Political Science - General

This book addresses the ethics of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP measures but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP strategies.In ethically analysing a particular SCP measure, it is not enough...

This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.The COVID-19 pandemic radically changed many aspects of the lives of individuals and entire societies. This crisis and...

While extensive research examines electoral systems and institutions at the country-level, few studies investigate rules within parties. Inside Parties changes the research landscape by systematically examining 65 parties in 20 parliamentary democracies around the world. Georgia Kernell develops a formal model of party membership...

Religious diversity is a key feature of countries across the world today, but it also presents governments with very real challenges. Controversies around religious free speech, symbols, social values and morals, and the role of faith leaders as critical voices, are just a few...

In this collection of essays and lectures, the Fawcetts offer a feminist perspective on a wide range of social and political issues. From the right to vote to the nature of economic inequality, their writing is clear-thinking, passionate, and unapologetically progressive.This work has been...

This catalogue provides a comprehensive list of the books available in the library of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, as of its publication in 1910.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...

Were Athenians and Boiotians natural enemies in the Archaic and Classical period? The scholarly consensus is yes. Roy van Wijk, however, re-evaluates this commonly held assumption and shows that, far from perpetually hostile, their relationship was distinctive and complex. Moving between diplomatic normative behaviour,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This Book "An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...

Observing and Diagnosing America is an attempt to focus the attention of Americans to the problem they pose for themselves and other immigrants in their midst, it highlights the alienation usually felt by naturalized citizens of the United States and the cycle of vicious...

In Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics, Raimond Gaita confronts essential questions about politics as it is practised today. What do politicians mean when they talk about "trust"? Why is truthfulness important? Are we as politically and morally divided as the Americans? Does...

First published on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was an immediate sensation. In clear simple language it explained to the people of the Thirteen Colonies why they needed to fight for independence from Great...

Beginning in the fall of 2008, just prior to Obama's election, listeners to the Rush Limbaugh program would call in, and frantically ask Rush if it was time to panic.Rush could never tell his listeners that it was time to panic because he could...

This is a study of the internal dynamics of the Indonesian Army in the decade and a half leading up to the fall of Soeharto. While the empirical analysis is limited to the Army, the findings have implications for the military as a whole....

Journalist Brian Wendell Morton has spent more than eight years documenting Washington, D.C.'s Oz-like world in weekly columns for Baltimore's City Paper titled, "Political Animal." Eric Engberg of CBS News once said, "Washington is ten square miles, surrounded by reality." Morton points out the...

In his first section, Paine related common Enlightenment theories of the state of nature, in order to establish a foundation for republican government. Paine began this section by making a distinction between society and government, arguing that government is a "necessary evil". He illustrated...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

The Sirte (Sirt) Basin province ranks 13th among the world's petroleum provinces, having known reserves of 43.1 bil-lion barrels of oil equivalent (36.7 billion barrels of oil, 37.7 tril-lion cubic feet of gas, 0.1 billion barrels of natural gas liquids). It includes an area...

Electronics designed for use in NASA space missions are required to work efficiently and reliably under harsh environment conditions. These Include radiation, extreme temperatures, thermal cycling, to name a few. Preliminary data obtained on new Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide power devices under exposure...

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE, also sometimes shortened to CoE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 38,000 civilian and military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering,...

We address the problem of allocating the counterparty-level credit valuation adjustment (CVA) to the individual trades composing the portfolio. We show that this problem can be reduced to calculating contributions of the trades to the counterparty-level expected exposure (EE) conditional on the counterparty's default....

During WW II the Command and General Staff Colleges primary mission was to train large numbers of captains and majors to be staff officers in battalions, brigades, divisions, and corps. To that end, the Army provided copies of documents produced by field units to...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) releases many records with topics ranging from Anti-War, Gangs Extremist Groups, Organized Crime, Supreme Court, World War II and many more. Included are several older files but also many new updated unreleased files; this is one of those...

