Political structure and processes

Reclaiming Constitutionalism articulates an argument for why the constitutional phenomenon remains attached to the state despite the recent advent of theories of global constitutionalism.

The expansion of the Internet has been called the most revolutionary development in the history of human communications.

This books explains the normative and empirical issues behind the concept known as ''democracy promotion''.

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Observer delegates to the UNCITRAL Working Group charged with conducting revisions provide insights and commentary on the process and results.

National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfilled dreams.

Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britains' greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister.

How do different electoral systems work to translate votes into seats?

Rapid developments in technology are reshaping how citizens receive and use information electronically.

This is the first book to present both the arguments for and against Barack Obama's presidency and its policies.

This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy.

Pursue a Biblical Basis for Your Political Engagement How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today?

In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia.

Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics.

Im Zuge der Ausdifferenzierung von globalen Märkten, von digitalen Kommunikationsformen und transnationalen Verflechtungsdynamiken scheint die territoriale Ordnung von Staaten mehr und mehr an Bedeutung zu verlieren.

This textbook presents political sociology as a connective social science that studies political phenomena by creating fruitful connections with other perspectives.

This volume examines the design and impact of courts in African federal systems from a comparative perspective.

Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for resistance movements.

In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat die religiöse und kulturelle Vielfalt in Deutschland zugenommen und als gesellschaftspolitisches Thema an Gewicht gewonnen.

The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania).

In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that territory for America.

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.

How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy?

This Element examines how the changing economic basis of nineteenth century Britain contributed to the development of British politics.

The Cost of Peace (1991) presents an authoritative analysis of the issues in the development of European security.

Deep Fakes: Algorithms and Society focuses on the use of artificial intelligence technologies to produce fictitious photorealistic audiovisual clips that are indistinguishable from traditional video media.

The book liberates James Madison from Madisonian Constitutionalism and focuses on Madison''s treatment of the problem of constitutional imperfection.

How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality?

This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are.

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Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory.

Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics, psychology, and political philosophy, this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality.

Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness.

This book gathers a wide range of theological perspectives from Orthodox European countries, Russia and the United States in order to demonstrate how divergent the positions are within Orthodox Christianity.

A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, Abigail and Louisa Catherine.

Conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been ongoing since the creation of the state of Israel, a conflict revolving around land-ownership, water politics, human rights, and religious rights.

This is a lively and authoritative account by a leading political journalist and former MP of how the British electoral system works.

Political Parties in the European Community (1979) looks at the decision by the member governments of the European Community to proceed to the direct election of a European Parliament.

The essays in this volume (22 in English, 5 in French), examine themes important to the late Professor Paltiel, including individual vs.

This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of politico-economic and ideological developments.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues.

This book deals with the issue of mythologizing in South Asian traditions.

Habermas's Public Sphere: A Critique analyzes the evolution of Juergen Habermas's social and political theory from the 1950s to the present by focusing on the explicit and on the tacit changes in his thinking about The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, his global academic bestseller, which has been translated into 30 languages.

This book uses an innovative interdisciplinary approach to explain how communication is a necessary condition for diplomacy in a digital and relationship-driven world.