Political Science
Explore a comprehensive selection of political science books, including essential titles on the fundamentals and principles of the field. Discover the best political science booklist and best-selling books at our online bookstore.
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax SystemNew York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. The U.S. tax code is a...
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Café Europa: Life After Communism"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." --Gloria Steinem Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But...
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My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South RememberedThe almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From...
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Great Society: A New HistoryThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges."Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high...
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Dark Forces: The Truth about What Happened in BenghaziThe New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened--and why?We know the Obama administration's story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually did...
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Patriot of PersiaThe Economist's Tehran correspondent Christopher de Bellaigue brings to light the never-before-told full story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man...
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The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right"As engaging as it is provocative. . . . Sullivan's book should be read closely by liberals as well as conservatives." -- Jonathan Raban, The New York Review of BooksOne of the nation's leading political commentators makes an impassioned call to rescue conservatism from...
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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China Volume 4A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The rise of China and India could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will the foreign policies of China and India look like in the future?...
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Apologies and Moral Repair: Rights, Duties, and Corrective JusticeThis book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers. Many leading accounts of apology say much about what apologies do and why they are important. They stop...
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Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic GrowthWhat is the role of trade to both expedite growth and to provide the transformative innovations needed in our post-Pandemic, post-Brexit, unstable world? Using historical examples to demonstrate how complex forces interplay into virtuous or vicious cycles of cumulative causation, Simmons and Culkin suggest...
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The Rise of the Republican Right: Economic and Social ConservatismIf you wish to understand the intellectual history and trajectory of American conservatism, you are sure to enjoy this brilliant course by one of America's leading conservative scholars. Since the 1950s, economic conservatives have been in political alliance with social conservatives or traditionalists. That...
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Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022Reforming Philadelphia examines the cyclical efforts of insurgents to change the city's government over nearly 350 years. Political scientist Richardson Dilworth tracks reformers as they create a new purpose for the city or reshape the government to reflect emerging ideas. Some wish to thwart...
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The Emergence of Brazil to the Global Stage: Ascending and Falling in the International Order of CompetitionHow do discourses about Brazil's emergence as a global actor at the beginning of the twenty-first century reinforce particular temporal and spatial formations that enable the perpetuation of international hierarchies?This volume argues that while the phenomenon of 'emergence' was celebrated as the conquest of...
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Pride Parades and Lgbt Movements: Political Participation in an International Comparative PerspectiveThe Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licenseToday, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
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Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and AmbiguityThe notion of 'silence' in Politics and International Relations has come to imply the absence of voice in political life and, as such, tends to be scholastically prescribed as the antithesis of political power and political agency. However, from Emma Gonzáles's three minutes of...
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Moral Obligations and Sovereignty in International Relations: A Genealogy of HumanitarianismHow has contemporary humanitarianism become the dominant framework for how states construct their moral obligations to non-citizens? To answer this question, this book examines the history of humanitarianism in international relations by tracing the relationship between transnational moral obligation and sovereignty from the 16th...
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India's Strategy in the South China SeaThe tensions in the South China Sea pose considerable challenges to the rules-based liberal international maritime order. The situation demonstrates the interplay between maritime nationalism and geostrategic rivalry; fuelling militarisation and endangering freedom of navigation, over-flight and exploitation of natural resources. China's dedicated terraclaims,...
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Constituent Power and the Legitimacy of International Organizations: The Constitution of SupranationalismThis book develops a constitutional theory of international organization to explain the legitimation of supranational organizations.Supranational organizations play a key role in contemporary global governance, but recent events like Brexit and the threat by South Africa to withdraw from the International Criminal Court suggest...
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Commutative Justice: A Liberal Theory of Just ExchangeThis book develops a liberal theory of justice in exchange. It identifies the conditions that market exchanges need to fulfill to be just. It also addresses head-on a consequentialist challenge to existing theories of exchange, namely that, in light of new harms faced at...
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Gendered Violence at International Festivals: An Interdisciplinary PerspectiveGendered Violence at International Festivals is a groundbreaking collection that focusses on this highly important social issue for the first time. Including a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies on the issue, the book contests the widely held notion that festivals are temporal spaces free...
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