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Author : Jack C. Plano,Milton Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : 0030167361
Author : Jack C. Plano,Milton Greenberg
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020748524
This classic textbook has been a vital supplement in American government classes for 35 years. Much more than a dictionary, the comprehensive information provided for each term qualifies The American Political Dictionary, Tenth Edition, as a reference book. Professor Plano's extensive experience in writing political dictionaries is evident in this scholarly, interpretive, current edition. Appropriate as a supplement in the introductory course in American government. This textbook could also supplement various texts in such courses as Legislative Process, The American Executive, Constitutional Law, and Foreign Policy.
Author : William Safire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199711116
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work has been revised and updated and scores of completely new entries have been added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. From Axis of Evil, Blame Game, Bridge to Nowhere, Triangulation, and Compassionate Conservatism to Islamofascism, Netroots, Earmark, Wingnuts and Moonbats, Slam Dunk, Doughnut Hole, and many others, this language maven explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship.
Author : Grant Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195304470
Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
Author : Jack Charles PLANO (and GREENBERG (Milton))
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1079303208
Author : Duncan Watts
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748635023
This Dictionary offers a fresh, up-to-date look at US government and politics, explaining and where necessary demystifying the key terms used in discussion of the political system.Major figures, events, ideas, movements and Supreme Court cases relevant to a study of the American political system are included with the aim of allowing readers to develop a deeper knowledge and understanding of the area. The Dictionary also raises key issues and areas of contention and academic debate.Coverage is comprehensive, with c.400 entries, each providing analysis of the subject. Terms are presented in an A-Z format with cross-referencing where appropriate.
Author : Everit Brown,Albert Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Political science
ISBN : UCAL:$B139256
Author : Hans Sperber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Political science
ISBN : OCLC:504164391
Author : Glenn H. Utter,Charles Lockhart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313015762
This dictionary offers the only comprehensive collection of profiles of American political scientists, each of whom contributed significantly to the intellectual development of American political science from its beginnings in the late-19th century to the present. This second edition includes 22 new and 110 revised entries, reflecting new scholarship that emerged during the 1990s. Numerous experts helped the editors develop this consensus group of the 193 political scientists who have made the most important theoretical contributions over the years, with attention to varied approaches and the different subfields. Alphabetically arranged entries focus on the main ideas and major works by each scholar, listing list the most important publications by and about the individual. There are numerous cross-references to show how the work of one scholar has influenced another in the discipline. Appendices list the political scientists by degree-granting institutions and by major fields. A short bibliography points to important general readings about the profession. A general index makes this major reference easily accessible for broad interdisciplinary research.
Author : Peter Calvert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135355685
This Dictionary provides an impartial and valuable background to the Latin American region, vital for anyone interested in the current affairs, recent history and economy of this vast area. Entries provide definitions of terms, concepts, names and organizations key to discussions of Central and South America. Covering some 48 countries and territories, this volume offers a unique insight to the political and economic dimensions of this diverse region.
Author : Phil Gunson,Greg Chamberlain,Andrew Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317270546
First published in 1991, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Central America and the Caribbean provides a guide to the most important organizations, figures, events and themes in the contemporary politics of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The countries covered include Mexico, Guatamala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St Vincent, St Lucia, Dominica, St Kitt’s-Nevis, Antigua and Puerto Rico. The background information supplied in the book explains how, for many in Central America, the guerrilla wars have merely been the intensification of a conflict previously fought by the likes of Nicaragua’s Sandino or the Salvadorean Farabundo Marti, and before them by the Indian leaders who resisted the Spanish settlement. Although first published in 1991, this book will be a valuable resource for journalists, students, diplomats, business people, and anyone else who is interested in the politics of this richly diverse continent.
Author : Walter John Raymond
Publisher : Brunswick Publishing Corp
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : 155618008X
Author : Jeffrey M. Elliot,Sheikh R. Ali
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434492340
When you want to know what's happening in the White House or on Capitol Hill, turn to this objective, comprehensive resource for concise answers to your questions.
Author : Chuck McCutcheon,David Mark
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781611686036
To the amusement of the pundits and the regret of the electorate, our modern political jargon has become even more brazenly two-faced and obfuscatory than ever. Where once we had Muckrakers, now we have Bed-Wetters. Where Blue Dogs once slept peaceably in the sun, Attack Dogs now roam the land. During election season--a near constant these days--the coded rhetoric of candidates and their spin doctors, and the deliberately meaningless but toxic semiotics of the wing nuts and backbenchers, reach near-Orwellian levels of self-satisfaction, vitriol, and deceit. The average NPR or talk radio listener, MSNBC or Fox News viewer, or blameless New York Times or Wall Street Journal reader is likely to be perplexed, nonplussed, and lulled into a state of apathetic resignation and civic somnolence by the rapid-fire incomprehensibility of political pronouncement and commentary--which is, frankly, putting us exactly where the pundits want us. Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes is a tonic and a corrective. It is a reference and field guide to the language of politics by two veteran observers that not only defines terms and phrases but also explains their history and etymology, describes who uses them against whom, and why, and reveals the most telling, infamous, amusing, and shocking examples of their recent use. It is a handbook of lexicography for the Wonkette and This Town generation, a sleeker, more modern Safire's Political Dictionary, and a concise, pointed, bipartisan guide to the lies, obfuscations, and helical constructions of modern American political language, as practiced by real-life versions of the characters on House of Cards.
Author : Antony Jay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019280071X
B'funny, striking, thought-provoking and incisive ... will appeal to those browsing through it as least as much as to those who wish to use it as a work of reference' Observer 'Completely captures the comic aspect of politics while still presenting some serious messages ... It is hard to stop browsing once you start' Daily Mail 'This reader devoured it from cover to cover, discovering ... some excellent and unfamiliar quotations ... it fills a serious gap.' Financial Times 'Marshalled with wit and meticulous attribution of sources' Guardian 'full of good one-liners' Sunday Telegraph This lively and illuminating dictionary presents a vintage crop of over 4,000 quotations reflecting every facet of political life. Examples range from the pivotal and momentous to the rhetorical, the sincere, the bemused, the tongue-in-cheek, and the downright rude, with memorable words from theold hands as well as from contemporary politicians. 'Politics is just like showbusiness, you have a hell of an opening, coast for a while and then have a hell of a close.' Ronald Reagan 'A big cat detained briefly in a poodle parlour, sharpening her claws on the velvet.' Matthew Parris of Lady Thatcher in the House of Lords