Political science and theory

This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?

In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.

Racism is an endemic feature of the Tory Party.

This book re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions.

Provides the visions of social emancipation that we need.

Provides the visions of social emancipation that we need.

Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism critically explores the global rise of an alternative democratic politics since the 1990s in both practice and theory, from the Zapatistas' insurrection to the 2011 cycle of democratic contestation and the ensuing municipalist movement in Spain.

Now in its 159th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world.

This book offers an account of ten crucial moments in the history of ideas, which represent ten key moments of the discovery of pluralism.

Women are entering the national and international arena more than ever today, from political campaigns to corporate boards to entrepreneurship, and their success is showing.

Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape.

Este libro presenta un estudio acerca de África desde el ámbito histórico, político y económico, identificando los problemas estructurales que afectan a su población y sus Estados, con el fin de proponer vías de solución.

This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship.

A state of the union address as the twentieth century turned into the twenty-first-from the New York Times-bestselling author of America, the Last Best Hope.

Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures.

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity.

How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency?

This book seeks to reimagine why and how to confront mass atrocities in world politics.

The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date.

Whether called pressure groups, NGOs, social movement organisations or organised civil society, the value of 'groups' to the policy process, to economic growth, to governance, to political representation and to democracy has always been contested.

This book is committed to provide a holistic view of corruption in the public construction sector, a sector that has been perceived as the most corrupt in the world.

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.

This book examines the economic and political contributions of the EU to the Northern Ireland peace process, tracing the genesis of EU involvement since 1979 and analysing how it acted as an arena in which to foster dialogue and positive cooperation.

The American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II.

This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential reappearance of fascism.

Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality.

While the American founders fully expected parties to form in a free society, they were far less certain that opposing parties would peacefully transfer power from one to another.

Now in its 158th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world.

This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values.

Nach drei Jahren unter Barack Obama sind die Vereinigten Staaten zerrissener denn je.

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse.

The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hillincreased government intervention, calls to spread the wealth around, onerous regulations, and bailouts for allare not new.

This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people.

This edited volume explores the context in which the Spanish party Podemos operates as both an agent and product of political cycles.

How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people?

A groundbreaking book that gathers key wartime intelligence reportsDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School-Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer-worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA.

A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political cultureAfghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today.

The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order - the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down.

Politiker, die sich als starke Führer präsentieren, haben weltweit besonders großen Zulauf.

Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era, and one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars.

This book explores the interests of British leaders, diplomats and consuls in the unifying of Italy.

The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order - the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down.

As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies.

Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes haben eine weitere Reihe von Reden von Spitzenpolitikern zur europaischen Integration aus einer groen Zeitspanne (1945-2022) analysiert, wobei sie jede Rede in ihren zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext gestellt und in den biographischen Hintergrund des Redners eingeordnet haben.