Political science and theory

Originally published in 2000, the Encyclopedia of Religion and American Law, comprehensively describes and analyses important cases and legal controversies between religion and state.

Examines the demographic shifts in the Middle East and North Africa, placing them in their social, political and economic contexts.

This book looks at policy change in political parties through an examination of the British and French Left's policy towards Israel in the postwar period.

True national power in the modern world is only delivered through combining traditional means of power with more enlightened means.

Frederic Jameson is widely regarded as one of the most original and influential Marxist critics of the last decades.

This book provides a critical account of federal asymmetry in India - its origins, context, forms and functioning - by taking into account the institutional effectiveness of asymmetric institutions in the regions for identity fulfillment, development and governance.

This book presents a framework for designing and implementing technologies to reduce risks in parliamentary decision-making, leading to the emergence of e-politics.

This book makes a significant contribution to the on-going international dialogue on the meaning of concepts such as human rights, humanity, and cosmopolitanism.

This volume is primarily concerned with equality as a basic component of the democratic character of representation.

Politics at the Edge was the theme of the 1999 PSA Annual Conference.

Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded and critically acclaimed textbook offers an authoritative introduction to international political economy.

This book focuses on Indigenous self-determined and community-owned responses to complex socioeconomic and political challenges in Australia, and explores Indigenous policy development and policy expertise.

In Preserving the White Man's Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of the Civil War.

The threats to human rights posed by non-state actors are of increasing concern.

This volume outlines Max Weber's comparative-historical sociology of "e;interpretive understanding"e; (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus.

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate.

Chapter 1 is the most important chapter in Capital, as well as the most difficult and the most controversial.

Writing about ideas, John Maynard Keynes noted that they are "e;more powerful than is commonly understood.

Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them.

Gandhi dedicated his life to the wider purpose of discovering truth, or Satya.

First published in 1988.

The question of burden sharing has always been important in NATO with an acute relevance today as the US will cut its defence budget over a ten-year period and is no longer automatically willing to lead military operations.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights.

In an increasingly multi-religious and multi-ethnic world, identity has become something actively chosen rather than merely acquired at birth.

Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse.

Imagined Sovereignties provokes new ways of imagining popular politics by critically examining the idea of ''the power of the people''.

At a time when humanity is challenged by fossil fuel depletion and climate change, this book explains the development of wind power as a major energy growth sector, stressing the interactions between political, economic and social dimensions as the key to understanding public acceptability and uptake.

Political obligation is concerned with the clash between the individual's claim to self-governance and the right of the state to claim obedience.

What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imaginingand thus, the electingof a woman as president?

How can citizens best protect themselves from the arbitrary power of abusive spouses, tyrannical bosses, and corrupt politicians?

When Barack Obama praised the writings of philosopher theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the run up to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he joined a long line of top politicians who closely engaged with Niebuhr's ideas, including Tony Benn, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr.

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science.

Conceptions of democracy have implications for democratic legitimacy and political behavior.

This volume contains a collection of original papers by leading legal scholars and social scientists that develop new perspectives on anti-discrimination law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination.

This book examines development theory from a political persepctive.

David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation.

Rousseau and Nietzsche presented two of the most influential critiques of modern life and much can still be learned from their respective analyses of problems we still face.

This study offers a critique of international relations from the perspective of a pre-modern Chinese thinker, Gongsun Long.

The word "e;freedom"e; is so overly used-and frequently abused-that it is always in danger of becoming nothing but a cliche.

From the misbehavior of President Clinton to Governor Mark Sanford's Argentinean tryst, sex scandals have become a prominent feature of American public life.

The book shares Zizek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory.

This comparative analysis, focusing on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, explores the complex relationship between executive politics and judicial action, showing that judicial independence is a crucial factor in prosecution.

When President Vladimir Putin ascended to the Kremlin at the end of the 1990s, he had to struggle with the after-effects of Boris Yeltsin's political agenda: outrageous corruption, endless social injustice, and deeply entrenched interests dating back to Gorbachev and beyond.

This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent and hence legitimating stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power.

Autonomy, viewed as a subject's autonomous designing of her own distinctive 'individuality', is not a constitutive problem for liberal theory.

Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education.