Political science and theory

Local governments throughout the west are undergoing a transformation of their leadership styles and structures.

A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India.

Die neue Ausgabe von INDES befasst sich mit dem Konnex "Kindheit und Politik" – und widmet sich damit einem Thema, das jenseits von Allgemeinplätzen zur bestmöglichen Förderung des Nachwuchses im politischen Diskurs lange Zeit nur am Rande vorkam.

This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject.

Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The kinds of hatreds that analysts have assumed make up part of the unspoken backdrop of Western civilization have now erupted into our daily foreground.

How Social Security has shaped American politics-and why it faces insolvencySince its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement.

This book presents a collection of philosophical essays on freedom and tolerance in the Netherlands.

In Democracy Remixed, award-winning scholar Cathy J.

This thought-provoking book delves into the racial, political, and social turmoil surrounding the Richmond Unified School District (RUSD) during a critical period of attempted school desegregation through busing in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Unless considered on a practical level, where a precise distribution of social goods is chosen, John Rawls's and Gerald Cohen's approaches to social justice cannot be complementary.

An introduction to African history and politics since decolonization, emphasising the political, economic and socio-economic diversity of the continent.

This book explores multiple challenges faced by democratization in Southern Africa.

Mohandas K.

The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of Northern 'donor' governments.

The most practical guide to conducting research in Politics and International Relations.

A paradigm-shifting, original examination of Rousseau's final work, Reveries.

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn.

This book explores the relationship between social movements, sexual citizenship and change in Southern Europe.

The History and Theory of Fetishism, the expanded version of Iacono's enduring classic Teorie del feticismo and available for the first time in English, aims to provide the historical context necessary to understanding the concept of "e;fetishism"e; and offers an overview of the ideologies, prejudices, and critical senses that shaped the Western observer's view of otherness and of his own world.

This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies.

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future.

This book provides a unique personal perspective on the field of peace research.

Retrofitting Leninism explains, through the lens of China, how open governance and modern information technology come together to sustain a tightly controlled but socially responsive system of authoritarianism.

Microregionalism and World Order is a pioneering work on the least understood aspect of regionalism.

Bringing together world-class scholars who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation, this book addresses key dimensions of the current debate: providing novel insights and perspectives, as well as critically discussing the leading theories of legal obligation.

Die fünf Bände enthalten die Hauptvorträge und eingeladene Beiträge der panels des X.

This Brief provides some answers as to why famines continue to torment humankind here in the 21st century despite all our progress in food production, logistics, information dissemination and relief work.

Providing a thorough and novel account of US and Japanese foreign policymaking toward regional institution-building in post-Cold War Asia, this study serves as the first comparative analysis of these two major actors in this realm of regional cooperation and demonstrates not only how but also when state identity shapes a state's foreign policy.

This book provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of International Relations.

Serving as a touchstone for a much-needed research program on social scales, this volume challenges disciplinary boundaries and brings into focus a paradoxical state of affairs in contemporary thought: the domain of local-global interactions has not yet been identified as an object of analysis in its own right, despite engaging a large, multi-disciplinary research community with strong potential for cross-fertilization.

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective.

This book rethinks the idea of privacy.

Using the lens of postcolonial feminism and with particular focus on immigration accross the U.

Argues that, regardless of its professed cause, terrorism can never be reconciled with liberal morality.

This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events.