Political science and theory

An Approach to Rights contains fifteen previously published but mostly inaccessible papers that together show the development of one of the more important contemporary theories of the nature, grounds and practical implications of rights.

Liberalism is in trouble.

This book looks at what a critical understanding of constitutional, labour and European Union law entails under conditions of globalisation.

A pioneering and innovative study that challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought.

The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents.

The essential guide to the life, thought, and legacy of Adam SmithAdam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism.

Is it impossible to assess dignity, the agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are met by global challenges like climate change, financial crisis, food crisis, natural disasters, inequality, violent conflicts and trade disputes?

The New Nationalism Implications for Transatlantic Relations is a collection of papers that examines the effects of transatlantic relations, along with the concept of new nationalism.

Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon.

This edited volume addresses the challenges and opportunities facing NATO post-2014, applying an original approach to strategy that will produce fresh insights into this hot topic within the international security community.

This book traces the mobilization process leading up to the January 25 Uprising, and furthers our understanding of the largely unexpected diffusion of protest during this Egyptian Revolution.

Philosophy typically ignores biographical, historical, and cultural aspects of theoriss' lives  in an attempt to take a supposedly abstract and objective view of their work.

Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the European Union state have dealt with two sorts of changes in the last two decades.

By any measure, the 2008 presidential race has been historic.

The book aims to complement the existing research on democratic innovations mainly by making unique comparative analyses of the democratic innovations at the local level in selected European post-communist countries, i.

The engaging and inquiring mind of French philosopher Jacques Maritain reflected on subjects as varied as art and ethics, theology and psychology, and history and metaphysics.

Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole.

This book provides a critical account of the main controversies involving Norman Geras, one of the key modern political thinkers.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production.

This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy.

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy and the social sciences.

Political parties play a central, if not the central, political role in parliamentary democracies.

Unserer Demokratie fehlen die Talente!

Die Politikdidaktik ist die Wissenschaft des politischen Lehrens und Lernens.

This collection examines the leadership training of public administration in 19 countries and provides information on where, what, and how the training occurs as well as the up-to-date cultural, political, economic background for each.

This book examines the historical and contemporary influence of private power in the global economy.

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This book fills the normative gap arising from the absence of a multilateral mechanism for sovereign debt restructuring.

This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective.

In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "e;the Northeast.

This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations.

Differentiation from the Self has been a unifying feature of war stories since they were first told highlighting that war stories are about the production of identity.

This book is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism.

What is One Nation politics?

Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives.

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers.

This book explores Belgian state-building through the prism of its army from independence to the First World War.

Measuring government effectiveness is essential to ensuring accountability, as is an informed public that is willing and able to hold elected officials and policy-makers accountable.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of religious policy in Russia since the end of the communist regime, exposing many of the ambiguities and uncertainties about the position of religion in Russian life.

The volume gathers theoretical contributions on human rights and global justice in the context of international migration.

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.