Political Science & Theory

The fall of communist regimes and the end of the Cold War marked the start of a new, regressive phase of the modernization process. This book expla...

This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives.The ...

This volume discusses the application of causal inference techniques in the study of American political development (APD). Within political science...

At present, a nativist turn in Indian political theory can be observed. There is a general assumption that the indigenous thought to which research...

This book provides a re-assessment of Kropotkin's political thought and suggests that the 'classical' tradition which has provided a lens for the d...

'This fascinating and refreshing book is more necessary than ever. A must-read' Thomas Piketty'Fascinating' - New York TimesWINNER OF THE 2024 JACQ...

This book provides students and experts alike with a new kind of introduction to Slavoj Zizek's political theory. Going beyond recounting Zizek's p...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

Focussed around three core themes - capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics - these 13 essays emphasise the potential of Nancy's po...

New for this edition * New chapter on international political thought This textbook gives you all the vocabulary you need -- political, conceptual...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

Transformational leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher...

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceResponsibilitywhich once meant the moral duty to help and support othershas come to be equated with an o...

These 12 essays give you new perspectives on how Agamben's work is increasingly relevant to economy and political action: the two ideas that frame ...

Athena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question w...

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the world's most influential, celebrated and controversial thinkers. Originally published between 1968 and ...

Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (15911635) ist einer der bemerkenswertesten Autoren im Umfeld der Literaturreformbemühungen des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Di...

Why do we use the terms left and right to characterize political matters? Left and right in themselves have no political significance. Apparently t...

Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection...

Isaiah Berlin made a now classic distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom. In this book Yildiz Silier introduces a fresh wa...

Honor is often considered to be obsolete--tethered to a distant past of jousting knights and profound inequality. Yet the idea of honor remains a f...

This book uses comparative case study methodology and extensive field work to examine and compare outcomes of four East African nations (Kenya, Tan...

This groundbreaking textbook is the essential introduction to qualitative research for politics and international relations. Presented in a refresh...

This groundbreaking textbook is the essential introduction to qualitative research for politics and international relations. Presented in a refresh...

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the YearAn opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument ...

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween th...

The Brexit referendum and its aftermath placed Northern Ireland and the question of a United Ireland in the public eye. The constitutional question...

This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses ...

Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral Lobbying a team of expert...

Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news, distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Ci...

On 6 April 1967, at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture which is not ...