Political science and theory

This Element assesses the current state of knowledge on policy entrepreneurs, their actions, and their impacts.

States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures.

The functioning of representative democracy crucially depends on political parties that mediate between citizens and the state.

This book questions whether and to what extent a conjunctural phenomenon such as an economic crisis can bring about lasting political consequences.

A study of the office of the Constitutional Head of State in Westminster-style Commonwealth countries.

Moral duties are regularly attributed to groups.

Focusing on the period from September 1964, when Senor Galo Lasso Plaza assumed the UN mediatory role, to the coup d'etat and the Turkish invasion ten years later, Cyprus Before 1974 seeks to unpick the internal conflicts which led to the failure of the peace process in Cyprus.

This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and outlines an agenda for future research.

Social Movements have become a central focus of political study in recent years.

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Will capitalism survive forever?

This book explores the debates surrounding two dynamic fields - postcolonial studies and world literature.

This book will offer a unique approach to the Year of Intelligence, the sixteen-month period between January 1975 and April 1976 that saw the innermost secrets of various US intelligence agencies laid bare before the world.

While much international attention has been focused on China's developing economy, dramatic changes are also taking place in its legal system.

This book offers a radical new interpretation of Georg Lukacs's History and Class Consciousness, showing for the first time how the philosophical framework for his analysis of society was laid in the drafts of a philosophy of art that he planned but never completed before he converted to Marxism.

Der Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das politische System der Slowakei.

This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Milosevic Serbia after 2000.

While these authors' political inclinations are well known and much discussed, previous studies have failed to adequately analyse the surrounding political circumstances that informed the specific utopian aspirations in each writer's works.

This book describes the emergence of research policy as a key competence of the European Union (EU).

This book explores the way today's interconnected and digitized world--marked by social media, over-sharing, and blurred lines between public and private spheres--shapes the nature and fallout of scandal in a frenzied media environment.

Bringing prudence back into the centre of political philosophical discussion, this book assesses how far the Aristotelian notion can be of use in thinking about politics today.

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.

This book focuses on a central concept that "e;Theory is History"e;, as the theory of capitalism can only be formulated on the basis of an analysis of its history.

This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Stupidity permeates our perception and practice of politics.

Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought.

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Based on an extensive range of sources, this impressive book analyses the principal institutions and features of British politics on the eve of reform: the monarchy, the prime ministership, the cabinet, the departments of State, parliamentary legislation, investigation, debate and parties, and the relationship between Parliament, the media, public opinion and popular politics.

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Foucault's challenging view of power and knowledge as the basis for interpreting the international system forms the central themes of this book.

In the wake of the Iraq war, the term Old Europe was appropriated by politicians, civil society and social movement actors alike to rally in defence of supposedly social and civilized values against the perceived predatory forces of American finance.

Focusing on the role of harmony in Chinese international relations (IR) theory, this book seeks to illuminate Chinese understandings of world politics and foreign policy.

Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness - or non-awareness - in contemporary French theory.

This book provides an in-depth look into key political dynamics that obtain in a democracy without parties, offering a window into political undercurrents increasingly in evidence throughout the Latin American region, where political parties are withering.

The Politics of Juridification offers a timely contribution to debates about how politics is being affected by the increasing relevance of judicial bodies to the daily administration of Western political communities.

In Vergils Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergils Aeneid.

Ce livre retrace une longue marche : celle des Parlements sur les scènes politiques africaines, aussi variées que tumultueuses ces dernières décennies.

New Right, New Racism is a comparative analysis of the role of racialized symbols in the right turn of US and British politics in the late 1970s through to today.

The idea of cosmopolitanism has informed some of the most important developments in current sociology.

Rassismus, Homophobie und Ausgrenzung Andersdenkender sind heute alltägliche Realität in Deutschland.

This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and power in contemporary societies.

This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the free speech 'battles' of the last decade, arguing for a critical republican conception of civility as an explanatory and prescriptive solution.