Benjamin Ginsberg & Alan Stone 
Do Elections Matter? [PDF ebook] 

Central Asia”s new states have been buffeted by financial ill winds from East Asia and Russia and by Islamic revolutionary movements from the south. In the context of widespread and deepening impove …

Angola is poised between a past marked by civil war and corruption, and a future of potential economic development. This book examines the post-Civil War period which began in 2002 and saw the rise o …

An exploration of the political significance of the Arctic”s vast untapped wealth of natural resources, and a gripping account of the race to exploit them On August 2, 2007, a Russian submarine capt …

New Directions in American Politics introduces students not just to how the American political system works but also to how political science works. La Raja brings together top scholars to write orig …

This book examines the complex relationship that exists between the construction of judicial power, and the institutional characteristics of the courts and their regime setting. It examines the intri …

For many years a neglected figure, Nikolai Bukharin has recently been the subject of renewed interest in the West. Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Bukharin”s work has wide appeal to thos …

Due to the lack of success in climate change mitigation efforts, the importance of adaptation is becoming more and more apparent and is now one of the main imperatives of international research and a …

Five eminent critics explore the validity of Foucault”s ideas on such questions as the fit between power and knowledge and the tension between historicist and universalist claims.The very possibilit …

This book analyses how the European Union translates its principles of peace and justice into policy and puts them into practice, particularly in societies in or emerging from violent conflict. The E …