Politics and government

This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations.

For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act.

There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world.

Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model?

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about itHow important is luck in economic success?

The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting.

This book is a profoundly moving and analytically incisive attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics.

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science.

Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone.

How the early presidents shaped America's highest officeFrom George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W.

How America's vulnerable frontier allies-and American power-are being targeted by rival nationsFrom the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense.

The U.

How did Republicans manage to hold the White House through much of the past half century even as the Democratic Party held the hearts of most American voters?

A fresh introduction to-and bold new interpretation of-Machiavelli's PrinceIn Redeeming "e;The Prince,"e; one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition.

Who Votes Now?

Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

There is a widespread belief, among both political scientists and government policymakers, that "e;democracies don't fight each other.

This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date.

Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "e;direct, deliberate, and powerful"e; influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker.

Tony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W.

How governments can do a better job of supporting entrepreneurship and venture capitalSilicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv-the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity-all bear the marks of government investment.

A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.

The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund, and the organization's formal rules providing this right have not changed significantly since the IMF was founded in 1945.

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases.

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years.

Tras regresar del exilio, Lenin pronunció el 4 de abril en Petrogrado el discurso que dio el pistoletazo de salida a lo que sería la Revolución de Octubre.

During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes.

Último escrito, inconcluso, de Baruj Spinoza (1632-1677), el «Tratado político» es continuación de la «Ética» al aplicar a la política la ontología de esta obra mayor, radicalizando su inmanentismo para producir una teoría científica de la política.

Rethinking Europe's Future is a major reevaluation of Europe's prospects as it enters the twenty-first century.

The Judge as Political Theorist examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review.

A leading historian reveals the radical origins of humanity's most cherished secular valuesDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality-these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.

Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam.

Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena.

Nearly half a century after the fighting stopped, the 1953 Armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War.

The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history.

Ein Schulweg zwischen Ost und West nach einer wahren Geschichte.

A new way of looking at international relations from a leading expert in the fieldWhat makes for war or for a stable international system?

Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England?

A classic.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Political Works of Daniel Defoe"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The True-Born EnglishmanAn Essay upon ProjectsThe Complete English TradesmanEverybody's Business Is Nobody's BusinessSecond Thoughts are BestThe Shortest Way with the DissentersAnd What if the Pretender Should Come?

Hätten Sie gedacht, dass Helmut Schmidt die britische Labour-Partei mit einer brillanten Rede zu Europa bekehrte?

Dieses eBook: "Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Everywhere you look, all you see is green.

Rock and Roll legend Ted Nugent contends that a lot of what is wrong with this country could be remedied by a simple, but controversial concept: gun ownership.

Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Geschichte in Köln öffnet mit einer Studie zu den Kölner Hospitälern im 13.

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin.

The study of statesmanship is not a subject for leaders in politics alone.

A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book proposal-and seeing your book through to successful publicationThe scholarly book proposal may be academia's most mysterious genre.

Stephen Krasner's assumption of a distinction between state and society is the root of his argument for the superiority of a statist interpretation of American foreign policy.