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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Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be RebornA stinging critique of Western Marxism, counterposing its complicity with imperialist logic against a resurgent anti-imperialism Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia....
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We Need More PartiesAmerican democracy is broken, but partisanship alone is not to blame. Political scientist Lee Drutman places our two-party system instead at the center of the American democratic crisis. Of course, partisan conflict plays a role, forcing voters to choose between a party that they...
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War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on TerrorSince Kenya's invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, conducting airstrikes in southern Somalia and deploying heavy-handed police tactics at home. As the hunt for suspects has expanded within Kenya, Kenyan...
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War and Conflict in AfricaAfter the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop...
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Vanquished and Victorious: World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the 'successor states' of...
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Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in S?o Paulo and JohannesburgWhy some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of...
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Turf War: How a Band of Activists Saved New York from Donald Trump's "Masterpiece"In the late 1980s, a band of New York civic groups set out to stop Donald Trump from building his "masterpiece," a half-mile of gargantuan buildings overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan's West Side. After five years of community organizing and strategic opposition, they...
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Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, ProposalsSince U.S. political and military strategies pivoted to Asia, tensions between the United States and Asian and Pacific countries have escalated. Geopolitical changes in the Asia Pacific have challenged the world order and will shape the destiny of the twenty-first century. These rapid changes...
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The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic ConstitutionThe White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth...
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The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity AgainThis book is the story of "The Trump Economic Miracle"-and the agenda that will make America great again, again.In late August 2023, President Donald Trump contacted us to meet with him. It was d?j? vu for the two of us, as it reminded us...
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The Spectre of State CapitalismThe state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive modalities of statism, from techno-industrial policies...
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered ResourceFrom the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society We all feel it--the...
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The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of AmericaThe widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's...
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The Real Cost of Cheap FoodThis thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of...
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The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain: Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare ReformThis book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power...
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The Political Economy of EducationThe Political Economy of Education provides academically rigorous yet clear explanations of the economics and politics driving today's educational systems and how economists analyze them. The book covers a host of topics central to teaching about education and crucial to educational policy. These include...
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The Persistent Poverty of African Americans in the United States: The Impact of Public PolicyThis book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.Author: Daphne M. CooperPublisher: Anthem PressPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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The Official Record: Oversight, National Security and DemocracyThe construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. This volume interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record in the context of democratic states.Author: Peter FinnPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 05/21/2024Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.21h x...
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The Long Shadow of German Colonialism: Amnesia, Denialism and RevisionismFrom 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most school textbooks. While debates are now common in France and Britain over...
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The Last American Road TripThe New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips, in a book that is part memoir, part history,...
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