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Labor Migration: Dynamics and Politics
Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Labor Migration: Dynamics and PoliticsIntroductionMuch of the early research on labor migration drew on the push-pull factors of migration. The emphas...
Labor Politics in East Asia
Yoonkyung Lee
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Labor Politics in East AsiaIntroductionLabor politics is understood as various modes and processes of collective action taken by workers and their org...
Land Reform in Latin America
Nancy Lapp
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Land Reform in Latin America Introduction The terms “land reform” and “agrarian reform” are often used interchangeably. In Spanish, the term f...
Latin America, Democratic Transitions in
Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortíz
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Democratic Transitions in Latin America Introduction Since gaining their independence at the beginning of the 19th century, the Latin American ...
Latin America, Electoral Reform in
Santiago Alles
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Electoral Reform in Latin AmericaIntroductionElectoral rules have been considerably more fluid in developing than in consolidated democracies. Latin A...
Latin America, Environmental Policy and Politics in
Jose Carlos Orihuela
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Environmental Policy and Politics in Latin America Introduction The study of environmental policy and politics has undergone a rapid and comple...
Latin America, Guerrilla Insurgencies in
David S. Palmer, Thomas A. Marks
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Guerrilla Insurgencies in Latin America Introduction Insurgency in Latin America, though employing a variety of violent and nonviolent tactics,...
Latin America, Social Movements in
Fernanda Somuano Ventura
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Social Movements in Latin America Introduction As is the case with many concepts in social sciences, there are many definitions of social move...
Legal Mobilization
Lisa Vanhala
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Legal MobilizationIntroductionDebates about the role and power of law, legal actors, and legal institutions in movements for social change and in poli...
LGBT Politics in the United States
Donald Patrick Haider-Markel
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
LGBT Politics in the United StatesIntroductionThe American lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political movement has its roots in the post...
Liberal Pluralism
Monica Mookherjee
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Liberal PluralismIntroductionRecalling J. S. Mill’s consciousness of the different goals of human life, the modern debate about pluralism has gathered...
Libertarianism
Jason Brennan
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Libertarianism Introduction Libertarianism is a political philosophy, or more precisely, a family of closely related political philosophies. “...
Local Governments in the United States
Jisun Youm, Richard Feiock
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Local Governments in the United States Introduction The study of local governments has a long tradition in political science and has provided ...
Machiavelli’s Political Thought
Vickie B. Sullivan, Michelle T. Clarke
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Machiavelli’s Political ThoughtIntroductionNiccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469–d. 1527) stands as one of the most famous and influential thinkers of the West...
Marx's Political Thought
Paul Blackledge
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Marx’s Political ThoughtIntroductionKarl Marx (b. 1818–d. 1883) is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential thinkers of the modern period...
Mass Incarceration and US Politics
Kaneesha R. Johnson, Ariel R. White
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Mass Incarceration and US PoliticsIntroductionIncarceration rates in the United States ballooned during the late 20th century, yielding historically a...
Mechanisms of Representation
Will Jennings
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Mechanisms of Representation Introduction “Mechanisms of representation” relate to the organization of politics and its consequences, and the p...
Media Effects in Politics
James Druckman
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Media Effects in Politics Introduction Most of what citizens know about politics comes from what they learn via the media. Scholars began study...
Media Politics in South Asia
Taberez Ahmed Neyazi
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Media Politics in South AsiaIntroductionThe relationship between media and politics has been an important topic of study in social science literature....
Mexican Political Development
Sharon F. Lean, Alanna Jackson
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Mexican Political DevelopmentIntroductionDistinctive characteristics of the Mexican political regime—corporatism and clientelism, the successful subor...
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