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Author Ishiyama, John T., 1960-

Title 21st Century Political Science : a Reference Handbook
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (937 pages)
Series 21st century reference series
21st century reference series (Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, Calif.)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; About the Editors; Part I: General Approaches in Political Science; 1 -- HISTORY OF THE DISCIPLINE; 2 -- POSTMODERNISM; 3 -- NEOINSTITUTIONALISM; 4 -- SYSTEMISM; 5 -- RATIONALITY AND RATIONAL CHOICE; 6 -- PRINCIPAL-AGENT THEORY; 7 -- POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY; 8 -- STRAUSSIANS; Part II: Comparative Politics; 9 -- SYSTEMS THEORY AND STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM; 10 -- POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION; 11 -- STATISM; 12 -- DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENT; 13 -- CIVIL WARS; 14 -- TERRORISM; 15 -- POLITICAL AND MILITARY COUPS; 16 -- RESOURCE SCARCITY AND POLITICAL CONFLICT
17 -- ETHNIC CONFLICT18 -- COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PARTIES: Systems and Organizations; 19 -- ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; 20 -- COMPARATIVE FEDERALISM, CONFEDERALISM, UNITARY SYSTEMS; 21 -- PRESIDENTIALISM VERSUS PARLIAMENTARISM; 22 -- COMPARATIVE JUDICIAL POLITICS; 23 -- CIVIL SOCIETY; 24 -- POLITICAL CULTURE; 25 -- RELIGION AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS; 26 -- ETHNIC AND IDENTITY POLITICS; 27 -- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; 28 -- GENDER AND POLITICS; 29 -- COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND CONFLICT; 30 -- TOTALITARIANISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM; 31 -- SEMIAUTHORITARIANISM; 32 -- MODELS OF DEMOCRACY
33 -- PROCESSES OF DEMOCRATIZATION34 -- COMPARATIVE METHODS; 35 -- CASE STUDIES; Part III: International Relations; 36 -- HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; 37 -- REALISM AND NEOREALISM; 38 -- IDEALISM AND LIBERALISM; 39 -- DEPENDENCY AND WORLD-SYSTEMS; 40 -- FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS; 41 -- FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; 42 -- LEADERSHIP AND DECISION MAKING; 43 -- BALANCE OF POWER; 44 -- DETERRENCE THEORY; 45 -- RIVALRY, CONFLICT, AND INTERSTATE WAR; 46 -- THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE; 47 -- GLOBAL POLITICS OF RESOURCES AND RENTIERISM; 48 -- COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCE AND GLOBALIZATION
49 -- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TRADE50 -- NONSTATE ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; 51 -- INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND REGIMES; 52 -- INTERNATIONAL LAW; 53 -- INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; Part IV: Political Science Methodology; 54 -- EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE; 55 -- POSITIVISM AND ITS CRITIQUE; 56 -- CONSTRUCTIVISM; 57 -- REGRESSION ANALYSIS; 58 -- CONTENT ANALYSIS; 59 -- LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; 60 -- QUALITATIVE VERSUS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; 61 -- SURVEY RESEARCH; 62 -- EXPERIMENTS; 63 -- FORMAL THEORY AND SPATIAL MODELING; 64 -- GAME THEORY; Part V: Political Thought
65 -- THE ANCIENTS66 -- ASIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT; 67 -- ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT; 68 -- CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT; 69 -- EARLY MODERNS AND CLASSICAL LIBERALS; 70 -- NEOCLASSICAL LIBERALS; 71 -- MODERN DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT; 72 -- MODERN LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM, AND LIBERTARIANISM; 73 -- ANARCHISM; 74 -- NATIONALISM; 75 -- FASCISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM; 76 -- MARXISM; 77 -- REVISIONISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY; 78 -- LENINISM, COMMUNISM, STALINISM, AND MAOISM; 79 -- SOCIALISM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD; PART VI: AMERICAN POLITICS; 80 -- FOUNDING OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM; 81 -- URBAN POLITICS
82 -- MEDIA AND POLITICS
Summary Via 99 entries or "mini-chapters," the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on political science highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in this field ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century. 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook serves as an authoritative reference source that meets students' research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries but not so much jargon, detail, or density as a journa
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Subject Political science -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Political science
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
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