Political Science & Theory

2023 Big Other Book Award Nonfiction Finalist Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its...

The book analyses the renewed importance of the North Atlantic for NATO in the face of new security challenges This Whitehall Paper explores the re...

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Inst...

Globalization consists of an interlocking array of political, economic, social, and cultural forces that challenge the traditional international or...

Emile Durkheims 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to...

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency, t...

'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This...

Originally published in 1994, Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volme collection of essays, examines the meeting place of folklore - the unwritten law ...

This book provides a critical analysis of the European Unions approach to governance, focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated wi...

From around the world, cities and regions, civil society networks and businesses, nongovernmental organizations and institutions for research and l...

This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact wit...

This volume focuses on three closely-connected aspects of Ãmile Durkheim's work: his sociology of justice, his sociology of morality and his politi...

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis f...

Recent trends in politics culminating in the US with the election of Donald Trump both provoked and expressed a troubling intensification of emotio...

The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural...

First published in 1997, the aim of this book is to look at the historical materialism of E.P. Thompson while introducing him as a political thinke...

Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades,...

First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitatio...

Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugn...

Trust has been the subject of empirical and theoretical inquiry in a range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, ...

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homers I...

The essays in this collection, spanning 1925 to 1970, confirm Aurel Kolnai's place as one of the great conservative theorists of the twentieth cent...

Liberalism is dyingdespite its superficial appearance of vigor. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clin...

For the last several decades, the Just-War debate amongst theologians has been dominated by two accounts of moral rationality. One side assumes a p...

This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the Englis...

What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)? This book interrogates the meanings of the established ontology and subjectivity embed...

Political parties are alleged to be turning their backs to civil society; they are said to discourage the active participation of their members and...

Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine...

This volume of extremely rare pamphlets spans over thirty years of prolific output by G D H Cole. It encompasses the challenges of full employment ...

Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship wit...

Throughout this original and passionate book, Bob Pepperman Taylor presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Henry David ...

This book explores a vital but neglected element in the philosophy of social science the complex nature of the social world. By a systematic philo...

Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation...

On September 21, 1976, a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean ambassador to the United States, along with his colleague Ronni Moffi...

Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in Capital and Interest see Hayek elaborate upon and extend h...