A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science Through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture - Couverture souple

Van Belle, Douglas A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1483368491 ISBN 13 : 9781483368498

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2015

Synopsis

A Novel Approach to Politics turns the conventional textbook wisdom on its head. This is a textbook students want to read.

With this new edition, Van Belle brings the book fully up-to-date with recent events, elections, current policy debates, international happenings, and other assorted intergalactic matters. Van Belle adds a wealth of new and recent movies and books to the text, as he illustrates key concepts in political science through examples that captivate students. Employing a wide range of references from 1984 to Game of Thrones to House of Cards, students are given a very solid grounding in institutions, ideology, and economics.

The textbook bits and pieces are still there to aid students―chapter objectives, chapter summaries, bolded key terms, and discussion questions. Retained for this edition, ′′The Thinkers in Boxes" feature calls out pivotal political philosophers, theorists, and assorted hipsters.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Douglas A. Van Belle is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He was the first person to have served as the president of both the Foreign Policy Analysis and the International Communication research sections in the International Studies Association. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Perspectives and Foreign Policy Analysis and has conducted extensive research on media systems and information flows in international politics. He created the press freedom data set that precedes this study, to examine the effect of media freedom on international conflict, as exemplified by “Press Freedom and the Democratic Peace” (Journal of Peace Research). That initial analysis was expanded to complete Press Freedom and Global Politics (Praeger), which provides the foundation for the extension conducted here. Studies of popular media and political theory led to the undergraduate textbook, A Novel Approach to Politics, which is now in its 4th edition. Also, before returning to the analysis of media freedom with this project, he conducted a series of studies examining the relationship between information flows, disasters, and foreign aid, including Media, Bureaucracies and Foreign Aid (Palgrave: With Potter and Rioux).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1483368491
• ISBN 13: 9781483368498
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 536
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible