Politics & International Relations

This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future security challenges facing small states and provides a comparative perspective...

When federal and state governments battle over environmental regulations, whose approach should prevail? Shortly after passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, a controversial U.S. EPA mandate led to an intense conflict between federal regulators and California politicians. The disagreement pit..

 This book is the first full length study in English to present his political thought to a wider audience, beyond that of his followers and sympathisers, and to bring into the open the study of a neglected strand of contemporary Western thought, that of traditionalism. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_  ..

 This book is the first full length study in English to present his political thought to a wider audience, beyond that of his followers and sympathisers, and to bring into the open the study of a neglected strand of contemporary Western thought, that of traditionalism. _x000D_ _x000D_  ..

Christian Democracy has been the most successful political movement in post world war Europe. In this study Kees van Kersbergen demonstrates the precise nature of the links between Christian Democracy and the welfare state...

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem...

The Social Democratic party family is a central part of political life in the West. This book focuses on this party family as well as a unique political force in the industrialised world. It provides a critical comparative survey of when, where, how and why Social Democracy developed within establis..

This topical study reflects on problems faced by social democratic parties in government when espousing policies of severe pragmatism and fiscal prudence, and provides a perspective to both parties' changes in labour market policies...

This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement...

This book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and society...

This book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and society...

This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state...