""This book will surely be of interest not only to students in the field of comparative politics and comparative welfare regimes, but mor broadly to analysts of the complex relationship between civil society and the state."" · American Journal of... Zobraziť viac
This 2009 book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality. Zobraziť viac
A study of the classical aggregation problems that arise in social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty. Zobraziť viac
In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations... Zobraziť viac
Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of... Zobraziť viac
This multidisciplinary book looks at the long-term forces that are shaping the American economic institutions in the coming decades. The author foresees a declining rate of growth, a widening of the inequalities of income, and an increasing share of... Zobraziť viac
`The author has provided us with a masterful overview and critique of liberal theorizing of the past quarter-century. While dealing exhaustively and fairly with each of a variety of broadly liberal approaches, Gaus also presents a compelling argument... Zobraziť viac
This book contends that "Liberal Islam" is not a contradiction in terms, but rather a thriving tradition more than a century old and undergoing a revival within the last generation. This anthology presents the translated work of 32 Muslims who are... Zobraziť viac
"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the forty most important books published in France during... Zobraziť viac
Global Jihadism exposes the core doctrine and strategy of today 's global Jihadist movement. The first half of the book explores the ideas upon which groups such as Al Qaeda are built, including the concepts of Jihad, al-Wala wal-Bara, Takfir and... Zobraziť viac
An introductory text to the history, politics and international relations of Central Asia. The book explores domestic and foreign politics and all key issues facing the region, and assumes very little prior knowledge. Zobraziť viac
The Routledge Companion to Social Theory provides an authoritative, comprehensive and provocative introduction to the key traditions of thought in social theory today. This ground-breaking reference work brings together major contributors, both... Zobraziť viac
"Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State" reflects the commitment of the United Nations to promote mechanisms that aim to achieve equality between women and men. It identifies institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women including... Zobraziť viac
The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is a terrific resource for democratic practitioners and theorists alike. It combines rich case material from many cities and types of institutional settings with careful reflection on core principles. It generates... Zobraziť viac
This is the first book to develop a formal theory of supply by bureaus Zobraziť viac
This book examines the causes of women's unprecedented success in African politics after the 1990s. Zobraziť viac
Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens... Zobraziť viac
This highly accessible book offers undergraduates, graduates and professionals a new, different interpretation and resolution of Arrow's and Sen's theorems. Using simple mathematics, it shows that these negative conclusions arise because, in each case... Zobraziť viac
Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals-from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag- admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet... Zobraziť viac
