Politics and Government

Acclaimed for the scholarship of its prominent authors and the clarity of its narrative, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES sets the st...

In 1840s Rhode Island, the states seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively di...

John Murphys Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for ...

After a tumultuous few months that have seen an election-winning prime minister replaced as leader by Australia's first woman prime minister, many ...

Social policy reflects the dominant social, economic and political discourses of a nation's government and reveals how each country addresses the n...

The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907 to 960 BCE) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great dis...

Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more...

The clashes between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 and 1900 presidential elections changed the course of American poli...

Three years after the UKs momentous EU referendum vote, multiple Brexit Secretaries and three rejected deals, the question remains: what exactly do...

The office of the President of the United States was plagued by scandals in the early 1970s. When Jimmy Carter ran for office in 1976, the natio...