Political science and theory

Environmental issues raise crucial questions.

As leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron inherited a multi-faceted gender problem: only 17 women MPs; an unhappy women's organization; electorally uncompetitive policies 'for women'; and a party which was seemingly unattractive to women voters.

Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F.

This book grew out of a set of lecture notes for a one- semester course on dynamic game theory held at the University of Technology, Vienna.

The National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999, granting the people of Wales a parliament for the first time in nearly six centuries.

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast's Yale H.

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought.

Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other.

Crawford Brough Macpherson has been teaching at the University of Toronto for some forty years, building an international reputation through his identification and critique of possessive individualism as a core concept in Western liberal democratic theory.

This book is a long overdue in-depth study of the Italian Social Republic.

This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation?

First published in 1954, this book explores the political ideas of the Middle Ages.

Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this classic text presents a comprehensive survey of the many alternative theories that attempt to explain the causes of interstate war.

An analysis of the extent to which European countries have progressed towards a nuclear non-proliferation policy.

It is often assumed that modern democratic government has a special link with Christianity or was made possible due to Christianity.

Rethinking Civilization offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age.

Democratic 'transitions' in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of 'transitional justice', have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious.

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A.

This is the first book-length examination of the impact Leo Strauss' immigration to the United States had on this thinking.

It is not unusual that formal and informal discussions about the political system, its virtues, and its many defects, conclude in a discussion about impartiality.

While there is a vast literature on women's political interests, there is hardly any consensus about what constitutes "e;women's interests"e; or how scholars should approach studying them.

Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy.

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In Deutschland ist der Vorrang der häuslichen Pflege gesetzlich verankert.

American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans.

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year.

This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades.

Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thoughtIn his 1992 best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanitys political and ideological development.

This overview of the history of the Sokol, the Czech nationalist gymnastic organization, from its founding in 1862 until the outbreak of World War I emphasizes its role in articulating national values and facilitating mass mobilization in the political context of the multinational Habsburg state.

Die Zusammenhänge zwischen Fragen der Identität und der vielschichtigen globalen Transformation waren selten so offenkundig wie im zweiten Jahrzehnt des 21.

Das Ruhrgebiet befindet sich in einem stetigen wirtschaftlichen Strukturwandel.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage.

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attempted to bolster its nationalist legitimacy through the utilisation of Chinese history.

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'.

This book traces the evolution of the constitutional order, explaining Donald Trump's election as a symptom of a degraded democratic-capitalist system.

Wie verfahren demokratische Verfassungsstaaten mit politischen Extremisten, die offen oder verdeckt eine diktatorische Ordnung anstreben, sich dabei jedoch zunächst keiner physischen Gewalt bedienen?

"e;An autocracy tempered by assassination"e;, clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.

What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow?

Professor Granatstrin's book is a fascinating account of the Conservative party's struggle for survival during the Second World War.

Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate.