Political Science & Theory

At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern...

Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of modern government. Yet political theorists have often been reluctant to engage dire...

The ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal resp...

Surveying the causes of the Arab Spring, and revealing the governing trends arising from it, this book examines various international relation theo...

Until recently, discussions of compromise have been largely absent in political theory. However, political theorists have become increasingly inter...

This book aims to explore precisely how modern Japanese poetry has remained central to public life in both Japan and its former colony of Taiwan.Th...

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained expl...

Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in Ame...

Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biologic...

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original...

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion...

This volume sets forth as simply as possible the theoretical foundations which underlie the practical policies of democratic Socialism. This involv...

Friedrich Hayeks 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global polit...

This volume compares the planning of economic conditions under the very different political systems of Soviet Russia, Fascist Germany and Italy and...

This book is largely based on What Marx Really Meant which was written by Cole and published in 1934. It is a revaluation of Marxs essential ideas ...

Over the last decade, anti-government demonstrations worldwide have brought together individuals and groups that were often assumed unlikely to uni...

For many years now debates over America hegemony and its supposed decline have circulated academic circles. The neo-Gramscians have greatly enriche...

Political risk was first introduced as a component for assessing risk not directly linked to economic factors following the flow of capital from th...

This book focuses on how discourse and various narratives contribute to the construction of the European Union as a political actor, thus seeking t...

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

Based on a variety of contemporary debates on federal theory Understanding Federalism and Federation honours Michael Burgess contribution to the st...

How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and desi...

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