The Civic Culture

The Civic Culture
Author: Gabriel Abraham Almond
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400874564

The authors interviewed over 5,000 citizens in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Great Britain, and the U.S. to learn political attitudes in modem democratic states. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Comparative Politics

Comparative Politics
Author: Gabriel Abraham Almond
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This text was created in response to demands for a brief version of the leading comparative politics text, Almond and Powell's Comparative Politics Today. The material focuses on the world-wide process of democratisation.

A Discipline Divided

A Discipline Divided
Author: Gabriel A. Almond
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780803933026

A Discipline Divided is a collection of coherent and timely articles that discuss the emergence and divergence of the two dominant camps of political science: ideology and methodology. Almond examines the `hard' versus `soft' science argument, the history of model fitting in communism studies, the strengths and weaknesses of the rational choice movement and the historical forces and processes that have shaped political culture.

International Migration and Citizenship Today

International Migration and Citizenship Today
Author: Niklaus Steiner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2023-03-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000856801

This completely revised and updated textbook explores the moral, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of the movement of people across international borders. In style and substance, it is designed to spark thoughtful discussions and to challenge readers to draw their own conclusions to questions such as how should democracies balance the rights of immigrants with those of citizens? What exactly constitutes persecution and how should we define a refugee? How should democracies allocate citizenship? Can and should a distinction be made between voluntary and forced migration, and does one group of migrants deserve admission more than the other? What does a reasonable border policy look like? The rise of populism, the vote for Brexit, and the unprecedented flow of refugees around the world are all evidence that these questions remain highly salient, controversial, and unresolved. The content has been thoroughly updated to cover: • Migration into Europe since 2015. • Climate change as a driver of migration and the concept of environmental refugees. • Unaccompanied minors fleeing gang violence, asylum for victims of domestic violence, family separation policies, and the building of a wall on the U.S./Mexican border. • The controversies surrounding the Danish cartoons, Charlie Hebdo, and hijabs as examples of the tensions in liberal democracies between free speech, individual freedom, religious expressions, and minority rights. • The Dream Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). • Demographic shifts and the debates around multiculturalism and diversity. • Guest-worker programs as alternatives to admitting immigrants. Intended as the main text for undergraduate classes on international migration, the book will also appeal to broad survey courses on world politics, comparative politics, international relations, global history, and more specialized courses on human rights, citizenship, and nationalism.

Comparative Politics Today

Comparative Politics Today
Author: G. Bingham Powell
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780205082865

Prev. editions under title: Comparative politics: a theoretical framework.

The Civic Culture Transformed

The Civic Culture Transformed
Author: Russell J. Dalton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107039266

This is the first study to demonstrate a broad shift in how citizens around the world relate to democratic politics, illustrating various manifestations of a transition from "allegiant" to "assertive" citizens.

Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics

Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics
Author: Gerardo L. Munck
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 798
Release: 2007-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801884641

In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the twentieth century. Organized around a broad set of themes—intellectual formation and training; major works and ideas; the craft and tools of research; colleagues, collaborators, and students; and the past and future of comparative politics—these in-depth interviews offer unique and candid reflections that bring the research process to life and shed light on the human dimension of scholarship. Giving voice to scholars who practice their craft in different ways yet share a passion for knowledge about global politics, Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics offers a wealth of insights into contemporary debates about the state of knowledge in comparative politics and the future of the field.

Structuring the State

Structuring the State
Author: Daniel Ziblatt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691121673

This study explores the following puzzle: Upon national unification, why was Germany formed as a federal state and Italy a unitary state? Ziblatt's answer to this question will be of interest to scholars of international relations, comparative politics, political development, and political and economic history.

Parties and Party Systems

Parties and Party Systems
Author: Giovanni Sartori
Publisher: ECPR Press
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 191025908X

In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classification of party systems. He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique of various spatial models of party competition. This is political science at its best – combining the intelligent use of theory with sophisticated analytic arguments, and grounding all of this on a substantial cross-national empirical base. Parties and Party Systems is one of the classics of postwar political science, and is now established as the foremost work in its field.