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Comparative Politics: A Practical Guide for a Globalizing World

Contributors: Oberle, Kelley, Robson, Cook, Pepin, Brimhall, Patten, Williams, and Chambers

Publisher: Colorado Mesa University

License: CC BY-NC

Comparative Politics: A Practical Guide for a Globalizing World is perhaps the first to be written with an emphasis on case studies from the Global South and other alternative perspectives in comparative politics. This text focuses on themes and case studies that are often missing in more traditional comparative politics textbooks, and thus is best accompanied by other resources to give students a foundation in the fundamentals.

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Government Powers and Limitations - 1st Edition

Contributors: Clairmont, Derstine, Metzdorf, Kemp, Thomison, Vidal, DePuy, and Solberg

Publisher: Oregon State University

License: CC BY

This volume focuses on constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of government powers and limitations. It includes excerpts of landmark cases related to the judiciary and executive, contracts and takings clauses, and due process. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to government powers and limitations with other questions of law and dicta omitted.

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Polimetrics: A Stata Companion to Introduction to Political Science Research Methods - 1st Edition

Contributor: Franco

Publisher: Open Political Science (OPoliSci)

License: CC BY-NC

Polimetrics: A Stata Companion, authored by Dr. Josh Franco, is an Open Education Resource workbook licensed CC BY-NC and designed as a Stata companion to Introduction to Political Science Research Methods.

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Romance Lands and Conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Contributor: Johnson

Publisher: Montana State University

License: CC BY

To fully grasp the significance of this story we explore the history of the West, the development of Yellowstone National Park, something about the discipline of conservation biology and related policy sciences, Grizzly bear recovery, and eventually the contemporary economy and social setting of the region. The Greater Yellowstone is a model of how to build a regional system of international importance and local well-being.

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America: The User’s Manual - Third Edition

Contributor: Kantack

Publisher: Tekakwitha Press

License: CC BY-NC

This is a free textbook written for introductory undergraduate courses in American politics. It may also be suitable for precocious high school students, as well as for non-students who want to learn how American government works.

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Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics - 1st edition

Contributors: Bozonelos, Wendt, and Lee

Publisher: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

License: CC BY-NC

Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics, 1st edition, is an Open Education Resource Textbook that surveys contemporary comparative politics.

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Conflict, War and Revolution: the problem of politics in international political thought

Contributor: Kelly

Publisher: LSE Press

License: CC BY

Violence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the late 18th century major revolutions across the world have further challenged the idea of the state as a final arbiter of international order. This book discusses ten major thinkers who have questioned and re-shaped how we think about politics, violence and relations between states – Thucydides, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Clausewitz, Lenin and Mao, and Schmitt.

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Introduction to Political Science Research Methods - 1st Edition

Contributors: Franco, Lee, and Vue

Publisher: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

License: CC BY-NC

Introduction to Political Science Research Methods, authored by Dr. Josh Franco, Dr. Charlotte Lee, Kau Vue, Dr. Dino Bozonelos, Dr. Masahiro Omae, and Dr. Steven Cauchon, is an Open Education Resource textbook licensed CC BY-NC that surveys the research methods employed in political science. The textbook includes chapters that cover: history and development of the empirical study of politics; the scientific method; theories, hypotheses, variables, and units; conceptualization, operationalization and measurement of political concepts; elements of research design including the logic of sampling; qualitative and quantitative research methods and means of analysis; and research ethics.

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Public Policy: Origins, Practice, and Analysis

Contributors: Martin, Lee Jr., and Hall

Publisher: University of North Georgia Press

License: CC BY-SA

Public Policy: Origins, Practice, and Analysis

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A la defensa del disenso - 1st Edition

Contributor: Borradaile

Publisher: Oregon State University

License: CC BY-NC

A la defensa del disenso es una introducción a la criptografía que atiende los efectos sociales de la vigilancia, así como el potencial de protección que brinda el cifrado, con un enfoque en los movimientos sociales nacidos en Estados Unidos. Cada capítulo termina con una historia que aporta un contexto social al material: desde la vigilancia contra protestas contemporáneas en Estados Unidos, hasta la forma en que el Congreso Nacional Africano usó cifrado parcialmente manual para luchar contra el Apartheid en la Sudáfrica de los años 80 del siglo pasado.

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