Political Control & Freedoms

In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance cov...

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts t...

Economics plays a key role in human rights issues as decision-makers weigh the incentives associated with choosing how to use scarce resources in t...

How activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests alive On January 21, 2017,...

As people become more mobile around the world, the nature of citizenship, and all its attendant rights, has become the object of intense scrutiny. ...

Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life. - The New StatesmanCambridge Un...

Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America. Were the...

It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldnt be more wrong. In Queen Victo...

Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew s...

Since the 2005 publication of the highly acclaimed first edition of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered, human trafficking has become virtual...

Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to preve...

Societal divisions and even violence can occur when electoral candidates appeal to race, religion, or tribe. Why do candidates make these ethnic ap...

Societal divisions and even violence can occur when electoral candidates appeal to race, religion, or tribe. Why do candidates make these ethnic ap...

As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated. When age is perceived as incompetence, it can ...

During the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a priority in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to prot...

Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to c...

Even before the cataclysmic 2016 US election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itselfyet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged t...

Even before the cataclysmic 2016 US election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itselfyet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged t...

In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullie...

Personalist leaders, such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko or Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, are increasingly prominent play...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinist...

The Ethics of Global Poverty offers a thorough introduction to the ethical issues surrounding global poverty. It addresses important questions such...

A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian socie...

Why human rights dont work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simp...

Why human rights dont work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simp...

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges hav...

A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government.   Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens c...

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human...

Despite being dubbed the worlds oldest profession, prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often crimina...

Chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by the Financial Times and the Telegraph.Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2023Longlisted for...

It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little rese...

International Norm Disputes: The Link between Contestation and Norm Robustness offers a rich, comparative study of when and why contested internati...

How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces th...

The wartime period in Britain is now seen as an extremely fertile period of British creativity in music, film and art. Often, these projects were f...

The practice of petitioning the Ottoman Sultan was a well-known institution which existed in one form or another throughout Ottoman history and ena...

Migrants have, for some time, engaged in the politics of their homelands from a distance, but, as this book argues, politicians are increasingly lo...

As Bashar al-Asad rescinds emergency rule in the face of demonstrations and protests, Syria finds itself in a key position in a Middle East beset b...

Global political actors, from states and NGOs to activist groups and individuals, exert influence in societies beyond their own in myriad ways--inc...

In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult ...

In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime...