Politics and Government

What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public percepti...

As Ward Thomas details in The New Dogs of War, militias and paramilitary groups wield greater power than national governments in many countries, wh...

An important new book by one of the Britain's great liberal thinkers, Hearts and Minds is part memoir, part political history and part history of i...

When government scientist David Allen arrived at his new jobsite in the 1990s, the Fox River near Wisconsin's Green Bay was dominated by hulking pa...

New York Politics examines aspects of state government that are often hidden in the secret sessions of the parties' legislative conferences: the cl...

New York Politics examines aspects of state government that are often hidden in the secret sessions of the parties' legislative conferences: the cl...

Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined eventUNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (196080)to s...

Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through ...

The transformation of Governor Ralph NorthamVirginia Governor Ralph Northam's blackface scandal could have destroyed any politician. The photo of G...

This collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the completion of the fourteen- volume Correspondence of James K. Polk. Its scholarsh...

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Y...

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Y...

In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept o...

Uneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practi...

In Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choo...

In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept o...

Government bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist mo...

In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women faced the impossibleresurrecting their lives amidst unthinkable devastation. Haunted by memori...