Political Science Book List · 
Politics of Compassion and Transformation
By Dick SimpsonIn our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of “progress,” we might expect to look with confidence to the “scientific” disciplines of political science, sociology, and economics to solve the problems of our civilization.…
Uganda Now
Between Decay & Development
Edited by Hölger Bernt Hansen and Michael TwaddleCan the revolutionary government of Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement put Uganda back on the road from decay to development?These informed assessments put the present situation in context.…
Conservative Thought in Twentieth Century Latin America
The Ideas of Laureano Gomez
By James D. HendersonLaureano Gómez was president of Colombia in the early 1950s until overthrown by a military coup. He was also, for some fifty years, the leading exponent of Latin American conservatism, a political philosophy with roots in both nineteenth–century politics and religion.…
Political Action
Key To Understanding Politics
By Dick Simpson and George BeamWithout a new focus on action, political science will remain sterile; and without a more human politics, citizens will remain misinformed, apathetic, helpless. Political Action is controversial because it challenges the profession of political science.…
Tocqueville’s America
The Great Quotations
By Alexis de Tocqueville"...boldness of enterprise is the foremost cause of (America's) progress, its strength, and its greatness."With that succinct statement a young French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville, expressed his perceptive analysis of the United States, following a nine-month tour of the young republic beginning in May of 1831.…
Guerrillas and Terrorists
By Richard L. ClutterbuckTerrorism and guerrilla warfare, whether justified as resistance to oppression or condemned as disrupting the rule of law, are as old as civilization itself. The power of the terrorist, however, has been magnified by modern weapons, including television, which he has learned to exploit.…
Readings on Fascism and National Socialism
By University of Colorado and Dept. of PhilosophyThe catastrophe and holocaust brought about by the two powerful movements of fascism and national socialism will mark human life always. Now, as we feel our hatred for them, we find it difficult to understand how they could have been so powerful, how they could have appealed so strongly to millions of people of a modern age.…
