Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “eric m uslaner”
Skip side bar filters

  • Institutions and Social Order

    Edited by Karol Soltan, Virginia Haufler, Eric M. Uslaner ...
    "Institutionalism" is the buzzword of the 1980s and 1990s in the social sciences. What is new in the contemporary analysis of institutions and what does it offer to the study of social order? In this book a distinguished group of social scientists drawn from political science, economics, and sociology, explore this question and show us how different theoretical approaches to institutional analysis ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • National Identity and Partisan Polarization

    by Eric M. Uslaner ...
    National Identity Identity and Partisan Polarization examines how national identity has become a central issue in political and social life across the world. Questions of identity--who should be counted as a "true member" of a society and who deserves assistance from the government--have displaced other social and economic issues across nations in many countries. This study considers the role of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust

    Edited by Eric M. Uslaner ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy, elections, international relations, corruption, and cooperation, among myriad societal factors. ... Read more

    $165.59 USD

  • Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia

    Edited by Chong-Min Park, Eric M. Uslaner ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Bringing together scholars of inequality, both inside and outside of Asia, this book examines how the distribution of income has affected political institutions, representation, and behaviour in Asia.Through detailed data analysis, the international team of contributors engages with the existing literature, arguing that the connection between inequality and political institutions is much more ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The 2012 Presidential Election

    Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences

    by Robert S. Erikson, James D. King, Jeffrey E. Cohen, Jon R. Bond, Richard Fleisher, Eric M. Uslaner, James W. Riddlesperger Jr., David P. Redlawsk ...
    Though many analyses of the 2012 presidential election have emerged, none can match this collection's depth, diversity, or ability to critically and soundly argue where American politics will go from this point forward. This volume includes some of the most recognized scholars in the field and innovative younger scholars who provide a fresh perspective on the election. It is a diverse and award ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Historical Roots of Corruption

    Mass Education, Economic Inequality, and State Capacity

    by Eric M. Uslaner ...
    Why does corruption persist over long periods of time? Why is it so difficult to eliminate? Suggesting that corruption is deeply rooted in the underlying social and historical political structures of a country, Uslaner observes that there is a powerful statistical relationship between levels of mass education in 1870 and corruption levels in 2010 across 78 countries. He argues that an early ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life

    Edited by Paul Dekker, Eric M. Uslaner ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This timely volume puts emphasis on the effect of social capital on everyday life: how the routines of daily life lead people to get involved in their communities. Focussing on its micro-level causes and consequences, the book's international contributors argue that social capital is fundamentally concerned with the value of social networks and about how people interact with each other. The book ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Segregation and Mistrust

    Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion

    by Eric M. Uslaner ...
    Generalized trust – faith in people you do not know who are likely to be different from you – is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet some scholars now argue that trust is lower when we are surrounded by people who are different from us. Eric M. Uslaner challenges this view and argues that residential segregation, rather than diversity, leads to lower levels of trust. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Great Experiment

    Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    **One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer“[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum**“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer“A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Social Work

    Towards Rights-Based Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Social Movements 2e

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD