Political Science & Theory

This title was first published in 2001. An investigation of the new wave of militant political activity emerging across Europe. The book examines t...

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning? and as part of this What are its key features as a st...

This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political, social and cultural contexts across South Asia. It is a comprehensive inte...

This book aims to present a comprehensive theory of militant democracy and to answer questions such as: How can a democracy protect itself against ...

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this han...

Joao Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-...

Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically fo...

Constitutional democracy is both a structure of governance and a way of providing an ideological perspective on governance. The 1950 Constitution o...

Conceptual analysis has fallen out of favor in political philosophy. The influence of figures like John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin has led political ...

A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora ...

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...