Political science and theory

Für das Verständnis des Phänomens Populismus bieten verschiedene Disziplinen hilfreiche Ansätze und Zugänge – darunter sind die Politikwissenschaft, die Kommunikationswissenschaft, die Wahlforschung, aber auch der Journalismus.

What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like?

Diese Einführung in das junge Feld der transkulturellen Politischen Theorie richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende der Politikwissenschaft und insbesondere der Politischen Theorie.

This title was originally published in 1929.

In the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized countries agreed on binding absolute targets for greenhouse gas emissions and on the admission of flexible market-economy instruments - such as emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism - used for reaching the targets.

Establishing a causal link between historical discourse and political change, this important book describes the role of historical discourse in establishing, maintaining, or destroying elite and mass political identities in Soviet and post-Soviet space.

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

This Brief introduces a novel research approach to investigate freedom of the press in Hong Kong.

Autonomy, Refusal, and the Black Bloc reinterprets the positioning of critical and radical theory by focusing squarely on the role of class analysis.

'Standard' employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault.

This book explains how parties and their members of parliament structure parliamentary debate, providing novel insights into intra-party politics and representation.

How do European states adjust to international markets?

The 1990-91 Gulf War, the Israeli-PLO agreement, instances of political and economic reform, and the radical political reassertion of Islam, all indicate that the post-Cold War Middle East is in the grip of dramatic changes.

Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Krieg unterzeichnete die Trump-Regierung im Februar 2020 ein Abkommen mit den Taliban, wonach die Truppen der USA und ihrer NATO-Verbundeten Afghanistan innerhalb der nachsten Monate verlassen mussen.

This book focuses on the changes currently redefining parties and party systems in Israel and India with regard to parliamentary democracy, coalitional polity, electoral profiles and social diversity.

Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe examines the principal effects of Soviet rule on Belarus as the prelude to a detailed analysis of the medical and social consequences of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

This book is a practical guide to using the Internet for political science research.

Drawing on Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler and Stanley Cavell, this book addresses contemporary theoretical and political debates in a broader comparative perspective and rearticulates the relationship between ethics and politics by highlighting those who are currently excluded from our notions of political community.

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'.

This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.

This volume bases a clear and unbiased account of Communist philosophy on the Marxian Materialist Concept of History and Marxian Theory of Value.

Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.

About the Book:- Challenge to Indian political leaders- are they competent, capable, desirous and willing to fulfill the real deserved needs of all the citizens everywhere in India?

A theoretical and empirically spirited defence of democratic governance.

New and unpredicted technologies are emerging at an unprecedented pace around the world.

In this updated version of a contemporary classic of discourse research, Reiner Keller develops the theoretical and methodological foundations of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD).

This book explores the emergence of a new architecture of corporate enforcement in Ireland.

This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts.

Marcus Franke untersucht die Bedeutung des individuellen Handelns politischer Akteure bei stadtpolitischen Entscheidungen zu Sporteventbewerbungen.

Should the government influence or coerce us for our ''own good''?

Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposition.

This book traces the development of U.

Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights.

This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption.

Today, there are over 40 million conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, almost double the number of refugees.

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

Martin Elvins' book is the first to trace the evolution of anti-drugs policies at European Union level from the late 1960s to the present.

First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine.

This book explores the creation, development, and impact of the concept of 'good governance'.

Going to War with Iraq: A Comparative History of the Bush Presidencies is the account of two United States presidents and their decision to intervene militarily in Iraq, examining the comparative domestic and international contexts in which the decisions to go to war were made by George H.

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world.

This volume reflects the diverse perspectives presented on each of the major governance groups that contribute directly and indirectly to the G20 political process.

In modern democracies, existing moral pluralism conflicts with a commitment to resolve political disputes by way of moral reasoning.

This book takes up Paul Ricoeur's relational idea of the self in order to rethink the basis of human rights.