Political Science & Theory

Honest, objective, and informed political debates are all too rare in today's polarized and partisan climate. Public policy is increasingly driven ...

Limited force is different than war: different in scope, strategic purpose, and ethical permissions and restraints. No-fly zones, limited strikes, ...

Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly am...

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince th...

Months before the 2016 United States presidential election, universities across the country began reporting the appearance of white nationalist fly...

Conspiracy theories are not just outlandish ideas. They can also be political weapons. Conspiracy theories have come to play an increasingly pr...

Why do conflict-generated diasporas mobilize in contentious and non-contentious ways or use mixed strategies? This book develops a theory of socio...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the cree...

This book offers a new approach to the genre of the campus novel. Through a critical analysis of eleven novels, Aristi Trendel argues that the spec...

This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève's work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set o...

Lights, Camera, Execution!: Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment fills a prominent void in the existing film studies and death penalty litera...

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By pla...

The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in...

Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states re...

At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposi...

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make...

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make...

This book analyses the political discourse and activities of the constitutionalist-monarchist wing of the Polish Great Emigration, which saw the em...

Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have figured prominently in the post- Cold War relations between Western donors and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their new leade...

During the final stages of Prohibition, the US government allowed the consumption and sale of non-intoxicating beer, which was at or below 3.2% alc...

This is the first book-length treatment of the life and thought of the Communist intellectual A. L. Morton (19031987) who pioneered studies of utop...

This book explores possible and realistic alternatives to a capitalism that is no longer sustainable, whether economically, socially, or for a habi...

In diesem Buch wird die Frage zur nationalen Identität Deutschlands, die in der deutschen Gesellschaft selbst und von Nachbarländern immer wieder z...

This book sheds light on modern populism and discusses the link between populism and identity politics against the backdrop of populist leaders ass...

This book uncovers how fascism reshaped Italian society according to its ideological and historical interpretation of the Italian nation and people...

This book presents a comprehensive history of the political economy of Cuba from 1492 to the present day. It chronologically analyses the major eco...

Despite the efforts of leading party spokespersons in the UK to marginalise Brexit as an issue of public discussion, it shows no sign of disappeari...

Jean-Jacques Rousseaus international thought anticipates many of the political dynamics that have arisen through globalization and great power comp...

The term contagion and the theory of networks is nowadays employed to study increasingly diverse issues such as financial crises, epidemics, and fa...

This book explores the historical and contemporary experiences of the Chinese in Sukabumi, Indonesia, including their migration to the region, thei...

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it percei...