Political science and theory

In this important and path-breaking book, esteemed scholar and public intellectual Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane.

Andreas Kegel entwickelt einen didaktischen Politikbegriff.

This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research.

American voting behavior has long been paradoxical.

In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

This book develops a new theory of collaborative lobbying and influence to explain how antipoverty advocates gain influence in American social policymaking.

This book is a study of post-Mao Chinese moral subjectivity and a philosophical inquiry into the relation between moral subjectivity and freedom.

My first serious thought about a scientific approach to politics was in Communist China.

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world.

Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task.

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.

On Revolutions That Never Were "e;If you want to understand what a science is,"e; the anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1973, p.

Comparative constitutional change has recently emerged as a distinct field in the study of constitutional law.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a philosopher and political theorist of astonishing range and originality and one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century.

When Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin first came to power in the 1930s, their regimes were considered by many to represent a new and perplexing phenomenon.

Following a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach, this book highlights changes in the concept and action of disobedience, presenting a theoretical framework and applied case studies.

This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s.

The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics in the evaluation of the market.

Smith demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated themes.

The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility.

This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism.

What different kinds of reason are possible, and which ones are the most appropriate for a legitimate, as opposed to a merely legitimated state?

Distributive justice has come to the fore in political philosophy in recent decades: how should we arrange our social and economic institutions so as to distribute fairly the benefits and burdens of social cooperation?

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

Globalization and New Public Management pose major challenges to the policy capacity of the state.

This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the local press.

Ilan Gur-Ze'ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace critically analyses and introduces the main ideas of Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, reflecting on his continuing theoretical and practical relevance to the field of education.

An examination of the controversies and disputes produced between Britain and the United States by their joint involvement in the Mediterranean theatre during the Second World War.

In 1974, Robert Nozick's book Anarchy, State, and Utopia moved libertarianism from a relatively neglected subset of political philosophy to the center of the discipline, as one of the most cogent critiques of social democracy and egalitarian liberalism.

Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how disaster production and response are intimately interconnected.

This book examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to mainland China in 1997, focusing in particular on the anti-government mass protests and mobilisations in the years since 2003.

In this book, Edward Erler brings a lifetime of study of political philosophy, the American founding, and the US constitution to the central role of property in American constitutional thought.

The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.

The ideologies of Liberalism, Socialism and Conservatism have dominated political argument since the American and French revolutions.

This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989.

This Key Concepts pivot discusses the contemporary relevance of the ancient Chinese concept of Tianxia or 'All-Under-Heaven' and argues the case for a new global political philosophy.

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles.

This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the regional development strategies of east, west, northeast and central China and the development of important economic regions including the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu-Chongqing and central-southern areas of Liaoning Province.

This new volume on Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification brings together several of the most prominent social and political psychologists who are responsible for the resurgence of interest in the study of ideology, broadly defined.

This 2001 book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s.

Das hiermit vorgelegte Handbuch soll in umfassender Weise über den modernen Nahen und Mittleren Osten informieren.

Drawing on the experiences of grassroots political activists from different socio- economic and ethnic backgrounds, Green Shoots of Democracy explores how self-identified progressives manage (or fail to manage) to work within a big city political machine.

This book offers new and compelling insight into the orientations that shape the cultures of political communication in nine Western democracies.

Presidential campaigns of the twenty-first century were not the first to mobilize an array of new media forms in efforts to gain electoral victory.