Politics & Social Sciences

Politics, Personality, and Social Science in the Twentieth Century By:Harold Dwight Lasswell,Arnold A. Rogow Published on 1969-08-15 by University of Chicago Press Harold Lasswell is one of America's most distinguished political scientists, a man whose work has had enormous impact both in the United States and abroad upon not only his own field but also those of sociology, psychology and psychiatry, economics, law, anthropology, and communications. This collection of essays is the first full-scale effort to deal with the voluminous writings of Lasswell and explore his at once charming and baffling personality which is perhaps inseparable from the inventiveness, unconventionality, and unusual scope of his work. The authors of these essays, many of whom are former students or collaborators, view their subject from a variety of perspectives. What emerges is a full assessment of Lasswell's many-faceted contribution to the social scholarship of his time. This Book was ranked at 13 ...

Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain By:Lawrence Goldman Published on 2002-06-13 by Cambridge University Press This book is a study of the relationships between social thought, social policy and politics in Victorian Britain. Goldman focuses on the activity of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, known as the Social Science Association. For three decades this served as a forum for the discussion of Victorian social questions and as an influential adviser to governments, and its history discloses how social policy was made in these years. The Association, which attracted many powerful contributors, including politicians, civil servants, intellectuals and reformers, had influence over policy and legislation on matters as diverse as public health and women's legal and social emancipation. The SSA reveals the complex roots of social science and sociology buried in the non-academic milieu of nineteenth-century reform. And its influence in the Unite...

100 Questions about Women and Politics By:Manon Tremblay Published on 2018-09-30 by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP Both yesterday's suffragists and today's feminists have battled for women to vote and hold office, and their successes have made it possible for countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Iceland, Liberia, and the United Kingdom to have female heads of state. Despite these notable advances, women are still largely underrepresented in parliaments and governments around the world. Why, after so many years of feminist struggle, are women still obstructed from full political citizenship by a glass ceiling? Manon Tremblay's 100 Questions about Women and Politics discusses electoral politics in Canada and abroad, focusing on women's rights to vote and run for office in legislative elections, political parties, voting systems, electoral quotas for women, and participation in parliaments and governments. Against a background of observations taken from academic ...

Politics and Paradigms By:Andrew C. Janos Published on 1986 by Stanford University Press Recent economic and political developments in the Third World and in Communist and advanced industrial societies have challenged some of the most cherished assumptions of social science, forcing social scientists to rethink many of the categories of their discipline. In a concisely written and provocative book, the author traces this process of rethinking. He does so by going back to the nineteenth-century origins of political sociology and economy, and by exploring more recent attempts by American scholarship to fashion from the writings of Smith, Marx, Spencer, Weber, and Durkheim a new universal theory of modernization and political change. The author argues that these attempts led to a new intellectual crisis, which could be resolved only by a |paradigm shift,| that is, by refocusing the discipline from the classical concept of social relations to a new global concept of the division of labor a...

Political Turbulence By:Helen Margetts,Peter John,Scott Hale,Taha Yasseri Published on 2015-11-24 by Princeton University Press As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from neighborhood campaigns to global political movements. Political Turbulence reveals that, in fact, most attempts at collective action online do not succeed, but some give rise to huge mobilizations—even revolutions. Drawing on large-scale data generated from the Internet and real-world events, this book shows how mobilizations that succeed are unpredictable, unstable, and often unsustainable. To better understand this unruly new force in the political world, the authors use experiments that test how social media influence citizens deciding ...

New Directions in Political Science By:Colin Hay Published on 2010-03-04 by Macmillan International Higher Education Written by a team of leading scholars, this new text focuses on a range of key challenges posed by developments in 21st century politics to provide a state-of-the-art assessment of current thinking and future directions in Political Science and International Relations. This Book was ranked at 38 by Google Books for keyword Politics Social Sciences. Book ID of New Directions in Political Science's Books is XuYcBQAAQBAJ, Book which was written byColin Hayhave ETAG "Z3opQREVNjQ" Book which was published by Macmillan International Higher Education since 2010-03-04 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781137014214 and ISBN 10 Code is 1137014210 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "336 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryPolitical Science This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ...

The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government By:Donald P. Haider-Markel Published on 2014-04-03 by OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the important questions in the field, evaluate where we are in answering them, and set the direction and terms of discourse for future work. The Handbook will have a substantial influence in defining the field for years to come. The chapters critically assess both the key works of state and local politics literature and the ways in which the sub-field has developed. It covers the main areas of study in subnational politics by exploring the central contributions to the comparative study of institutions, behavior, and policy in the American context. Each chapter outlines an agenda for future research. This Book was ranked at 3 by Google Books for keyword Politics Social Sciences. Book ID of The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government's Book...

Negotiating Political Power in Turkey By:Elise Massicard,Nicole Watts Published on 2013 by Routledge This edited collection looks at how political parties in Turkey actually work, inside and out. Departing from traditional macro-level analyses, the book offers a new sociological approach to the study of political parties, treating them as non-unitary entities composed of many different groups and individuals who both cooperate and compete with one another. The central proposition of the book is that parties must be studied as clusters of relationships in specific locales rather than as unitary 'black boxes.' This ground-up approach provides new insights into the internal workings of political parties; why parties gain and lose elections and other political resources; and the ways in which power is negotiated and exercised in Turkey and beyond. Chapters include studies of Islamic and Islamist parties from the 1970s to the present, ethnic Kurdish parties, center- and extreme righ...