Political Science & Theory

Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices. Guilt has b...

How have African rulers responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition? Despite the broadly negative picture painted by the prev...

Political Catchphrases and Contemporary History presents an historical account of the period 2001-2020 by focusing on the shifting connotations of ...

Natural and Necessary Unions is a history for our time. It shows that the choice between 'union and independence' that shapes current debates about...

Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics. While mediation, intervention, and peacekeeping have produced some positive res...

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 Scholarship Online ...

In Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies, John Storey looks at the concept of utopianism from a cultural studies perspective and argues that radi...

In Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies, John Storey looks at the concept of utopianism from a cultural studies perspective and argues that radi...

As International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jørgensen provides a provocative assessmen...

From Attlee to the birth of New Labour, and the advent of Corbynism, this book gives a lively account of the ideological developments and dramas in...

The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work,...

In this challenging and original study, Jonathan Wistow positions social policy within political economy and social contract debates. Focusing o...

Though people frequently use mobile technologies for news consumption, evidence from several fields shows that smaller screens and slower connectio...

In the international political economy of the last two millennia, there tends to be one state leading the world as the foremost producer of energy ...

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattracti...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter...

Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and n...

We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with the standard operations of representative democracy. The solution, according to a long radical de...

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—todayIn this path...