Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Reference

Acquaint yourself with the world's main ethnic separatist and unification crusades, organizations, parties, campaigns, political events, and leaders in this comprehensive reference work. Individual entries examine the full range of movements and insurgencies including Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Baluchis, South Moluccans, Berbers, New Caledonia, and more. An introductory essay defines and explains ethnic separatist and unification movements, including causes and outcomes, and a chronology places events in historical perspective.

"Encyclopedia of International Peacekeeping Operations" analyzes the broad national, regional, cultural, and international contexts of peacekeeping. Special focus is placed on such contemporary issues as human rights, peacebuilding from below, conflict resolution theory, civilian peacekeeping, gender considerations, and women in peacekeeping. The coverage is enhanced by a chronology, charts, maps, a list of acronyms, an annotated bibliography, and references to key websites.

In the past 20 years, conflict resolution--which includes such negotiation techniques as mediation and arbitration--has grown rapidly as a scholarly and professional field. More and more people are finding that these techniques provide an efficient and cost-effective means of settling personal, organizational, business, community, and international disputes. "Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution" is the first of its kind and presents all the concepts, techniques, information, and resources vital to this important field.

Topics covered include events, people, organizations, and training...

The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.

The need for this Sourcebook stems from recent innovations in political communication involving the use of advanced statistical techniques, innovative conceptual frameworks, the rise of digital media as both a means by which to disseminate and study political communication, and methods recently...

Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their principal: the population.

This book explores whether there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics which guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally. It combines a cross-sectional...

Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics "is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline s most distinguished scholars, its purpose is to provide its readers with fresh critical insights about what informs these political concepts, as well as a method by which readers and especially students can unpack and reconstruct them on their own.
International in scope, "Hyperpolitics" draws upon a global vocabulary in order to turn complex ideas...

Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics "is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline s most distinguished scholars, its purpose is to provide its readers with fresh critical insights about what informs these political concepts, as well as a method by which readers and especially students can unpack and reconstruct them on their own.
International in scope, "Hyperpolitics" draws upon a global vocabulary in order to turn complex ideas...