Politics

Policy Representation in Western Democracies offers a comparative analysis of policy representation in five Western...

Increasingly, in contemporary British politics, the spotlight is being thrown on issues of constitutional change...

Distribution of resources and opportunity has always been an important factor in European integration. As...

The financial system and its regulation have undergone exponential growth and dramatic reform over the...

In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural...

The role of government in East Asian economic development has been a contentious issue. Two...

Prime ministers are presented as ever-more powerful figures; at the same time they seem to...

Traditionally, much of the work studying war and conflict has focused on men. Men commonly...

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash. This book explores...

Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in...

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and...

From home mortgages to i-phones, basic elements of our daily lives depend on international economic...

This edited volume documents the intellectual influence of the United Nations Department of Economic and...

This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional...

It is an unfortunate but unavoidable feature of even well-ordered democratic societies that governmental administrative...

Just Security in an Undergoverned World examines how humankind can manage global problems to achieve...

The European Union (EU) is facing one of the rockiest periods in its existence. No...

Today, investor-state arbitration embodies the worst fears of those concerned about runaway globalization - a...

This Oxford Handbook is the definitive volume on the state of international security and the...

Bureaucratic Elites in West European States provides valuable information about the structures and composition of...

Constitutional democracy is more fragile and less 'natural' than autocracy. While this may sound surprising...

International organizations (IOs) matter. This book uncovers the regular working world of IOs, examining whether,...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0...

In the last few years, populism -- of the right, left, and centre varieties --...

The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an...

For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United...

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and...

In the early 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)...

During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward...

In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly unseated him. The...

Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, its army has dominated the state. The military establishment...

The eighty-five famous essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay--known collectively as the Federalist Papers--comprise the...

This important new study presents a systematic and definitive critique of Ronald Dworkin's highly influential...

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "democratic deficit," Athanasios Psygkas...

Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in...

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of...

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, fundamental differences in values and policy can...

The book explores the interaction of political parties, bureaucracy, media, judiciary, and civil society groups...

India is a country of increasing domestic complexity and mounting international importance. As she rises...

The multinational enterprise has been one of the foremost economic, political, and social influences in...

The power of the European Parliament has been steadily and visibly increasing in recent years....

In an increasingly interdependent world, marked by growing numbers of non-governmental organizations and international institutions,...

A country's electoral system has a profound effect on its politics; its citizens ought therefore...

The law and practice relating to corruption and the misuse of public office is of...

Although for a long time naval arms control was the forgotten dimension of arms control,...