Political Control & Freedoms

This book explores how gender equality, a central part of the Nordic imaginary, is used in the political communication of Nordic states. The analys...

The Capitol Riots maps out the events of the January 6, 2021 insurrectionary riots at the United States Capitol building, providing context for und...

Following thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of L...

Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...

This book examines the 2020 campaign and election in the United States of America from the perspective of political marketing, always intrinsic to ...

This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. ...

What do we value as a political virtue? What are the core values of democracy in the modern era? What is a democratic culture and can it coexist wi...

This volume provides a timely assessment on the progress made towards the achievement of a constitutional democracy in South Africa. The chapters c...

An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated ...

Bloomfield charts Indias profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally u...

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways i...

Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and...

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophica...

Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human righ...

In East and Southeast Asia, the creation of civil society is a crucial yet most difficult issue. Europeans have had the luxury of centuries in a sl...

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue t...

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response. The right to peacefully protest is intri...

First published in 1999, this volume follows the interactions between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC) and...

Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal ...

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via t...

What has been the political impact of the Eurozone Debt Crisis in the UK? To what extent have the bank collapses and bailouts reinforced Britains E...

Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequen...

The Second Amendment, by far the most controversial amendment to the US Constitution, will soon celebrate its 225th anniversary. Yet, despite the a...

This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state ...