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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Out of Harm's Way: Creating an Effective Child Welfare SystemDespite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of...
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The Paradox of German PowerSince the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Bismarck and even Hitler in the European media. And yet few can deny that Germany today is very different...
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Contentious PoliticsRevolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of...
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Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume...
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One Child: Do We Have a Right to More?A compelling argument for the morality of limitations on procreation in lessening the harmful environmental effects of unchecked population We live in a world where a burgeoning global population has started to have a major and destructive environmental impact. The results, including climate change...
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Writing in Political Science: A Brief GuideWriting in Political Science: A Brief Guide applies the key concepts of rhetoric and composition--audience, purpose, genre, and credibility--to examples based in political science. It is part of a series of brief, discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press designed for today's writing-intensive college...
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Age of Iron: On Conservative NationalismThe rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad. Riding the populist wave, Donald Trump achieved the presidency advocating a hardline nationalist approach. Yet critics frequently misunderstand the Trump administration's foreign policy, along with American...
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First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War But Lost the PeaceWhen South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an extraordinary, unprecedented experiment....
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Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the PresentA majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world's governing institutions The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are...
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax SystemNew York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. The U.S. tax code is a...
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Café Europa: Life After Communism"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." --Gloria Steinem Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But...
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My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South RememberedThe almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From...
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Great Society: A New HistoryThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges."Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high...
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Dark Forces: The Truth about What Happened in BenghaziThe New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened--and why?We know the Obama administration's story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually did...
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Patriot of PersiaThe Economist's Tehran correspondent Christopher de Bellaigue brings to light the never-before-told full story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man...
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The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right"As engaging as it is provocative. . . . Sullivan's book should be read closely by liberals as well as conservatives." -- Jonathan Raban, The New York Review of BooksOne of the nation's leading political commentators makes an impassioned call to rescue conservatism from...
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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China Volume 4A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The rise of China and India could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will the foreign policies of China and India look like in the future?...
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Apologies and Moral Repair: Rights, Duties, and Corrective JusticeThis book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers. Many leading accounts of apology say much about what apologies do and why they are important. They stop...
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Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic GrowthWhat is the role of trade to both expedite growth and to provide the transformative innovations needed in our post-Pandemic, post-Brexit, unstable world? Using historical examples to demonstrate how complex forces interplay into virtuous or vicious cycles of cumulative causation, Simmons and Culkin suggest...
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The Rise of the Republican Right: Economic and Social ConservatismIf you wish to understand the intellectual history and trajectory of American conservatism, you are sure to enjoy this brilliant course by one of America's leading conservative scholars. Since the 1950s, economic conservatives have been in political alliance with social conservatives or traditionalists. That...
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