Political Science & Theory

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban g...

This book proposes a theory of toleration wherein liberal democracies peacefully co-exist with non-democratic societies. It conceptualises internat...

How should we design our economic systems? Should we tax the rich at a higher rate than the poor? Should we have a minimum wage? Should the state p...

Adam Smith (17231790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians...

This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the excl...

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-centurys most innovative thinkers and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered m...

This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life. It examines political discourse, law, institution...

The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood a...

Die Studie Wie sich Jugendliche Demokratie vorstellen beleuchtet die Demokratievorstellungen und Politikeinstellungen von jungen Menschen. Im Mitte...

To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalga...

To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalga...

According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a p...

Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althussers philosophy. The growing importance of Althussers...

This title was first published in 2000: highly innovative work which challenges mainstream approaches to the study of Russian policy with its groun...

Government of Peace addresses a major question in world politics today: how does post-colonial democracy produce a form of governance that copes wi...

An accessible and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in globalization written by leading authors in the field In the comprehensively revise...

Dialogue is typically hailed as a progressive force fostering mutual understanding and resolving conflicts. Can it really carry such a burden? Does...

This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures with...

This title was first published in 2000: This engaging book suggests that Marx was right to reject 'utopian socialism' on the grounds that it underm...

This title was first published in 2002. Placed within the broad fields of International Relations and International Political Economy this book spe...

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep relig...

The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and the coming to power of a military regime led by Augusto Pinochet on ...

Ludger Kühnhardt, a globally active political scientist, consultant, and publicist, provides vivid and personal insights into the people and source...

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical...

This is the first survey of Murdochs exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study de...

In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall argues for the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct and preferable theory of distributive just...

Contemporary political struggles often find their origins in conflicts based on race, religion and region, gender and sexuality, or class. Given th...