Political science and theory

Hans Kelsen is widely recognized as one of the most important legal theorists of the 20th century.

The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars and practitioners.

In this volume, attorney Robert M.

The presidency of John F.

When the first edition of this book appeared in 2003, it was chosen as a Main Selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club and quickly became the standard work on the modern American presidencyfrom William McKinley through William Jefferson Clinton.

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Writing in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Baghdad, Alfarabi (870-950) is unique in the history of premodern political philosophy for his extensive discussion of the nation, or Umma in Arabic.

Edward W.

What made the Romans laugh?

The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before.

The Twilight Soi dwells on the dangers of one of the worlds most beautiful and intoxicating cities, Bangkok.

Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.

As Savior of the Union and the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber.

In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president.

This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses.

Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history.

This book introduces the reader to the political theories of the American philosopher John Rawls.

Comment la Côte d'Ivoire, longtemps considérée comme un pays africain d'exception, par sa stabilité politique, sa croissance économique et son apparente capacité à intégrer une nombreuse population immigrée provenant des pays voisins, s'est-elle retrouvée piégée par des divisions qui ont failli la faire sombrer dans la guerre civile ?

Since the late eighteenth century the ideals of political democracy and individual flourishing have become so entangled that most people no longer differentiate them.

An unparalleled portrait of the Conservative Party and each of its nineteen leaders, Blue Thunder rollicks through 141 years of Canadian Conservative leadership.

This new translation of the Frankfurt School's seminal text includes textual variants and discussion of the work's influence on Critical Theory.

The spy agency is Charlies life however he is being challenged by Veronica for the big promotion to run the Spy Land agency.

An original and eclectic view of cookbooks as political actsCookbooks are not political in conventional ways.

This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations.

How should we respond to our converging crises of violent conflict, political corruption, and global ecological devastation?

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life.

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This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West.

Government are governed by laws.

Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed.

This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of authoritarian rule in Arab countries.

A classic and bestselling work by one of Americas top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Times Book Review and raised essential issues that have only become more timely, relevant, and controversial in our post-9/11 era.

Glance at a political partys platform, catch a politicians speech, sample the news, and you will find the familynot as a mere group of people living together in the private sphere, but as a contentious entity at the center of political disputes and policy debates over everything from marriage equality and gender identity to immigration and welfare reform.

Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment.

From Occupy to Uncut, from the Arab Spring to the Slutwalk movement, few questions about recent activism raise as much controversy as the role of the internet.

La situación política y fiscal de las provincias argentinas se transformó en un verdadero "talón de Aquiles" para el programa de reformas de mercado menemista en la última década del siglo XX.

The oeuvre of the Greek historian Xenophon, whose works stand with those of Plato as essential accounts of the teachings of Socrates, has seen a new surge of attention after decades in the shadows.

In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state.

Are you sceptical about the importance of arts and culture, especially about their possible impact on politics and the economy?

This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers.

In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness and resistance to what is expected or desired from their 'subjectivity'.

Robert Axelrod is widely known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and complexity theory.

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader.

Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror.

The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents.

Explores how traditional notions of citizenship are contested and altered through literature.

This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria.

This book is about power in welfare encounters.

This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural perspective.