Political science and theory

This book traces the history of China's administrative reform in the past 35 years, focusing on the three phases of development, four guidelines and five major tasks of the reform since it is of great value to depict the entire process of China's administrative system reform, analyzing the achievements, problems and prospects of the reform, and exploring experiences and lessons from the relationship between the administrative system reform and China's economic, social and government transformation.

Combining a study of American Think Tanks and a study of American diplomatic policy on China following the Cold War, this book explores in detail the policy-making process, procedures and mechanisms, as well as the roles of various interest groups in the policy-making process for China-related policies.

This book offers a broad and diverse reflection of the ways in which child poverty could be conceptualised, and the ways in which it is intertwined with childhood as a specific social condition.

This Key Concepts pivot discusses the contemporary relevance of the ancient Chinese concept of Tianxia or 'All-Under-Heaven' and argues the case for a new global political philosophy.

This book focuses on analyzing the inter-relationship between Chinese peasants and the reform and it tries to understand the conditions of peasants during the course of the Chinese social transition.

This book is the first comprehensive study to respond to the ongoing debates on political sciences' fragmentation, doubtful relevance, and disconnect with the larger public.

This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.

This book analyzes the dynamics through which the two major communist parties of the capitalist world-which in the 1970s had great influence on their respective national political contexts since the 1980s are increasing their marginality and, although in different forms and with different timeframes are unable to stem the decline of their political and cultural influences on the working classes.

This book analyzes Armenian civil society in the context of post-communist democratization.

This book explores the scope of reforms and changes in the social protection systems in Latin America that have started at the beginning of the 21st century.

Das Buch thematisiert den aus der Besiedlungs-, vor allem der Cowboy-Ära hergeleiteten Westernmythos in den USA, der über Generationen hinweg von den populärsten Medien jeder Epoche wiederholt wird.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

This book offers an analysis of the decolonisation process across three different regions around the world: Central America, Southeast Asia and the Caucasus.

This book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe.

This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society.

In this book, practitioners and students discover perspectives on landscape, place, heritage, memory, emotions and geopolitics intertwined in evolving citizenship and democratization debates.

This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time.

Inspired by the democratic origins of the Greek naval victory at Salamis, the book discusses the current pressing issues of democracy worldwide.

Right to water may sound novel and somewhat dramatic, yet it has been central to the quest of human civilization for thousands of years.

This book decisively advances the academic debate on politicisation beyond the state of the art.

Rüdiger Voigt gibt in diesem Essential einen Überblick über die Geschichte europäischen Staatsdenkens anhand ausgewählter Staatsdenker.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

This book offers a novel interpretation of Russian contemporary discourse on Islam and its influence on Russian state policies.

This book fills a gap in the literature on economic liberalism in France as it strives to resolve a paradox.

When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, limits on NASA funding and the lack of direction under the Nixon and Carter administrations had left the U.

This collection provides new insights into the 'Age of Revolutions', focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s and into the nineteenth century.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informed by critical theory.

This book presents an account of Hannah Arendt's performative and non-sovereign theory of freedom and political action, with special focus on action's disclosure of the unique 'who' of each agent.

This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and (re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in post-conflict Timor-Leste.

This book assesses the 1991 Child Support Act and demonstrates how its failure was 'foreseeable' and 'foreseen'.

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence.

This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization.

Does America still count in the world?

This book highlights the existence of a class of struggles conducted in the gray zones of formalized war, or more aptly in the interstices where state power and jurisdiction are mismatched.

The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes.

This book explores the new Greek exoticism by examining political and cultural mechanisms that contribute to Greece's image and self-image construction.

This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority.

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history.

This book provides a detailed look at the constitutional, historical, and political arguments concerning presidential immunity from prosecution, as well as the opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel that provided the justification for the decision not to prosecute President Trump.

This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War.

This book explores the responses of the Roman Catholic Church to the French Revolution beginning in 1789, to the liberal revolution in 1830, and particularly the democratic revolution of 1848 in France, and asks how these events were perceived and explained.

This book is about transformation of the state and an incomplete state-building.

This is the first in-depth study of the foreign and defence policies of the Coalition, a government that saw the Conservatives restored to power for the first time since the Iraq War and the Liberal Democrats enter government for the first time.

The book offers new insights into how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity interact within the context of Ukrainian political reform, and indicates how these reforms affect social cohesion among ethno-cultural groups.

This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field.

Multiculturalism is often thought to be defined by its commitment to diversity, inclusivity, sensitivity, and tolerance, but these established values sometimes require contrary practices of homogenization, exclusion, insensitivity, and intolerance.

This book analyses the development of German territorial states in the nineteenth century through the prism of five Mittelstaaten: Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Wurttemberg, and Baden.

This handbook assesses the phenomenon of populism-a concept frequently belabored, but often misunderstood in politics.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European bloc, the reunification of Germany was a major episode in the history of modern Europe - and one widely held to have been opposed by that country's centuries-old enemy, France.