Politics

Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya focuses on the international intervention...

Rising China has been reshaping world order for the last two decades, but this volume...

This book is a collection of nine reflective essays on post-independence India. Based on memory,...

Since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and...

Violence as a concept and practice has largely been unsuccessful in preventing or resolving conflicts....

This book provides a fairly extensive survey of India's foreign relations with key states in...

Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how,...

Infrastructure is a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development. Yet, unmet investment needs...

This is the first book to provide a full and dispassionate account of the politics...

For the past thirty years scholars have debated the role of political parties in fiscal,...

Historically speaking, our vices, like our virtues, have come in two basic forms: intellectual and...

Why do some countries construct strong systems of social protection, while others leave workers exposed...

Constitutional law is clearly shaped by judicial actors. But who else contributes? Scholars in the...

One of the key shifts in contemporary politics is the trend towards greater personalization. Collective...

Almost all advanced democracies have launched significant privatization programs over the last three decades. However,...

A recent National Security Strategy report singles out nuclear proliferation as one of the gravest...

When direct elections for the European Parliament were first organized in 1979, the idea was...

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

As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist...

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the...

What do we really mean when we say a political party has changed? And exactly...

Terrorism and counter-terrorism represent enduringly and globally important phenomena, and the mutually shaping relationship between...

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of...

Making use of a unique data set that includes more than 1000 leadership elections from...

Contemporary American politics is highly polarized, and it is increasingly clear that this polarization exists...

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these...

How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an...

In the wake of the euro crisis, the European Union has been transformed in many...

Parliaments and Government Formation explores the role of national legislatures in shaping government formation in...

Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance seeks to advance our understanding of the global...

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political...

Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and...

Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether...

The SIPRI Yearbook is known worldwide as an authoritative and independent source of data and...

The Handbook of Swedish Politics provides a state of the art analysis of political development...

This book analyses the relationship between the media and politics in new democracies in Europe...

Despite many predictions to the contrary, the Arctic has emerged today as a zone of...

Can coercive foreign policy destabilize autocratic regimes? Can democracy be promoted from abroad? This book...

What does it mean to say that human beings think politically, and what is distinctive...

Since 1992, the European Union has put liberalisation at the core of its energy policy...

How Nations Innovate compares how affluent capitalist economies differ in their patterns of technological innovation....

Extending Experimentalist Governance? takes as its point of departure three observations about the current state...

Since 2001, Western forces have been involved in a series of major military campaigns, primarily...

A large body of electoral studies and political party research argues that the institutional context...

Democracy, Agency, and the State aims to contribute to a comparatively informed theory of democracy....