Politics

In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S. Prasad describes how the renminbi (RMB) is...

Ten years ago, in the wake of massive crimes in central Africa and the Balkans,...

The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and...

In A Doubtful and Perilous Experiment: Advisory Opinions, State Constitutions, and Judicial Supremacy, author Mel...

This work is described by its distinguished author as a sequel to The Future of...

This volume analyses human rights in the context of globalization. Focusing on a broad range...

This book reflects the legislative change and consequent changes in common law that fundamentally affect...

Ratified in 1857, the Minnesota State Constitution is one of the oldest state constitutions in...

The 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has proven the most complicated and controversial of all arms...

As the EU's fundamental rights regime reaches maturity, this book offers the first full-length overview...

India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the...

This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments' adaptation to European integration. Advancing an...

On 18 September 2014, Scotland held a referendum on the question: Should Scotland be an...

Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when...

This revised edition features a new afterword, updated through the 2016 election.On February 19, 2009,...

How does an idea that forms in the minds of a few activists in one...

Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments....

Energy crises, which amount to painful combinations of energy shortages and soaring prices, have struck...

Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book...

Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to...

Autocrats must overcome a range of challenges as they seek to gain and maintain political...

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French...

The Politics of Economic Activity confronts head-on deeply rooted understandings of how politics affects economics....

The search for a robust balance of power is a continuous challenge for multilevel political...

This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and...

The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth...

What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained political...

This edited volume offers different theories useful for understanding and explaining European Union cooperation on...

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital,...

The story of USIndia relations is one of unfulfilled potential. Despite their common commitment to...

What explains differences in the lobbying behaviour of interest groups? And what consequences do these...

Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of...

It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first...

Although episodes of resistance and contention in authoritarian and authoritarian-like regimes constitute the majority of...

The growing strategic partnership between India and Japan is among the most closely watched developments...

This book applies the analytical approach called Historical Institutionalism (HI)- so far mostly used within...

In this volume, twelve experts on Latin American politics investigate the ways in which the...

Much research has highlighted that sub-state entities (SSEs) - such as the German Länder, the...

The al-Qaeda Franchise asks why al-Qaeda adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over...

In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for...

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns...

Why are representative democracies extensively criticised, yet remain widely aspired to throughout the world? Many...

Although there has been a lot written about how counter-terrorism laws impact on human rights...

This book presents a theoretical examination of the rise and expansion of preventive criminal offences...

In the age of grand recession, nationalism seems to have returned to Europe. In every...