Political science and theory

Bringing together a who's who of Marshall scholars, this volume examines the major roles assumed by Marshall over his five-decade career - soldier; statesman and peacemaker; and leader and manager - to illuminate key issues and themes surrounding the man and his era.

This volume translates four chapters of Bodin''s Six livres de la république, a vast synthesis of comparative public law and politics.

In keinem anderen deutschen Wahlkampf stand die politische Online-Kommunikation bislang derart im Vordergrund wie zur Bundestagswahl 2009.

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people?

Explores the constraints justice imposes on immigration policy, identifying claims citizens make of their states and how outsiders are excluded.

Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world-the political sphere dominated by men-and to denigrate the private world-the familial sphere dominated by women.

Uses linguistic and semiotic analytical techniques to interrogate the use of language in the construction of political discourses.

Solidarity--the reciprocal relations of trust and obligation between citizens that are essential for a thriving polity--is a basic goal of all political communities.

This book addresses the key debates surrounding human rights in Australia.

Ex-prime minister of Australia John Howard's compelling autobiography.

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First published in 1990, Capitalist Democracy on Trial explores the long transatlantic debate on capitalist democracy.

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations.

Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms ''the democratic horizon'' and reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate.

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics?

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over-and upending-nearly every aspect of life.

Why is cabinet government so resilient?

Middle East Crisis: U.

Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African perspective, arguing that the underdevelopment of the African economy is linked to the underdevelopment of the continents' nation states.

Marx's written output was massive.

America's debate over whether and how to invade Iraq clustered into civilian versus military camps.

This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking.

This title was first published in 2002.

Rejecting fashionable subjectivist and cultural relativist approaches, this important book argues that human beings have universal and objective needs for health and autonomy and a right to their optimal satisfaction.

A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America's leading intelligence expertsSpying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood.

From food punnets to credit cards, plastic facilitates every part of our daily lives.

This proceedings book presents papers from the 10th Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology.

Very few works of history, if any, delve into the daily interactions of U.

In Voters' Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters' decisions in the election of state supreme court judges.

Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States.

Explains the causes and consequences of democratization within the firm.

The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding.

This book aims to further the understanding of migration processes and policies in a European context with a particular focus on evaluating integration and the gendered aspects of migration, integration and citizenship.

Academic freedom is a key element of the academic enterprise in the U.

Part of a series aimed at introducing readers to the intricacies of contemporary debates concerning fundamental political issues.

Why do presidents, when facing the same circumstances, focus on different threats to national security?

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots.

La Magna Carta avait été conçue au départ dans le but d’assurer que le roi Jean respecte les us et coutumes de la noblesse au XIII^e siècle.

As environmental issues increasingly impinge on society, sociologists have turned their attention to nature and the environment.

As a fascinating study of global justice in Asia, this book presents a series of contributions reflecting upon the conditions of a greater involvement of East Asian traditions of thought in the debate on global justice.

This book describes the origins of the concept of liberty in the legal and political thought of Rome, Italy, England, France and the United States of America.

This book offers a study of post-9/11 anti-war organizations in the United States and their role in domestic foreign policy debates.