Politics and government

Investigates the tensions caused by the CRDP as grassroots disability associations attempt to address their local members'' needs.

A historical and comparative analysis investigating two hundred years of migration and citizenship laws in South America.

Eastern Eurpoe in the Cold War enjoyed its sexual liberation.

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.

Discusses the birth pangs of democracy in post-communist Romania, and its difficult transition from a state of non-law to a rule-of-law state.

Provides a comparative analysis of the ideational dimension of judicial review and its potential contribution to democratic governance.

The liberal-democratic world order is confronting the rise of authoritarian state-led corporate interventions.

The first modern history of the 1975 European referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said ''Yes to Europe''.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

Presents the first ethnographic study of al-Muhajiroun, an outlawed activist network that survived British counter-terrorism efforts and sent fighters to the Islamic State.

Mapping Ghana''s struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the political legacies of colonialism.

Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.

Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.

Why are civilian populations targeted in modern wars despite laws and ethical claims insisting on civilian protections?

This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and politics of North Korean human rights activism and its relevance for international policy.

Illuminates hot button issues in contemporary Latin America from an intellectually radical perspective: a sociological theory of democracy as civil sphere.

Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Hilary Evans Cameron demonstrates how the law that governs fact-finding in refugee hearings is malfunctioning, and suggests a way forward.

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible.

García-Villegas compares the scholarship on the relationship between law, political power, and society in the United States and France.

A vivid ethnographic study of cattle traders, truckers, public contractors and NGO actors'' everyday encounters with state bureaucracies in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

A collection of studies in bioethics and society that goes beyond conventional medical ethics and suggests political, socio-legal, and empirical analysis.

This book outlines the legal regime underpinning the European Energy Union, which provides secure, sustainable and affordable energy.

A sweeping historical account of the crises of income inequality and crony capitalism from a world-renowned public economist.

Considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentieth century.

An innovative volume of essays contrasting conceptual and contextual approaches to the modern law of treaties.

Explores self-deception and its consequences for political decision-making.

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

Analyses European Union governance from the perspective of polycentric theory, aimed at improvements in achieving individual self-governance.

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa''s civil wars.

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

Develops a new theory of how politicians campaign and deploy electoral clientelism in weak party systems.

Soldiers rebel when leaders attempt to build or dismantle ethnic armies, posing a deep challenge to contemporary democratization efforts.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

A study of William James'' philosophy of democracy and pluralism, and its relevance to modern debates.

This study of the 1955 Bandung Conference is central to the history of international law and the post-colonial world order.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

This book explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, and the dangers associated with constitution-making.

A theoretical critique of the patent and innovation policy funnelled by intellectual property instruments towards developing countries.

Explores how political institutions and economic geography interact to shape governments'' policy decisions, particularly with respect to subsidies.

A comprehensive and comparative analysis of who advises government and how systems of policy advice operate in four Westminster countries.

Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country''s intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

Develops a social psychological approach to revolutions through analyzes of cases from around the world and during different historical periods.

Argues that radical right voting in Europe is rooted in people''s feelings of attachment to and defensiveness of their local communities.

Explores which laws and actors govern the negotiation, interpretation and implementation of peace agreements to settle intra-state conflicts.