Political science and theory

First published in 1975, this remains the only biography based on recent scholarship dealing with the whole of Gladstone's long life.

This book introduces, synthesizes, and evaluates spatial planning for growth management in the contemporary USA.

Arguing that Tocqueville was fundamentally a social scientist rather than a political theorist, Elster emphasizes Tocqueville''s substantive and methodological insights.

It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirks labor.

Im vorherrschenden westlichen Menschenrechtsdiskurs galten die bürgerlich-politischen Menschenrechte lange Zeit als die eigentlichen Menschenrechte, während wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Menschenrechte oft eher als politische Ziele denn als "echte" Rechte angesehen wurden.

During the last years, important geopolitical changes took place in the broader area of Eastern Europe, having as a consequence, among others, the change of policy and strategy in many fields such as social, economical, commercial, scientific e.

This book examines the governance arrangements in Northern Ireland through a multi-level lens, particularly in the period since the new institutions established through the 1998 Agreement became more firmly embedded.

Michael Walzer is one of the pre-eminent political theorists in the world today and also a prominent public intellectual.

Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building.

This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural as a natural defining feature of religion.

International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile.

Power sharing has become a common way of ending violent conflicts since the 1990s, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the hope that it positively impacts on both peacebuilding and democratisation.

This book examines the extent and causes of contemporary religious persecution and conflict.

The plebeians of Buenos Aires were crucial to the success of the revolutionary junta of May 1810, widely considered the start of the Argentine war of independence.

Taken together, the articles collected in this volume offer readers a reliable, illuminating, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the political philosophy of John Rawls and the most significant of the scholarly debates it has generated and is likely to generate in coming years.

Examining transnational ties between the USA and Australia, this book explores the rise of the Aboriginal Black Power Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the political system and its evolution since Mitterand's election in 1981.

« Quelles idées vont se développer dans les prochaines années ?

This title was first published in 2002.

How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social orderAfter Donald Trump's rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return?

Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies.

Die vorliegende Studie stellte die Frage, wie sich die Berichterstattung über das Privatleben von Politikern in Deutschland verändert hat.

La obra de Juan-Ramón Capella (Barcelona, 1939-2024) constituye una referencia imprescindible en el filosofar sobre el derecho y la política en España.

This book takes the transnational history of southern Africa’s liberation struggles in an innovative direction.

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies.

Given the propensity of contemporary protection measures such as counterterrorism efforts and fierce protection strategies against viral threats, as well as physical and legal barriers against migration, a number of political philosophers, including Peter Sloterdijk and Roberto Esposito, have claimed that contemporary (political) culture can be characterised by a so-called 'immunisation paradigm'.

Historically, it has been assumed that war is violence and declarations of war are simply public announcements that serve to initiate combat.

Der Schriftsteller Alfred Andersch (1914-1980) wäre im Februar 1994 achtzig Jahre alt geworden - Grund genug, ihn als unbestrittene Schlüsselfigur der Nachkriegsszene mit einem Buch und einem Kongreß über sein Werk zu ehren.

This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires.

This book traces the factors that contributed to the success in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea and identifies the concept of familism as a major environmental factor.

Explores the global duties attached to human rights, including the necessity to promote political integration between states.

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

This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture.

In the revolutionary tradition, the name of Louis Blanqui is either remembered with derision or as a noble failure.

Der ​Band beleuchtet Reichweiten und Grenzen von Bildungspolitiken.

The nature of environmental human rights and their relation to larger rights theories has been a frequent topic of discussion in law, environmental ethics and political theory.

This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A.

Bringing together established academics and new researchers, the chapters in this collection interrogate the operation of 'the public' in a range of different legal, illegal and alegal spaces.

The Second World War put an end to America's historical isolation from international power politics, and so also to the long-standing American defiance of the Realist ideology that shaped Old World affairs.

Using two milestones in the Dutch and German political economies - Wassenaar and Alliance for Jobs respectively - this book argues that Antonio Gramsci's 'common sense' provides us with the conceptual apparatus necessary for analysing the integral role played by culture and consensus in the trajectories of national capitalisms in Europe.

How people construct their idea of home influences the types of nationalisms that emerge in various parts of the world.

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime.

"e;From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly.