Sidney Tarrow 
Language of Contention [PDF ebook] 
Revolutions in Words, 1688-2012

This volume looks at the impact of the landmark 2014 elections and the consequent Assembly elections which have transformed the ideological discourse of India. It discusses a variety of topical issue …

Public Management and Governance is the leading text in international public management and governance and an ideal introduction to all aspects of this field. It combines rigorous insight from pre-em …

Should the US deploy ballistic-missile defences? The arguments for and against are becoming increasingly polarised. This paper offers what is currently lacking in the debate: a quantitative analysis …

”Environmental skepticism” describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, es …

Offering a clear and logical analysis of the panoply of European Union aid policies and a theoretically informed evaluation of their operation, Patrick Holden contends that the major thrust of EU aid …

This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon”s contract …

Within a historical perspective, Clayton clearly explains the ‘culture of debt’ – its definition, how it got to be such a major burden, why we can”t live without it, and ways to manage it more effic …

Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies. Although it caused much controversy when it was first published for its systematic approach to po …

Rights brings together the most influential essays of the last thirty years critiquing and defending the liberal rights tradition. Modern ”rights critics” have focused on the perceived conflict bet …

This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focu …