Political Science & Theory

"Paleoconservatism" as a concept came into circulation during the 1980s as a rejoinder to the rise of neoconservatism. It signifies a brand of cons...

The crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle against dictatorship. It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated hi...

Today, examples of the public’s engagement with political issues through commercial and communicative mechanisms have become increasingly common. I...

This book examines the exclusion of minority languages (and their speakers) from the mainstream domains of everyday social life in postcolonial Zim...

William Connolly, one of the best-known and most important political theorists writing today, is a principal architect of the “new pluralism.” In t...

Many Canadians lament that prime ministerial power has become too concentrated since the 1970s. This book contradicts this view by demonstrating ho...

During the Cold War, nationalism fell from favour among theorists as an explanatory factor in history, as Marxists and liberals looked to class and...

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men questi...

In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.

Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In the decades between the end of the cold war and the crisis of 2014, the country s...

This book presents a broad and comprehensive perspective on analysis of public policy in Turkey. Each of the twenty-six chapters presents historica...

These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The ...

Can a book about tax history be a page-turner? You wouldn’t think so. But Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced t...

The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract util...

Rush to Policy explores the appropriate role of technical analysis in policy formation. The authors ask when and how the use of sophisticated analy...

Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and contested in different politi...

Is it possible to rearticulate the relationship between Europe and its others in non-colonizing ways? Europe and Its Boundaries reflects upon this ...

History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows ...

Schon in der kleinen Welt will gute Nachbarschaft gepflegt sein – umso mehr gilt das für die große Welt, die Beziehung benachbarter Völker. Nur: Mi...

In the mid-twentieth century, a certain idea of technology emerged in the work of many influential political theorists: a critical, catastrophic co...

In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the ...

The political and environmental crises of the twenty-first century require new approaches to the way we think and act politically. This book explor...

This book is a major reassessment of Michael Weinstein’s political philosophy. It situates his singular contribution, designated as "critical vital...

Henri Bergson is primarily known for his work on time, memory, and creativity. His equally innovative interventions into politics and religion have...

Professor David Kettler commented at the time of initial release, that this book is "writing with great poise and clarity, the author says importan...

Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life ...

This set of brief pieces examines the relation of power to knowledge. Lippmann paid little homage to the innate wisdom of the people. While he had ...

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of e...

Power in the Anthropocene offers a unique approach to the study of power in a time of multiple ecological crises. Drawing on insights from Jane Ben...

Since the 2016 US presidential election, politicians, historians, intellectuals and media pundits have debated a startling question: Is fascism hap...

Bringing together world-leading scholars from the Global North and Global South, this book interrogates ideas of multiculturalism and their resilie...

The subsequent volume revolves around the Social-Fields-Approach (SOFIA) as anapproach to conceptualization and operationalisation for the purpose ...