Political science and theory

Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire.

This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality.

Democracy faces stern tests around the world in the twenty-first century.

In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sozialismus vor Marx" verfügbar.

The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?

This book looks at the organization and strategy of state-wide parties from across some of the most important multi-layered countries in Western Europe.

This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities.

The Russian international media outlet Russia Today (RT) has been widely accused in the Western world of producing government propaganda and conspiracy theories.

The Chicago Tribune headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN remains infamously wrong about the outcome of the 1948 presidential election.

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept.

In the today's global "e;commercial society"e; an inquiry into the economic role of government is gaining momentum.

This book suggests that more can be said about cosmopolitanism than either the bold endorsement of a world state or the humble recognition of the equal moral worth of individuals, which makes everybody cosmopolitan.

This book analyzes and compares the police's inner city presence in France, the US, and Britain.

As difficult as it might seem to define governance, it appears to be that much more difficult to measure it.

The Four Faces of the Republican Party clearly describes how Republican Presidential nominating contests unfold.

Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen geopolitischen Konstellationen betrachtet der Autor verschiedene Imperiumsmodelle, die im Hinblick auf ihre Stabilität und Funktionsweise diskutiert und miteinander verglichen werden.

This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy.

Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.

Der Sammelband bietet einen breiten Überblick zu Energiewende-Konflikten und dem Umgang mit Populismus in Energiewende-Diskursen.

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First published in 1951.

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.

This book explores how New Zealand, a small country almost as far from Western Europe as it is possible to be, assumed political importance in Britain's accession to the European Community vastly out of proportion to its size, proximity and strategic position.

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

This book explores why and how Thomas  Hobbes - the 17th century founder of political science -- contributed to the modern marginalisation of 'friendship', a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought  and that is  currently undergoing a revival.

This book places Benjamin's writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge.

Thirty years ago, Anglo-American politicians set out to make the public sector look like the private sector.

This book offers a post-representational approach to a range of fiction and non-fiction films that deal with labour migration from Turkey to Germany.

In his book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century the historian Yuval Noah Harrari wrote that man had the possibility to conquer the world precisely because he could create fictional stories and believe in them.

Written by a team of international scholars from China, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK, this book provides interdisciplinary studies on the construction and transformation of Chinese national identity in the age of globalisation.

This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.

It is frequently assumed that the "e;people"e; must have something in common or else democracy will fail.

This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are carried in culture, language, and history in various parts of the world.

This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development.

The book focuses on different practices of associated labor in Brazil and Argentina, in the case of the workers' recuperated factories, over the past 40 years.

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them?

We are living in a time of inflationary media.

This volume discusses a range of key domestic forces driving the current Chinese growth ranging from economic reforms to governance practices to analyze their impact and influence at home as well as on China's foreign and security policies in its near and extended neighbourhood.

Connecting three generations of critical theorists, this edited collection focuses on the mutual complementarity between the concept of "e;human dignity"e; and the theory and practice of human rights.

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

Winner of The Deutscher Memorial Prize 2004.

Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid.