Politics and Government

Although a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval ...

A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United State...

The Role of Today’s Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the...

This is a collection of articles by a group of young scholars addressing the nexus between political conservatism, evangelical Christianity, and Am...

With the ever-increasing interdependence across individuals, groups, international organizations, and nation-states an increasingly significant pol...

Mexico finally shed its authoritarian past with the victory of the PAN candidate Vicente Fox in the 2000 election. But the consolidation and growth...

In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies ...

A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote natio...

For years,"" Burt Prelutsky says, ""the ranks fo the Right were so bereft of amusing people they had to point to William F. Buckley Jr. as their to...

This handbook showcases how educators and practitioners around the world adapted their routine media pedagogies to meet the challenges of the COVID...

Bard O'Neill investigates the Palestinian guerrilla movement and assesses the probability that the fedayeen will achieve their aim of liberating Pa...

Part memoir, part remedy for the state we're in, with liberal sprinklings of common sense, Chris Patten's Not Quite the Diplomat is a frank and fun...

By almost any measure, the United States is the most powerful nation in the history of civilization. Our resources are immense. But they are not li...

For well over a century the Catholic Church has articulated clear positions on many issues of public concern, particularly economics, capital punis...

First published in 1984. The Study Group on U.S.-Cuban Relations was organized under the auspices of the Central American and Caribbean Program (CA...

This book traces the factors that contributed to the success in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea and identifies the concept of fami...

Originally published in 1987. David Higgs's Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism provides a history of the nobilit...

Daniel J. Flood was among the last of the oldtime movers and shakers on Capitol Hill. Known for his wardrobe of white linen suits, dark shirts, whi...

Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis ...

There has been much concern about rising levels of income inequality in the societies of advanced industrial democracies. Commentators have attribu...

This book investigates how Europe should position itself in an era of growing Chinese-American rivalry.The volume explores the contemporary relatio...

Analyses of formal governmental institutions and electoral laws have considerably advanced our understanding of how politics works in Latin America...

In his reflections on decolonization and post-development, Gustavo Esteva forged a unique synthesis of critical theory and political economy. This ...