Society and Social Sciences

The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children''s power to interrupt it.

A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

Explores the contributions of international courts and tribunals in terms of performance by offering a comparative analysis of international courts.

Examines how distinctive liberalisms respond to racial, cultural, gender-based and class-based forms of diversity and difference.

A rich ethnographic account of young West African fisherfolk navigating a precarious social and economic environment shaped by ecological crisis, war, and secrecy.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

European criminal law faces many challenges in harmonising states'' criminal justice systems.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

This comparative study of post-war European socialism explores the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction across the Iron Curtain.

An analysis of the role of the interplay between formality and informality in shaping the current state of international law.

Examines the role of values in psychology and urges new directions of impact through interdisciplinary collaboration to face global issues.

Examines the clash between political systems and political action as the Roman Republic disintegrated.

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China.

Offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between secularization, tolerance and democracy through a theoretically informed look at South Asian politics.

A detailed and innovative study of Kant''s engagement with the ideas and methods of previously neglected philosophical figures in eighteenth-century Germany.

Leading scholars synthesize knowledge on how gains from early childhood programs and practices are initiated, increased, and sustained.

Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.

Installation Theory provides researchers and practitioners with a simple and powerful framework to analyse and change behaviour.

Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system.

This book examines the types of web-based testing applications that exist, their technical requirements, and their use in various countries.

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

Explores the relationship between the legitimacy, the efficacy, and the decision-making of national and transnational constitutional courts.

Using a global array of case studies, this collection explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual''s life.

Since 1787, constituent assemblies have shaped politics.

Seminal papers by A.

The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the ''get money'' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.

Investigates how stories are shared in online contexts and provides a method for studying them.

Explores how suspect statements are elicited in police interrogations, written down and transformed into a document that is cited in court.

Explores language, culture, and education among immigrants in the United States.

The book develops the model of institutional constructivism to aid socio-legal research and to account for patterns of socio-legal change.

Advances our understanding of global and international relations through a ground-breaking philosophical analysis of social practices indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel.

Explains how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties undermine descriptive representation in Brazil''s OLPR legislative elections.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

Explores how and why the rise in international courts impacts on domestic politics on both national and international levels.

Challenges conventional views of what it means to ''do justice'' in the aftermath of mass atrocities, from a legal perspective.

A comprehensive new account of China''s entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.

Offers a structuralist critique of the relationship between pragmatism and liberalism in American legal thought.

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country''s people living at the margins of empire.

Demonstrates flattery''s importance for political theory, addressing representation, republicanism, and rhetoric through classical, early modern, and eighteenth-century thought.

This study of military routines is vital for understanding why soldiers from Western democracies participating in multinational missions vary in their use of force.

Leading scholars in language policy examine the politics and policies of language in Canada and the United States.

Argues that legislatures are necessary for securing human rights, and opposes theories that locate that responsibility primarily with courts.

Examines the right to parody as a natural right in both the free speech and the copyright contexts.

Examines the particularly prescient implications that neuroscience has for legal responsibility, highlighting the philosophical and practical challenges that arise.

Reviews and critiques empirical research on affectionate communication in close relationships and offers questions for future study.