Politics and Government

A readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, The Occupy Movement Explained is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, an...

This brilliant little book tells the story of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the present and the...

In our current age of cynicism, John McGowan suggests that the time is right to take a fresh look at pragmatism, the philosophy of American democra...

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

Unstable universalities, available for the first time in paperback, examines the theme of universality and its place in radical political theory. S...

In the two decades since the United States became the world's only superpower, policymakers in Washington have seemingly abandoned many tools of st...

Political Prairie Fire was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again a...

The decision to go to war in Iraq has had historic repercussions throughout the world. The editors of this volume bring together scholarly analysi...

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

Radio Free Europe was first published in 1958. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessi...

In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was wi...

This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding.After the experie...

Recent years have seen an increase in the number of African Americans elected to political office in cities where the majority of their constituen...

Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitab...

Public accountability is a hallmark of modern democratic governance and the foundation of the popular performance management movement. Democracy is...

U.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroa...

Poor even by the standards of West Africa and landlocked at the edge of the Sahel, Burkina Faso—the “Land of Men of Dignity”—has been plagued by po...

This topical new book seeks to understand the relationship between elite dynamics and strategies and the lack of profound political change in Alger...

Social movements and Ireland is an innovative new text which aims to provide a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective actio...

From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places,...

Alice Paul: Equality for Women shows the dominant and unwavering role Paul played in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting the vote to ...