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Election Night News and Voter Turnout: Solving the Projection PuzzleWilliam C. Adams In eight of the past dozen presidential elections, TV networks proclaimed the winner while citizens on the West Coast, Hawaii, and Alaska were still casting ballots. Is this a problem? Do media projections decrease voter turnout? Carefully examining data from every presidential election held from 1960 through 2004, William Adams definitively answers both questions.
Adams employs a range of More > | |
Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South AfricaRachel Adams, et al. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), characterized by the growing utilization of new technologies, unquestionably is ushering in innovative solutions to myriad development challenges. At the same time, as the authors of Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Africa demonstrate, these new technologies can also come with drawbacks, particularly in relation to fundamental human More > | |
Campaign Finance in Local Elections: Buying the GrassrootsBrian E. Adams Even in local elections, money matters—but just how much? Drawing on multifaceted data from more than 700 races featuring 2,800 candidates, Brian Adams comprehensively investigates the role of money and the effects of campaign finance reforms at the local level.
Adams covers mayoral and city council races across several election cycles, offering analysis of cities representing a range of More > | |
Coming of Age in a Globalized World: The Next GenerationJ. Michael Adams and Angelo Carfagna J. Michael Adams and Angelo Carfagna emphasize the importance of education in a society that constantly faces challenges of change and conflict. Providing a comprehensive survey of current issues in global politics, they argue convincingly that, to succeed in today's environment, individuals must understand the driving forces of globalization and the trends that are likely to shape our future. More > | |
Women Aging in Prison: A Neglected Population in the Correctional SystemRonald H. Aday and Jennifer J. Krabill Ronald Aday and Jennifer Krabill offer a complete picture of the experience of older women prisoners and the distinct challenges these women present for correctional institutions.
The authors integrate their quantitative findings with the voices of individual inmates to explore essential concerns such as health, inmate and family relationships, prison adjustment, and end-of-life issues. They More > | |
UN Peacekeeping in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan ConflictsAdekeye Adebajo Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post–Cold War era have been in Africa, and the continent currently hosts the greatest number (and also the largest) of such missions in the world. Uniquely assessing five decades of UN peacekeeping in Africa, Adekeye Adebajo focuses on a series of questions: What accounts for the resurgence of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa after the Cold More > | |
West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled RegionAdekeye Adebajo and Ismail Rashid, editors Among the world's most unstable regions, West Africa in the last decade has experienced a web of conflicts with profound and wide-ranging effects. West Africa's Security Challenges is the first comprehensive assessment of the resulting mix of setbacks and progress.
The authors provide a context for understanding the region's security dilemmas, highlighting the link between failures of More > | |
Liberia's Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West AfricaAdekeye Adebajo Liberia's Civil War offers the most in-depth account available of one of the most baffling and intractable of Africa's conflicts.
Adekeye Adebajo unravels the tangled web of the conflict by addressing four questions: Why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throughout the seven-year civil war? To what extend was ECOMOG's intervention shaped by Nigeria's More > | |
Violent Ecotropes: Petroculture in the Niger DeltaPhilip Aghoghovwia Environmental devastation. Local militancy. Smuggling. Violence. All of these describe the Niger Delta, the crude-oil extraction center of Nigeria. Philip Aghoghovwia offers a unique interpretation of the region's petroviolence, examining the cultural aspects of the extraction industry in the societies within which it operates.
As he considers the charged and often clashing contexts of the More > | |
NGOs in International PoliticsShamima Ahmed and David M. Potter NGOs in International Politics surveys the full spectrum of NGO activities and relationships in a manner accessible to undergraduate students.
In Part 1 of the book, the authors discuss nongovernmental organizations in light of IR theories, survey the development of NGOs, and highlight their relations with states, international organizations, and international politics overall. The case studies More > |