Political science and theory

This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity.

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism.

The five unresolved separatist conflicts of the post-Soviet space in Eastern Europe are the biggest risk to Europe's stability and security.

The message of this extraordinary election [in November 2010] is clear enough: the American citizenry has rejected the secular dogma, socialist policies, and machine-driven politics that comprise the Obama agenda.

In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States.

Vicarious identification, or "e;living through another"e; is a familiar social-psychological concept.

This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations.

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The book investigates why a country facing issues that needed to be tackled nationwide chose to decentralize when it moved from authoritarianism to democracy.

The mathematical theory of democracy deals with selection of representatives who make decisions on behalf of the whole society.

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980.

In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E.

This volume has a long and distinguished pedigree.

Deliberately eschewing disciplinary and temporal boundaries, this volume makes a major contribution to the de-traditionalization of political thinking within the discourses of international relations.

Provinces is now established as the most comprehensive yet accessible exploration of Canadian provincial politics and government.

Intellectual property has rapidly become one of the most important, as well as most controversial, subjects in recent years amongst productive thinkers of many kinds all over the world.

The women's movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context.

Vorwort Vorwort Vorwort Seit den frühen 1990er-Jahren haben wechselnde parlamentarische Mehrheiten teilweise unter Einbindung der Opposition die Privatisierung der früheren B- des- und Reichsbahn (DDR) trotz eines wachsenden Widerstandes in weiten Teilen der Bevölkerung vorangetrieben.

While fascism perhaps reached its peak in the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini, it continues to permeate governments today.

Leading international scholars challenge neoliberalism on its assumptions, way of reasoning and empirical evidence.

Provides the first comprehensive post-Heller account of the Second Amendment as constitutional law - dispelling many myths along the way.

Political parties run by entrepreneurs as a means to their own end are a recent phenomenon found in many countries, and their electoral influence has never been greater.

In response to the global crises in recent decades, many countries - both developed and developing economies - have resorted to populist forms of economic policy instead of undertaking meaningful institutional change.

This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South.

An in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society.

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization.

This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent and hence legitimating stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power.

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs.

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.

An analysis of how African states become radicalizers or demobilizers of their domestic Salafi communities.

This book explores the contribution to recent developments in post-secularism, philosophical realism and utopianism made by key thinkers in the Hegelian tradition.

This book provides a theoretical framing to analyse and examine the interaction between origin and destination in the migrant integration process.

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First published in 1965, this work studies the House of Lords and the various proposals for its reform, abolition or limitation of its powers which have been made in the light o f prevailing theories of the nature and characteristics of the English government.

Who are refugees?

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese-Russian bilateral relationship, grounded in a historical perspective, and discusses the implications of the burgeoning 'strategic partnership' between these two major powers for world order and global geopolitics.

This book examines the crossroads of quantum and critical approaches to International Relations and argues that these approaches share a common project of uncovering complexity and uncertainty.

In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional-it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation.

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As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles.