Politics and Government

This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, compari...

The surprising story of the movement to create a truly democratic foreign policy by engaging ordinary Americans in world affairs.No major arena of ...

This book shows how domestic political institutions and the lack of time pressure have an impact on negotiations at the WTO. It provides detailed i...

Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of ...

Argues that autonomous agencies are not the result of a systematic design, but are produced by the interactions of political and bureaucratic force...

Vladimir Pereverzin's Kafkaesque story is vividly told in this skilful translation of his shocking, but also wryly humorous and ultimately upliftin...

Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question...

Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the ...

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas an...

This thought-provoking book will appeal to both specialists and newcomers to Aristotle. Specialists will welcome the attention to original texts th...

This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books argues that through Weber,...

In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose work originated in the midst of ...

A re-conceptualisation of the widely-held concept of the 'resource curse', which contends that resource booms inevitably lead to numerous political...

The first detailedanalysis of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) influence on global public sector reform. Based o...

The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. They examine Rwanda's vision, achiev...

A lively, first hand account of the ideas and activities of women and men in anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements. The author looks at the...

The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misundersta...

Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics o...

This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital. In the grip of the current debt crisis, where the social and capital seem in...

Refreshed and completely restructured to align with the new Edexcel Politics A-Level specification, this is the new edition of Andrew Heywoods high...

Even in his heyday in wrestling, Jacobs was inspired to pursue politics by popular libertarian figures such as former Republican presidential candi...

In this edited volume, leading environmental policy experts from China, USA, and Europe provide a contemporary view of Chinese environmental policy...

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores wa...