Political Science & Theory

This text teaches basic R skills to political science students with no programming background. Intended specifically for the students who need to l...

This book critically examines the relationship between the United Nations Organization and the small states of the Pacific islands. It provides an ...

Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all pe...

This ground-breaking textbook describes and explains the global manifestations of populism. It reviews controversies about its relationships with d...

This book deals with the question of reforming the constitutional treaties of the European Union from a current perspective. While previous periods...

This book addresses the (re-)emergence of labour Euroscepticism. Comparing fifty years of Italian and Irish unions' changing preferences towards th...

This book reconceptualises the idea of communalism in independent India. It locates the changing contours of politics and religion in the country f...

This title was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns r...

Human Capital in Gender and Development addresses timely feminist debates about the relationship between feminism, neoliberalism, and international...

First published in 1998, this work is a study of the relationship between intelligence and policy and focuses on the function of intelligence in cr...

How do we prevent the next pandemic? Will governments successfully tackle climate change? Will they find ways to close the gap between the haves an...

Contemporary brain research is challenging Western societal norms by questioning basic cornerstones such as individuality, freedom, rationality, so...

This book addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of transitional justice, something that has hitherto been lacking both in study and ...

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 title was first published in 2000. Offering original insights into the relationship between media and democratic theory, this volume brings to...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the worst place in the world for women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of...

First published in 1997, this collection offers a critical view of modern liberal theory and attempts to present some signposts that could show a w...

Thomas Paine is a unique political thinker who has continued to attract scholarly and popular attention from the time he wrote about both the Ameri...

After the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the former USSR and Yugoslavia, it has widely been assumed that socialist federations h...

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this...

Jeremy Bentham's (1748-1832) writings in social and political thought were both theoretical and practical. As a theorist, he made important contrib...

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