Political Science & Theory

This title was first published in 2000. Offering original insights into the relationship between media and democratic theory, this volume brings to...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the worst place in the world for women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of...

First published in 1997, this collection offers a critical view of modern liberal theory and attempts to present some signposts that could show a w...

Thomas Paine is a unique political thinker who has continued to attract scholarly and popular attention from the time he wrote about both the Ameri...

After the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the former USSR and Yugoslavia, it has widely been assumed that socialist federations h...

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this...

Jeremy Bentham's (1748-1832) writings in social and political thought were both theoretical and practical. As a theorist, he made important contrib...

Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human righ...

Reviewing Political Criticism examines the rise of the review form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first cent...

Dynamics of entrepreneurship have attracted growing attention from scholars of political science, policy studies, public administration and plannin...

Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis the ideas of Karl Marx have once again become prominent in social and political thought. This book t...

Are Western and Islamic political and constitutional ideas truly predestined for civilizational clash? In order to understand this controversy The ...

Why has democracy failed to reduce corruption in Kenya? Framing the challenge in game theoretical terms, Dominic Burbidge examines how mutual expec...

This volume explores possibility of constructing a political outcome from the theory of the early years of the Frankfurt School, countering the com...

This title was first published in 2002: Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science, philosophy, applied e...

This title was first published in 2001: In this compelling work, Matthew Flinders examines how far alternative forms of accountability have evolved...

This title was first published in 2001: This book examines the liberal-communitarian debate from a new perspective. Communitarians argue that liber...

This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive progra...

This book explores the emergence of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as an alternative political force in Uttar Pradesh. It focuses on the historical ...

This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without ta...

American political theorist Robert Dahls 1961 work of political theory exhibits deep levels of creative thinking. When Dahl wrote, the American sys...

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, Father of the Constitution, were two of the most important Founders...

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of ...

Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular a...

This title was first published in 2001: Against Autonomy reassesses Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to philosophy and theory, and explores how...

Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal ...

This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements. It presen...

First published in 1997, this volume follows Catley and Cristaudo as they defend Western Civilization against all comers: against the rest of the w...

As the demand and necessity for greater international and transnational cooperation increase, the bureaucratic bodies of international organization...

Rachel Carsons 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides i...

First published in 1997, this study reveals the forces of nationalism and internationalism at work side by side in the populous and volatile region...

Hannah Arendts 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the ki...

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, l...

This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, m...

This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo ODonnell, and T. H. Marshall. It ...

First published in 1998, this work is a study of the relationship between intelligence and policy and focuses on the function of intelligence in cr...