Political Control & Freedoms

Legal mobilization is the process by which individuals invoke their legal rights and use litigation to defend or develop these rights against the g...

Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism ...

In the fall of 2016 those promoting patriarchal ideals saw their champion Donald Trump elected president of the United States and showed us how pow...

How do groups of people fashion shared identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites, one composed of vol...

Scholars typically emphasize the importance of organized networks and long-term relationships for sustaining electoral clientelism. Yet electoral c...

Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate c...

This book is written for academics, students, policymakers, practitioners, and non-governmental organisations interested in the legal recognition o...

While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they...

Most observers of Iran viewed the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', with many Iranians and those in neighbouring Arab countries agr...

Protectors of Pluralism argues that local religious minorities are more likely to save persecuted groups from purification campaigns. Robert Braun ...

In Red Zones, Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, and Céline Bellot examine the court-imposed territorial restrictions and other bail and senten...

Can we talk about 'the people' as an agent with its own morally important integrity? How should we understand ownership of public property by 'the ...