Amitav Acharya 
Why Govern? [EPUB ebook] 
Rethinking Demand and Progress in Global Governance

This book focuses on the two intra-regional initiatives created for the development and integration of energy markets: the Energy Community and Med Reg. The Energy Community and Med Reg, apart from t …

The European Union is now entering a crucial phase as the ratification process accelerates and key debates and referenda take place in existing and potentially new member states. The Union’s Constitu …

Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this has changed over time. …

Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept ‘reconstruction’—the formulation of a tec …

What is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human g …

Challenging the conventional view that globalization embodies a new and inexorable process, this book analyzes the political foundations and choices involved in contemporary arrangements in the world …

One characteristic of Central and Eastern European democracies in transition is the lack of stability in terms of accountability and transparency in practices of political party financing. This key v …

‘Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future’ is a collection of short, lively essays written by prominent leaders and supporters of Peace Action and its two important predecessors the National Committee …

Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questi …

This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and …