Politics and Government

This book offers a closer examination of how Americans think and feel about their government. It deals with politics at the grass roots. The book a...

“Americans’ ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican p...

Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday interactions between two seemingly opposed worlds: warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle s...

During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—w...

In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both electoral politics and protest politics to better understand th...

Public service media (PSM) have been the mainstay of Western European broadcasting for a number of decades. Yet despite a general political consens...

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales, and Ecuador's Rafael Correa have brought the subject of Latin American populism once again to the f...

Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle ...

During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective ...

A comparative study of how historical cleavages and party strategies interact to shape the fortunes of the populist right in Western Europe

During the past decade, the literature on the Carter administration's foreign policy has grown rapidly, due largely to both the release of new mate...

How the suburbs can give rise to campaigns for progressive change

How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest

This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE). Katz-Rosene and Paterson address a lacuna in the lit...

In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah A...

Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans and the debate over that land’s status with regard to China....

The African National Congress (ANC) is Africa’s most famous liberation movement. It has recently celebrated its centenary, a milestone that has pro...

De Alvarez discovers a neglected argument in Machiavelli's masterpiece that encompasses much more than the education of a prince for the salvation ...

As the Baby Boomer generation ages, the number of senior citizens as a proportion of the overall electorate is going to reach record numbers. This ...

During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam. Known as the pacification pr...

Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in military interventions, from...

This volume presents a compact introduction to state-local relations as they have been, as they are now, and as they are likely to be in the near f...