Political science and theory

This book theorizes a mechanism underlying regime-change waves, the deliberate efforts of diffusion entrepreneurs to spread a particular regime and regime-change model across state borders.

Against the twentieth-century ''Hobbesian anarchy'', Before Anarchy reconsiders the originality and reception of Hobbes''s interpersonal and international state of nature.

The disciplines of international law and international relations are inextricably linked.

On what basis can we establish an alternative to the unifying of cultures brought about by economic globalization?

Die Krise des Sozialstaates ist offenkundig: Demographische Zwänge, klamme Sozialkassen, ungelöste Arbeitsmarktproblematik, steigende Unzufriedenheit der Bürger.

This book examines opposition to the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention and its consequences for the politics of violence against women in four countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy.

This book assembles leading legal, political, and moral philosophers to examine the legacy of the work of Ronald Dworkin.

This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule.

The Islamic Revolution in 1979 transformed Iranian society and reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East.

This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents.

This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.

Beginning with an introduction to the field of comparative politics, this clear and complete text moves on to explore new, innovative directions in the field.

Rosa Luxemburg's writings reveal one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement.

Media has long been considered a primary site for political discourse in Western liberal democracies, but now, with the advent of social media, giant multinational digital platforms such as Google, and online journalism, the way we do politics, talk politics, and cover politics has completely transformed.

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but others endure?

Richard Roberts explores the religious consequences of the imposition of managerial modernity upon successive sectors of society.

This edited book introduces students and scholars to Comparative Political Thought.

Rapports entre l’art et la politique, dans une triple approche (politisation du champ artistique, circonscription du domaine de l’art et engagement politique explicite des artistes militants).

Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism critically explores the global rise of an alternative democratic politics since the 1990s in both practice and theory, from the Zapatistas' insurrection to the 2011 cycle of democratic contestation and the ensuing municipalist movement in Spain.

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

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process.

Das Verhältnis von Religion und Zivilgesellschaft ist komplex und ambivalent.

The Crown in Canada has had a profound influence in shaping a country and a constitution that embraces the promotion of political moderation, societal accommodation, adaptable constitutional structures, and pluralistic governing practices.

International Relations (IR), as a discipline, is a western dominated enterprise.

People live by ideas which help them to make sense of their experiences.

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity.

The theory of alienation occupies a significant place in the work of Marx and has long been considered one of his main contributions to the critique of bourgeois society.

"e;Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the greatest mind in political philosophy in the twentieth century, and possibly in other centuries as well.

And in this new and stunning book, New York Times best-selling author David Freddoso (The Case Against Barack Obama) provides the much-needed expos of an administration that has brought Chicago-style corruption and strong-arm politics to Washington, looking to reward its friends (the unions, federal workers, and other liberal interest groups) and punish its enemies (the private sector workers and taxpayers who foot the bill for Obamas massive expansion of the federal government).

Having survived the process of modernization and reasserted themselves in public life, religious traditions play an increasingly important public role in shaping and defining social institutions and interactions.

South Africa's transition to democracy was met by the global audience with at first, disbelief, followed later by applause.

This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology, among the British.

The 2016 election has inspired millions of U.

A collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s.

This book is devoted to the work of Robert A.

The demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive.

Drawing on state-of-the-art psychological research on self-control, this study argues that the concept has been gravely overlooked, with profound political implications.

Current international relations (IR) theories and approaches, which are almost exclusively built in the West, are alien to the non-Western contexts that engender the most hard-pressing problems of the world and ultimately unhelpful in understanding or addressing the needs surrounding these issues.

Nili develops a novel conception of ''the people'', both as an agent with its own moral integrity, and as an owner of public property.

The extent to which history has been used to inform policy remains a neglected topic.

International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states.

Jan-Philipp Sommer weist in seiner Dissertation mithilfe eines konstruktivistischen Analysedesigns nach, dass die deutsche Außenpolitik gegenüber Polen maßgeblich von einem Grundkanon an Normen geprägt ist.