Political Control & Freedoms

This book focuses on the rise of new challenger parties and the magnitude of their impact on political systems and the existing political order in ...

This book explores the mechanisms and elements of populism to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches. Much as populism has been rese...

This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the front...

This book investigates the penal culture in France and Germany how it is shaped in politics, media, and public opinion. Although compared with the...

This book captures the essence of the period when Russians and Americans collaborated in creating new structures of government and new businesses i...

Combining conflict studies and feminist perspectives on everyday violence, this book analyses games and push-back which are vectors to migrants' bo...

This book provides a definitive guide to the value of reflective thinking in the modern world, showing how todays most fundamental problems are, to...

This book provides a definitive guide to the value of reflective thinking in the modern world, showing how todays most fundamental problems are, to...

'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the countrys game. Odesa i...

This book aims to prospectively conjecture about what the coming decades may hold for human rights. The authors in this volume discern where curren...

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it percei...

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understan...

What is the state of current European governance on new and emerging technologies, and where is it going? What is, and what can be, the role of hum...

The Internets importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share informat...

First published in 1999, this volume represents an empirical model of reproductive rights in developing countries. The model encompasses three expl...

In recent decades, corporations have increasingly accepted that they have obligations to respect the socio-economic rights of individuals whose rig...

Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discuss...

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappea...

Communication defines political representation. At the core of the representational relationship lies the interaction between principal and agent; ...

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere, which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass me...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and...

This book examines ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Union to indicate how turbulent the world has become in the post-Cold War era-and how diff...

Genocide studies is a relatively new field of comparative inquiry, but recent years have seen an increasing range of themes and subject-matter bein...

Composed of activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals, this generation is drawing on new reformist thinking emerging from outside ...

Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtro...

Today human rights represent a primary concern of the international legal system. The international communitys commitment to the protection and pro...

This title was first published in 2001. The case of Lawless v Ireland is a landmark in the development of human rights jurisprudence. Stemming from...

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries...

Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency places notions of gender at the center of its analysis of presidential campaign communication...

While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interpr...

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the c...

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, ac...

The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economi...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with ...

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights C...

What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamen...

Investigating art practitioners responses to violence, this book considers how artists have used art practices to rethink concepts of violence and ...

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, ac...

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, incl...