Political science and theory

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy.

In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety.

In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists.

Some blame the violence and unrest in the Muslim world on Islam itself, arguing that the religion and its history is inherently bloody.

The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power.

How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off?

As Europe's Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas.

How do statesmen become aware of unfavorable shifts in relative power, and how do they seek to respond to them?

How ordinary citizens band together to bring about real changeIn an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan?

How happiness became mandatory-and why we should reject the demand to "e;be happy"e;Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty.

This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems.

The conventional wisdom holds that the president of the United States is weak, hobbled by the separation of powers and the short reach of his formal legal authority.

How did the world come to be organized into sovereign states?

The story of a Princeton professor's role as the unofficial philosophical adviser to the Spanish governmentThis book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist.

What today's political thinkers can learn from the radical democratic movements of twentieth-century AmericaThis is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today.

What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state?

Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

The description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.

A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay first conceptualized by ancient philosophers.

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States.

An innovative reassessment of philosopher P.

A leading political theorist's groundbreaking defense of ideal conceptions of justice in political philosophyThroughout the history of political philosophy and politics, there has been continual debate about the roles of idealism versus realism.

A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth centuryGateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization.

An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinkerSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years.

This book represents the first systematic research by a social scientist on the radical right-wing movements in Italy since 1945.

The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas.

A popular look at the separation of church and state: what it is, what it isn't, and why it matters for the future of religion in America.

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics?

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.

Gefängnis und Gesellschaft: Das ist eine komplexe, auf paradoxe Weise durch Nähe und Distanz gekennzeichnete Beziehung.

La respuesta de los Estados democraticos al terrorismo se suele plantear en terminos de debate entre libertad y seguridad.

El bolsonarismo ha amalgamado un conjunto de tradiciones que se encontraban dispersas en la cultura política brasileña.

Der Zeitpfeil fliegt, so denkt man, auf linearer Bahn.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Looking Further Backward (Political Dystopia)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Seit 47 Jahren versorgt das "Österreichische Jahrbuch für Politik" Meinungsbildner, Profis, Beobachter der politischen Szene, Journalisten und alle an der Politik Interessierten mit Informationen über das politische Geschehen in Österreich und der Welt.

Die INDES 3/2023 widmet sich im Schwerpunkt dem "Weniger".

As the son of a noble family which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, Alexis de Tocqueville had a front seat at the revolutionary drama of his time.

Es scheint, dass seitens der Rechten moderne Medien hoffnungsvoll eingesetzt werden, dabei aber eine gewisse Planlosigkeit vorherrscht und es an strategischer Planung mangelt.

The current discussion on the rule of law, especially in the EU, seems to be developing because the terms that express the idea of the rule of law in different European languages do not convey the same content.

Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work.

Assuming that "e;marginal"e; citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream.

The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting.

Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory.

This book is a profoundly moving and analytically incisive attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics.

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science.

Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone.