Political science and theory

This edited book examines the growing worldwide phenomenon of civilizational populism in democratic nation-states and brings together research that explores this in a wide variety of religious, political, and geographic contexts.

This book offers in-depth analysis of parliamentary development set in a historical context informed by Africa's post-1990s democratic resurgence.

A much-needed contemporary analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy and Germany's role within it.

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures.

This book focuses on the language of two unions (the United Kingdom and the European Union), tracing the emergence of divisive discourses from indyref to Brexit.

In our era of mass electronic communications, political realities are produced by believable fictions that echo popular desires.

This book is a guide to non-academic careers for quantitative social scientists.

Limited force is different than war: different in scope, strategic purpose, and ethical permissions and restraints.

"e;This fine team of academics moves beyond mere descriptions of capacities, structures and processes to explain the effectiveness of Civil Protection in the EU.

The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.

This book explores the political and religious world of early Bourbon France, focusing on the search for stable accord that characterised its political and religious life.

This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in democracy.

Die tödliche Eskalation von Konflikten ist als Grund für und gegen Interventionen ein Problem ersten Ranges.

A provocative (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines whats good for American business and whats good for Americansand why those interests are misaligned.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the "e;Social Union"e;, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990.

This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century.

The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting.

Having survived the process of modernization and reasserted themselves in public life, religious traditions play an increasingly important public role in shaping and defining social institutions and interactions.

Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other.

Revised and updated, this edition makes use of new empirical material to examine the effect of market and trade restrictions on farm people.

This book argues that the effective protection of fundamental rights in a contemporary, multicultural society requires not only tolerance and respect for others, but also an ethics of reciprocity and a pursuit of dialogue between different cultures of human rights.

Third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world''s leading historians.

An examination of the ability of law and the courts to constrain state power exercised in the course of an emergency.

How might the entire citizenry of a country make the decisions that affect them?

Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.

This book offers a new perspective on the issue of modernity through a series of interconnected essays.

In times in which global governance in its various forms, such as human rights, international trade law, and development projects, is increasingly promoted by transnational economic actors and international institutions that seem to be detached from democratic processes of legitimation, the question of the relationship between international law and empire is as topical as ever.

This Element argues that media and democracy requires a framework that analyzes political life and communication.

In Marxism's uneasy relationship with ethics a small number of prominent theorists considered it imperative to highlight the moral principles implicit in Marx's social theory and to develop these ethics in the light of changing conditions.

Providing an unbiased analysis of the past, present, and future of the hostile relationship between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this book presents an up-to-date discussion of the security implications for each of the two states as well as the entire region.

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident.

Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory.

A considered look at the Mitterrand presidency as a whole, its place in French history, and the trends for the twenty-first century emerging under Chirac.

This book explores the different perspectives and historical moments of nationalism in Cyprus.

Since its timid introduction onto the EC agenda in 1974, reconciliation of work and family life has developed into a fully-articulated principle.

Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

In June 2003, the Convention on the Future of Europe released what may become the Constitution of the European Union.

This study examines the collective progression of Islamic politics between points of dissent and positions of power.

Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science.

"e;The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.

An authoriative analysis of Swiss democracy, the institutions of federalism, and consensus democracy through political power sharing.

Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential.