Political science and theory

Defines and distinguishes political institutions in their various forms, whilst exploring the constitutive ambiguities of the term.

The Element assesses theories about wartime attitudes toward militant groups.

Ilan Gur-Ze'ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace critically analyses and introduces the main ideas of Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, reflecting on his continuing theoretical and practical relevance to the field of education.

A new, hands-on approach to social inquiry for social scientists who wish to make a difference to policy and practice.

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions.

This resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about the state, nature, and extent of media bias in American news media, including social media, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and other media outlets.

Erweiterungen des Stimmrechts betreffen auch die Frage, wer an der Selbstbestimmung der Gemeinschaft teilnehmen darf.

This study is an attempt to chronicle and analyse the attitudes of the New York press in connection with the events of the period from 1914 to 1917 relating to American neutrality.

This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philippines as case studies.

Politics cannot function without responsibility, but there have been serious disagreements about how responsibility is to be understood and huge controversies about how it is to be distributed, rewarded, legislated, and enforced.

An illuminating look at how national political parties nominate presidential candidatesThis innovative study blends sophisticated statistical analyses, campaign anecdotes, and penetrating political insight to produce a fascinating exploration of one of America's most controversial political institutions-the process by which our major parties nominate candidates for the presidency.

John Calvin''s two kingdoms political thought offers a fresh paradigm for constructive Christian engagement in pluralistic liberal societies.

Set in one of the world's most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study reveals how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predominantly poor African clients.

Die Autoren beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, in welchem Maß sich unsere Gesellschaft an Recht und Gesetz hält.

An assessment of the explanatory utility of different approaches to account for post-Soviet Russia's foreign policy towards the West, arguing that only by focusing both on external constraints and changes in the Russian leadership's foreign policy thinking can we explain major facets of Russia's conduct from 1992-2007.

This book offers the first realist reconstruction of Marx's critique of capitalism.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been a key driver of transitional justice.

"e;Europa am Scheideweg"e; diskutiert die gegenwartigen Herausforderungen der Europaischen Union.

'Ann and Robert Seidman have written an invaluabe theoretical (and practical) guide for those concerned with the role of the state in development.

A reprint of the classic volume originally published by Harper & Brothers in 1947, this scholary work provides important insights for understanding contemporary issues in African-American business and business education as well as in the rebuilding of American communities today.

Inspired by Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, this book tells a story about epochal change in the modern world.

This book examines how the five-factor model of personality (also known as the Big Five)-extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience-influence individuals' ability to understand and engage in four areas of civic life.

Vor dem Hintergrund des Konzepts des Habitus und des sozialen Raums Pierre Bourdieus werden in dem Buch studentische Fachkulturen untersucht.

This book argues that local governments and institutions across the state of California that offer various forms of sanctuaries to undocumented immigrants create "e;sanctuary regions.

Sucht man nach einer knappen Charakterisierung der soziologischen Disziplin, dann ist die auf Max Weber zurückgehende Bestimmung von Soziologie als Wissenschaft vom sozialen Handeln wohl immer noch diejenige Definition, die auf die Zustim­ mung der meisten Soziologen rechnen kann.

Parteien sind für das Funktionieren einer Demokratie elementar.

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy.

Rap and Politics maps out fifty years of political and musical development by exploring three specific moments of local discourse, each a response to failures by local, state, and national governments to address police brutality, violence, poverty, and poor social conditions in Oakland, California and the surrounding Bay Area.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe.

In 2016, the voters of the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union.

Was bewegt Menschen dazu, sich im Rahmen der Flüchtlingsthematik zu engagieren?

An examination of local intergovernmental networks in increasingly federal Spain.

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.

This book examines domestic extremism and what is popularly referred to as radicalization.

This book analyses the impact of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union on the Communist Parties of Western Europe.

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture.

Classical antiquity has become a political battleground in recent years in debates over immigration and cultural identity-whether it is ancient sculpture, symbolism, or even philosophy.

At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale project of promoting democratic change and consolidation in Eastern Europe.

2002 wurde mit der Gründung der Afrikanischen Union die afrikanische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsarchitektur auf eine neue Grundlage gestellt.

This book presents a number of specific proposals that, if translated into political reality, could contribute to nurturing a Europeanisation of national public spheres.

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected.