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Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, Culture
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Michael G Roskin
For undergraduate courses in comparative politics. Providing country-by-country studies of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, Mexico, Nigeria, and Iran, Countries and Concepts highlights points that can apply to many countries for comparative analysis and covers key countries with greater depth than any other text. The 9th edition of ...
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Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges
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Charles Hauss
Balancing theory with application and featuring an exciting full-colour design and engaging, student-friendly writing style, Dr. Hauss' "Comparative Politics" is the best-selling comprehensive text for "Introduction to Comparative Politics". The book uses a unique theme - Domestic Responses to Global Challenges - to introduce key concepts and ...
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Political Science Research Methods
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Janet Buttolph Johnson
Teaches students to effectively evaluate the research of others and learn how to conduct their ownWhen exposing students to political science's most important research methods, comprehensive coverage as well as clear and straightforward language are paramount. In the trusted tradition of previous editions, this new fifth edition covers all of the ...
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Comparative Politics Today: A World View
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Gabriel Abraham Almond (Editor)
Comparative Politics Today is the text that helped define the discipline of comparative politics, and it continues to set the standard in examining the purpose of government and comparing the world's diverse political systems. Written by leading comparativists and area study specialists, this text's opening chapters outline key concepts in ...
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Introduction to Security
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Robert J Fischer
This sixth edition of Introduction to Security upholds the book's tradition of informing readers of contemporary security issues from security equipment and procedures to management and loss prevention theory. This new edition has been updated with the most current information available in the constantly changing security field. Introduction to ...
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Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System
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Jay M Feinman
Most of us know very little about the law. We pick up bits of information at random, from Court TV, from news accounts of current legal battles, from bestselling novels and popular movies. But these pieces do not really help us fill in the picture. In Law 101, Jay M. Feinman offers a delightfully clear introduction to law, covering the main ...
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Comparative Politics: A Global Introduction
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Michael J Sodaro
"Comparative Politics: A Global Introduction" presents a uniquely comprehensive approach to the study of politics in a variety of countries. Part I surveys the core topics of comparative politics and equips students with the concepts and analytical methods they need to understand the complexities of today's political world. Part I enhances ...
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Essentials of Comparative Politics
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Patrick H O'Neil
An antidote to traditional comparative politics texts, this work approaches the subject through essential concepts, dominant approaches and basic theory, rather than through lengthy regional analyses. This text should serve as a cornerstone for courses in world politics, and can also be combined with other volumes within "The Norton Series in ...
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Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
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Arend Lijphart
Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 1996, this text arrives at important - and unexpected - conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits.
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Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
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Stephen Elias, Attorney
Legal research made simple! If you're searching for information in a real or virtual law library as a paralegal, law student, legal assistant, journalist, or lay person, finding and accessing the laws that you need to read can be a challenge. Turn to "Legal Research," which outlines a systematic method to find answers and get results. In plain ...
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Dictionary of Legal Terms: A Simplified Guide to the Language of Law
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Steven H Gifis
Updated to include new terms such as 'civil union' and to incorporate recent changes in laws and judicial interpretations, this handy dictionary cuts through the complexities of legal jargon and presents definitions and explanations that can be understood by non-lawyers. Approximately 2,500 terms are given with definitions and explanations for ...
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Contemporary Human Behavior Theory: A Critical Perspective for Social Work
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Susan P Robbins, Edward R Canda, Ph.D., Pratap Chatterjee
Contemporary Human Behavior Theory: A Critical Perspective for Social Work, 2/e is the first HSBE text to approach the subject from a comparative theory perspective, providing coverage of the most current and contemporary theories as well as traditional theories. A consistent framework for analysis is provided for all of the theoretical systems ...
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More Utopia
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Sir Thomas More, George M Logan (Editor), Robert M Adams (Editor)
This is a fully revised edition of what is already one of the most successful volumes in the entire series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. This revision incorporates the many refinements to the translation of Utopia undertaken for the dual-language scholarly edition published by Cambridge in 1995, and Professor Logan has ...
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Congress and Its Members
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Professor Roger H Davidson
This guide is designed to help readers make sense of the complex legislative branch of the United States government. This edition examines the growing partisanship on the Hill, Congress' shifting relationship with the President, and the continuing centrality of fiscal issues.
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The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility
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Angelo M Codevilla
An examination of the nature and processes of government, concentrating especially on the contemporary situation in the United States. Codevilla maintains that governmental activism of the sort pioneered by Roosevelt's New Deal and expanded by Johnson's Great Society programs is detrimental to the great majority of the populace and ought to be ...
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American Foreign Policy Since World War II
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Steven W Hook, J Spanier
Placing the actions of U.S. political leaders and military forces in the context of long-standing patterns of behavior, Hook and Spanier discuss how the global role of the United States will define international order for generations to come. More than a decade after the Cold War, the United States remains the most powerful country in the world. ...
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Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order
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Jeffrey Kopstein (Editor), Mark I Lichbach (Editor)
Why are the countries of the world governed so differently? How did this diversity of political orders come about? Will liberal capitalism retain its appeal and spread further around the globe in the 21st century, or will new and hostile challengers come on the scene? These are the questions that guide this new introductory text to comparative ...
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Political Science: An Introduction
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Michael G Roskin
Balancing practical and theoretical knowledge, Political Science is a comprehensive and jargon-free introduction to the field's basic concepts and themes. This bestselling brief text uses diverse real-world examples to show students the value of avoiding simplifications in politics, the relevance of government, and the importance of participation. ...
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Comparative Politics in Transition
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John McCormick
Intended for undergraduate courses in comparative politics in departments of political science. This book provides the theories and perspectives of understanding comparative politics as it is evolving in the post-Cold War era.
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European Politics in Transition
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Mark Kesselman
This comprehensive text offers a stimulating introduction to the political systems of post-World War II Europe. The Sixth Edition uses a region-by-region approach, focusing in turn on Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Eastern Europe, and the European Union. Four themes unify the text and illustrate the concept of politics in ...
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The Craft of Political Research
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W Phillips Shively
This highly accessible book provides a basic introduction to the nature of research questions and methods of empirical research in political science. It describes the cooperative process, as well as the logic of empirical measurement and analysis of observations, in the conception and pursuit of a research project. Emphasizing the design of ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
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Iain McLean (Editor)
Written by a team of political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and political economists, this is an authoritative dictionary of politics. Containing over 1,500 entries ranging from John Adams and Young Hegelians to Additional Member System and zero-sum game, this work offers international coverage of major political institutions, thinkers, ...
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Safire's Political Dictionary
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William Safire
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary ...
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Political Science Student Writer's Manual
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Gregory Mahlon Scott, Stephen M Garrison
For courses in Political Science, Research Methods, Policy Research Methods, American Government, and Comparative Government. This comprehensive, practical writer's manual--created specifically for political science students--is designed to help students accomplish two goals: 1) improve their writing skills and strategies and 2) learn political ...
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Understanding the Law
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Donald L Carper, Bill W West
Learn the basics of business law and what it means to you with "Understanding the Law, Fifth Edition". This popular text discusses how various aspects of the law affect the individual, highlighting the personal law issues that confront people in their everyday lives. "Understanding the Law" uses engaging hypothetical and real examples to ...
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