Political science and theory

Through a critical evaluation of the works of Norman Angell and David Mitrany, this book explores the liberal roots of the academic discipline of International Relations (IR).

This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency.

This book revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies with a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems.

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost.

The End of Socialism explores the difficulties socialism faces and examines the extent to which its moral ideals can guide policy.

What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy?

Das Handbuch Politik USA vereint Aufsätze ausgewiesener Expertinnen und Experten der sozialwissenschaftlichen USA-Forschung.

This book and associated collection of visual data and sociological observations examine how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has been visually re-imagined, transformed, and utilized by its subalterns in the post-Handover period to reproduce their aspirations and demands for greater democracy and social justice while simultaneously contesting the hegemonic pressure exerted by China under the "e;One Country, Two Systems"e; ideology.

No analysis of migration in Europe today can avoid consideration of the role of the EU institutions, as well as the member states, in policy-making.

Gendered Policies in Europe examines the policy process, focusing on the shifts in equal opportunities legislation towards measures to help parents combine employment and family life.

You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how engaging with the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to understand the problems of contemporary organizing much more clearly.

This book defends the case for the expansion of the democratic model to the global political sphere.

This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present.

A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique.

The historical response to bank crises has always been more regulation.

The book examines the industrial growth of sanctioned nations in terms of their ability to foster trade partnerships with countries that choose to evade or not comply with sanctions.

Most Americans are religious believers.

This book explores the relationship between the food culture of Israel and the creation of its national identity.

In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party leaders and intellectuals Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein against what they perceived to be misunderstandings of Marxism propagated by members of the Social-Democratic Federation (SDF) in England and by the socialist leader Wilhelm Liebknecht in Germany.

Have you ever wondered what libertarians think about vaccine mandates?

Explores how China has reached a threshold where continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics.

What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare?

Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective.

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is among the most widely read books in the world.

In our lives, we aim to achieve welfare for ourselves, that is, to live good lives.

The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory.

This book analyses the ideology that China's leader Xi Jinping has crafted during his decade in power.

Both historically and conceptually, patriotism has been one of the foundational characteristics that defines the very essence of one's attachment, identification and loyalty to a political community and a basic virtue associated with citizenship as a political conception of the person.

Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and incommensurable with one another.

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This book explores the causes, progression and consequences of the extraordinary spread of anti-Jewish violence and mass conversion across five separate Spanish polities in 1391, from Seville to the Pyrenees, overwhelming Valencia, Barcelona and numerous other locations.

Using a variety of methodological approaches, this timely book offers a thorough examination of the impact and implications of religious fundamentalism in developing nations.

In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional and national boundaries.

This book documents Japan's psychological deterioration caused by its defeat in August 1945.

Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.

The Indian Constituent Assembly laid the foundations of the largest democracy in the world.

Examines how constitutional requirements of the lawmaking process, and the factional divisions within parties, affect US representatives'' decisions on distributing power among themselves.

Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D.

It is now 80 years since Mussolini's Fascism came to power in Italy, but the political heirs of the original Fascism are part of government in today's Italy.

In seeking to test the conventional wisdom that foreign ministries are 'in decline', the contributors to this book examine the role and status of foreign ministries in twelve countries together with their place within the European Union.

This book explores the responses of the Roman Catholic Church to the French Revolution beginning in 1789, to the liberal revolution in 1830, and particularly the democratic revolution of 1848 in France, and asks how these events were perceived and explained.