Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> General

The highly commended First Edition of this four-volume set remains the standard reference on Jurgen Habermas, the key theorist of the Frankfurt School and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With Habermas having developed his oeuvre substantially in the last decade, this new edition retains the key secondary literature while refreshing the critical canon with the most important papers published since the First Edition in 2001. The editors, themselves a part of that canon, have updated the editorial material to reflect the latest hot topics in...

For many years, traditional approaches to the study of leadership have reflected three common assumptions: First, leadership is a property of the leaders; second, there is a clear distinction between leaders and followers; and third, leadership is associated with a position in some traditional or formal hierarchy. It is only in the last decade or so that new approaches have started to emerge with the purpose of replacing the dominant leader-centered approach to studying, developing and practicing leadership. In addition, there is a growing recognition in the field of leadership...

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary field in which psychological concepts and methods are used to test theories about elite and mass political behavior. The field draws on a diverse set of disciplinary sources, including anthropology, neuroscience, history, behavioral genetics, psychoanalysis, as well as all branches of psychology. This collection brings together this diverse body of work, organizing it and distilling it into a single vital reference source. Its aim is to provide a definitive set of classic and contemporary readings representing all theoretical, methodological and...

As the locus of Great Power rivalry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the battleground for the first hot conflict of the early Cold War, and in the case of the contemporary challenge of a nuclear North Korea one of the most potentially destabilizing threats to regional security, the Korean peninsula is critical in understanding the history, politics, and international relations of Asia. However, Korea s importance is not confined to issues of security and international conflict. The dramatic growth of South Korea, propelling it from the status of an underdeveloped and...