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This is a substantially revised and improved second edition of a book already established as the leading introductory research methods text for political science outside North America. This book covers a very broad range of methods. It is very accessibly written with many exampl…
Public policy analysis
by Knoepfel, Peter, Larrue, Corinne, Varone, Frédéric, Hill, Michael
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An English version of a successful textbook on public policy analysis, this book presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its application in everyday political-administrative situations. It also introduces supplementary illustrations and exampl…
Updated it its 14th edition, Understanding Public Policy focuses on the policy challenges confronting the Obama administration. This edition provides students with a close up look at the American healthcare system, current economic policies, issues of homeland security and defen…
This text explores the connection between technological risk and basic concepts of liberal political theory and practice. Arguing that modern risks are emergent and therefore not reducible to individual actors or events, Hiskes demonstrates how risks challenge the most basic con…
A collection of essays on art and politics. It shows how the author's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics.
The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science - to create predictive scientific theory - resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused 'theory frames' that formulate problems and …
Three chapters on aspects of state theory. The themes covered are different forms of corporatism and their implications for capital accumulation, the representation of business in the the capitalist type of state, and the class nature of the dem ocratic state.
The politics of knowledge
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Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as ' knowledge societies', which indicates the extent to which ' science', ' knowledge' and ' knowledge production' have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social science…
Issues in political theory
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This is a unique political theory textbook that invites students to apply the concepts they encounter to real world politics. Each chapter includes a 2,000 word case study to highlight the theories that have been discussed. The lucid and elegant contributions by leading thinkers…
