45 Political Science
Theory
Democratization through the looking glass
Democratization through the looking glass argues that our perspectives on democratization reflect the intellectual origins of the inquiry. How we see and understand it are influenced by what we ‘bring to the table’. By considering democratization across a range of disciplines from anthropology and economics, to sociology, law and area studies, this volume offers a rich combination of analytical frameworks, distinctive insights and leading points of concern. This political science text has been positively-reviewed and peer-edited.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 1AA3/2I03/3VV3.
Nationalism, Self-determination and Secession
This text on nationalism covers salient issues in the nation-building using themes of nationalism, self-determination, and secession to tie nation-building in with world politics. It covers introductory concepts in politics, from statehood to national self-determination.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 3M03.
International Relations Theory
This LibreText on international relations theory text covers introductory concepts in political science. It covers concepts in political science, from constructivism to postcolonialism.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 2I03/2O06/3CC3 and ARTSCI 2A06.
Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies
This political science text covers salient issues in popular culture and world politics. It covers concepts in popular culture, from comics to video games.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 2MN3.
Realism in Practice
This politics text covers issues in realism using a practical approach. It covers concepts in realism, from the refugee crisis to peaceful change.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 2O06/4GC3.
Democracy in Brief
This democracy text covers introductory concepts in democracy, from rights change to political parties.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 1AA3/3VV3.
American Government
Global Political Issues
Global Women’s Issues: Women in the World Today
This global politics text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers concepts in women’s political issues, from women and education to the rights of children.
Includes: Key terms, summaries, multiple choices questions, discussion questions and essay questions.
May suit: GENDRST 1AA3 and POLSCI 3V03.
Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics
This politics text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in epistemologies of global politics, from decolonial feminism to ontological violence.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLISCI 2I03.
Environment, Climate Change and International Relations
This world international relations text covers introductory concepts in climate politics, from fossil fuel divestment to global climate finance.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 3GC3 and ENVSOCTY 3EG3.
Critical Perspectives on Migration in the Twenty-First Century
This migration text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers concepts in 21st-century migration, from human rights to the 2015 migrant crisis.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 3K03.
Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two Country Perspective
This migration text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It focuses on the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the ongoing war for Crimea, covering introductory concepts in migration studies, from geopolitical fault-lines to labour migration.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 3K03.
Middle-Eastern Politics
Keys to Understanding the Middle East
This Middle-Eastern politics text has been positively-reviewed. It covers introductory concepts in Middle-Eastern politics, from religious identity to stateless nations.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
The Arab Spring of Discontent
This Middle-Eastern politics text has been positively-reviewed. It covers concepts in the Arab Spring, from tensions in Tunisia to the fall of the Egyptian regime.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
The R2P: Challenges and Opportunities in Light of the Libyan Intervention
This text has been positively-reviewed. It covers the Liberian intervention, from the revolution to peacemaking.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century: A Living Document in a Changing World
This rights text has been positively-reviewed. It covers concepts in the UDHR, from the conception of the UDHR to the implementation of human rights.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 1AB3/4HR3.
Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law
This human rights text has been positively-reviewed. It covers concepts in rights, from mechanisms to protect human rights to China’s development banks in Asia.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, and summaries.
May suit: POLSCI 4HR3.
Introduction to Political Science
OpenStax Introduction to Political Science provides a strong foundation in global political systems, exploring how and why political realities unfold. Rich with examples of individual and national social action, this text emphasizes students’ role in the political sphere and equips them to be active and informed participants in civil society.
Includes: Videos, key terms, summaries, review questions, suggested readings, and instructor resources (test bank, lecture slides and manual).
May suit: POLSCI 1AA3/1AB3.
The Cause and Consequences of Human Trafficking: Human Rights Violations
This text is intended to convey the importance of understanding how the violation of human rights is a cause and consequence of human trafficking.
Includes: Key words, definitions, images, interactive quiz items, case studies, summaries, and supplemental learning materials.
May suit: POLSCI 4HR3.
American Government 3e
American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundamental principles of institutional design at the founding, to avenues of political participation, to thorough coverage of the political structures that constitute American government.
Includes: Summaries, key terms, review questions, critical thinking questions, suggestions for further study, and instructor resources (answer guide, lecture slides and key terms Quizlet).
May suit: POLSCI 2US3.
Attenuated Democracy
A critical introduction to U.S. government and politics.
Includes: Critical thinking (what if) questions.
May suit: POLSCI 2US3.
The Basics of American Government (Second Edition)
The Basics of American Government is a collaborative effort among eight current and one former faculty members in the Departments of Political Science & International Affairs and Criminal Justice at the University of North Georgia. The purpose of this book is to offer a no-frills, low-cost, yet comprehensive overview of the American political system for students taking introductory courses in American national government
May suit: POLSCI 2US3.
Political Ideologies and Worldviews: An Introduction
This open educational resource (OER) brings together Canadian and international scholars in a contemporary, pluralistic volume introducing undergraduates in a variety of relevant disciplines to political ideologies and worldviews. This introductory volume is also suitable for a wider general audience. This volume is the first of its kind, a fully open textbook on political worldviews that deals with the historical development of classical ideologies, while expanding and updating the subject using contemporary political examples and non-Eurocentric examinations of ideology. The volume includes chapters on Indigenous worldviews, Confucianism, and the future of ideology in the emerging global order.
Includes: Discussion questions.
May suit: POLSCI 2O06.
Decolonization and Justice: An Introductory Overview
Decolonization and Justice: An Introductory Overview emerged from the undergraduate students’ final assignment on Advanced Seminar in Criminal Justice at the University of Regina’s Department of Justice Studies, Canada. This book focused on decolonization of multiple justice-related areas, such as policing, the court system, prison, restorative justice, and the studies of law and criminology. This is quite likely one of the few student-led book projects in Canada covering the range of decolonization topics. Ten student authors explored the concept of decolonization in law, policing, prison, court, mental health, transitional justice and restorative justice.
Includes: Discussion questions, and recommended activities.
May suit: POLSCI 3KA3 and INDIGST 3K03.
Global Justice and Change
The understory is explored in this OER and aims to map the roots of our global systems and crises in order to imagine otherwise.
Includes: Videos, reflection questions, interactive activities, and key takeaways.
May suit: POLSCI 3KA3 and INDIGST 3K03.
Political Science and Civics LibreTexts
A collection of open textbooks, assignments, and other educational resources on political science and civics.
