Political Science
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Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of AustraliaA landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day.Depicting a wonderful parade of dreamers and...
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Divergent Democracy: How Policy Positions Came to Dominate Party CompetitionAn innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiation Recent Democratic and Republican party platforms display clear differences on such issues as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the environment. These distinctions reflect a programmatic party system--that is, one in...
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Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our NewsFrom the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters "Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he says...
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Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics, Third EditionIn the third edition of Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics, Lam Wai-man, Percy Luen-tim Lui, Wilson Wong, and various contributors provide the latest analyses in many aspects of Hong Kong's government and politics, such as political institutions, mediating institutions, and political actors. They...
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Climate in Crisis: Who's Causing It, Who's Fighting It, and How We Can Reverse It Before It's Too LateThe science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of...
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China's Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional ManipulationNominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining party policy and the selection of China's leaders. Guoguang Wu provides the first analysis of how the Party Congress operates to elect Party leadership and decide Party...
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Campaigns and Elections: 2022 Election UpdateThoroughly revised and updated through the 2022 elections, the Fourth Edition of Campaigns and Elections uses a consistent framework to reveal the strategies and choices that face candidates and other practitioners in the American political system. The authors help students answer the many questions...
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Broken Heart: A True History of the Voice ReferendumThe inside story of the 2023 Voice Referendum, from Yes to NoIn late 2023, Australians voted 'No' to recognising Indigenous peoples through a constitutional Voice. Broken Heart unpacks the true, complex history of the referendum, illuminating how an alliance between Indigenous advocates and constitutional...
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Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American DreamOn January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving...
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Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri LankaIn the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese politicians began outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages for their community, using the Sinhala language as their instrument. The appeal to Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement to replace...
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Beyond Westminster in the CaribbeanThe challenges faced by Commonwealth Caribbean democracies particularly in the past 20 years has forced a reckoning with how the Westminster model of government has served the needs of these small states. Crime, corruption and struggling economies operating in a globalised world have brought...
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Bayesian Social Science Statistics: From the Very BeginningIn this Element, the authors introduce Bayesian probability and inference for social science students and practitioners starting from the absolute beginning and walk readers steadily through the Element. No previous knowledge is required other than that in a basic statistics course. At the end...
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A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's GenocideEvents in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide. Up to one million people were killed in a planned public and political campaign. In the face of indisputable evidence, the UN Security Council failed miserably in its response. In...
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American Prince(ss), American Pauper: The Contemporary Vice Presidency and Presidential Relations, 3d. ed."Once there were two brothers. One went to sea and the other became Vice President. Neither was heard from again." Vice President Marshall's humorous story reflects the neglect the office has been given. Yet, as "a heartbeat away" from the Presidency, the office is...
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American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive AuthoritarianismAmerican Leviathan is the story of the rise of Progressive Statism and their massive, bureaucratic Administrative State at the turn of the 20th century and how we got to where we are today in the 21st century with governmental abuse by a class of...
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A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 1: From the Founding to 1900A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, Third Edition, is a clearly written, comprehensive overview of American constitutional development. Covering the country's history from the founding of the English colonies up through the latest decisions of the Supreme Court, this...
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A General Police System: Political Economy and Security in the Age of EnlightenmentWhile contemporary inquiries into theoretical linkages between political economy and security are rare, the exploration of these connections formed the cornerstone of political, social and economic philosophy during the upheavals of post-feudal Europe. "A General Police System", a term borrowed from the late eighteenth...
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Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation: Youth and the Practice of Transitional JusticeThe importance of youth's substantive participation for the realization of inclusive reconciliation practices has rarely been acknowledged. Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation provides a comprehensive, nuanced, and empirical account of the contribution of young people's voices to the success of transitional justice and peacebuilding...
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A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost UkraineIn 1991, the Cold War ended in a bloodless victory for NATO. After 45 years of a grueling, nuclear-tinged Cold War, communism was dead, Eastern Europe was free, Russia looked to the West for how to build a better, freer future for itself, and...
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Abraham Lincoln, Statesman HistorianAbraham Lincoln drew upon history in his political career and particularly when crafting the rhetorical masterpieces that still resonate in the present day. Jesse Derber explores how Lincoln's views of the limits of human understanding drove a belief in--and untiring pursuit of--historical truth. Lincoln...
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