Political Science & Theory

From one of the country's "most distinguished and most historically minded social scientists," a collection of essays on the importance of comparat...

This book proposes a new theoretical framework to move beyond the traditional tenets of modern international relations theory to investigate Europe...

Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and ...

Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an un...

Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time. While she is best-known for her interventions into fe...

Raymond Schroth's Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress shows that the contentious mixture of religio...

This book is an attempt to investigate the mechanisms governing the evolution of scandals over mass protests in communist Romania. It could also be...

This volume explores the shifts in how civil disobedience has come to be theorized, defined, understood, and practised in contemporary politics. As...

This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of...

Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role a...

If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers ...

This groundbreaking work presents a transformative perspective on political theory. This text is not just an introduction to political theory, it′s...

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triump...

President Obama′s hope of bringing a new kind of politics to Washington has fallen on hard times, with hardening party lines reflecting ideological...

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedr...

In Reason, Tradition, and the Good, Jeffery L. Nicholas addresses the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just society, a society in wh...

Health care, education, welfare, law—the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena....

This sequel to "Man and the Biosphere" is an account of the origins and development of a cultural, social energetic and systems theoretical contrib...

In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congression...

In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world te...

This book uses an historical body of knowledge, Just War Theory, as the basis for analyzing modern conflicts involving Armed Non-State Actors who e...

Democratic equality entails a principle that everyone whose basic interests are affected by policies should be included in the process of making th...

This book presents contributions from migration sociologists inspired by Florian Znaniecki’s theory and the results of his studies to conduct their...

First published in 1998, this volume asked the question, what is Europe?. What is Finland’s position in Europe?. The author tries to give an answer...

Shedding new light on how U.S. foreign policy is made, Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott focus on “congressional foreign policy entrepreneurs,” th...

Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the R...

This volume explores the shifts in how civil disobedience has come to be theorized, defined, understood, and practised in contemporary politics. As...

"Woven through this text is the unifying theme that American politics represents “conflict and compromise,” in direct opposition to the increasingl...

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second Wo...

A clear account of the lessons and theories of democratic culture

Political theorists have long argued that passion has no place in the political realm where reason reigns supreme. But, is this dichotomy between r...

First published in 1999, Andrew Chadwick provides an important new interpretation of British radical, suffrage-feminist and socialist movements dur...

This book unfolds rather like a good novel; it is compelling and convincing. The authors approach their topic with a great deal of background and s...

The Russian international media outlet Russia Today (RT) has been widely accused in the Western world of producing government propaganda and conspi...

What are the consequences in American society when social and political activism is replaced by pursuit of personal, psychological change? How does...

Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'th...

Sir Geoffrey Vickers taught us that a value-free judgment would be literally worthless. Human systems become recognizable as more than machines onl...

Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of important security issues -- from combatting pi...

Analyses new electioneering tactics adopted by interest groups in the wake of a changing legal and political environment from the mid-1990s

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe. Institution...

The Clinton scandals. The Rise of militia and patriot groups. The proliferation of ?trash? TV. Record U.S. trade deficits. Isolated events, or is t...

Since the 1980s, Mexico has alternately served as a model of structural economic reform and as a cautionary example of the limitations associated w...

This groundbreaking work presents a transformative perspective on political theory. This text is not just an introduction to political theory, it′s...

This book traces the rise of the modern state—a mode of organizing political power within a closed territory—in post-Enlightenment Europe and its s...