Political Science & Theory

Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature is, quite simply, one of the most influential social science books of the past decade. In it, Pinke...

There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but acr...

Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies toda...

Citizens are asked to buy, and asked to consider to buy, goods of all sizes and all prices, nearly all of the time. Appeals to political decision-m...

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...

The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conser...

In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical ...

Nikita Khrushchev’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that “we will bury you” is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in ...

“South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust.” This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president...

Studying Public Policy develops an analytical framework that will enable students to study public policy more effectively. The first of the books t...

What explains the ebb and flow of the Sino-Japanese rivalry? Why do the two states sometimes choose to escalate or de-escalate the rivalry? Does do...

The approaches of EU institutions and the US to democracy assistance often vary quite significantly as both actors choose different means and tacti...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diver...

When Chelsea Manning was arrested in May 2010 for leaking massive amounts of classified Army and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, she was almost ...

Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their...