Political science and theory

Now in its 156th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world.

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The engaging and inquiring mind of French philosopher Jacques Maritain reflected on subjects as varied as art and ethics, theology and psychology, and history and metaphysics.

This book explores the different ways in which the early Haitian state was represented in print culture in America and Britain in the early nineteenth century.

This book examines the culture of the French diplomatic corps from 1789 to 1799.

The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states.

This comprehensively revised and updated edition offers an introduction to international organizations (IO) theory in the field of IR.

One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal traditionThe Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond.

Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production.

When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victorywhether as an underdogs heroic triumph or a liberal crusaders overcoming special interests.

Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism?

In the most original interpretation of Aristotle's Politics in years, Michael Davis delivers many memorable and provocative formulations of Aristotle's messages concerning the constitutive tensions of political life.

In this important book, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and legal experts explore three related issues: the Immigration and Naturalization Service's historic review of its citizenship evaluation, recent proposals to alter the oath of allegiance and the laws governing dual citizenship, and the changing rights and responsibilities of citizens and resident aliens in the United States.

The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth century British history.

This reissued work, originally published in 1985, is a uniquely broad and original survey of theories and beliefs about the growth, behaviour, performance and reform of the governments of modern Western democracies.

This volume proposes a capacity-centered approach for understanding American bureaucracy.

The book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues.

This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages.

This book examines contemporary English drama and its relation to the neoliberal consensus that has dominated British policy since 1979.

This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four nations approaches to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

This book examines the evolution of liberal peacebuilding in the Balkans since the mid-1990s.

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.

In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future.

Nietzsche's Immoralism begins a two-volume critical reconstruction of a socialist, democratic, and non-liberal Nietzschean politics.

The positive role of ECOWAS and its military-security arm ECOMOG in bringing to an end the decade-long bloody civil war in Sierra Leone, restoring democratic governance and the rule of law, has brought to the fore the value, legitimacy and impact of regional integration and co-operation in West Africa.

Le point de départ des révoltes politiques dans le monde arabe a été Sidi Bouzid, qui faisait partie des euphémiques ""zones d'ombre"" de la Tunisie intérieure, régions rurales délaissées par les investissements et caractérisées par un manque chronique de ressources.

As the post-WWII liberal democratic consensus comes under increasing assault around the globe, Zachary R.

This book analyzes the unfolding of a new institutional phenomenon: the cosmonational parliament of the cross-border nation and the expanded state, focusing on three European national parliaments, namely the French Senate, the Italian Chamber of Representatives and Senate, and the Croatian unicameral parliament.

An accessible, illustrated introduction to Switzerlands unique form of democracy.

In this book, university teachers provide case studies illustrating methods employed to prepare citizens for meaningful participation in democracies, whether long-standing, young or emerging.

This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia.

Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control, this book examines the various ideals, outcomes and effects that citizen participation has been held to stimulate and how these have been transformed, renegotiated and reinvigorated over time.

The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles.

This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge.

The belief in equality as the basis of a just society is fundamental to the dominant western, liberal viewpoint.

This book examines how parties negotiate coalition deals at the subnational level using the examples of Germany and Spain.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the origins of the confrontation between the US and Iran.

El propósito del texto es contribuir a la revisión de las obras de los pensadores clásicos de la política, a la reflexión de los análisis propuestos por los estudiosos latinoamericanos actuales de las instituciones políticas y al sostén de prácticas comprometidas con la política actual en sociedades democráticas, diversas y globalizadas.

Influenced most notably by Emile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.

Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life.

Policy-Driven Democratization  offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one complete and coherent package of democratization.

The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy.

This is the first book to provide an analysis of racism in the Mediterranean region.

Development researchers face many challenges in producing robust and persuasive analyses, often within a short time-frame.

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment.

This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governance

How Tory Governments Fall is a landmark study of the forces that shape - and ultimately destroy - political power.

Citizenship, democracy and human rights have always been central to higher education and increasing globalization has amplified their urgency and complexity.

Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure.