Political science and theory

This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory.

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community.

This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy.

Democracy is the central political issue of our age, yet debates over its nature and goals rarely engage with feminist concerns.

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

A good political community is one whose citizens are actively engaged in deciding their common future together.

Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders.

This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development.

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility.

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory.

This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.

This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis.

This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World.

The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt.

Structured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity.

This volume of especially commissioned essays explains what is meant by "e;civil society"e;, paying particular attention to the relationships between civil society and other social forces such as nationalism and populism.

With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike.

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world.

Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.

How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today?

The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the 'militaristic' societies of the past, and the 'capitalist' or 'industrial' societies of the present.

Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate.

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.

This exciting new book is the first comprehensive and critical study of the relationship between the Pragmatist tradition and political theory.

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America.

In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate.

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

Max Weber's writings on the politics of Wilhelmine in Germany and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 are much less well known than his contributions to historical and theoretical sociology, yet they are essential to any overall assessment of his thought.

Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged.

John Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of both the empiricist tradition in philosophy and the liberal tradition in politics.

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed?

It is often remarked that politicians private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies.

Crisis?

This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics.

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state.

George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to normal , right?

What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice?

What is representation?

In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day.

Society is under siege under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics.

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary.

In today s uncertain world, the concept of global governance has never been more relevant or widely discussed.

Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness.

The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive.

Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil.

Does a hard-headed Realist approach to international politics necessarily involve skepticism towards progressive foreign policy initiatives and global reform?

The way people think and act politically is not set in stone.