Political Science - General

Like its African neighbors, Eritrea attained colonial statehood under a European power, in this case Italy. Yet, during decolonization, its people were singularly excluded from the right to self-determination, for external reasons: superpower rivalry over the country's strategic position on the Red Sea; a...

Highly original and insightful, Billig and Marinho's book investigates how politicians misuse official statistics. Setting this problem in its historical context - and offering vivid case studies of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and G?rald Darmanin - the authors demonstrate that the manipulation of statistics...

Democracy for Sale explores how corporate influence, dark money, and neoliberal ideology have eroded democratic institutions. The book examines the ways in which businesses, wealthy elites, and lobbying groups manipulate public policy, elections, and media narratives to serve their interests, often at the expense...

Ethnosociology: The Foundations is a systematic presentation of the main principles and analytic strategies of the discipline of ethnosociology, written by Alexander Dugin, one of the major Russian philosophers and political analysts of the present day. Through study of the main sources and schools...

Critics of populism and advocates of elitist democracy often place greater confidence in political elites than in the general public. However, this trust may be misplaced. In five experiments with local politicians, state legislators, and members of the public, the author finds a similar...

Using novel leadership data from eleven developed parliamentary democracies between 1980 and 2020, this Element asks how gender conditions party leaders' candidacy, selection, and survival. It examines the life cycle of party leadership careers of 276 leaders with a focus on three categories of...

This book aims to elucidate the divergent institutional trajectories of lithium policies in Latin America, shedding light on how industrial development of mining activities can emerge in specific extractivist contexts. While focusing primarily on Chile's lithium policy, the study is further enriched by shadow...

Nominated in 1858 by the infant Republican party to oppose Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln challenged the incumbent Democratic senator from Illinois to a series of debates. This volume contains their masterful arguments as well as two speeches, one by each candidate. Paving the...

The Future of Transportation: Innovations in Mobility by Jim Stephens explores the rapidly evolving landscape of transportation technology and its profound impact on society. This comprehensive guide delves into a range of groundbreaking advancements, from Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles and commercial spacecraft to...

Understanding Law for the Social Sciences provides students with essential tools to study Canadian law from various disciplinary perspectives. It introduces key legal principles and concepts, ensuring that social science students build a strong foundation to engage confidently with legal topics. The book focuses...

Understanding Law for the Social Sciences provides students with essential tools to study Canadian law from various disciplinary perspectives. It introduces key legal principles and concepts, ensuring that social science students build a strong foundation to engage confidently with legal topics. The book focuses...

When A History of the Mexican-American People was first published in 1977 it was greeted with enthusiasm for its straightforward, objective account of the Mexican-American role in U.S. history. Since that time the text has been used with great success in high school and...

Author: Meredith Maloof LokenISBN-10: 1009494678ISBN-13: 9781009494670Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2025Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Amnon Rubinstein and Alexander Yakobson explore the nature of Israel's identity as a Jewish state, how that is compatible with liberal democratic norms and is comparable with a number of European states.Author: Alexander Yakobson, Amnon RubinsteinISBN-10: 0415464412ISBN-13: 9780415464413Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize:...

Multiculturalism and Diversity in the United States: A Political and Sociological Reader is an anthology designed to help students tackle leading themes in American multiculturalism within the modern political climate. The articles in Unit I are introductory theoretical readings and demographic studies, which present...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1, University of Catania (Department of Social and Political Sciences), language: English, abstract: The Security Council of the United Nations is criticized for failing to reflect membership...

This 1910 study of sectionalism in Virginia illustrates how the east and west of Virginia were destined to separate into two states.Author: Charles H. AmblerISBN-10: 1933202211ISBN-13: 9781933202211Publisher: West Virginia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2008Pages: 444Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 7.79h x 5.05w x 0.99d

The dramatic increase since the 1980s in the global prevalence of tuberculosis, a disease destined as recently as thirty years ago for complete eradication, is a story of medical failure. A pandemic whose geography defies simple categorization, it ranges from schools in the UK...

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reported on the Export-Import Bank's (Eximbank) export credit insurance program, specifically the: (1) need for government involvement in export credit insurance; (2) need to employ an agent to administer the program; and (3) efficiency and effectiveness of using...

The NASA John H. Glenn Research Center has developed a revolutionary 32 in. diameter Levitated Ducted Fan (LDF) conceptual design. The objective of this work is to develop a viable non-contact propulsion system utilizing Halbach arrays for all-electric flight, and many other applications. This...

The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office...

