Politics and Government

The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of...

Public consultations are a weak but institutionally embedded form of civic participation in political decision-making. Their input and output are o...

What is the gender of political power? Since the beginning of political thought, rule has been a male prerogative in European imagination. This is ...

Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internation...

First published in 1995, the aim of this book is to review various aspects of the process of democratic transition in Hungary over the period of it...

The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. Howe...

James Madison’s record of the Constitutional Convention traces day by day the debates held from May to September 1787 and presents the only complet...

A compelling examination of how secondary states are preserving their strategic autonomy and are resisting spheres of influence Russia's invasion ...

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War a...

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to ...

"Has uniformly good essays on economic and political change, the policies of the great and local powers, and the prospects for building a new regio...

When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, the...

The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point. Reconstructing Social J...

At the end of the 20th century, mainstream economics was based on theories which viewed capitalism as a self-regulating system, whereby crises come...

This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China’s institutions and their impact on the national economy as well as ordin...

'Converging Europe' evaluates the impact of European integration on social policy development since the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon strategy...

China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a ca...

The remarkable performance of the Chinese economy in the last three decades has placed China at the centre of the world stage. In 1993, China becam...

It is unlikely that any country in Asia in recent years has undergone such internal policy shifts in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, th...

Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legisla...

This volume provides a state of the art review of current thinking on the full range of trade policy issues, addressing the economic and political ...

This comprehensive volume is the first systematic effort to explore the ways in which recognised states and international organisations interact wi...

The book investigates Greek industrial relations in a global context at different periods. Combining sociological, institutional, political and soc...

This edited volume is an innovative analysis of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, security and counter-terrorism policy, specifically within...

Why does Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) consistently invoke God and Providence in his most prominent texts relating to international politics? In this w...

This book explores the surprisingly disruptive role of religion for progressive and conservative ideologies in the tumultuous decade of the 1960s....

Canada and the United States are consistently ranked among the most democratic countries in the world, yet voices expressing concern about the qual...

This book examines the imaginative narratives that shaped the attitudes of Americans (and others) toward Japan. Focusing on cultural aspects of eco...

In its political form, the existence of a public realm is the basis of a shared relationship between rulers and ruled which makes politics more tha...

A new philosophical reflection on the secret and its importance to our contemporary political experienceThe Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wo...

This book deals with the origin and functions of money and banking, emphasizing the role both play in the promotion of economic order. Developing t...

This book addresses political knowledge of climate change and its relation to labelling people affected by climate change, either as ‘climate refug...