Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> General

In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the heart of democracy. This volume stems from Dan D. Nimmo's conviction that opinion and policymaking are also significant, interrelated processes within any political system.

A democracy poses problematic questions of the manner and means by which political ideas, opinions, and issues are transmitted throughout the body politic. In the United States, such communication is carried on primarily through the news media. Reporters and...

In one easy-access resource, "The Louisiana Purchase" brings together the work of over 100 experts covering historical figures, relevant legal and historical concepts, states that formed in the new territory, frontier outposts, and the Native Americans uprooted by expansion westward. The book examines every aspect and consequence of Thomas Jefferson's momentous transaction: the largest real estate deal in American history.

Readers will learn how the purchase made Manifest Destiny really seem like destiny; how it sparked the rise of America's urban industrial society and inflamed...

Die Strukturgleichungsmodellierung (SEM) ist eines der prominentesten und fortgeschrittensten Verfahren der human- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Datenanalyse. Der Ratgeber liefert Informationen zu haufig auftretenden Problemen und Schwierigkeiten bei der Anwendung dieser Methodik. Alle Erlauterungen sind praxis- und problemorientiert. Formal-statistische Hintergrunde werden bewusst so knapp wie moglich beschrieben. Zu den Inhalten des Ratgebers gehoren u.a. Informationen zur richtigen Bestimmung von Messmodellen, zur Auswahl von geeigneten Verfahren der Modellschatzung und zur...

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Analyse stehen die Redakteure bundesdeutscher Tageszeitungsredaktionen, ihre berufsbezogenen Haltungen und Denkweisen vor dem Hintergrund des digitalen Medienwandels. Die Redaktionsbefragung, eine Vollerhebung aller redaktionellen Einheiten, gibt vor allem Aufschluss uber Arbeitszufriedenheit, soziale Verantwortung und die Wertvorstellungen in den betreffenden Zeitungshausern. Sichtbar wird letztlich das Innovationspotenzial der untersuchten Redaktionen.

Diese Einfuhrung unterscheidet sich von anderen, indem sie breit in die wissenschaftliche Internetrecherche einfuhrt, das methodische Vorgehen und die Analyse der Ergebnisse eingehend behandelt und vor allem die Recherche in Web 2.0-Diensten systematisch berucksichtigt. Dabei wird die Recherche als Teil des umfassenderen Ablaufs Finden Bewerten Festhalten Auf dem Laufenden bleiben begriffen. Es werden also uber die Recherche hinaus Werkzeuge vorgestellt, mit denen man die Ergebnisse festhalten kann (Notizbucher, soziale Bookmarkdienste und Literaturverwaltung) und es wird behandelt, wie...

This work provides a critical look at business practice in the early 21st century and suggests changes that are both practical and normatively superior. Several chapters present a reflection on business ethics from a societal or macro-organizational point of view. It makes a case for the economic and moral superiority of the sustainability capitalism of the European Union over the finance-based model of the United States. Most major themes in business ethics are covered and some new ones are introduced, including the topic of the right way to teach business ethics. The general approach...

Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have examined the relationship between Islam and politics. But specialists have tended to limit their analysis to a specific country or focus. Few works have provided a geographically comprehensive, in-depth analysis. Since 9/11, another wave of literature on political Islam and global terrorism has appeared, much of it superficial and sensationalist. This situation underscores the need for a comprehensive, analytical, and in-depth examination of Islam and politics in the post-9/11 era and in an increasingly...

While some have argued that we live in a 'postfeminist' era that renders feminism irrelevant to people's contemporary lives this book takes 'feminism', the source of eternal debate, contestation and ambivalence, and situates the term within the popular, cultural practices of everyday life. It explores the intimate connections between the politics of feminism and the representational practices of contemporary popular culture, examining how feminism is 'made sensible' through visual imagery and popular culture representations. It investigates how popular culture is produced, represented and...

Cicero's On the Republic and On the Laws are his major works of political philosophy. They offer his fullest treatment of fundamental political questions: Why should educated people have any concern for politics? Is the best form of government simple, or is it a combination of elements from such simple forms as monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy? Can politics be free of injustice? The two works also help us to think about natural law, which many people have considered since ancient times to provide a foundation of unchanging, universal principles of...