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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Divide & Conquer: A Patriot's Call to Arms Against Racism, Cancel Culture, and Socialism"That's racist!" No statement in the twenty-first century triggers such a raw, polarizing, impassioned response as that short accusation. Racism is finding itself being applied to almost everything these days - politics, statues, history, graduations, books, movies, even math. Its role is no longer...
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In Their Own Words, Volume 1, The New England Colonies: Today's God-less America... What Would Our Founding Fathers Think?What has happened to America? It's no longer the country of our founding. Why? In a word . . . we've lost God. Our Founding Fathers established one nation under God. They declared that our rights came from God. They appealed to the Creator,...
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The European Union and the United Nations in Global GovernanceWritten by a leading expert in the field, this book analyses the complex relations between the European Union (EU) as a regional organization and the United Nations (UN) as an international, global governance institution. The book explores how collaboration between the EU and the...
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The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How Us-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place WorldwideTensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US-China rivalry, and...
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Taxing Democracy: Local Taxation and the Social Contract in AmericaCarrie Manning's illuminating book examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the U.S. have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy. Tax structures embed, and reproduce, an implicit social contract between government and citizens, creating...
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Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political ParticipationIn the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey's book critically reflects on what is missing from the liberal project with the aim of saving liberalism. It explains that populists have harnessed myth, ritual, magic and tradition to advance their ambitions, and why opponents need to...
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Human Rights Commitments of Islamic States: Sharia, Treaties and ConsensusThis book examines the legal nature of Islamic states and the human rights they have committed to uphold. It begins with an overview of the political history of Islam, and of Islamic law, focusing primarily on key developments of the first two centuries of...
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Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban TurkeyMuhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not always associate them with the central government. Street-Level Governing is the first book to investigate how muhtars...
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The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, RenewalIn this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics--of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of the...
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Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing UnitsTwenty to forty percent of the US prison population will spend time in restricted housing units--or solitary confinement. These separate units within prisons have enhanced security measures, and thousands of staff control and monitor the residents. Though commonly assumed to be punishment for only...
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The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in DelhiIn the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available-but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how...
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States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary JordanOn any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi--the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite...
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Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and DissentA National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022 Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central to challenging state...
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A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral MemoryA powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was...
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Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in LebanonThe Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws regulate and produce political difference. But whether women...
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Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary ChinaChina after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system. Today, divorce may appear a private concern, when in fact it is a profoundly political matter--especially in a national context where...
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A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and PopulismDogmatism, prejudice and bigotry are becoming ever more evident on the contemporary political scene and dissent is one of their main targets. The Politics of Dissent explores the negative impact this shift is having on public life, with radically-oriented governments striving to close down...
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Challenges in Mental Health and Policing: Key Themes and PerspectivesPolice officers deal with mental illness-related incidents on an almost daily basis. Ian Cummins explores how factors such as deinstitutionalisation, community care failings and, more recently, welfare retrenchment policies have led to this situation. He then considers how police officers should be supported by...
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Critical Gerontology for Social WorkersThis original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform and improve social work research, policy and practice and empower older people. With examples of practice-facing research, this book engages with key debates on age-related human rights and...
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Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health ServicesIn this timely analysis, Rich Moth assesses mental health services in a period of major change. Based on extended fieldwork in community mental health services, he explores the many impacts of policy reform, marketisation and austerity on NHS mental health provision, and positions developments...
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