Politics and Government

As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either religious or ...

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon ...

Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide are...

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that government bureaucrats inevitably seek secrecy and demonstrates how and when participatory bureau...

This book provides an introduction to political psychology through a focus on European politics and topics. It describes a style of doing political...

Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country b...

America values dissent. It tolerates, encourages and protects it. But what is this thing we value? That is a question never asked. 'Dissent' is tre...

In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. I...

Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism ...

James Madison wrote, 'Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob'. The contributors to this vo...

This book is motivated by a question: when should international courts intervene in domestic affairs? To answer this question thoroughly, the book ...

As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of relig...

In the fall of 2016 those promoting patriarchal ideals saw their champion Donald Trump elected president of the United States and showed us how pow...

How do groups of people fashion shared identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites, one composed of vol...

There is extraordinary variation in how governments treat multinational corporations in emerging economies; in fact, governments around the world h...

One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work...

What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on Soviet-American rivalry ...

Markus Kornprobst examines the common assumption that states usually respond to crises individually, rather than together. He develops an innovativ...

Scholars typically emphasize the importance of organized networks and long-term relationships for sustaining electoral clientelism. Yet electoral c...

Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different ...

This timely book fills an important gap in the literature of international relations, providing a thorough, up-to-date, empirically supported, and ...