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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Age of Fire Is Over, The: A New Approach to the Energy TransitionThe heart of the contemporary argument on climate change and energy transition focuses on how energy supply should be decarbonized to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.This book proposes an alternative approach.The Age of Fire Is Over: A New Approach to the Energy Transition finds that...
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Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional CrisesPeacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises argues that building enduring peace in post-conflict states in Africa requires comprehensive, state-specific approaches that address the multidimensional crises that generated civil conflict and instabilities in these countries. Contributors examine states such as Burundi,...
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Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the EdgeCurrent debates on Turkish foreign policy flamed by Turkey's purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia throws into question Turkey-US relations and poses a challenge to Turkey's membership in NATO, which has been regarded as the most important symbol of Turkey's alliance with...
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New England Local Government: The Case of ConnecticutLocal government in the New England states has historically been regarded as a style of government that most closely embodies the spirit of American democracy. Although models of local government vary from one town to the next, the common thread which unites all New...
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Muse Sick: A Music Manifesto in Fifty-Nine NotesGrammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan's seventh book, Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes, acts as a primer on how mass production and commercialization have corrupted the arts. Broken down into a series of core points and actions plans, Muse-Sick is a concise and...
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The Waters of the NileThis is a history of the hydropolitics of the Nile Valley from 1900 to 1988. Attempts to develop the Nile and control its waters are of vital significance to the future of the inhabitants of Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and East Africa. Acute drought...
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A Century of Change in a Chinese Village: The Crisis of the CountrysideOver the last half century, China has evolved from a poor rural country to a geopolitical powerhouse. Rapid urbanization has been at the heart of that transformation, and as migrant laborers have left their villages, what has become of the rural communities that were...
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The German Polity, Twelfth EditionThis thoroughly revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Germany, one of the world's foremost economic and political powers. During a series of profound crises over the last decade, including migration challenges, Brexit, and the Covid-19 pandemic, Germany has emerged as...
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The Candidate's Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Election CampaignsIn The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their electioneering strategies over the course of their campaigns.As they campaign, candidates encounter pressure from the...
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Liberating Revolution: Emancipating Radical Change from the StateLiberating Revolution challenges the idea that we understand what revolution is. All current understandings of revolution are different ways of portraying the state. To liberate revolution, we must explain radical change without determining its course or limiting what it can do. Nathan Eckstrand reviews...
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Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940Honorable Mention, 2022 Sharon Harris Book Award presented by the University of Connecticut Humanities InstituteFocusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought. These four intellectuals--Kang Youwei, Cai Yuanpei,...
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Give Children the Vote: On Democratizing DemocracyThroughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. In each case, the meaning of democracy itself has been transformed. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third of humanity who are...
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Industry, War and Stalin's Battle for Resources: The Arctic and the EnvironmentIn this book the territory of Pechenga, located well above the Arctic circle between Russia, Finland and Norway, holds the key to understanding the geopolitical situation of the Arctic today. With specific focus on the local nickel industry of the region, Lars Rowe explores...
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The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties Since the 1960sIs today's left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional...
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Persuasion in Your LifeThis accessible introductory textbook in persuasive communication speaks directly to the student by focusing on real-life experiences in personal, social, and professional contexts. Through its use of rhetoric, criticism, and social scientific research, this book helps readers understand, analyze, and use persuasion in their...
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Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the StateChinese civil society groups have achieved iconic policy advocacy successes in the areas of environmental protection, women's rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. This book examines why some groups are successful in policy advocacy within the authoritarian context, while others fail. A mechanism of...
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Social Enterprise: Cases and Analysis for Understanding Social BusinessThis book introduces students and others to the discipline of social entrepreneurship, which encourages the creation of enterprises that are socially inclusive yet economically and ecologically sustainable. In each chapter there is a mix of case studies about internationally well-known enterprises and other more...
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Suffer the Children: A Theoretical Foundation for the Human Rights of the ChildIn 1973, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously stated that children's rights is a slogan in search of a definition, used to bolster various arguments for peace and for specific rights, but without any coherent conception of children as political beings. In 1989, the United Nations...
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Communication in Political Campaigns; Functional Analysis of Election MessagesThis book is based on the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse. It adopts a communication perspective to campaigns for public office. It discusses medium (e.g., speeches TV spots, debates, social media), sources of campaign messages, context (e.g., primary vs. general campaign), audience (voters...
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Liberty and the Wall of Separation Between Church and StateWhat does it take to bring political liberty into reality and what is required to sustain it? Is religion a necessity or a hindrance? Is religious neutrality in public affairs possible? What do means of persuasion and the knowledge of good and evil have...
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