Author: Chris J. Dolan
Publisher: John Frendreis is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. His areas of scholarly expertise include American politics, with special emphasis on political parties and elections, and his publications include two books and articles in nu
Keywords: policy, economic, presidency
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2007-08-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0742547299
ISBN-13: 9780742547292

Addresses the extent to which the president influences the domestic and global economy, manages and coordinates the economic policymaking process, and determines various economic issues on the national public policy agenda.

Authors:S. J. Guzzetta, Abe Ashcanase,
Publisher: Political Publications
Keywords: campaign, political, process, modern, study, manual, definitive
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0942805100
ISBN-13: 9780942805109

Since 1981 this manual has become the "bible" of the campaign industry. It has sold over 30,000 copies throughout the U.S. and in over 40 countries overseas. A must read for anyone involved in, or learning about, the campaign process. President George W. Bush bought 5 copies for his staff when he first ran for public office.

Author: Demetrios James Caraley
Publisher: Academy of Political Science
Keywords: imposing, democracy, iraq, war, hegemony, preventive, american
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2004-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1884853048
ISBN-13: 9781884853043

Authors:Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J Collier,
Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press
Keywords: ecpr, press, classics, analysis, framework, party, systems, parties
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0954796616
ISBN-13: 9780954796617

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 post

Author: Paul Magnette
Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press
Keywords: classics, ecpr, individualism
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 0954796667
ISBN-13: 9780954796662

Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is widely used by those who criticize and by those who praise Western societies and their culture, by historians and literary scholars in search of the emergence of ’the individual’, by anthropologists claiming that there are different, culturally shaped conceptions of the individual or ’person’, by philosophers debating what form social science explanations should take and by political theorists defending liberal principles. In this classic text, Steven Lukes discusses what ’individualism’ has meant in

Authors:Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J Collier,
Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press
Keywords: ecprclassics, elites, political
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0954796608
ISBN-13: 9780954796600

Political Elites, first published in 1969, reviews the literature on the role of elites in politics. It deals with both the ’classic’ elite theorists -- Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Burnham and C. Wright Mills -- and with many of the empirical and theoretical works on elites by modern political scientists and sociologists. It seeks to clarify the central terms of elite discourse, some of which have entered the everyday political vocabulary -- ’elitism’, ’power elite’, ’establishment’, ’elite consensus’, ’iron law of oligarchy’

Author: Paul Magnette
Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press
Keywords: press, classics, ecpr, interviewing, specialized, elite
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0954796675
ISBN-13: 9780954796679

Lewis Anthony Dexter (1915--1995) pioneered the use of specialized interviewing as a tool in the social sciences. He argued that interviewing persons who have specialized information about, or who have involvement with, any social or political processes is different from standardized interviewing. In ’elite’ interviewing the investigator must be willing to let the interviewee teach him what the problem, the question, or the situation is. He demonstrated that interviewing was a useful tool, but he also argued that it was not always the most appropriate method for revealing the infor