Political structure and processes

2021 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Public Theology & Current Events)Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Baptist Studies)Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square.

The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition.

If you are a leader-in any sense of the word-or aspire to be an effective one, the world desperately needs you.

Considered the "e;gold standard"e; of political parties texts, this new, eighteenth edition of Party Politics in America moves its comprehensive and authoritative coverage into the age of deepened partisan conflict, expanded presidential power, and global health threats.

Many people place great stock in the importance of civic virtue to the success of democratic communities.

Explores Africa in the late twentieth century, focusing on the logic of political order and the foundations of the state.

As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.

Challenges the claim to elevate the theory of abuse of rights to the status of a general principle of law.

Originally published in 1980, this book examines a range of Government attitudes to their workers arguing that these provide the touchstone for all civil justice.

'A superb book' - Observer'Gripping, vivid and compelling' - The Critic'Humane, absorbing and meticulous' - New StatesmanThree Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event.

Depriving entire generations of their hopes for a better future, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has risen to become the world's most powerful international financial organization.

This volume is centred around the theme of veiling in Islam and provides multifarious aspects of the discussion regarding veiling of Muslim women, especially in the West.

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "e;ecumenical winter,"e; affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "e;new ecumenical spring.

This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all humans are either 'female' or 'male.

Assessing where the red/blue political line lies in swing states and how it is shiftingDemocratic-leaning urban areas in states that otherwise lean Republican is an increasingly important phenomenon in American politics, one that will help shape elections and policy for decades to come.

American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure highlights the dangerous tension between our constitutional principles and institutions and the populist heat that sometimes roils our national politics, including at the current political moment.

This book examines the consequences of nationalization for members of Congress and the voters they represent.

This book is about one of the most remarkable European politicians of recent decades, Silvio Berlusconi, and about his contribution to the dramatic changes that have overtaken Italian politics since the early 1990s.

This is Laski's most important book after A Grammar of Politics.

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian "e;developmental state"e; is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour - a benign co-operation between state officials and businessmen to organise economic development - this book argues that in fact the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over the interests of labour.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Service and is focused on the following topics: Disability; Health; Social Policy.

A groundbreaking history of Europe's "e;new lefts,"e; from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform.

With its blend of accessible writing and actual excerpts from Court opinions, this book serves to explain the legal and cultural underpinnings of landmark U.

An innovative study of books and reading that focuses on papermaking in the RenaissanceIn The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond.

An authoritative guide to federal democracy from two respected experts in the fieldAround the world, federalism has emerged as the system of choice for nascent republics and established nations alike.

Focuses on Indonesia''s political regime, political economy, and how identity-based mobilizations have emerged since democratization in 1998.

Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by value conflict.

Provides the most comprehensive empirical evaluation of primaries, demonstrating their importance in the US political system.

The role of the Constitution in American political history is contentious not simply because of battles over meaning.

The chickens are coming home to roost for the corrupt officials, mainstream media, and Democratic operatives who ruined the life of an innocent American in an attempt to subvert our democracy.

In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez was elected.

This book presents the findings of the first ever survey of the religious preferences of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah?

Uno de los ejes fundamentales de la política es lo que se suele llamar la lucha política, la cual incluye la confrontación y la cooperación entre grupos y líderes.

Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted.

Access to information is essential to the health of democracy for at least two reasons.

Einleitend geben die Autoren eine allgemeine Einführung in den Themenbereich Todesermittlung.

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state.

An authoritative guide to federal democracy from two respected experts in the fieldAround the world, federalism has emerged as the system of choice for nascent republics and established nations alike.

Maluku in eastern Indonesia is the home to Muslims, Protestants, and Catholics who had for the most part been living peaceably since the sixteenth century.

Inviting in tone and organization but rigorous in its scholarship, The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America focuses on the problems, successes, and multiple forms of democracy in Latin America.