Political science and theory

In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of Western societies generally.

This book is the first monograph to systematically explore the relationship between citizenship and collective identity in the European Union, integrating two fields of research - citizenship and collective identity.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book focuses on decision-making by non-state justice institutions at the interface of traditional, religious, and state laws.

In this volume practitioners and theorists from East and West assess the results of four years of transformation in Eastern Europe.

Against the background of growing uncertainty about the future development of capitalism, and in the face of war, terror and poverty, this book asks: What do we have to know to prevent misery?

Drawing on recent developments in continental political thought 'Disorienting Democracy' rethinks democracy as a practice that can be used to counter the increasing poverty, inequality and insecurity that mark our contemporary era.

Much has been written about the French Revolution and especially its bloody phase known as the Reign of Terror.

This book explores the emergence of a new architecture of corporate enforcement in Ireland.

Issues of global justice dominate our contemporary world.

The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth century British history.

This book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics.

Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society was published in 1977.

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project.

This volume explores voters' political rationalizations.

In 1967 Moscow created a Middle Eastern crisis in response to Washington's escalation in Vietnam.

This book delves into the compatibility of Islam with liberal values, engaging in a comparative analysis of Islamic moral language and John Rawls's liberal democratic ideas.

Katsumata demonstrates that something interesting is taking place inside the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

This interdisciplinary and cross-national volume brings together theory and research by prominent scholars within the areas of distributive and procedural justice, not only featuring work within each area separately, as is commonly done, but also showing how combinations of the two justice orientations might operate to affect justice judgments and guide behaviour.

Laut repräsentativen Umfragen schätzt sich jede/r Dritte in Deutschland heute als politisch "links" bzw.

Liberal thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were alert to the political costs and human cruelties involved in European colonialism, but they also thought that European expansion held out progressive possibilities.

There are very few figures in history that have exerted as much and as varied an influence as Karl Marx.

The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany.

Why stable banking systems are so rareWhy are banking systems unstable in so many countries-but not in others?

This book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries.

This book tackles global economic and social issues from a perspective that may seem obvious but which no author has yet taken: that we humans are living beings.

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During the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), a divided nation on the front-line of the East-West confrontation, came down with pneumonia every time the superpowers sneezed.

This book collects some of the major essays, past and new, of two of the leading authorities on the Northern Ireland conflict.

The internet has created a new social base where governments are ever more critically examined and measuring public sentiment expressed on social media is crucial to gauging ongoing support for democracy.

This important library and classroom tool will make it easy for students to research and debate the core political ideas and issues of the founding period.

This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-a-vis empire.

Following the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis' General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), this volume aims to breathe new life into the main category of Pashukanian legacy, the concept of legal form.

Recent research demonstrates that the quality of public institutions is crucial for a number of important environmental, social, economic, and political outcomes, and thereby human well-being.

In Public Goods, Public Gains, Link and Scott discuss the systematic application of alternative evaluation methods to estimate the social benefits of publicly financed research and development (R&D).

This book examines the legacy of the Bush presidency in term of presidential leadership, politics, and public policy.

This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed more than 300 showpiece animals throughout Japan well before U.

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens.

In this book, Zirakzadeh examines different types of social movements, from the Greens in Germany to the Shining Path in Peru.

Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology.

This volume seeks to restore Vilfredo Pareto to his rightful place in the history of social and economic thought, bringing together studies by leading scholars to mark the centenary of his death in 1923.

Based on a variety of contemporary debates on federal theory Understanding Federalism and Federation honours Michael Burgess' contribution to the study of these topics through a selection of approaches, theories, debates and interpretations.

Does authoritarian rule benefit from political repression?