Politics and Government

Extremist movements aren't new, but the tragic events in Oklahoma City, New York City, and elsewhere have awakened Americans to this frightening re...

The subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on P...

The United States has enjoyed a long and venerable tradition of separation of church and state. But how is this relationship handled in Canada with...

Post-conflict societies are commonly constructed as weak, fragile, and failed states. Economic recovery, risks of renewed violent conflict, natural...

Completely revised and enlarged edition (1951) of a book which has become a standard work on comparative government. This edition brings up to date...

In the Fall of 1992, public events in Canada reached a climax that had far-reaching effects for the future of the country. For the first time in th...

First published in 1989, Party Ideology in Britain presents an approach to the study of British politics which is distinctive in its focus on polit...

This fascinating discussion of modern demonology focuses on our ability to differentiate the physical world, with its mechanical laws, from the inh...

City Politics in Canada offers a new perspective on Canadian municipal politics. Its concern is not with the mechanics of government, but with the ...

Athens has long been famed as the birthplace of democracy. But who actually had the power in Ancient Athens? And was the democracy an unqualified s...

At a time when the concept of religion-based politics has taken on new and sometimes ominous tones-even within the United States-it is not only rig...

Published in 1992, William L. Moran's definitive English translation, The Amarna Letters, raised as many questions as it answered. How did Pharaoh ...

Political psychology is a dynamic subfield at the intersection of psychology and political science. The specific relationship between politics and ...

Despite widespread agreement that the District of Columbia's political system has collapsed, there is a serious lack of thoughtful proposals addres...

Originally published in 1951, this study of the Irish nationalist movement examines social forces behind the ceaseless agitation in Ireland from th...

Once a keystone of the Democratic Party, American Catholics are today helping to put Republicans in office. This book traces changes in party alleg...

Bay St. George in western Newfoundland is a region characterized by a boom and bust economy and shaped by the establishment of the Earnest Harmon A...

Hannah Arendt still makes people angry. Her writings on the modern German-Jewish experience are deliberately challenging -- and sometimes shocking ...

Canada's four easternmost provinces, while richly diverse in character and history, share many elements of their political and economic experience ...

In Cultural Imperialism, John Tomlinson deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process of cu...

In this new edition of The Amish and the State Donald Kraybill brings together legal scholars and social scientists to explore the unique series of...

Faith in the utility and value of legal rights forms the political common sense of our age. With its profound breadth and insight into the modern c...

A civil servant in the Pentagon blows the whistle on the Defense Department by leaking to the press stories of gross overspending. A high-level off...

This case study focuses on and analyses the formation of four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, a small Acadian community in the southwest pa...

Humanism is appealed to today whenever we want to tackle the conditions of dehumanization in the contemporary world. But for humanism to be viable ...

Drawn from outstanding articles published in the Journal of Democracy, The Global Divergence of Democracies follows the enthusiastically received...

Until September 11th, 2001, few in the West fully appreciated the significance of religion in international politics. The terrible events of that d...

A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into ...

Examining the shifts in Russian foreign policy and their potential impact on the status and influence of the United States in the international sys...