Political science and theory

This book provides the first 'history from below' of the inter-war Belfast labour movement.

This book demonstrates that under the right circumstances, citizens learn from political news, do not become cynical, and are satisfied with political journalism.

The foundings of constitutional democracies are commonly traced to singular moments.

In turbulent global times, your study of this subject is increasingly necessary and urgent.

On Dissent attempts to offer a conceptual yardstick that develops clarity about the phenomenon we call ''dissent''.

The first decade of the 21st century raised many questions regarding hegemonic power.

Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

The Skeptic's Oakeshott poses the thesis that Michael Oakeshott's political philosophy is best understood from the vantage point of his skepticism and his intellectual affinity to Hobbes, whose work he commented on extensively.

Amartya Sen is one of the world s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe.

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

This book argues that a tribe of the primitive society is formed because of kinship, while a state of the civilized society is formed because of language.

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.

Le point de départ des révoltes politiques dans le monde arabe a été Sidi Bouzid, qui faisait partie des euphémiques ""zones d'ombre"" de la Tunisie intérieure, régions rurales délaissées par les investissements et caractérisées par un manque chronique de ressources.

This profound and insightful handbook aims to promote critical reflection on the way we conceptualise and study the radical left and to advance research by asking new questions.

This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach.

The struggle for the advancement of women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women's organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum.

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do.

Reconciliation: what makes it possible, what impedes it, how to foster and promote it and how to build the social conditions in which it can flourish?

For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook.

Why are sport and exercise important?

Social movement studies have grown enormously in the last few decades, spreading from sociology and political science to other fields of knowledge, as varied as geography, history, anthropology, psychology, economics, law and others.

In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.

The book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues.

A must-read for all those who care about the fate of the world''s youngest democratic states.

The American gun control debate is best understood as a battle in a war over the influence of individualism on American culture, politics, and policy.

This book provides an accessible yet critical analysis of the Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn (?

Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world.

Why are young people alienated from television news?

"e;Representative Bureaucracy and Performance: Public Service Transformation in South Africa is a first-rate blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis of one of the major transitions in modern governance.

Not so long ago, many spoke of a 'post-racial' era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past.

This book analyzes the historical quest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to export its revolution to the Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond.

The aim of this volume is to discuss the kinds of multilateralism that would be required to pursue some of the alternative projects of society, namely those which agree with some of the key normative commitments of the MUNS programme: non-violent means for dealing with conflict; social equity; protection of the biosphere; diffusion of power among social groups and societies.

Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s argues that western European socialist parties' transnational cooperation across national borders significantly influenced politics and policy-making in what was the European Communities (EC).

These essays cover topics as radically diverse as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Vaclav Havel, The Magic Flute and Viz magazine.

As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding.

This edited collection offers the first systematic account in English of Italy's international position from Caporetto - a major turning-point in Italy's participation in the First World War - to the end of the liberal regime in Italy in 1922.

Since World War I scholars and practitioners alike have addressed themselves to defining and assessing the "e;new diplomacy,"e; which the British diplomatist Harold Nicolson has branded the "e;American method.

This book explores the transformation of the Tunisian space of mobility after the Arab Uprisings, looking at the country's emerging profile as a migratory "e;destination"e; and focusing on refugees from Syria, Libya, and Sub-Saharan countries; Tunisian migrants in Europe who return home; and young undocumented European migrants living in Tunis.

Asia in International Relations decolonizes conventional understandings and representations of Asia in International Relations (IR).

An examination of the Spanish Church in transition over recent decades, as it responded to far-reaching societal change.

Through the history of this housing complex, this book illuminates Salvador Allende's dedication to the imperative of the right to the city for Chile's marginalized people.

Between 1919 and 1945 most countries in Europe spawned some form of fascism.

This book provides a study of the manner in which the Roman Catholic Church in France responded to successive revolutions between 1789 and 1870 as well as to the cultural upheaval associated with accelerating socio-economic change.

This book critically examines the development of the 'stirring up hatred' offences which are currently found within the UK's Public Order Act 1986.

Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous.