Political science and theory

Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century.

To understand recent developments in Eastern Europe requires a method of analysis that is capable of internalizing into a theoretical framework (i) the logical premises deduced from the costs of transactions and incentive structures generated by various institutions and (ii) the evidence for refutable implications of those premises.

How a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of governmentIn this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverningthe deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its workhas become a malignant part of politics.

This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings.

Dieser Band befasst sich mit einem Vergleich der Regierungssysteme der deutschen Länder aus politikwissenschaftlicher Sicht.

Post-Industrial Socialism provides critical analysis of recent developments in leftist political thought.

A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia.

On the Road to Permissiveness?

"e;At the hands of a minor talent, profiles are often flat, two-dimensional outlines of a thinker s intellectual physiognomy.

'Why do we vote in schools?

Fifteen years after the first Summit of the Americas, the world and the Americas have changed enormously.

Winner of the 2018 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize awarded by the Center for Advanced Research in PhenomenologyThis book develops a unique phenomenology of plurality by introducing Hannah Arendt's work into current debates taking place in the phenomenological tradition.

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics.

This book represents the first discussion from a political science perspective of the concept of Multiple Modernities in three dimensions.

A comprehensive collection exploring the theoretical and practical connections between constitutionalism and deliberative democracy.

Iain McLean reexamines the radical legacy of AdamSmith, arguing that Smith was a radical egalitarian and that his work supported all three of the slogans of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity.

This book, first published in 1972, is an analysis of popular movements, political convulsions and settlements that led to and resulted from the climax of the First World War and its aftermath.

In a timely re-examination of the origins of the system which fell apart so dramatically in 1991, this book deals with the policies of the Soviets towards the non-Russian nationalities of the former Russian Empire.

Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe presents a comprehensive account of the attempts by authorities throughout Europe to stifle the growth of political opposition during the nineteenth-century by censoring newspapers, books, caricatures, plays, operas and film.

Insgesamt erhielten die Mädchen in Erfurt die im Durchschnitt geringsten (Taschen-)Gelder und die Jungen in Köln die höchsten.

In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon.

International Relations: A European Perspective presents the main schools of international relations while underlining the added value of the European approach.

First published in December 1919, this global bestseller attacking those who had made the peace in Paris after the First World War, sparked immediate controversy.

Today, examples of the public's engagement with political issues through commercial and communicative mechanisms have become increasingly common.

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance.

Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether.

Liberty After Liberalism frees the concept of the active citizen from both the territorial confines of the nation-state and the limits imposed by republican, city-state models.

This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context.

Central to Niccol Machiavelli's writing is the argument that a successful state is one that prefers to lose with its own arms (arma propriis) than to win with the arms of others (arma alienis).

The book addresses the paradigm shift in education governance in China through a study of two legislation episodes in China: the 1986 Compulsory Education Law and the 2006 Compulsory Education Law Amendment.

The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved.

Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities.

Big ideas matter in politics, and they spark fierce debates about the future of our society.

This volume brings together established and rising scholars to revitalize political theology by examining conceptions of power that work beyond sovereign power.

A country's stature in global politics is often determined by its popular image and public perceptions, as reflected in global media.

The vision of the founders of the United Nations, the World Bank and the IMF some fifty years ago contrasts sharply with the often weak and limited performance of the institutions they created.

In a powerful new book, Boggs traces the historical evolution of American politics by focusing on the gradual triumph of corporate and military power over democratic institutions and practices.

Ingrid van Biezen provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of party formation and organizational development in recently established democracies.

How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?

An innovative socio-legal study of ''international justice'', focusing on conflict-related sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia.

Examines the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, in multiple forms, in multiple locations.

Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way.

The book traces the twin processes of economic liberalization and political democratization in Bolivia since the 1980s, placing both in their historical context.