Politics and Government

The Universal Exception is the second volume of the selected writings of Slavoj ek-one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at ...

Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effe...

Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of Machiavelli's The Prince in sixteenth-century England and Scotland through the analysis o...

Originally published in 1965. The Right to Vote covers the immediate background, passage, and ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Gillette con...

Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the “death of philosophy” and the “death of the subject” to consider more positivel...

This fully updated new edition empirically assesses the relationship between religion and democracy, looking at global, regional, and individual co...

Organizations and Complex Adaptive Systems explains complexity theory within the organizational studies and discusses the applicability of complex ...

"Journey to a Revolution" is at once a history and a compelling memoir, the story of four twenty-four year old Oxford undergraduates who took off f...

Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective...

The major role played by a technocratic elite in Chilean politics was perhaps most controversial when the “Chicago Boys” ran the economic program o...

The sixth edition of this annual furnishes statistics on the population, resources, infrastructure, armed forces and military capacity of individua...

First published in 1990, The Soviet Union and the Pacific provides comprehensive analysis of Soviet strategy in the Pacific, examining both the suc...

Europa's comprehensive survey of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.General SurveyLeading authorities on the region analyze topics of regional...

Originally published in 1980. In 1973 the US president's Office of Science and Technology was eliminated, a victim of its own incongruity. It was n...

Since its origins, there have been competing views concerning the nature, scope and objectives of the process of integration and of the European Un...

Since 9/11 and the global War on Terror, practitioners of Islam in Europe and beyond have been scrutinised and surveyed under suspicion of disloyal...

First published in 1988. This book provides a lucid and exceptionally well-informed account at the controversial relationship between politics and ...

The triumph of American political conservatism in the last two decades has been paralleled by the ascendance of Christian evangelicalism. More impo...

This collection of authoritative papers prepared by some of America's most eminent scholars in the field provides us with an up-to-date analysis of...

This translation of Rita Segato’s seminal book La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on ...

Using recent work on loyalism in Britain, Ireland, and the British Atlantic as a foundation, this book offers a pioneering exploration of Scottish ...

Beyond Government examines how vigorous and truly pluralistic policy debate has evolved in both mature and emerging democracies and then suggests h...

Originally published in 1979 at a time when white-collar union membership had increased both in the public and private sectors of the economy, this...

"How Information Matters" examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for succe...

Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America's de facto ambassador to the world What does the world admire most about Ameri...

First published in 1971, The Swahili Coast deals with a sixty-year period in which Arabs from Oman in Arabia extended their influence over the East...

A common theme in the India Briefing series has been India’s resilience in the face of turmoil and tragedy. This year’s volume demonstrates that In...

Undoing the Silence offers guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, reports and pub...

This book guides readers to the mastery of a wide array of practical analytic techniques useful to local governments. Written in an easy-to-read st...

Few periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism, as ...

Michael Kochin’s radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sph...

This book guides readers to the mastery of a wide array of practical analytic techniques useful to local governments. Written in an easy-to-read st...

For nearly four decades, the writings of Carole Pateman have been regarded as major contributions to debates within political philosophy and femini...

First published in 1969, Planning and the Politicians is a collection of essays on political subjects, which ranges from a study of the British Hou...

Henry VIII’s wives, his watershed break with Rome, Mary’s ‘bloody’ persecution of Protestants and Elizabeth’s fearless reign have been immortalised...

Focusing on the role of harmony in Chinese international relations (IR) theory, this book seeks to illuminate Chinese understandings of world polit...

First published in 1986, The Decline of Arab Oil Revenues explores the fall in the economic value of Arab oil reserves in the 1980s. Some of the th...

Originally published in 1953. Between 1789 and 1803, the United States existed as a developing national state, sparsely settled. The de facto prece...

This book explores the argument that Portugal has been an exception to the trend of political upheaval and electoral instability across Southern Eu...

This book explores the aesthetic forms of the political left across the borders of post-colonial, post-partition South Asia. Spanning India, Sri La...

John A. Hobson was a prominent member of a small band of British radicals who argued  around the turn of the century that the consistent applicatio...

Empire and Nations was written in tribute to the accomplishments of Frederic Hubert Soward – teacher, scholar, and administrator – who for forty-tw...

Originally published in 1972. The Men of the First French Republic analyzes some of the well-established evidence concerning deputies of the French...

Compare any two political maps, one from the early twentieth century and one from the present, and you will notice that the world now contains more...

This volume provides is a look at the social function of myth during two distinct phases of the Cuban revolutionary process. The first period spann...

Vers le milieu du douzième siècle un clerc inconnu se faisant appeler Turpin, archevêque de Reims, écrivit une ‘histoire’ de ‘Charlemagne et Roland...