements must be integrated into any analysis...

First published in 1999, this volume examines how the question of autonomy has come to be of recent interest in political theory. The author argues that autonomy goes deep into the Western consciousness and is a part of our very mode of being. He...

The Imperial Animal offers a compelling perspective on the controversy over humans and their biology. This now-classic study is about the social bonds that hold us together and the antisocial theories that drive us apart. The authors divulge how the evolutionary past of the...

The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale society to totalitarian systems. Mass movements mobilize people who are alienated from the social system, who do not believe in the legitimacy of the established order,...

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political ScientistsAuthor: Georgia A. PersonsISBN-10: 1138521167ISBN-13: 9781138521162Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2017Pages: 238Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.56d

This comprehensive volume shows the normative limits of a strict non-discriminatory approach to European Union citizens' access to national welfare, and analyses how the European Court of Justice developed its jurisprudence. It was first published as a special issue of the Journal of European...

The high theme of these writings is that we live in an economy of concentrated economic power. Textbook theory fails to explain this economy; it deals with bygone days. Galbraith's job is to push, drag, cajole and finesse economics into the latter half of...

Many governments face similar pressures surrounding the hotly debated topic of immigration. Yet, the disparate ways in which policy makers respond is striking. The Comparative Politics of Immigration explains why democratic governments adopt the immigration policies they do. Through an in-depth study of immigration...

This book analyses Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in India's bovine economy and will interest scholars of SA studies, critical agrarian studies, political economy, contemporary authoritarian populism.Author: Jostein Jakobsen,Kenneth Bo NielsenISBN-10: 1032709375ISBN-13: 9781032709376Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2025Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d

World War Aid offers a novel perspective on the unprecedented aid in the Ukrainian conflict, destined to leave an international "echo" reaching far beyond the individual historical case and the aid sector alone.Author: Igor PellicciariISBN-10: 1032465352ISBN-13: 9781032465357Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2025Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h...

Debating the War in Ukraine discusses whether the war in Ukraine could have been avoided, and, if so, how? In this dialogical book, the authors discuss nodal points of history in terms of counterfactuals and contrastive explanations, concluding by considering future possibilities.Author: Tuomas Forsberg,Heikki...

This book deals with the most important developments in the study of political power over the last four decades. This will be a major contribution in the understanding of the concepts and practices of how power manifests itself across every social and political context.Author:...

Gain a deeper understanding of Canadian politics and governance with this insightful book on the principles and institutions of our federal and provincial constitutions. Authored by legal expert Dennis Ambrose O'Sullivan, and including the complete text of the British North America Act, this book...

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,...

Toward a More Perfect Union is the last of a three-volume series examining the Constitution-as it was drafted and ratified, and the uses made of it over the past two hundred years. Each volume includes essays first presented at conferences on the Bicentennial of...

Building upon the foundations of his seminal discussion of the good life, virtue, happiness, and the golden mean in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle now turns his attention to man as a political being and to the nature of the state. How do human relationships...

John Courtney Murray, SJ (1904-1967), is most renowned for his ethical writings, which distinguish between the secular and the sacred, and for his defense of civil religious freedom based on natural law philosophy. His later theological writings, however, in which he sought to reintegrate...

With a view that behavioralism has distorted perceptions of black political activity, Hanes Walton, Jr., here reformulates the assumptions of behavioralism to arrive at a more realistic understanding of the political actions of black Americans. Considering the cultural and historical events that have shaped...

The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across the great breadth of China were engulfed by demonstrations, which differed regionally in content and tone: the complaints and protest actions...

Western man has long lost his way in his quest for constructivist models, largely because of his infatuation with utopian ideals. These models have represented a complete negation of the Open Society. In the latter part of the twentieth century there has been a...

Author: A. Rogow,Peter ShoreISBN-10: 0837163749ISBN-13: 9780837163741Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/1974Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

This book deals with Church and State Relations in Italy. While it focuses on the period 1965-1985 it also provides a thorough historical background of the issues involved in this relationship from 1860 onwards. A comparative analysis between the 1929 Lateran Accords and its...

For Secretary of State Henry Clay and the Adams administration, 1827 is a year of crisis. Turbulent relations with Latin America are marked by the seizure of American trading vessels off Montevideo. Border strife with Britain threatens in northern Maine, while American retaliation for...

Series Editor: Thomas Archdeacon, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThis series presents concise histories of individual ethnic groups and their impact on American life and culture. With comprehensive examinations of the immigrant experience, it serves as a resource for both young students and experienced researchers. Each book...

Author: John O'NeillISBN-10: 0802006272ISBN-13: 9780802006271Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1994Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.85h x 5.71w x 0.68d

To most Americans, the Gulf War symbolizes the culmination of a highly sophisticated decision-making process within the Bush administration. In this highly readable and challenging book, Hybel demonstrates the shortcomings of such a view by using cognitive models to examine how the administration defined...

This book examines the competing visions of liberty and community in Canada. Focusing attention on constitutional debate in Ontario after the Confederation of 1867, the author shows how the defenders of provincial autonomy constructed a powerful political and legal ideology that attempted to reconcile...

The survival and success of public organizations depends on employee satisfaction and motivation to improve performance. New Strategies for Public Pay addresses one of the strongest motivators?compensation. The book outlines proven strategies, many of which are successfully used in private industry, that are also...

Recent discussion of democratization in Africa has focused primarily on the reform of formal state institutions: the public service, the judiciary, and the legislatureAuthor: Michael LeslieISBN-10: 076580980XISBN-13: 9780765809803Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2003Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

In Nation-States, Richard Lee Hough interprets the role of the nation-state, analyzing the factors that impinge on its viability and correcting the present tilt in numerous commentaries positing, or prophesying, its decline. Hough seeks to balance, or refute those, who in various ways, see...

Applegate: Freedom of the Press in a Small Town is a slice of Americana as told by Armada Times Editor James Mitchell, along with Lindsey Kingston, student editor of the paper's high school section. Mitchell took over as editor of the Times in the...

This is a timely re-appraisal of feminist political thinkers and their male contemporaries, providing a re-evaluation of feminist humanism.Author: Karen GreenISBN-10: 0745614493ISBN-13: 9780745614496Publisher: Polity PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/1995Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

The first comparative study of the complicated history of relations between the state and the air transport industry in Europe, this book travels from the earliest scheduled flights down to the era of liberalization and privatization in the 1990s. Martin Staniland concentrates on four...

Focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state.Author: Mark BeesonISBN-10: 0700714774ISBN-13: 9780700714773Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2002Pages:...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. Rather than emancipate slaves, the colonial...