Political science and theory

The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American?

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist thinker whose radical ideas on how to build an alternative world from below remain vigorously relevant today.

In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration?

This title was first published in 2002: This book is an analysis of the ways in which mental states ground attributions of responsibility to persons.

Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practiceMost Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich to pay more.

This volume is designed to be an in-depth and nuanced philosophical treatment of the virtue of obedience in the context of the professional military and the broader civilian political community, including the general citizenry.

A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state.

Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.

This innovative volume brings together specialists in international relations to tackle a set of difficult questions about what it means to live in a globalized world where the purpose and direction of world politics are no longer clear-cut.

This book is the first volume of aseries that aims at taking stock of the status of local democracy at the beginning of a new century.

This handbook aims to challenge 'gender blindness' in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power.

Democracy, Agency, and the State aims to contribute to a comparatively informed theory of democracy.

For most of three decades, Drew Pearson was the most well-known journalist in the United States.

Wie kann ein zukunftsfähiger Verfassungsschutz aussehen?

This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens.

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context.

The Japanese take education very seriously.

The first history of one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern era.

How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politicsAfter the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine.

This is Laski's most important book after A Grammar of Politics.

What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy?

This book explores the creation and career of the French Constitution of 1795, operative from the start of the Directory until Napoleon's takeover in 1799.

This book analyzes the transformation of the Mexican political system during the last four decades, focusing on its presidential elections.

If states are not to go to war, what should they do instead?

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Simpson offers a reflective and theoretical explanation of the ways in which unionists conceive of the past in the present post-conflict environment.

A collection of essays on the politics of boundaries, this book addresses a broad range of cases, some geographical, some legal, and some involving less tangible practices of inclusion and exclusion.

Every politics is an aesthetic.

This book analyses and compares instances of the diffusion of political norms and ideas in the history of Franco-German relations.

This book offers a systematic guide to the allocation of American taxpayer dollars used to provide for the common defense.

During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold War era.

This vigorous debate between two distinguished philosophers presents two views on a topic of worldwide importance: the role of religion in politics.

A portrait in words of Lester Pearson, this volume contains his own selection of his speeches and writings from 1924 to 1968 on a wide variety of topics - serious and frivolous, political and non-political - with introductions which serve as an autobiographical and interpretative link carrying the reader forward through his career.

Drawing on research from the administrative sciences and using organizational, institutional and decision-making theories, this volume examines the emerging bureaucratic framework of the EU and highlights that analyzing the patterns and dynamics of the EU's administrative capacities is essential to understand how it shapes European public policy.

A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel insurgencyG.

The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882.

After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "e;re-education"e; by the state.

This book considers the state of Czech democracy, following the rise of authoritarian regimes in Poland and Hungary and the ascent of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babis to the office of prime minister of the Czech Republic, leading to concerns about conflict of interest.

Ever since the publication in 1974 of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, libertarianism has been much discussed within political philosophy, science and economy circles.

Mass Shootings and Civilian Armament provides the first comprehensive multi-methodological analysis of the relationship between mass shootings and firearm purchases (as proxied by background checks) in the US on national level data from 1999-2020.

This book examines the political, economic and social issues that are at the heart of the debate on the future of the European Union.

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

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

"e;Weak Institutions and the Governance Dilemma is especially important and welcome since it offers a very incisive analysis of the role of NGOs in transitional democracies and the effect of institutional setting on NGO effectiveness in representing citizen interests.