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Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency

Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226555550
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency written by Doug McAdam and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement. In his new introduction, McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action. "[A] first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community."—Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History "A fresh, rich, and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States."—James W. Lamare, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Interrogating Public Policy Theory

Author : Linda Courtenay Botterill
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784710083
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Interrogating Public Policy Theory written by Linda Courtenay Botterill and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the way policy making has been distanced from politics in prevailing theories of the policy process, and highlights the frequently overlooked ubiquity of values and values conflicts in politics and policy. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of current theories, reviews the illusions of rationalism in politics, and explores the way values are implicated throughout the democratic process, from voter choice to policy decisions. It argues that our understanding of public policy is enhanced by recognizing its intrinsically political and value-laden nature.

Theories Of The Policy Process

Author : Christopher M. Weible
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000899799
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Theories Of The Policy Process written by Christopher M. Weible and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory. In this thoroughly revised fifth edition, each chapter has been updated to reflect recent empirical work, innovative theorizing, and a world facing challenges of historic proportions with climate change, social and political inequities, and pandemics, among recent events. Updated and revised chapters include Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Multiple Streams Framework, Policy Feedback Theory, Advocacy Coalition Framework, Narrative Policy Framework, Institutional and Analysis and Development Framework, and Diffusion and Innovation. This fifth edition includes an entirely new chapter on the Ecology of Games Framework. New authors have been added to most chapters to diversify perspectives and make this latest edition the most internationalized yet. Across the chapters, revisions have clarified concepts and theoretical arguments, expanded and extended the theories’ scope, summarized lessons learned and knowledge gained, and addressed the relevancy of policy process theories. Theories of the Policy Process has been, and remains, the quintessential gateway to the field of policy process research for students, scholars, and practitioners. It’s ideal for those enrolled in policy process courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and those conducting research or undertaking practice in the subject.

Introduction to the Policy Process

Author : Birkland
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765627310
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Policy Process written by Birkland and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised, reorganized, updated, and expanded, this widely-used text sets the balance and fills the gap between theory and practice in public policy studies. In a clear, conversational style, the author conveys the best current thinking on the policy process with an emphasis on accessibility and synthesis rather than novelty or abstraction. A newly added chapter surveys the social, economic, and demographic trends that are transforming the policy environment.

Democracy and Distrust

Author : John Hart Ely
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674263294
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Distrust written by John Hart Ely and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981-08-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the complexities of modern life? Until now legal experts have proposed two basic approaches to the Constitution. The first, “interpretivism,” maintains that we should stick as closely as possible to what is explicit in the document itself. The second, predominant in recent academic theorizing, argues that the courts should be guided by what they see as the fundamental values of American society. John Hart Ely demonstrates that both of these approaches are inherently incomplete and inadequate. Democracy and Distrust sets forth a new and persuasive basis for determining the role of the Supreme Court today. Ely’s proposal is centered on the view that the Court should devote itself to assuring majority governance while protecting minority rights. “The Constitution,” he writes, “has proceeded from the sensible assumption that an effective majority will not unreasonably threaten its own rights, and has sought to assure that such a majority not systematically treat others less well than it treats itself. It has done so by structuring decision processes at all levels in an attempt to ensure, first, that everyone’s interests will be represented when decisions are made, and second, that the application of those decisions will not be manipulated so as to reintroduce in practice the sort of discrimination that is impermissible in theory.” Thus, Ely’s emphasis is on the procedural side of due process, on the preservation of governmental structure rather than on the recognition of elusive social values. At the same time, his approach is free of interpretivism’s rigidity because it is fully responsive to the changing wishes of a popular majority. Consequently, his book will have a profound impact on legal opinion at all levels—from experts in constitutional law, to lawyers with general practices, to concerned citizens watching the bewildering changes in American law.

A Political Theory Primer

Author : Peter C. Ordeshook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000066541
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Theory Primer written by Peter C. Ordeshook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992, A Political Theory Primer is designed as an introductory course for students in the application of game theory to modeling political processes. Examining those very phenomena that power political machineries--elections, legislative and committee processes, and international conflict--the book attempts to answer fundamental questions about their nature and function. Included at the end of each chapter is a set of exercises designed to allow students to practice the construction and analysis of political models. Although the text assumes only training at the basic algebra level, the student who completes a course around this text will be equipped to read nearly all the professional literature that makes use of game-theoretic analysis. Each chapter also contains suggestiosn for further reading for those students who want to broaden their learning and expertise.

The Pure Theory of Politics

Author : Bertrand de Jouvenel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865972643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book The Pure Theory of Politics written by Bertrand de Jouvenel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concluding volume in the trilogy that begins with On Power and moves to Sovereignty, Bertrand de Jouvenel proposes to remedy a serious deficiency in political science, namely: the lack of agreement on first principles, or 'elements'. The author's concern is with political processes as they actually exist, not as they are conjectured to be in hypothetical models.

Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements

Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485166
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements written by Doug McAdam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their authors are amongst the leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements.

