Political science and theory

This book provides the first systematic and comparative analysis of the German right-wing populist protest movement "e;PEGIDA"e;.

This edited collection offers a new approach to the study of Italy's foreign policy from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, highlighting its complex and sometimes ambiguous goals, due to the intricacies of its internal system and delicate position in the fault line of the East-West and North-South divides.

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation.

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II.

The Holocaust is inseparable from the Israeli identities even seven decades following the atrocities during World War II, Israeli daily life is shaped by the horrible crimes committed by the Nazis.

This study has two central research questions: Do democracy profiles affect policy performance?

Of the hundreds of books written about John F.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of the concept of space power and devises a novel conceptual framework for empirically measuring and comparing different typologies of space actors on the basis of clearly defined criteria.

This book sheds light on the role that grievances play for mobilisation dynamics in a context of material deprivation.

Over time, globalization has evolved into a shared journey of humanity, involving entrepreneurship, innovation, business and policy advances around the world.

This book looks at how young people get attracted to the Far Right, especially young white men.

This edited volume offers new insights into the populist wave that is affecting democratic politics in a large number of countries.

This book analyzes the central vision of three student movements organized by different generations of Kosovo Albanian students in 1968, 1981 and 1997.

The book investigates the intellectual and political trajectory of the Belgian theorist Hendrik de Man (1885-1953) by examining the impact that his works and activism had on Western European social democracy between the two world wars.

This volume contributes significantly to the ongoing international and Nordic paradigm shift in educational leadership research.

This book explores how Marx envisaged society after capital(ism) by a close examination of the idea of socialism in the text(s) of Capital.

This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems.

This book provides a novel analysis of the military campaign of Rafael Carrera during the popular insurrection of 1837-1840 in Guatemala.

This book assesses the extent to which an emphasis on national security and prioritization of state interests has dominated governance policy-making in Northeast and Southeast Asia, at the expense of human security, human development, and human rights.

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

While in the last twenty years perceptions of Europe have been subjected to detailed historical scrutiny, American images of the Old World have been almost wantonly neglected.

This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism, inequality, difference and controversy.

This book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer's work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory of historiographic method, the reflections on the crisis of the subject and the emergence of a new subjectivity, the new forms of perception and aesthetic behaviour in late capitalism, the function of critic-intellectuals, the sociology of the middle classes, the theory of fascism, the aesthetical and sociological reflections on literary genres, the politicization of melancholy.

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America.

This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives.

This book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary framework and case-study analysis for understanding the root causes of violence in schooling.

This book deals with 20 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner.

The Arab Uprisings were unexpected events of rare intensity in Middle Eastern history - mass, popular and largely non-violent revolts which threatened and in some cases toppled apparently stable autocracies.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide.

In times of pandemic and global economic crisis, little more than a decade after the last, there are serious questions about how the liberal order can stand, who its friends are, and what the future will look like.

This book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England's complex sixteenth-century reformations.

This book is a documentary history of the rights found in the American state constitutions adopted between 1776 and 1790.

This book is a study of the key components and contradictions of the escalating global crisis and their impact on modern Australia.

This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan.

This book focuses on how diverse developments are reflected in the rise of the security groups in Bali, Indonesia.

This book shows that Hong Kong's protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China's effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory.

This book explores the reception of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W.

This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.

This book examines both the rhetorical content of contemporary public leadership and the leadership methods pioneered by early English statesman Sir Francis Bacon.

This book analyzes the dynamic political economy of authoritarian institutions in China and attempts to answer the following questions: What is the significance of China's authoritarian institutions and the changes Xi Jinping has brought to them?

Notwithstanding its contemporary critics, political representation remains at the core of democratic politics.

This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century religious activism on the American left.

This book examines Croatia's economic and political transformation over the last 30 years.

This book presents the first full translation of the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Kruger, showing for each the development of key and influential ideas, along with seven interpretative essays by leading Strauss scholars.