During its long history of developing and deploying remote sensing instruments, NASA has provided a scientific data that have benefitted a variety of scientific applications among them archaeology. Multispectral and hyperspectral instrument mounted on orbiting and suborbital platforms have provided new and important information...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2009], the incidence rate of lost-workday injuries from slips, trips, and falls (STFs) on the same level in hospitals was 38.2 per 10,000 employees, which was 90% greater than the average rate for all other private...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) releases many records with topics ranging from Anti-War, Gangs Extremist Groups, Organized Crime, Supreme Court, World War II and many more. Included are several older files but also many new updated unreleased files; this is one of those...

Through discussion and comprehensive examples, this COPS Office/Police Foundation manual provides guidelines for introductory-level crime analysis mapping. The document begins with a brief examination of the factors necessary to produce an effective map, follows with a discussion of the types of maps and design...

Concerns have been expressed about the Department of Defense's (DOD) use of Agent Orange, a herbicide, in Vietnam because it contains the highly toxic contaminant dioxin. From August 1965 to 1971, DOD sprayed 11.22 million gallons of Agent Orange in Vietnam, with about 3...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure...

Contributing Authors Include John Cady, Charles Wolf, Jr., Clifford Geertz, And Many Others.Author: William T. HendersonISBN-10: 1258290294ISBN-13: 9781258290290Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2012Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.60d

As an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security and law enforcement organization, the mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to...

This Army Heritage collection contains military history books, military technical and field manuals, Department of the Army pamphlets, and monographs. Some of the titles in the collection include: FM 7-40: Rifle Regiment, TM 95-200: Air Traffic Control Facility Operations, Japanese Field Artillery, and The...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

Treitschke: His Doctrine Of German Destiny And Of International Relations is a historical book written by Heinrich Von Treitschke and published in 1914. The book discusses the political and social views of Treitschke, a German historian, journalist, and politician who lived during the late...

Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) is one of the best known Victorian women travellers, whose solo adventures in West Africa made her a celebrity in England. This, her second book, published in 1899, was an instant best-seller. She travelled extensively, engaging in trade both to fund...

Well worth study and reflection both as a fresh interpretation of the RPolitics I and as a critical assessment of contemporary scholarship on Aristotle and modern political theory.Author: Mary P. NicholsISBN-10: 0847677036ISBN-13: 9780847677030Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/1991Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Understanding federalism - the form of political organization that unites separate polities within an overarching political system so that all maintain their political integrity - is central to the study of democratic government in the United States. Yet, many political scientists treat federalism as...

Analytical Politics is an introduction to analytical theories of politics, explicitly designed both for the interested professional and classes in political science. We cannot evaluate how well governments perform without some baseline for comparison: What should governments be doing? This book focuses on the...

Author: B. J. WilseyISBN-13: 9798330323371Publisher: Political QuotesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2024Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

Array processing involves utilizing multiple sensors (e.g., antennas) to collect data from a spatial environment. The primary objective is to extract the desired signal from a mixture of noise and interference. Several techniques exist for signal detection, including beamforming, matched filtering, and likelihood ratio...

The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various factors - political, social and religious - that produced the...

In 1981 I met the scientist Buckminster Fuller, and he challenged me to become a "world problem-solver" and help solve the nuclear dilemma. Within six months of that meeting, I walked away from my position as president and heir to controlling interest of a...

Most books about presidential rhetoric focus on the United States. Few American communication scholars concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe. Media pundits and scholars alike framed this region as a place used for the United States' or Russia's Cold War ends--even after the Cold...

In From Metaphysics to Decision Making, Alexander Mitjashin argues that the laws of logic should be regarded as a paraphrase of an ontology - an understanding of "being" - whose components are distinct one from another, no matter how similar we may consider them....

This is a collection of speeches given by Andrew Stewart on the issues of tariffs and internal improvements in the United States. This is an important historical document that sheds light on critical issues in American history.This work has been selected by scholars as...