Political Science
Explore a comprehensive selection of political science books, including essential titles on the fundamentals and principles of the field. Discover the best political science booklist and best-selling books at our online bookstore.
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Rethinking Free SpeechClashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, its meaning is persistently misunderstood and distorted. Prominent commentators have built massive platforms around...
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Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh ParadoxThe idea of the 'Bangladesh paradox' describes the unexpected social progress that Bangladesh has made in recent decades that has been both pro-poor and gender equitable. This began at a time when the country was characterised by extreme levels of poverty, poor quality governance,...
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Putting Women Up: Gender Equality and Politics in MyanmarFor the duration of Myanmar's experiment with electoral democracy, why did some women run for political office, and not others? What role did gatekeepers such as party leaders play in those decisions, and using what criteria in selecting candidates? How did experience of domestic...
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Author: Jorge DuanyPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9780197782125About the AuthorJorge Duany is Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University. Born in Cuba and raised in Panama and Puerto...
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Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional PracticeFor civil servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution, that document is the supreme symbol of political morality. Constitutional issues are addressed by civil servants every day, whenever a policeman arrests a suspect or members of different branches of government meet. But...
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Public Contracting for Social OutcomesGovernments all over the world have transitioned away from directly providing public services to contracting and collaborating with cross-sectoral networks to deliver services on their behalf. Governments have thus pursued an array of policy instruments to improve interorganizational progress towards policy goals. In recent...
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Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to BeProtecting Paradise takes the reader through the saga of how the US Army Corps of Engineers removed 149 families from their property in southwest Wisconsin to construct a dam on the Kickapoo River-a dam that was ultimately never completed-and how this failed project evolved...
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Program Evaluation: An Introduction to an Evidence-Based ApproachPROGRAM EVALUATION, 6th Edition helps readers learn how to evaluate services and programs that they will encounter in their professional practice. In the process of learning evaluation techniques and skills, readers will become proficient at critically analyzing evaluation studies conducted by others. The authors...
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Prioritizing Global ResponsibilitiesStates face multiple ongoing and emerging challenges, from climate change to global disease, mass atrocities to forced displacement, humanitarian crises to entrenched global poverty, and are constrained by material and political limits to the amount of resources that they can devote to these issues....
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"President" Trump's AmericaHorrific! Repulsive! But worst of all a mortal danger to the America of freedom, justice and equality for all that most American's near and dear. That's the way Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson characterizes a possible reign in the White House of former President...
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Port Security and Preman Organizations in IndonesiaThe global war on terrorism created pressure for Indonesia to improve its security measures for dealing with maritime terrorism. Following the 9/11 attacks and the 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesia has improved the security of its major ports and entered various international agreements to ensure...
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Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of MetaphorThis analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to...
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Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and IndiaDrawing on a rare cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India, Playing with Fire develops a novel explanation about ethnic party violence. Combining rich historical, qualitative, and quantitative data, the book demonstrates how levels of party instability can crucially inform the decisions of political elites...
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Personalism and Personalist RegimesPersonalist leaders, such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko or Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, are increasingly prominent players in the international landscape; their motivations and policies, however, are poorly understood. The regimes they lead are difficult to examine, mostly because of their most defining...
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Peace and Conflict Resolution in Africa: Lessons and OpportunitiesAuthor: Ernest E. UwaziePublisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingPublished: 04/01/2018Pages: 401Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.10dISBN: 9781527506374This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Obstinate Star: A History of the Puerto Rico Independence MovementObstinate Star is a history of Puerto Rico's independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism. From the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it traces the movement's currents, within and beyond the island, linking them to ongoing social conflicts and international trends and conjunctures. Beginning...
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Nationalism: A World HistoryA global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In...
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My Fellow Americans: Presidents and Their Inaugural AddressesIntroduced 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...
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My American History: The Life and Opinions Of an American of Mexican DescentIn "My American History," C. Howard Diaz presents a compelling narrativethat intertwines his life's journey with the broader history of America. Born toMexican immigrants in 1937, Diaz shares his experiences growing up in SouthCentral Los Angeles, working various jobs from a young age, and...
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Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the CarA gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery In 1969, as all students of New York City history think they have learned, master builder Robert Moses lost his...
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