Habitat for Humanity International has produced more than 60,000 homes since its founding in 1976. As one of the most successful homeownership programs for low-income families, its housing production volume easily puts it in the ranks of the Nation's top 20 homebuilders. Making Homeownership...

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a government law agency ran by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE is responsible for protecting our nations borders and an abundance of national security such as: drug smuggling, human trafficking, terrorism, fraud, gangs,...

Describes techniques to evaluate bridges for their historic significance under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service manages over 8,000 bridges, many of which need substantial maintenance or should be replaced. Any bridge that is 50 years...

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a government law agency ran by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE is responsible for protecting our nations borders and an abundance of national security such as: drug smuggling, human trafficking, terrorism, fraud, gangs,...

This study contains a narrative of operations by the Russian Armies, and is based on the book "La batalla de Galizia" by General Golovine of the Imperial Russian Army. Conclusions about the outcome are included.Author: Manuel B. NavasISBN-10: 1288284004ISBN-13: 9781288284009Publisher: BibliogovLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2012Pages: 40Format:...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government. Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over 10,000 employees that collect, monitor,...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed...

The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising gasoline prices and a suite of Federal bioenergy policies, provides evidence of how farmers altered their land-use decisions in response to increased demand for corn. As some forecasts had...

Nearly three years have passed since China's successful antisatellite (ASAT) test ushered in a new era of space competition. China still offers no answers to one of the most troubling strategic space questions of the twenty-first century: why is China building space weapons? Fundamental...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John...

In many countries, social differences, such as religion or race and ethnicity, threaten the stability of the social and legal order. This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenge of difference. The book brings together lawyers, political scientists,...

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of...

Tinker. R.A.V. Ollman. Hustler-Falwell. Reno-ACLU. Nebraska Press Association. These names are synonymous with contemporary First Amendment litigation. To explore these landmark cases more deeply, author Joseph Russomanno interviewed the people at the core of these and other influential First Amendment cases, and he presents...

Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy reveals the struggles of Asian American women at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder where hunger, illness, sweatshop labor, exposure to hazardous chemicals and even involuntary servitude are everyday realities. Asian American...

In the three decades from the beginning of World War II Australia emerged on the world stage as an independent actor in foreign affairs. The key institution overseeing the development of Australia's international status and foreign policy during that period was the Department of...

In the years immediately preceding 1837, when Michigan was at last admitted to the Union, her constitution and State Government were devised by her pioneer inhabitants. The formal proceedings of the Constitutional Conventions of 1835-36 were printed at the time but are now extremely...

Hayford, an African Nationalist, argues that the preservation of the indigenous land tenure system was vital if the values of pre-colonial Africa was to be maintained. First published in 1913.Author: J. E. Casely HayfordISBN-10: 041576078XISBN-13: 9780415760782Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2014Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x...

Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world....

"In this landmark book, Desmond King reveals and corrects a glaring gap at the epicenter of studies of racial inequality and political development in the United States: their blindness to the pivotal role of the state in making race. With historical precision and analytic...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to...

In a world dominated by hyper-partisanship, manipulation, and echo chambers, Clarkson Lawson offers a brutally honest guide to breaking free from political tribalism and reclaiming independent thought. As a former prominent MAGA influencer with over a million followers across all platforms, Clarkson knows firsthand...

"Be reasonable. Demand the impossible." Buckle up for "What's Left," a fearless manifesto from provocative cartoonist Ted Rall that shatters the myth equating Democrats with the true American Left. In a world reeling from Donald Trump, Rall seizes the chaos as a rallying cry...

Islam means "peace" and "submission to God." With its ethical system of instruction for a balanced life based on faith and reason, how did this "religion of peace" come to be feared? After the 9/11 tragedy, Islam was judged by many in the West...

"In the morning they fought like good boys, about noon like men, and in the afternoon like devils." So said the Baron Dieskau, Commandant of the French forces, as he lay mortally wounded after the Battle of Lake George in 1755. He was referring...

"You're always looking for what you can learn from everybody. I've learned something from every writer I've ever read. The strongest influences are certainly Joyce, the blind man who saw, and Ezra Pound, the crazy man who understood." - Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos...

The Rules of Lawful BehaviorBy: John R. Bellanca Join author John R. Bellanca on a raw tour of the fundamentals of American law, where pretty much all of the law is laid out in only 20 human behaviors. Using real world examples, readers are...

This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings's best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications for substantive moral...

Collective action asks a fundamental question in social science: How do sets of actorschoose courses of action and work together to achieve desired outcomes, often inopposition to other coalitions? Psychological and economic rationality explanations areincomplete in emphasizing the mental decision processes of individuals. Collectiveaction...