Michigan Journal of Political Science
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Publisher: UM Libraries
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 248
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Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies
Author: M. Anne Pitcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-05-07
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0521449626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.
The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations
Author: Luigi Curini
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 1941
ISBN-13: 1526486393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in social science — from the ideation and design of research projects, through the construction of theoretical arguments, to conceptualization, measurement, & data collection, and quantitative & qualitative empirical analysis — exposited through 65 major new contributions from leading international methodologists. Each chapter surveys, builds upon, and extends the modern state of the art in its area. Following through its six-part organization, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics will be guided through the design, methods, and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations: Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions & Designing Good Research Projects Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation Part Three: Conceptualization & Measurement Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection & Representation Methods Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods Part Six: Qualitative & "Mixed" Methods
Global Storytelling, Vol. 1, No. 1
Author: Ying Zhu
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Published: 2021-08-26
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781607857488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this issue Letter from the Editor Ying Zhu Hong Kong and Social Movements Hong Kong Unraveled: Social Media and the 2019 Protest Movement Anonymous Unleashing the Sounds of Silence: Hong Kong's Story in Troubled Times Andrea Riemenschnitter Tragedy of Errors at Warp Speed Sam Ho Imagining a City-Based Democracy: Review of The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement by Laikwan Pang, University of Michigan Press, 2020 Enoch Tam Building and Documenting National and Transnational Cinema China and the Film Festival Richard Peña Nationalism from Below: State Failures, Nollywood, and Nigerian Pidgin Jonathan Haynes Collective Memory and the Rhetorical Power of the Historical Fiction Film Carl Plantinga From Nations to Worlds: Chris Marker's Si j'avais quatre dromadaires Michael Walsh Sino-US Relations American Factory and the Difficulties of Documenting Neoliberalism Peter Hitchcock R.I.P. Soft Power: China's Story Meets the Reset Button: Review of Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds edited by Kingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen, and Ying Zhu, Routledge, 2019 Robert A. Kapp The Narrative of Virus Review: On Epidemics, Epidemiology, and Global Storytelling Carlos Rojas
Regime Threats and State Solutions
Author: Mai Hassan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-02
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1108490859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelving inside the state, Hassan shows how leaders politicize bureaucrats to maintain power, even after the introduction of multi-party elections.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
Author: Leigh K. Jenco
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 772
ISBN-13: 0190253754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChapters emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life in a range of global contexts, with attention to whether and how those questions may be shared, contested, or reformulated across differences of time, space, and experienceAn interdisciplinary volume that bridges the gaps between various traditions, regions, and concerns regarding political theoryProvides tags and keywords to aid navigation of the handbook and help readers trace disruptions, thematic connections, and conceptual contrasts across entries.
The Politics of Millennials
Author: Stella M. Rouse
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0472124412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday the Millennial generation, the cohort born from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, is the largest generation in the United States. It exceeds one-quarter of the population and is the most diverse generation in U.S. history. Millennials grew up experiencing September 11, the global proliferation of the Internet and of smart phones, and the worst economic recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Their young adulthood has been marked by rates of unemployment and underemployment surpassing those of their parents and grandparents, making them the first generation in the modern era to have higher rates of poverty than their predecessors at the same age. The Politics of Millennials explores the factors that shape the Millennial generation’s unique political identity, how this identity conditions political choices, and how this cohort’s diversity informs political attitudes and beliefs. Few scholars have empirically identified and studied the political attitudes and policy preferences of Millennials, despite the size and influence of this generation. This book explores politics from a generational perspective, first, and then combines this with other group identities that include race and ethnicity to bring a new perspective to how we examine identity politics.
War for Peace
Author: Murad Idris
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0190658010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a great paradox: "peace" is the opposite of war, but it also enables war. If peace is the elimination of war, then what does it mean to wage war for the sake of peace? What does peace mean when some say that they are committed to it but that their enemies do not value it? Why is it that associating peace with other ideals, like justice, friendship, security, and law, does little to distance peace from war? Although political theory has dealt extensively with most major concepts that today define "the political" it has paid relatively scant critical attention to peace, the very concept that is often said to be the major aim and ideal of humanity. In War for Peace, Murad Idris looks at the ways that peace has been treated across the writings of ten thinkers from ancient and modern political thought, from Plato to Immanuel Kant and Sayyid Qutb, to produce an original and striking account of what peace means and how it works. Idris argues that peace is parasitical in that the addition of other ideals into peace, such as law, security, and friendship, reduces it to consensus and actually facilitates war; it is provincial in that its universalized content reflects particularistic desires and fears, constructions of difference, and hierarchies within humanity; and it is polemical, in that its idealization is not only the product of antagonisms, but also enables hostility. War for Peace uncovers the basis of peace's moralities and the political functions of its idealizations, historically and into the present. This bold and ambitious book confronts readers with the impurity of peace as an ideal, and the pressing need to think beyond universal peace.
Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Author: Pauline Jones Luong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-29
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1139432281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? Explaining these puzzles requires understanding not only the outcome of institutional design but also the intricacies of the process that led to this outcome. Moreover, the transitional context in which these three states designed new electoral rules necessitates an approach that explicitly links process and outcome in a dynamic setting. This book provides such an approach. Finally, it both builds on the key insights of the dominant approaches to explaining institutional origin and change and transcends these approaches by moving beyond the structure versus agency debate.
Corporeal Politics
Author: Katherine Mezur
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0472054554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.
