Politics and Government

First published in 1988, Arms Transfers and Dependence was written to provide a view of arms transfers in the context of the global distribution of...

This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-...

Stretched out along the Western rim of the Pacific, historically torn between Chinese and US influence, the Philippines has been troubled by intern...

Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and tota...

Constantin Catacazy whipped up scandal in Washington after his appointment there as Russian Ambassador in 1869, ignoring diplomatic protocol and de...

First Published in 1952, Problems of Nationalized Industry presents the first serious discussion on the issues related to nationalization of indust...

How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and se...

First published in 1986, Nicaragua, written from an insider's point of view breaks the barrier of disinformation which has surrounded the Sandinist...

This series of edited papers, originally published in 1982, examines Britain’s industrial and commercial performance in the nineteenth and twentiet...

A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately arg...

Public administration is the set of instruments – the rules, incentives, organizations, information, systems and people – to implement public polic...

The contributors to this volume examine selected aspects of economic and foreign policy relationships between the United States and Western Europe ...

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolu...

Impartial documentation and background information fundamental to the understanding of Arab-Israeli relations.Key Features: * Covers in detail the ...

In Saudi Arabia today a classic confrontation between Islamic fundamentalism and modernism has brought the Saudi banking system virtually to a stat...

First published in 1990, Capitalist Democracy on Trial explores the long transatlantic debate on capitalist democracy. It examines the conflicting ...

Atheists are a growing but marginalized group in the American religious patchwork and they have been the target of ridicule and discrimination thro...

In the decade beginning with the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, a series of radical and religious conflicts shook Canada, culminating in the Manito...

There are no easy solutions to the complexities faced by nonprofit leaders and managers. This textbook addresses the governance, leadership, and ma...

First published in 1991 Mongolia Today presents a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field and gives important insights into the econo...

How does Australia's unique geographical, cultural and historical position influence its approach to foreign policy? What key challenges does Austr...

This book examines how state and local institutions that manage water conveyance and drainage actually function. Thus a great deal is revealed abou...

This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive...