Political science and theory

US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, partisanship and polarization, and escalating debates about federal/state relations.

Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary Gratification questions whether the consequences associated with non-sex-based scandals carry greater penalties than sex-based political scandals in the twenty-first century.

This book, first published in 1964, collects a number of essays united by the general theme of national and social revolution.

Addresses how the classical republican conception of freedom was challenged and finally overcome by the rise of modern market societies.

Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world.

Können Frauen in Deutschland in Politik und Wirtschaft erfolgreich sein?

This book traces the history of China's administrative reform in the past 35 years, focusing on the three phases of development, four guidelines and five major tasks of the reform since it is of great value to depict the entire process of China's administrative system reform, analyzing the achievements, problems and prospects of the reform, and exploring experiences and lessons from the relationship between the administrative system reform and China's economic, social and government transformation.

This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner.

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Im April 2017 jährt sich zum hundertsten Mal ein Datum, das in der Folgezeit für den vermeintlichen Hang der politischen Linken zu Friktionen und Zerwürfnissen eine geradezu symbolische Bedeutung gewonnen hat.

Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency.

This book provides a new interpretation of ordoliberalism - the influential German version of neoliberalism - by exploring the political, legal and social context of its emergence.

The "e;secular age"e; is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest.

This book presents an overview and evaluation of contemporary research in international political sociology (IPS).

Society, ecological systems, and technological combinations are sets of ongoing processes that are organized as integrated systems and networks.

This book, first published in 1977, attempts to show Mao Tse-tung in his relationship with the Chinese people.

Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world.

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.

The volume provides analyses and evaluations of the continuing importance of Europe's autonomy in its access to space as a key driver in the development of European space capabilities.

A comparison of French and American approaches to freedom of expression, with reference to the historical, social and philosophical contexts.

This book presents the first accessible analysis of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, situating the work in the context of Spinoza's general philosophy and its 17th-century historical background.

The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain.

Although Marx's concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved to be rather disappointing.

A comprehensive and stimulating examination of how the migration of women affects attitudes in receiving countries, among the women themselves, and how changing women's attitudes shapes their relations with men and between generations within ethnic groups.

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.

The Politics of the American Dream analyzes the role of the 'American Dream' in contemporary American political culture.

When Government Helped systematically evaluates some parallels between The Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflict both periods.

Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated 'parochially' and ineffectually.

Offers a strikingly original interpretation of Leo Strauss, his ''political philosophy'', and the connection of both to the American conservative movement.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology.

This book reclaims the argument from liberty from the political right to justify universal unionization and other progressive policies.

Legitimacy is central for the capacity of global governance institutions to address problems such as climate change, trade protectionism, and human rights abuses.

Although we associate the Third Reich above all with suffering, pain and fear, pleasure played a central role in its social and cultural dynamics.

This book examines the economic policies available to a head of state and addresses how best to measure the success of these tools.

Using the engaging case of British security policy between the world wars, this book argues that an effective balance of power, which is the key to a stable international system, is a deliberate act of policy and that leaders play a determinative role in building an effective balance.

This volume contains key writings, mainly recent, that define the current debate concerning our understanding of the nature of Max Weber's social and political thought.

Special centenary edition of Hind Swaraj, celebrating 100 years since the first publication of Mahatma Gandhi''s fundamental work.

Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day.

The book is divided into three sections: "e;Reflections on Innis"e; provides a historical reassessment of Innis, "e;Gaps and Silences"e; considers the limitations of both Innis's thought and his interpreters, and "e;Innis and Cultural Theory"e; offers speculations on his influence on cultural analysis.