Government Violence and Repression

George Lopez, Michael Stohl

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• A form of terrorism that is receiving increased attention is human rights abuses on the part of individual states. This study, written by specialists ... Lees meer

The Merit System and Municipal Civil Service

Francis Gottfried

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• Frances Gottfried offers a thorough-going critique of municipal civil service systems and the principles of meritocracy that underlie them, focusing e... Lees meer

United States Electoral Systems

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• This is the only full-length study to examine how different electoral systems impact the election of women and minorities to public office in the Unit... Lees meer

The State Politics of Judicial and Congressional Reform

Thomas C Dalton

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 135
• Dalton combines the scholarly literature on public law and judicial impact with recent studies of policy implementation at the state level. He emphasi... Lees meer

Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• The papers were, by and large, of good quality, but two are worthy of particular attention. Michael Riccards's Failure of Nerve: How the Liberals Kill... Lees meer

Plans for Peace

Karen Feste

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 284
• Although much has been written about the Arab-Israeli conflict and about general theories of negotiation, this analysis and history is unique in linki... Lees meer

Bigotry!

Maria J Falco

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 34
• Three critical problem areas in American politics involve the urban political machine, conflicting tensions among ethnic groups, and sexual discrimina... Lees meer

Richard M. Nixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 269
• This timely compilation of papers was originally presented at the 1987 Hofstra University Conference on the Nixon Presidency. Bringing together noted ... Lees meer

United Germany

Ronald A Francisco, H G Pete Wallach

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• This landmark study describes the momentous events from 1989 to 1991 that led up to German unification, explaining how and why they happened as they d... Lees meer

Iran

Mohammad Amjad

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• This splendid book offers an insight into why Iran, once assumed to have one of the most stable governments in the Middle East, crumbled so rapidly in... Lees meer

Rare Book Collections

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 27
• Contributions from leading rare book curators concerning the different needs and problems companion to rare book collections. Lees meer

Environmental Policies in the Third World

O P Dwivedi, Dhirendra K Vajpeyi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 350
• Analyzes environmental problems and policies in developing countries around the world and discusses new prospects for international cooperation and fu... Lees meer

The Demobilization of American Voters

Michael J Avey

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• The Mobilization/Demobilization Theory argues instead that nonvoting results from the behavior of politicians, political elites, and the political sys... Lees meer

The Third World and South Africa

Richard Payne

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 304
• Converging revolutionary changes in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and in southern Africa radically transformed the international political environm... Lees meer

Morris Hillquit

Norma Fain Pratt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 20
• Pratt uses Hillquit's career to probe the nature of the socialist movement in America. Lees meer

American Challenges

Irving Leveson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• The American economy and society are undergoing vast transformations, including a renaissance of capitalism, a great wave of technological change, and... Lees meer

Israel-Palestine

Eliezer Ben-Rafael

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• This analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offers a wide-ranging theoretical framework to approach various aspects of terrorism, guerilla and a... Lees meer

Comparing State Polities

Michael J Sullivan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• Since the end of the Cold War many new countries have been created, and several new wars have broken out, resulting in new forms of politics and gover... Lees meer

Getting the Donkey Out of the Ditch

Caroline Arden

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 224
• A pioneering case study of a major political party under extreme strain, Getting the Donkey Out of the Ditch traces in detail what the Democratic Part... Lees meer

Jimmy Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• President Jimmy Carter, like all his predecessors since World War II, experienced the blurring of lines between foreign and domestic politics while, p... Lees meer

Ethics for Policymaking

Eugene Meehan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• In Ethics for Policymaking , Eugene Meehan presents a sustained argument in favor of a particular perspective on the relationship between normative ju... Lees meer

Spain and Central America

Robin Rosenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science | nr. 288
• This theoretical and empirical study is the first to examine the connection between the image and substance of Spain's democracy and the country's for... Lees meer

Presidential Accountability

John Orman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• This book assesses the state of presidential accountability in the post-Reagan era. It looks at five major areas of concern for students of the presid... Lees meer

Corporatist Decline in Advanced Capitalism

Mark J Gobeyn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Political Science
• Gobeyn presents the first book-length treatment of the declining significance of corporatist governance in advanced capitalism, linking that decline t... Lees meer