This book examines how mediators' relational characteristics, impartiality and interest, can alter the outcome of mediation in international militarized disputes. After uncovering the two dimensions of mediator trust, this book shows how the two relational characteristics of mediators' improve each dimension of the mediator trust.
The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update
As they have every four years since 1992, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch-now joined by John J. Pitney, Jr.-once again provide the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the presidential election.
Explores how UK politicians and the press mobilise support for 'austerity' through appealing to socially conservative conceptions of work and community. It examines the techniques of anti-austerity social movements in challenging the prevailing mood of guilt, nostalgia and resentment and how these may offer radical alternatives for social change.
This study examines the changes in the FY 2019 budget for each of the military services, DOD civilians, and contractors, how the budget shapes the forces, and the challenges ahead for building and maintaining the forces needed to implement the administration's stated strategy.
This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the country's identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.
This book looks at political themes in the classic television show I Love Lucy. The book discusses the culture of the 1950's in the context of the role of the housewife, social mobility, and the American dream.
This book explores the factors that explain incumbent and opposition behavior in electoral authoritarian regimes. It focuses on states in the post-Soviet region and finds variation in the types of manipulation, the formation of opposition coalitions as well as election boycotts.
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers regardless of the historical era or political persuasion.
This book reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. Through the narrative of the contributors, the book demonstrates how mourning is intertwined with politics and how politics involves a struggle over which losses and whose lives can, or should, be mourned.
