Politics and government

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe''s recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal''s judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.

Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.

Analyzes the political roots of the systems of constitutional justice in Latin America, tracing their development over the last 40 years.

Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.

This thought-provoking study examines the backstory and enduring contemporary effects of Australia''s claim to an absolute right to exclude foreigners.

This book traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

Examines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms at the intersection between international relations and international law.

This book theoretically explores intersectionality within human rights norms on violence against women and the derived duties for States.

This book examines how constitutional laws aimed at protecting the environment are being implemented and applied throughout the world.

Examines the implementation of the rights revolution, bringing together a distinguished group of political scientists and legal scholars who study the roles of agencies and courts in shaping the enforcement of civil rights statutes.

An International Court of Civil Justice would give victims of multinationals a day in court while offering corporate defendants a cheaper, fairer litigation alternative.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

The WTO provides tools to address China''s state capitalism and should be the preferred forum for negotiations on SOE''s and industrial subsidies.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

The book offers a systematic discussion of the facets of the relationship between the European Union and customary international law.

Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime''s escalating atrocities.

Offers a pluralist reading of transitional justice to deal with conflicts constructively and to enable diversity in approaches.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Builds on micro-level critiques of transitional justice to debate a more comprehensive alternative at the level of theory and practice.

Moving past theoretical critiques of human rights, this book considers how we might translate situational analyses of torture into effective strategies for preventing it.

Why can''t politicians seem to make policies that will reduce social inequality, even when they acknowledge that inequality is harmful?

Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

Presents a shift from the accepted IR standard of theorizing, by analyzing policy decisions made in non-ideal conditions within a broader framework of practical choices.

A new analysis of John Rawls''s theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature.

Uses public opinion on LGBT equality to show an evolutionary shift toward deliberative democracy in which everyone has a voice.

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.

Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of ''progressive'' constitutional property rights guarantees.

Explores unspoken beliefs that engender workplace behaviour and legislative/judicial failures that contribute to the “glass ceiling” and workplace inequality.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

Explores how the Virginia School developed an economics for natural equals in which consent is critical for policy.

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

Explores the historical origins and emerging technologies of government profiling and examines law''s role in contemporary technological environments.

Philippe M.

Makes a significant contribution to substantive representation, and examines the various political identities of justices in the American political system.

Explores the moral quandaries of multiple citizenship in the context of broader debates in normative political theory.

Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are ''good''.

Provides the first comparative look into executive decree authority.

Draws on recently declassified and unpublished sources to provide an original and in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies.

Applying insights from cutting-edge theories of international cooperation, this study brings new understanding to China''s approach to contemporary global challenges.

Makes Mencius'' and Xunzi''s political thought accessible to political theorists, philosophers and scientists with no expertise in classical Chinese or sinology.