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After a meteoric rise, China's once inexorable growth has come to a screeching halt. With it ends China's dream of establishing a new tianxia (‘harmonious order’) in Asia with China at its centre. S……続きを見る

America’s cities are increasingly acknowledged as sites of renewal and economic opportunityーbut how can city leaders facing physical and financial constraints harness this positive energy to create……続きを見る

Liberalism as Utopia challenges widespread perceptions about the weakness of Mexico's nineteenth-century state. Schaefer argues that after the War of Independence non-elite Mexicans - peasants, day ……続きを見る

Wie lässt sich die populistische Welle eindämmen, die unsere Demokratien zu destabilisieren droht? Wie lässt sich ein Auseinanderfallen der Europäischen Union verhindern? Thomas Piketty und seine Mi……続きを見る

In the latter half of the twentieth century, The American upper class has become less like an aristocracy governing and guiding the nation and more like a caste, a privileged and closed body whose c……続きを見る

Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital.……続きを見る

"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy. Its meanings are many and varied, yet it is pre-eminent in discussions of man and his world. Th……続きを見る

Ithiel de Sola Pool was a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one of the most original thinkers in the development of an integrated social science. This volume focuses upon his contr……続きを見る

Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is it a "given" set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or a dynamic process, a continuum related to the past as well as to the present……続きを見る

The presidential-congressional relationship is the most important and vivid of all the inter-branch relationships. It defines presidential activities, priorities, and successes. No president, from E……続きを見る

Coming out of one of the most contentious elections in history, Dennis Johnson and Lara Brown have assembled an outstanding team of authors to examine one of the fiercest and most closely fought pre……続きを見る

This title was first published in 1974. A collection of essays exploring the organisation of a cost effective and pervasive system of rural education, directed towards increasing agricultural produc……続きを見る

This study casts doubt on the classic model of bureaucracy and its relevance to developing areas. In particular, Hodder challenges the Weberian distinction between the role of emotion and a modern b……続きを見る

This practical, comprehensive, and engaging introduction to the American judicial system is designed primarily for undergraduate students in criminal justice, liberal arts, political science, and be……続きを見る

Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor, during which time he had a sense of tremendous social activity taking ……続きを見る

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliberalism has become somewhat of an academic buzzword i……続きを見る

Die Soziologen Erwin K. und Ute Scheuch, seit ihrem Bestseller «Cliquen, Klüngel und Karrieren» weithin als Parteienkritiker bekannt, gehen in diesem erstmals im Jahr 2000 erschienenen Band der CDU-……続きを見る

«Peanuts», Pleiten und «Nieten in Nadelstreifen» Firmenpleiten im großen Stil und der Absturz des Neuen Marktes führen uns drastisch vor Augen: In der Wirtschaft geht es keineswegs nur rational, ber……続きを見る

Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are now considered to be standard fare, there were a number of new developments in 2016. Drawing on original research conducted by leadin……続きを見る

Social marketing is a discipline unfamiliar to many policymakers, often confused with the more frequently applied and studied fields of social media, behavioral economics, or social change. Social m……続きを見る

Talking Donald Trump examines the language of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from the perspective of sociocultural linguistics. This book offers an insight into the many stages of Trump’s poli……続きを見る

This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by seeking to transcend ethnonational categories of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Drawing on scholarship and cases spann……続きを見る

In this book, Benjamin Farrer explains how activists can influence the policies they care about, even when they are outnumbered and their issues are ignored. The solution lies in a surprising place:……続きを見る

You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omertà is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world’s m……続きを見る

"Esta obra trata sobre un episodio prácticamente silenciado en la historiografía del país: el proceso que se entabló contra el general Rojas Pinilla después de su derrocamiento en 1957 y ante su reg……続きを見る

Timed to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil and told in the style of a page-turning thriller, this is the book that will blow the lid off international match fixing in football: a pandemic that h……続きを見る

Across the globe, law in all its variety is becoming more central to politics, public policy, and everyday life. For over four decades, Robert A. Kagan has been a leading scholar of the causes and c……続きを見る

Putin gilt als der starke Mann Russlands. Aber wie weit reicht seine Macht wirklich? Margareta Mommsen beobachtet seit vielen Jahren den russischen Führungszirkel. In ihrem erhellenden Buch deckt si……続きを見る

This is the 30th anniversary edition of a book that was hailed on publication in 1966 as "fascinating" by Margaret L. Coit in the Saturday Review and as "masterly" by Henry F. Graff in the New York ……続きを見る

Why do people adopt attitudes of political alienation--attitudes of estrangement from, or lack of identification with, the political system? Why do some politically alienated people react to their a……続きを見る