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Political Science and Digitalization – Global Perspectives
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Abstract:Digitalization is not only a new research subject for political science, but a transformative force for the discipline in terms of teaching and learning as well as research methods and publishing. This volume provides the first account of the influence...
Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences
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Abstract:The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based ...
Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates : Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind
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Abstract:By 2020, half of the world's population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must henceforth engage students, and the...
Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled
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Abstract:This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by “mainstream” political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing faces of an imaginary Mars, the i...
Health and Political Engagement
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Abstract:Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective. This book is the first to offer a compre...
Science in Movements : Knowledge Control and Social Contestation in China’s Hydropower, GMO and Nuclear Controversies
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Abstract:This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms and the nuclear power d...
The Political Economy of Coal : Obstacles to Clean Energy Transitions
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Abstract:This volume provides an overview of the political economy of coal in diverse country contexts. Coal is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, accounting for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions. Continued construction of c...
Pierre Rosanvallon's Political Thought : Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Abstract:The work of Pierre Rosanvallon has increasingly found itself at the center of debates in democratic and political theory - although only few of his numerous monographs have thus far been translated from French. This interdisciplinary volume, the first ...
The Concept of Constitution in the History of Political Thought
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Abstract:The aim of the present volume is to discuss the notion of constitution from the perspectives of history of political thought. Its scholarly intention is to go beyond the approach concentrating on the formal understanding of constitution and bring forwa...
Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in 21st Century World Society : Vol. 1 - Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness
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Abstract:This book is about the radical novelty of modern polities in a functionally differentiated world society. Premodern states were at the apex of a stratified, hierarchical society. They dominated society and all its groups and strata. Modern polities hav...