Political Control & Freedoms

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 ...

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. T...

This book contributes an original theory to understanding human rights and international trade. It offers the governance space framework for analys...

In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, citizens movements are emerging with growing frequency to offer populist challenges to t...

This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international...

This book explores situations when public opinion presents as an obstacle to the protection and promotion of human rights. Taking an International ...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the ...

Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State is the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artefacts created by ...

Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in wh...

This book discusses the words and pictures that constituted coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign on ABC and CNN. It addresses the implication...

This book investigates the extent to which the EU has defined and operationalised the notion of effective multilateralism.Reform has dominated the ...

The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry. The co...

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will,...

This book makes a significant contribution to the on-going international dialogue on the meaning of concepts such as human rights, humanity, and co...

Public Opinion in the United States tracks developments in American society since World War II through the lens of public opinion. The authors asse...

This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study o...

At the time of the adoption of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man in 1948, there was little indication that the Declaration w...

This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has in...

This book provides a socio-economic examination of the status of women in contemporary Turkey, assessing how policies have combined elements of neo...

As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, conti...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...

Why have the early years of the 21st century seen increasing use of emergency-type powers or claims of supra-legal executive authority, particularl...

The war in Afghanistan came to an end in 2014 after nearly thirteen years of conflict. Throughout that period, British officials have described UK ...

Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries. However, they can also negative...