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Alexis De Tocqueville Alexis De Tocqueville Price: $31.68 (more details) Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) occupies an eminent position in that small circle of nineteenth-century thinkers considered indispensable to an understanding of our modern condition. Born of aristocratic parents who barely survived the Terror of 1793, he became the century's most clear-eyed analyst of the new kind of democratic equality that was then emerging. Best known as the author of Democracy in America (1835, 1840), one of the great... |
The Later Foucault; Politics and Philosophy The Later Foucault; Politics and Philosophy Price: $50.65 (more details) Why does Foucault's work continue to be of central importance in current debates in sociology, political science and philosophy? Why do we still read him as a guide to contemporary social and cultural life? Foucault's work presents a provocative challenge to orthodox, habitual forms of belief and practice. The Later Foucault,' 'with an impressive interdisciplinary focus, argues that one of the keys to understanding Fo... |
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Political Science 1974 International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Political Science 1974 Price: $580.13 (more details) International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Political Science 1974 |
Game Theory for Political Scientists Game Theory for Political Scientists Price: $58.50 (more details) Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by ec... |
| On Trotskyism Library Editions: Political Science vol 58 On Trotskyism Library Editions: Political Science vol 58 Price: $118.95 (more details) On Trotskyism Library Editions: Political Science vol 58 |
The Political Economy of NATO: Past, Present and into the 21st Century The Political Economy of NATO: Past, Present and into the 21st Century Price: $113.09 (more details) Using simple economic methods while accounting for political and institutional factors, this book puts forward a political economy viewpoint of NATO's current status and its future prospects. A host of NATO policy concerns are addressed including the optimal membership for the alliance, its role in peacekeeping missions worldwide, the appropriate methods for deterring terrorism, and proper p... |
| International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Political Science 1977 International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Political Science 1977 Price: $580.13 (more details) International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Political Science 1977 |
The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science: A User's Guide to Its Terms The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science: A User's Guide to Its Terms Price: $45.78 (more details) The key terms in political science -- at your fingertips! This outstanding dictionary comprises rigorous definitions and clear, lively explanations of around 1000 of the key terms in political science. It also includes a section of short biographies of the most eminent writers in the discipline -- both classic and contemporary. |
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians Price: $17.16 (more details) Since its original publication in 1983, Chomsky's seminal tome on Mideast politics has become a classic in the fields of political science and Mideast affairs. For its tenth printing, Chomsky has written a new introduction and added a foreword by Edward Said. This new, updated edition highlights the book's lasting relevance, and should be a treasure for fans of the first edition, and an eye-opener... |
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change Price: $76.00 (more details) Taking the Soviet collapse -- the most cataclysmic event of the recent past -- as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation, and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts as great power conflict, imperial decline, revolution, ethnic conflict, colonialism, economic dev... |
The British Economy Since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance 1945-1995, 2n... The British Economy Since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance 1945-1995, 2nd Edition Price: $41.88 (more details) In this fully revised and updated second edition, Sir Alec Cairncross provides a lucid account and analysis of British economic policy and performance from 1945 to the present. He takes a chronological approach, introducing the events of the period with an outline of changing ideas on economic policy and performance, discussing key concepts such as economic planning, demand ma... |
Comparative Competition Policy; National Institutions in a Global Market Comparative Competition Policy; National Institutions in a Global Market Price: $298.35 (more details) This collection provides the first authoritative comparison of competition policy in the main capitalist economies. It takes a public policy approach which cuts through the traditional arenas of lawyers and economists to deal with the role of institutions, policy processes, and political priorities. This book provides definitive (and in some cases unique) studies of the six 'model' regimes... |
The Dynamics Of Racial Progress: Economic Inequality And Race Relations Sinc... The Dynamics Of Racial Progress: Economic Inequality And Race Relations Since Reconstruction Price: $58.45 (more details) Race relations in the United States have long been volatile-'marked on the one hand by distrust, antagonism and violence, but tempered on the other by periods of conciliation, integration and relative harmony. This path-breaking blend of history, sociology, political science and economics argues that the key factor determining the quality of race relations is economic: ... |
College Online: How to Take College Courses Without Leaving Home College Online: How to Take College Courses Without Leaving Home Price: $11.66 (more details) How to take college courses—even earn a degree—through your home computer Study accounting in California, child development in Massachusetts, and political science in Washington, D.C.—all while sitting at home in front of your PC! College Online takes you through the ins and outs of electronic learning, giving you all the information you need to be a successful online student. In this comprehensi... |
Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research Price: $36.07 (more details) How does television influence people? 'Cultivation' research examines the relationship between how much television people watch and what they believe: avid viewers' beliefs are very different from those of occasional viewers. James Shanahan and Michael Morgan, leading scholars in this field, explore the differences in viewers' beliefs on issues such as violence, sex roles and political attitudes. Their ... |
Greed, Chaos, and Governance; Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law Greed, Chaos, and Governance; Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law Price: $21.45 (more details) Public choice theory should be taken seriously - but not too seriously. In this thought-provoking book, Jerry Mashaw stakes out a middle ground between those who champion public choice theory (the application of the conventional methodology of economics to political science matters, also known as rational choice theory) and those who disparage it. He argues that in many cases public choice t... |
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