Foundations of Social and Political Processes

Author : Johan K. de Vree
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Social and Political Processes written by Johan K. de Vree and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neopluralism

Author : Andrew S. McFarland
Publisher : Studies in Government and Public Policy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Neopluralism written by Andrew S. McFarland and published by Studies in Government and Public Policy. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the basic issues of political science have been addressed by pluralist theory, which focuses on the competing interests of a democratic polity, their organization, and their influence on policy. Andrew McFarland shows that this approach still provides a promising foundation for understanding the American political process.

Political Bargaining

Author : Gideon Doron
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446234312
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Political Bargaining written by Gideon Doron and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-03-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today. It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights to modern political science. The authors trace the prevalence of bargaining processes in politics from the abstract level of individual human interaction and the `state of nature′ to the more concrete political or institutionalized level. They introduce students to theory -- the basic models of game theory, rational choice theory and positivist approaches; practice -- the practical manifestations of political bargaining in everyday national and international political life; and process -- its setting, the interests of the players involved, the conditions and properties that affect their calculations and, consequently, their ability to obtain desired outcomes. Political Bargaining provides students with the basic tools for learning about and participating in politics today by richly illustrating how the authoritative allocation of scarce resources is arrived at through a complex bargaining process between competing interests in society. It will be essential reading for student and lecturer alike across political science and the social sciences more widely.

An Introduction to the Policy Process

Author : Thomas A Birkland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317476719
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Policy Process written by Thomas A Birkland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised, reorganized, updated, and expanded, this widely-used text sets the balance and fills the gap between theory and practice in public policy studies. In a clear, conversational style, the author conveys the best current thinking on the policy process with an emphasis on accessibility and synthesis rather than novelty or abstraction. A newly added chapter surveys the social, economic, and demographic trends that are transforming the policy environment.

Strategy and Politics

Author : Emerson Niou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317563115
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Strategy and Politics written by Emerson Niou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students with no background in formal theory to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible text covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the reader constantly in touch with why political science as a whole would benefit from considering this method. Examining the very phenomena that power political machineries—elections, legislative and committee processes, and international conflict, the book attempts to answer fundamental questions about their nature and function in a clear, accessible manner. Included at the end of each chapter is a set of exercises designed to allow students to practice the construction and analysis of political models. Although the text assumes only an elementary-level training in algebra, students who complete a course around this text will be equipped to read nearly all of the professional literature that makes use of game theoretic analysis.

Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420017004
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Public Policy Analysis written by Frank Fischer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of public policy and the methods of policy analysis are among the most rapidly developing areas in the social sciences. Policy analysis has emerged to provide a better understanding of the policymaking process and to supply decision makers with reliable policy-relevant knowledge about pressing economic and social problems. Presenting a broad, comprehensive perspective, the Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods covers the historical development of policy analysis, its role in the policy process, and empirical methods. The handbook considers the theory generated by these methods and the normative and ethical issues surrounding their practice. Written by leading experts in the field, this book- Deals with the basic origins and evolution of public policy Examines the stages of the policy-making process Identifies political advocacy and expertise in the policy process Focuses on rationality in policy decision-making and the role of policy networks and learning Details argumentation, rhetoric, and narratives Explores the comparative, cultural, and ethical aspects of public policy Explains primary quantitative-oriented analytical methods employed in policy research Addresses the qualitative sides of policy analysis Discusses tools used to refine policy choices Traces the development of policy analysis in selected national contexts The Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods describes the theoretical debates that have recently defined the field, including the work of postpositivist, interpretivist, and social constructionist scholars. This book also explores the interplay between empirical and normative analysis, a crucial issue running through contemporary debates.

Social Movements and Organization Theory

Author : Gerald F. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139444190
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Social Movements and Organization Theory written by Gerald F. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becoming more movement-like - more volatile and politicized - while movements are more likely to borrow strategies from organizations. Organization theory and social movement theory are two of the most vibrant areas within the social sciences. This collection of original essays and studies both calls for a closer connection between these fields and demonstrates the value of this interchange. Three introductory, programmatic essays by leading scholars in the two fields are followed by eight empirical studies that directly illustrate the benefits of this type of cross-pollination. The studies variously examine the processes by which movements become organized and the role of movement processes within and among organizations. The topics covered range from globalization and transnational social movement organizations to community recycling programs.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

Author : John S Dryzek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199548439
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory written by John S Dryzek and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.

Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements

Author : Karl-Dieter Opp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134014392
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements written by Karl-Dieter Opp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The book has three objectives: (1) Many basic concepts like political opportunities or identity are not clearly defined. It is further often a matter of interpretation what factors are supposed to affect which phenomena. The first aim is therefore to provide a detailed introduction to and a clear restatement of the theories. Only then is it possible to assess and improve them. (2) For each theory the major strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and various modifications and extensions are suggested. (3) Building on these analyses, it is shown how the theories can be integrated into a single theoretical paradigm: the structural-cognitive model.