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Maximum Likelihood for Social Science: Strategies for AnalysisThis volume provides a practical introduction to the method of maximum likelihood as used in social science research. Ward and Ahlquist focus on applied computation in R and use real social science data from actual, published research. Unique among books at this level, it...
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Being Young, Male and Saudi: Identity and Politics in a Globalized KingdomAlthough the position of Saudi women within society draws media attention throughout the world, young Saudi men remain part of a silent mass, their thoughts and views rarely heard outside of the Kingdom. Based on primary research across Saudi Arabia with young men from...
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Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the UnexpectedDisasters and the American State offers a thesis about the trajectory of federal government involvement in preparing for disaster shaped by contingent events. Politicians and bureaucrats claim credit for the government's successes in preparing for and responding to disaster, and they are also blamed...
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China as a Polar Great PowerChina has emerged as a member of the elite club of nations who are powerful at both global poles. Polar states are global giants, strong in military, scientific, and economic terms. The concept of a polar great power is relatively unknown in international relations...
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Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin AmericaWhy has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational illicit political economies; the varied...
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The Politics of Technology in Africa: Communication, Development, and Nation-Building in EthiopiaAs more Africans get online, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly hailed for their transformative potential. Yet, the fascination for the possibilities of promoting more inclusive forms of development in the information age have obfuscated the reality of the complex negotiations among political...
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Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa: The Logic of the Coup-Civil War TrapWhy are some African countries trapped in vicious cycles of ethnic exclusion and civil war, while others experience relative peace? In this groundbreaking book, Philip Roessler addresses this question. Roessler models Africa's weak, ethnically-divided states as confronting rulers with a coup-civil war trap -...
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The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance Between Religion, Identity, and EqualityIn this work, Professors Mancini and Rosenfeld have brought together an impressive group of authors to provide a comprehensive analysis on the greater demand for religions exemptions to government mandates. Traditional religious conscientious objection cases, such as refusal to salute the flag or to...
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Calvin's Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ's Two KingdomsIn Calvin's Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church, Matthew J. Tuininga explores a little appreciated dimension of John Calvin's political thought, his two kingdoms theology, as a model for constructive Christian participation in liberal society. Widely misunderstood as a proto-political culture...
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After the Enlightenment: Political Realism and International Relations in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyAfter the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an eternal wisdom inherited from Thucydides, Machiavelli or Hobbes, but a twentieth-century phenomenon rooted in the interwar years, the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and...
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Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political ThoughtAli Shariati (1933-77) has been called by many the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'. An inspiration to many of the revolutionary generation, Shariati's combination of Islamic political thought and Left-leaning ideology continues to influence both in Iran and across the wider Muslim world. In...
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Resisting War: How Communities Protect ThemselvesIn civil conflicts around the world, unarmed civilians take enormous risks to protect themselves and confront heavily armed combatants. This is not just counterintuitive - it is extraordinary. In this book, Oliver Kaplan explores cases from Colombia, with extensions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and...
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The Origins of the First World WarA second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and suggests instead that...
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Political Realism in Apocalyptic TimesFrom climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccol Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious...
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Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European UnionIn June 2016, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. As this book reveals, the historic vote for Brexit marked the culmination of trends in domestic politics and in the UK's relationship with the EU that have been...
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Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: National Styles and Strategic CulturesThis book is a major new study of the extent to which national mentalities, or 'ways of war', are responsible for 'national styles' of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Leading scholars examine the ways of war of particular insurgent movements, and the standard operational procedures of...
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Irregular Migrants and the Right to HealthAuthor: Stefano AngeleriPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/04/2022Pages: 328Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781316511916This title is not returnable
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Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White HouseThis is the untold story of black music - its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety - told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong's spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha...
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Matilde de la Torre: Sex, Socialism and Suffrage in Republican SpainWomen's political emancipation was amongst the most revolutionary of the feminist reforms enacted by the II Spanish Republic (1931-1939). Matilde de la Torre (1884-1946) was one of Spain's first female politicians, winning a seat for the Socialist Party (PSOE) in Oviedo in the 1933...
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Die Diktatur der sozialistischen Weltordnung"Der Feind in Washington ist mehr zu fürchten als der Feind in Moskau." Diese Ansicht habe ich immer und immer wieder zum Ausdruck gebracht. Der Kommunismus hat den von Präsident George Washington errichteten Zollschutz nicht zerstört. Der Kommunismus hat die USA nicht gezwungen, die...
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