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Party Networks
Seth Masket
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Party Networks Introduction The study of party networks is a subset of social network analysis within political science. Social network analys...
Political Thought of the American Founders, The
Alan Gibson
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
The Political Thought of the American Founders Introduction The historical importance of the American founders as revolutionaries and state bu...
Politics and Policy in Contemporary Argentina
Ana Margheritis
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Politics and Policy in Contemporary Argentina Introduction Argentina is a fascinating and intriguing case to study politics and policies. Its ...
Politics of Higher Education in the U.S.
Ann Cohen
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Politics of Higher Education in the United States Introduction By many measures, American higher education has been a success. Growing from a ...
Politics of Natural Disasters, The
Daniel P. Aldrich
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
The Politics of Natural Disasters Introduction People around the world are far more likely to encounter death or harm because of mudslides, co...
Post-Communist Democratization
Joshua Tucker
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Post-Communist Democratization Introduction In addition to forever changing the lives of hundreds of millions of people, the collapse of commun...
Preferential Trade Agreements, Politics of
Mark Manger
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements Introduction Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are international agreements to reduce the barriers...
Public Opinion in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Russell J. Dalton
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Public Opinion in Advanced Industrial Democracies Introduction In the field of public opinion, research spans several aspects of the social sci...
Public Opinion in New Democracies and Developing Nations
Russell J. Dalton, Doh Shin
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Public Opinion in New Democracies and Developing Nations Introduction Although political development depends on many factors, an important comp...
Regime Transitions and Variation in Post-Communist Europe
Paul Kubicek
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Regime Transitions and Variation in Post-Communist Europe Introduction The collapse of communism opened up prospects for political change in e...
Regional Security
James Sperling
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Regional Security Introduction The intellectual roots of regional security studies can be traced to the geopolitical writings of the late 19th ...
State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Elliott Green
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
State Building in sub-Saharan Africa Introduction State-building in Africa has long been a concern of scholars and policymakers. The subject is...
Supreme Court of the United States, The
Carol Nackenoff
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
The Supreme Court of the United States Introduction The Supreme Court of the United States as a subject offers many different choices of direc...
Taiwan, Politics of
Hans Stockton
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Politics of Taiwan Introduction This entity is known today by its citizens and a small number of states as the Republic of China; by Beijing as...
Tea Party, The
Theda Skocpol, Vanessa Williamson
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
The Tea Party Introduction The Tea Party is a loosely coordinated right-wing political upsurge that began in the first weeks of the administra...
Transitional Justice
Matt Murphy
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Transitional Justice Introduction Transitional justice (sometimes called retroactive justice) is broadly defined as policies undertaken by a ne...
US Military Bases Abroad
Alexander Cooley
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
US Military Bases Abroad Introduction Since World II, the United States has maintained a network of hundreds of military bases, installations, ...
Welfare State Development
Linda Cook
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Welfare State Development Introduction The modern welfare state originated in industrializing Europe, in the English system of “poor laws” that...
West Africa, Politics of
David Ehrhardt
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Politics of West Africa Introduction Nigerian “419” scams, civil war violence in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and the relatively recent traumas of...
Worker Politics in China
Marc Blecher
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Worker Politics in China Introduction Workers’ politics in China has attracted a great deal of academic attention since the country’s structura...
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