Research Guides: Political Science: Find Books

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Political Science Call Numbers

Call numbers are a combination of letters and numbers that indicate the location of an item in the library. Call numbers at the Wardman Library are organized in groups according to the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. Because they are grouped by number, this means that you can find books on similar topics in the same area of the library.

J General Legislative and Executive Papers
JA Political Science (General)
JC Political Theory
JF to JQ Political Institutions and Public Administration
JS Local Government. Municipal Government
JV Colonies and Colonization. Emigration and Immigration. International Migration
JX International Law (Obsolete; No Longer Used at the Library of Congress)
JZ International Relations

Google Book Search

Many of the books in Google Book Search and the Internet Archive (and especially those with older copyrights) are available online in their entirety; others are partially readable online, but in many cases, relevant pages will be viewable.

Recently Added e-Books

Climate Change from the Streets : How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement by Méndez, Michael (Michael Anthony)
ISBN: 9780300249378
Publication Date: 2020
An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions and relationships-and all the competing interests and power struggles that this implies. Michael Méndez tells a timely story of people, place, and power in the context of climate change and inequality.
Corbynism by Matt Bolton; Frederick Harry Pitts
ISBN: 9781787543720
Publication Date: 2018-09-24
From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised, but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. This book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its alternatives that unites the component parts of the Corbyn movement. It decodes the central tenets of the Corbynist worldview, showing their coherence with contemporary political-economic shifts and conspiratorial understandings of global capitalism as a'rigged system'common to populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit.
COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age by Monti, Andrea
ISBN: 9780367560232
Publication Date: 2021
COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age explores how states and societies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term implications for public policy and the rule of law globally. It examines the extent to which existing methods of protecting public safety and national security measure up in a time of crisis. The volume also examines how these ideas themselves have undergone transformation in the context of the global crisis.
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society by David Hume; Angela Coventry (Editor); Andrew Valls (Editor)
ISBN: 9780300240504
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hume's moral, political, and social philosophy. Editors Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls bring together a selection of writings from Hume's most important works, with contributors placing them in their appropriate context and offering a lively discourse on the relevance of Hume's thought to contemporary subjects like reason's dependence on emotion and the importance of social convention in political and economic behavior.
Good Government by Pierre Rosanvallon; Malcolm DeBevoise (Translator)
ISBN: 9780674979437
Publication Date: 2018-03-09
Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures that only the affluent have voice in legislation. Europeans, meanwhile, increasingly see the European Union as an anti-democratic body whose “diktats” have no basis in popular rule. The response, however, has not been an effective pursuit of better representation. In Good Government, Pierre Rosanvallon examines the long history of the alternative to which the public has gravitated.
News on the Right by Anthony Nadler (Volume Editor); A. J. Bauer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780190913533
Publication Date: 2019-11-07
From the National Review to Breitbart, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, conservative news is an inescapable feature of modern politics. Since the early days of mass communication, right-wing media producers have blended reporting with commentary, narrating the news of the day from a perspective informed by conservative worldviews and partisanship. News on the Right seeks to initiate a new interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focused on the study of right-wing media and conservative news.
Political Corruption in a World in Transition by Jonathan Mendilow (Editor); Eric Phélippeau (Editor)
ISBN: 9781622733323
Publication Date: 2019-10-31
This book argues that the mainstream definitions of corruption, and the key expectations they embed concerning the relationship between corruption, democracy, and the process of democratization, require reexamination. Even critics who did not consider stable institutions and legal clarity of veteran democracies as a cure-all, assumed that the process of widening the influence on government decision making and implementation allows non-elites to defend their interests, define the acceptable sources and uses of wealth, and demand government accountability.
Self-Regulation and Human Progress by Evan Osborne
ISBN: 9780804796446
Publication Date: 2018-01-23
Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit. Less known is the fact that this theory arose after arguments for the scientific method and freedom of speech had gone mainstream—and that all three share a common basis. Proponents of self-regulation in the realm of free speech have argued that unhindered public expression causes true ideas to gain strength through scrutiny. Similarly, scientific inquiry has been regarded as a self-correcting system, one in which competing hypotheses are verified by multiple independent researchers.
Social Democratic Capitalism by Lane Kenworthy
ISBN: 9780190064112
Publication Date: 2019-11-01
What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing? The historical and comparative evidence suggests that the answer is social democratic capitalism - a democratic political system, a capitalist economy, good elementary and secondary schooling, a big welfare state, pro-employment public services, and moderate regulation of product and labor markets. In Social Democratic Capitalism, Lane Kenworthy shows that this system improves living standards for the least well-off, enhances economic security, and boosts equality of opportunity.