Political science and theory Books

"It's like being in a small town right in the middle of a big city. People belong to their neighborhood first, and that neighborhood belongs to the city." -- Karen Boyle, Seattle neighborhood activist.Seattle, Washington, has earned a national reputation...

""The Address of the Honorable William A. Graham on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of the 20th of May, 1775"" is a historical speech given by William Alexander Graham in 1875. The speech focuses on the Mecklenburg Declaration of...

President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery And Emancipation: With A Review Of Events Before And Since The Civil War is a historical book written by Henry Watson Wilbur and published in 1914. The book provides an in-depth analysis of President Abraham...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Government of England V2 is a book written by A. Lawrence Lowell and published in 1912. This book is a comprehensive study of the British government, which includes a detailed analysis of its various branches, including the monarchy, the House of...

South America Today: A Study Of Conditions; Social, Political And Commercial In Argentina, Uruguay And Brazil (1911) is a book written by Georges Clemenceau. The book is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and commercial conditions in...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox: The Opposition Under George The Third is a historical book written by W. Fraser Rae and first published in 1874. The book focuses on the political opposition during the reign of King George III in the late 18th century. The three...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector...

More than ten years on from the most intense phase of the global financial crisis, and the collective international response in the G20 summit in London, a 'new normal' has emerged with systems in place to mitigate against further banking crises. This...

This book explores the relationship between different versions of liberalism and toleration by focusing on their shared theoretical and political challenges.Toleration is among the most pivotal and the most contested liberal values and virtues. Debates...

Technologies are a pervasive feature of contemporary life for adults and children. However, young children's experiences with digital technologies are often the subject of polarised debate among parents, educators, policymakers and social commentators,...

Truth commissions, official apologies and reparations are just some of the transitional justice mechanisms embraced by established democracies. This groundbreaking work of political theory explains how these forms of state redress repair the damage state...

The topic of neutrality on the good is linked rather closely to the ideal of political liberalism as formulated by John Rawls. The basic intuition supporting the ideal of political neutrality is that no exercise of political power can be legitimately...

An analysis of Russia's response to globalization. This book explores how Russian domestic politics shape this international engagement. Thematically, the focus is on Russia's external engagement with areas of policy relating to globalization, namely...

"The yearlong celebration of Ghana's Golden Jubilee provides a fitting context for the republication of the book Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy. In the lead-up to the celebration and over the course of the year, the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah...

This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process...

President Runo is a man who knows no boundaries, defying rules and exploiting legal loopholes to maintain his iron grip on power. With the help of cunning legal masterminds, he employs an improvisational rationality, making up the rules as he goes along...

This book covers issues on China, its strategic issues and its effect on India. This book covers issues like Economy of China, CPEC, China's Energy Diplomacy, Military Reforms, One Belt One Road etc

"Common Sense & The American Crisis" presents a collection of Thomas Paine's most influential pamphlets that ignited the flames of the American Revolution. This book brings together Paine's passionate and persuasive arguments that rallied the...

Walter Benjamin said that "the realization of dream elements, in the course of waking up, is the paradigm of dialectical thinking. Thus dialectical thinking is the organ of historical awakening." This Benjaminian search and his longing for historical...

Das Buch untersucht potenzielle Auswirkungen der Ost-Erweiterungen auf die Handlungsfähigkeit der EU. Die Frage, ob der Europäischen Union der Spagat zwischen der Erweiterung nach Mittel- und Ost-Europa und der Wahrung ihrer ‚Capacity' gelungen ist,...

The book studies representations of the Other, their construction, Europeanization and use in Poland and Sweden in various heritage related contexts. The book accentuates the social inclusion, marginalization or - increasingly common in Scandinavian and...

This book addresses new challenges of development in the 21st century. Issues connected with globalization, political challenges, entrepreneurship, institutional design, clean energy, health service, gender in developing regions are analyzed. All those...

On an empirical basis, this book shows the potential of International Criminal Justice, the possibilities, but also the limits of International Criminal Tribunals. Volume 1 presents the evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia and...

The book compares essential factors for democratization in Romania. It focuses on citizens' democratic resources and on political elites' behavior. It highlights the role played by ordinary citizens in the contention of populist elites and their...

Das Buch untersucht den Scharia-Vorbehalt von 16 muslimischen Ländern in 8 menschenrechtlichen Verträgen und Länderberichten der UN. Die Vienna Convention bot keine Lösung. Nach der Sunnah des Propheten ist islamisches Recht jedes Jahrhundert an seine...

The main theme of this book revolves around the idea of Europeanization of the Western Balkans. In that respect, the volume discusses the fight against corruption and regional relations in former Yugoslav states, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,...

Why are local political organizations enduring in certain municipalities and ephemeral in others? This book explores the systematic factors that influence the level of local party institutionalization in Hungary, a new democracy.

The essays in this book explore the possibility of new approaches for the study of Korean civil society and democracy by combining interdisciplinary and transregional research, thereby making a direct contribution to the field of democracy after...

The fourth Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook reassesses central concepts of modern constitutionalism between the poles of law and politics: separation of powers, constitutional review, and constitutional...