Politics and government

Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s.

This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement.

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West.

Economic voting is a phenomenon that political scientists and economists can hardly overlook.

This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization.

Part of Routledge's leading Global Institutions Series, this book is a highly accessible, up-to-date introduction to the history, present and future of the G7/8 summits, exploring the role that the G8 plays and will play in global governance.

The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime.

Raised in the rural Appalachian town of Erwin, Tennessee, John David Goodin was a tank commander in one of the most notorious and prestigious regiments in World War II, the 3rd Armored "e;Spearhead"e; Division, the 32nd Armored Regiment.

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought.

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 book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems and political representation in contemporary Latin America.

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research.

The book represents a major examination regarding the current practice of international relations and world politics.

This book undertakes a critical analysis of international human rights law through the lens of queer theory.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict gravitates constantly around the question of territorial control due to the settler-colonial principle present at the core of the Zionist project.

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949-Present explores the activities of the Iran National Front (INF).

This book describes life on the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context.

Many different social scientists have been challenged by the origins of wars, their immediate causes and the mechanisms leading to the breakdown of peaceful relations.

The ten years since the financial crash have been lean years for progressive politics of all kinds.

Vatican II profoundly changed the outlook and the message of the Catholic Church.

Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies.

This book is putting together various issues from different states in India.

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To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources.

Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment.

This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination.

The Common Market between France, Western Germany, Italy and the 'Benelux' counties was not merely a reshuffle of tariff rates and trade agreements, but a political mile-stone in post-war history.

This collection of essays from eminent scholars discusses different phases and measures of economic development, evaluating the success of national economic transitions and providing valuable policy lessons for developing economies.

In recent years geographic mental maps have made a comeback into the spotlight of scholarly inquiry in the area of International Relations (IR), particularly Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA).

Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism.

The Sesame Effect details the wide-ranging work of Sesame Workshop and its productions across the world.

​PPP haben sich in Deutschland und international als wünschenswerte Beschaffungsalternative der Öffentlichen Hand etabliert.

Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality.

How much does money really matter in American politics?

This eagerly awaited new edition has been significantly revised after extensive user feedback to meet current teaching requirements.

Congress has been active in establishing federal policy for the agricultural sector on an ongoing basis since the 1930s.

This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union's approach to 'governance', focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance.

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan.

Never before has there been so extensive a collection of what has been thought, said, and written about the sociology of the military.

This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative power as a cultural storyteller.

About a quarter of all democracies today legally oblige their citizens to vote, making this an important aspect of electoral systems in many settings.

This book uses a critical political economy approach to develop an historically and politically grounded set of strategies for states to move toward a post-growth, decarbonised global economy.