Politics and Government

Culture and International Relations contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has impo...

This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada...

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly a...

The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary ...

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, ho...

There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional...

This inspirational work encourages Public Administration professionals to participate in progressive social change by advocating progressive values...

Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think about—and rethink—internationa...

Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th ce...

Designed to serve as a basic text for an introductory course in Public Administration, this innovative work provides students with an understanding...

Party affiliation has long been the driving force behind electoral politics in the United States. Despite this fact, scant attention has been devot...

Since their founding as independent nations, nuclear issues have been key elements of nationalism and the public sphere in both India and Pakistan....

This volume examines the causes and purposes of 'post-conflict' violence.The end of a war is generally expected to be followed by an end to collect...

Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and ...

This book is the first major exploration of Indian political economy using a constructivist approach. Arguing that India’s open-economy policy was ...

In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revo...

The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobili...

The 2005 rioting in France’s suburbs caught the world’s attention and exposed the limits of the Republic’s policies on the integration of ‘immigran...

In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and los...

Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all state...

Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles v...

The divided families problem is a serious social issue in North and South Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of first generation divided family...

This volume records the transition from planning against any post-war resurgence of German and Japanese militarism to preparations against a possib...

This edited volume brings together a range of essays by individuals who are centrally involved in the debate about the role and utility of theory i...