Political science and theory

Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers.

This book explores secession from three normative disciplines: political philosophy, international law and constitutional law.

In Politics in Gotham, scholars from a variety of fields-political science, philosophy, law, and others-provide answers to the question: "e;What does Batman have to do with politics?

Fifty years ago, academics and policymakers throughout the world agreed that it was impossible for certain sets of historically antagonistic groups to coexist peacefully on a long-term basis.

This book investigates the writings of German intellectual historian and philosopher Hans Blumenberg.

This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement's ideas about participatory democracy.

This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community's policymaking since its creation.

This book presents a new democratic theory of election reform, using the tradition of political realism to interrogate and synthesize findings from global elections research and voting theory.

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it?

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions.

This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

This book analyzes the concept "e;true federalism"e; to examine whether there are definable dimensions of power-sharing that make 'true federalism.

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts.

Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors.

This book provides an overview of the space sector in African countries, from a legal and policy point of view, analysing how the African Union's Space Policy and Strategy (ASPS) is implemented and highlighting the various space activities in each country.

This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics.

This volume offers a comprehensive evaluation of the concept of global order, with a particular emphasis on the role of regional organisations within global governance institutions such as the United Nations.

This book examines women's political communication in Africa, capturing previously unheard women's voices, and presenting detailed information on overlooked communication strategies and forms of power relations employed by African women and women of African descent.

This volume seeks to add a unique perspective on the complex relationship between psychology and politics, focusing on three analytical points of view: 1) psychology, politics, and complex thought,  2) bio/psycho/social factors of masculinity and power, and 3) underlying factors in political behavior.

This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition?

This book presents an investigation and assessment of an artistic community that emerged within Philadelphia's Fishtown and the nearby neighborhood of Kensington.

This book examines how 20th century theorists have used a discourse of "e;crisis"e; to frame their conceptualizations of modernity.

This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

This Brief provides a comprehensive introduction to current research on armed groups and proposes a unitary political theory for their future analysis.

This edited volume explores the relationship between constitutionalism and populism in the Italian context.

This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I.

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975).

Adopting a political constitutionalist view of the British constitution, this book critically explores the history of legal and political thought on parliamentary sovereignty in the UK.

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory.

This book sets out to explain the variation in nations' reactions to their defeats in war.

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture.

This book provides a critical analysis of Donald Trump's mention of General Pershing and his alleged use of bullets dipped in pig's blood to kill 49 out of 50 captured Muslims during the suppression years in the Philippines.

This book takes stock of the debate surrounding the institution of presidential term limits in Africa, against the backdrop of global trends toward authoritarianism and the rise of strong men.

Swaziland-recently renamed Eswatini-is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system.

This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project.

The early years of the twentieth century are often thought of as socialism's first heyday in the United States, when the Socialist Party won elections across the country and Eugene Debs ran for president from a prison cell, winning more than 900,000 votes.

This book explores the impact of electoral rules on political party development in Central and East Europe.

This book presents different research designs, their respective purposes and merits as well as their underlying assumptions.

This book demonstrates the importance of democracy for understanding modern international relations and recovers the pluralist tradition of L.

Rich in its spatial scope, this edited collection provides an extensive and detailed overview of contemporary Turkish foreign policy.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

This book of a renowned political scientist and specialist in political theory fundamentally challenges the new fashion of post-democracy by offering an outlook on 'neo-democracy'.

This book asks how independent commissions helped to overcome difficulties during the implementation phase of the Good Friday Agreement.

This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of non-state actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory.