Politics and Government

Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliv...

Can the government seize your house to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what control you have over your own body? The answers to those quest...

Fallout: Free speech and the economic crisis From the United States to Europe, the economic crisis has posed new threats to free expression, fro...

This issues special report looks at development and the access of minority voices to free expression, and why their rights need to be defended, whe...

The President of Ireland since 2011, when he was elected by a final tally of almost 57% of the votes, Michael D. Higgins has used his time in offic...

The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin's rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist's Russia ed...

No previous book has pulled together into one place a single, comprehensive volume that provides up-to-date coverage of state government and politi...

As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and retirement ages that are moving further and further out o...

When a senior Cabinet minister dismissed corporate fears over a hard Brexit with a curt `F**k business,' it seemed emblematic of a growing distance...

Bruce F. Adams examines how Russia's Main Prison Administration was created, the number of prisoners it managed in what types of prisons, and what ...

The Eurasianist movement was launched in the 1920s by a group of young Russian émigrés who had recently emerged from years of fighting and destruct...

Building on unique data, this book analyses the efficacy of a prominent climate change mitigation strategy: voluntary programs for sustainable buil...

Why are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some a...