Political Science & Theory

Profound and humane, Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny examines some of the most explosive problems of our time and show...

Engels declared at Marx’s funeral in Highgate Cemetery that "just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered...

Thomas Hobbes, the English 17th century philosopher, and Carl Schmitt, Hitler’s ‘crown jurist’, a political thinker and author of an enigmatic book...

This book is about the relationship between citizens and the state. Their relationship has tended to be argued from a top down perspective without ...

This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of ‘exception’ and ‘exceptionalism’ in the context of the politics of liberty and security in...

The dynamic that currently underlies global social change is the product of forces that are not of a single type or origin. As a consequence, that ...

How the courts have subverted the judicial process in the name of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does...

We live in an age of democracy. Very few people challenge the virtues of ‘government by the people’, yet politicians and commentators are fond of d...

Understand the theoreticaland practicalaspects of political marketing!Over the past few years political marketing strategies have been refined with...

Throughout Europe regionalist movements claim more autonomy for their region, pointing at cultural and historical distinctiveness and the demands o...

2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century ...

Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than m...

We live in an age of democracy. Very few people challenge the virtues of ‘government by the people’, yet politicians and commentators are fond of d...

Touraine is one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and many of his books have been published in English. In this book Touraine pres...

Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects ac...

From Billy Graham and Ronald Regan to Newt Gingrich and William Bennett, God is a Conservative provides an important look at the role of religion i...

This volume gathers essays by fourteen scholars, written to honor Fred Dallmayr and the contributions of his political theory. Stephen F. Schneck's...

Providing a radical new reading of Hayek's life and work, this new book, by an important Hayekian scholar, dispels many of the mysteries surroundin...

A comparative analysis of the sociology of belonging in two diverse cultures in the developed West - Scotland and Quebec

RAWLS'S LAW OF PEOPLES A REALISTIC UTOPIA? "Like his conception of social justice, John Rawls's vision of a just world has been the subject of heat...

In a world plagued by war and terror, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence sounds a warning: not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence a...

What is democracy? What are the pitfalls and the positive potentials in the growing trend toward democratization? This book examines the prospects ...

First published in 1976, this volume offers a significant new interpretation of Mill's political thought, Mill's ambivalent attitude to democracy i...