Political science and theory

Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive.

Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems that challenge public governance in modern societies.

America's cities are increasingly acknowledged as sites of renewal and economic opportunity-but how can city leaders facing physical and financial constraints harness this positive energy to create sustainable development?

In its comparison of two major emerging nations, India and Brazil, this book approaches the subject through an innovative theoretical combination of developmental states theory and theories of the changing nature of global capitalism.

Les régimes semi-autoritaires ont souvent été décrits sous l'angle de leur organisation, formelle et informelle; on sait qu'ils autorisent la liberté d'association, le pluralisme politique, que les médias libéralisés y façonnent un espace public et qu 'en même temps, des dispositifs non officiels rendent l'alternance pratiquement impossible.

While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which 'securitization' and other security practices take place.

Self-interest is an important human motive and this book explores its evolution in the United States and its consequences for politics, business, and personal relationships.

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This Brief sheds light on the motivation of humanitarian intervention from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

Ostdeutschland erscheint auch nach zwanzig Jahren deutscher Einheit als ein materiell und symbolisch „Besonderes“.

An illuminating account of the steadfast resilience of rural popular culture in post-Mao ChinaLin Zhao'en (15171598) set out to popularize Confucianism by combining Confucian studies with Daoist inner alchemical techniques and Buddhist Chan philosophy into something he called the Three in One Teachings.

The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents.

Between 1870 and 1920, two generations of European and American intellectuals created a transatlantic community of philosophical and political discourse.

White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best.

This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010.

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My first serious thought about a scientific approach to politics was in Communist China.

This book presents a cultural history of European integration.

When did man discover nuclear waste?

This new volume on Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification brings together several of the most prominent social and political psychologists who are responsible for the resurgence of interest in the study of ideology, broadly defined.

Sebastian Hartmann aims at answering the question whether socioeconomic policies implemented by governments are generally rather similar or whether their content actually varies with the ideological background of governments.

This book focuses on the reception of classical political ideas in the political thought of the fourteenth-century Italian writer Marsilius of Padua.

This book serves as a manual for students enrolled in semester-long US Senate simulations.

This volume offers a state-of-the-art study of the diverse methodological approaches and issues in the study of emotions in international relations research.

Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics.

The United States has been distinguished among free governments as a "e;presidential"e; republic.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the 'technocratic shift' in ministerial recruitment, measuring its extent and variations over time in fourteen European countries.

Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyzes social struggles over damaging new fossil fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa's biggest fossil fuel emitter.

This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent.

Shows how elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions affect asset markets.

This book argues that democracy is the inevitable product of China's industrialization and modernization, and is necessary for the development of China's current society.

Documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse.

Originally published in 1930, this title brings to its conclusion a work first published, in part, in the earlier volume The Science and Method of Politics.

What explains France's unique Left?

At a time when political mobilisation is a symptom of social dissatisfaction, young people's participation in political decision-making, practice and ideological change, make foregrounding and investigating their political practices a necessity.

The Ranters - like the Levellers and the Diggers - were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642-1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw, in the words of the historian Christopher Hill, 'the world turned upside down'.

This book brings together multiple critical assessments of the current state and future visions of global development studies.

Worldwide political changes since 1990 have driven a re-evaluation of Marxism, a renaissance in Marx-studies, and a renewed interest in his lifelong intellectual partner and personal friend Friedrich Engels.

In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views.

In this exciting new work, Miriam Bankovsky shows how the pursuit of justice requires two orientations.

Der Band untersucht ästhetische und diskursive Formen, die in der Moderne an die Kritik des Bürgerlichen geknüpft sind.

This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama.

Comparative political theory has grown into a recognized discipline in its own right in the last two decades.

Problems involving minorities still constitute a significant challenge for public policies in countries such as the ones on the territories of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.