Political Science
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From  Investigating PluralityFrom: The Politics of Voting |
Outline of the workings of the current plurality voting system and exploration of its implications for voters, parties and the political system in support of an argument that it is not defensible. | Dennis Pilon | 23 | 2007 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Involvement of the Federal Government and SSHRCFrom: No Debate |
In this chapter, Thompson examines how federal pressure shaped the outcome of a 2009 academic conference on statehood in Israel and Palestine at York University in Toronto. | Jon Thompson | 41 | 2012 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Iran |
Chapter Twelve focuses on Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It removed Iran as a sphere of exploitation for US investors and created a new pole of resistance to the US imperialist … | Stephen Gowans | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Iran, 1953 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1953 CIA-engineered coup in Iran, which toppled Prime Minister Mossadegh and restored the Pahlavi shah to power. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Iran: Out of the Cold?From: Oil and World Politics |
Analyzes Iran as an independent regional power with immense oil and gas resources and a century-long history of Western interference. Recent disputes centred on the Western assumption that Iran … | John Foster | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From Iraq: A Quest for ControlFrom: Oil and World Politics |
Documents the official reasons for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the quest for control of Iraq’s oil wealth. The post-2003 Iraqi government resisted opening oil to foreign ownership, … | John Foster | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Ireland: How Government Transparency Unlocks Economic Growth, Evaluating how freedom of information laws produce prosperity and economic |
In this chapter, Malone examines how Ireland’s 1998 Freedom of InformationAct, born from corruption tribunals, fostered transparent governance and economic growth during the Celtic Tiger era. | Matt Malone | 27 | 2026 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Is Human Behaviour the Result of Our Biology?From: How Societies Work |
Joanne Naiman | 20 | 2012 | $3.20 Add | |
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From  NEW! Is money enough?The Trudeau record on health care From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s record on health care. | Hugh Armstrong; Pat Armstrong | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Is Race Political?From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
2008 article by Debra Thompson arguing that race is a social and political construction, but that it is largely neglected by political science scholarship. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
 Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?The Munk Debate on Geopolitics |
Be it resolved, the liberal international order is over… Since the end of World War II, global affairs have been shaped by three broad trends: the increasing free movement of people and … | Fareed Zakaria; Niall Ferguson; Rudyard Griffiths | 106 | 2017 | View |
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From Is This the End of the Liberal International Order? |
This reading consists of a transcript of the Munk Debate on Global Geopolitics. The resolution being debated is "The Liberal International Order is Over". Arguing the pro side is … | Fareed Zakaria; Niall Ferguson; Rudyard Griffiths | 46 | 2017 | $5.52 Add |
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From NEW! Is this what a feminist policy looks like?Foreign aid under the Trudeau government From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter looks at the Trudeau government’s record on foreign aid and international development. | Stephen Brown | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Islamist TerrorismAssessing Threats to Democracy From: In The Balance |
Assesses the challenges that Islamist terrorism pose to Western democracies by considering the threat of jihadist terrorism and post-9/11 developments. The question of what role the law can play … | Lorenzo Vidino | 9 | 2011 | $0.90 Add |
Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle EastFrom European Colony to US Power Projection Platform |
One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft … | Stephen Gowans | 252 | 2019 | View |
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From  NEW! Israeli Apartheid Week: Popular Dissent, Creative InterventionPart II: Insights for Possible Futures |
In Chapter 4, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh examines the unique challenges facing those who assert Palestinian rights in Canada, by examining Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) and what has made it such a … | Rana Nazzal Hamadeh | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
