Political science and theory

Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.

In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy.

Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people.

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

This book reviews the history of British general elections since 1964, charting the changes in voters and parties at every step.

The conventional wisdom holds that the president of the United States is weak, hobbled by the separation of powers and the short reach of his formal legal authority.

The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice.

​Nach einer ersten Welle von Bürgerhaushalten vor 20 Jahren erlebt diese Form der Bürgerbeteiligung zur Zeit einen zweiten Frühling.

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants.

What does it mean to be free?

My curiosity and concern about the working class in America stems from childhood memories of my father, a cabinetmaker, and of my oldest brother, an autoworker, who were passionately involved in the labor movement.

This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women's emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws.

Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society.

This wide-ranging text identifies and assesses the main conceptions of democracy from participationist to elitist.

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In the last decade the study of multiculturalism has become an established field in political and social theory.

This first book-length study of the socialisation of MPs uses questionnaire data gathered over two Parliaments (1992-97 and 1997-2001) to find out how MPs learn about, and what their attitudes are towards, their role as a Member of Parliament.

Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public.

There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights.

The book examines in depth the problematic effects of state intervention in agricultural markets of developing countries against the background of the current transition of interventionism to neo-liberalism.

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

How a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of governmentIn this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverningthe deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its workhas become a malignant part of politics.

in Congress - are not considered, they may affect future energy programs just as they have past programs.

Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism critically explores the global rise of an alternative democratic politics since the 1990s in both practice and theory, from the Zapatistas' insurrection to the 2011 cycle of democratic contestation and the ensuing municipalist movement in Spain.

The catalyst for this book is the fact that noted sociologist Charles Tilly, upon his death in 2008, left one completed chapter of an unfinished manuscript entitled "e;Cities, States, and Trust Networks,"e; examining the relationships between cities and nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role of trust networks in mediating this relationship.

Advances our understanding of global and international relations through a ground-breaking philosophical analysis of social practices indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel.

This book is a monograph on contemporary utilitarianism, focusing on its evolving path and logic.

From interpretations of the Holocaust to fascist thought and anti-fascists' responses, this book tackles topics which are rarely studied in conjunction.

Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of American Civil Liberties.

Digital technology is a ''natural technology''-a technology so intuitive as to conceal how and how far it transforms the world.

A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states - political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition - zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo.

This book offers a unique account of the role imagination plays in advancing the course of freedom's actualization.

This volume brings together cutting edge research on Israeli citizens and organizations mobilized around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action.

Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the age of governance.

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic.

This book discusses the influence of Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in more contemporary geopolitical analytical systems and the geodeterminism commonly attributed to him.

Ethnic Relations in the USSR (1986) focuses on popular ethnic attitudes and behaviour among the various nations and nationalities of the Soviet Union.

This book undertakes a critical examination of contemporary political problems through discussions of three utopian and three dystopian texts.

The book explains why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others do not.

In Political Species, Karsten Ronit expertly argues that evolutionary biology can provide important sources of inspiration for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics.