Political Science
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The Bell Curve Plus: Intelligence and The War of CivilizationsThe two aspects of cognitive abilities (IQ and wisdom) are leveraged by Dr. Harry Chang et al. in The Bell Curve Plus: Intelligence and the War of Civilizations in analyzing the current situation in the United States. After reviewing different cultures, religions, and Jewish...
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Taking Back Control?: States and State Systems After GlobalismTaking back control? States and state systems after globalization The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the centralization and unification of states...
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Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of HomeAfter the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from...
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Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance ExperimentAn exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most controversial experiments in police surveillance. In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this controversial...
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Saving AbigailSaving Abigail is a true story about a little girl taken hostage by Hamas the morning of October 7, 2023, after thousands of terrorists breached Israel by land, sea, and air. That day, Hamas slaughtered 1,200 men, women, and children, and 246 innocent people...
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Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's UnionThe first major account of the American Civil War to give full weight to the central role played by religion, reframing the conflict through Abraham Lincoln's contentious appeals to faith-based nationalism How did slavery figure in God's plan? Was it the providential role of...
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Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable AuthoritarianismWhy the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure,...
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Rethinking Free SpeechClashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, its meaning is persistently misunderstood and distorted. Prominent commentators have built massive platforms around...
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Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh ParadoxThe idea of the 'Bangladesh paradox' describes the unexpected social progress that Bangladesh has made in recent decades that has been both pro-poor and gender equitable. This began at a time when the country was characterised by extreme levels of poverty, poor quality governance,...
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Putting Women Up: Gender Equality and Politics in MyanmarFor the duration of Myanmar's experiment with electoral democracy, why did some women run for political office, and not others? What role did gatekeepers such as party leaders play in those decisions, and using what criteria in selecting candidates? How did experience of domestic...
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Author: Jorge DuanyPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9780197782125About the AuthorJorge Duany is Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University. Born in Cuba and raised in Panama and Puerto...
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Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional PracticeFor civil servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution, that document is the supreme symbol of political morality. Constitutional issues are addressed by civil servants every day, whenever a policeman arrests a suspect or members of different branches of government meet. But...
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Public Contracting for Social OutcomesGovernments all over the world have transitioned away from directly providing public services to contracting and collaborating with cross-sectoral networks to deliver services on their behalf. Governments have thus pursued an array of policy instruments to improve interorganizational progress towards policy goals. In recent...
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Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to BeProtecting Paradise takes the reader through the saga of how the US Army Corps of Engineers removed 149 families from their property in southwest Wisconsin to construct a dam on the Kickapoo River-a dam that was ultimately never completed-and how this failed project evolved...
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Program Evaluation: An Introduction to an Evidence-Based ApproachPROGRAM EVALUATION, 6th Edition helps readers learn how to evaluate services and programs that they will encounter in their professional practice. In the process of learning evaluation techniques and skills, readers will become proficient at critically analyzing evaluation studies conducted by others. The authors...
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Prioritizing Global ResponsibilitiesStates face multiple ongoing and emerging challenges, from climate change to global disease, mass atrocities to forced displacement, humanitarian crises to entrenched global poverty, and are constrained by material and political limits to the amount of resources that they can devote to these issues....
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"President" Trump's AmericaHorrific! Repulsive! But worst of all a mortal danger to the America of freedom, justice and equality for all that most American's near and dear. That's the way Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson characterizes a possible reign in the White House of former President...
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Port Security and Preman Organizations in IndonesiaThe global war on terrorism created pressure for Indonesia to improve its security measures for dealing with maritime terrorism. Following the 9/11 attacks and the 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesia has improved the security of its major ports and entered various international agreements to ensure...
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Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of MetaphorThis analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to...
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Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and IndiaDrawing on a rare cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India, Playing with Fire develops a novel explanation about ethnic party violence. Combining rich historical, qualitative, and quantitative data, the book demonstrates how levels of party instability can crucially inform the decisions of political elites...
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