Political science and theory

The unique political history of the Southern United States is rooted in the fact that it is the only region to have ever taken up arms against the national government.

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments.

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties.

This volume proposes a capacity-centered approach for understanding American bureaucracy.

The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior to combat the virus and preserve life.

The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls.

In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.

This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952-1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region's dictatorships.

Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis-and why that belief is so dangerousWhy do democracies keep lurching from success to failure?

In the mid-1970s, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) almost succeeded in entering the national government; however, by the end of the decade its popularity had dramatically declined.

Demonstrates how media information interacts with emotion in shaping a wide range of political opinions about government and political leaders.

The Soviet Way of Life (1948) is an objective description of the Soviet Russian political and economic systems.

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S.

In den Jahren, bevor die Covid19-Krise die Welt vor ungekannte Herausforderungen stellte, zeigte sich die EU von zwei Seiten: Einerseits gab sie Anlass zu Hoffnung, hatte sie doch mehrere Krisen gemeistert und stellte sie sich in der Welt als Verteidigerin von Multilateralismus und Festung der Demokratie dar.

This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history.

In Nostalgia and Political Theory, Lawrence Quill advocates the central importance of nostalgia as a theoretical response to the 'historic' past and a vertiginous present.

For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate.

This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which hold totality as an important part of their doctrinal core.

Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.

The Marvel of Martyrdom is about how self-sacrifice can change lives and how martyrs can change the world.

Citizenship implies exclusion of non-members.

John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is widely regarded as one of the most influential and stirring pieces of political philosophy ever written.

Eine längst überfällige Betrachtung rassistischen Denkens in DeutschlandDie Journalistin und Politikwissenschaftlerin Gilda Sahebi zeigt in ihrer klaren Analyse: Wir alle denken rassistisch.

This book presents a philosophical analysis of affective polarization.

Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a revaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century.

This theoretically innovative book shows how democratic social movements can use the welfare state to challenge domination in society.

Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s.

This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement.

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West.

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

When Barack Obama praised the writings of philosopher theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the run up to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he joined a long line of top politicians who closely engaged with Niebuhr's ideas, including Tony Benn, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr.

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research.

This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union's approach to 'governance', focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance.

Never before has there been so extensive a collection of what has been thought, said, and written about the sociology of the military.

This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative power as a cultural storyteller.

This book uses a critical political economy approach to develop an historically and politically grounded set of strategies for states to move toward a post-growth, decarbonised global economy.

Der Zusammenhang zwischen "Menschenrechten und Revolutionen" steht auf der politischen Tagesordnung: In jüngster Zeit wurden wir Zeugen von Massenprotesten, Aufständen, Rebellionen und Revolutionen in der Ukraine, in Tunesien, Ägypten, Libyen oder Syrien, in denen der Bezug auf Menschenrechte mitunter eine zentrale, manchmal eine eher nebensächliche und – erstaunlich genug – gelegentlich auch gar keine Rolle spielte.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

Two-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard G.

This book uses Sweden as a test case to analyze how parliament and elected representatives function in a representative democracy.

Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when race and class biases are invoked.