Politics and Government

The book is an in-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, f...

From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of promin...

Britains two recent referenda - on Brexit (2016) and on Scottish independence (2014) - have raised in the public mind fundamental questions about t...

This ground-breaking textbook describes and explains the global manifestations of populism. It reviews controversies about its relationships with d...

This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through ...

This book, first published in 1992, examines the attitudes of local elites the hinge between Indian state and rural society towards protest and p...

Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient timesin the case of exhibits and collections, now more than ever. Protests force out patrons a...

Nation Branding: Concepts, Issues, Practice provides a theoretical framework, alongside insightful examples from the practice of nation banding, in...

Twenty-first-century America isn't working the way it's supposed to. This book explains why. Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming inc...

The essays in this volume take off from themes in the work of eminent philosopher and political scientist Joshua Cohen. Cohen is a deeply influenti...

When we allow ourselves to embrace both ordinary and extraordinary experiences, we can feel the divine anywhere.No matter where we areon a walk in ...

While everyday high level practices have become an important area of study, the everyday of the every(wo)man has been overlooked both in theoretica...

We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published...

How do collective actors move from moderate politics to (violent) extremism? Faced with high risks of repression and implosion, they need to legiti...

Mary Ann Shadds pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective i...

What does it mean to be vulnerable? Exploring the rise of vulnerability as an organising concept in migration detention, integration, public health...

Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. The figure is above fifty percent among current Supreme Court justices...

Depleting democracies provides an analysis of the radical rights interactions with mainstream parties and the effect they have on setting political...