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Reviving the Fourth Estate
The news media is traditionally the watchdog of democracy. Today, it is also one of the most pervasive global industries. In this lively and...
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Democracy’s Edges
Democracy has been a flawed hegemon since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition...
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Planet Management
Planet Management is a study of, and contribution to, the history of "globality"--the emergence of a complex organization of politics,...
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Problems of Market Liberalism
These essays assess market liberal or libertarian political theory. They provide insights into the limits of government, develop market-oriented...
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Appealing Act, An
What makes people sue? Why do individuals who have lost their cases decide to appeal, often at great cost? In this book, Scott Barclay offers the...
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Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe
Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe examines the European polity and its policy-making processes. In particular, it asks how an institution which...
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Methods and Models
At present much of political science consists of a large body of formal mathematical work that remains largely unexplored empirically and an...
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Corruption and Government
This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government. Developing countries and those...
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Democracy’s Edges
Democracy has been a flawed hegemon since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition...
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Democracy’s Values
Democracy has been a flawed hegemon since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition...
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Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
In this wide-ranging study, Neil Lazarus explores the subject of cultural practice in the modern world system. The book contains individual chapters...
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Globalization The human Consequences
a Globalizationa is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface...
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EcstaCity: Ingångar till en ny urbanism
Den norske samhällsdebattören Erling Fossen tar i sin kulturkritik utgångspunkt i staden som kraftcentrum: Det är endast här som det moderna...
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Den omedvetna civilisationen
John Ralston Sauls Den omedvetna civilisationen är en rasande uppgörelse med ett samhälle i kris, ett samhälle som saknar förmåga att inse...
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Den svenska sociologins födelse. Historiska samtal med Segerstedt, Pfannenstill, Israel och Dahlström
1947 etablerades sociologi som en självständig akademisk disciplin i Sverige. Sin förhistoria hade sociologin i den praktiska filosofin, som från...
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Associations and Democracy
As the tasks of the state become more complex and the size of polities larger, the institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the...
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Samhällsmoral och politik. Exemplet Helsingborg
De traditionella sociologiska mätmetoderna passar allt sämre för att förstå en snabbt föränderlig social verklighet. I Samhällsmoral och...
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Vad innebär globalisering? Missuppfattningar och möjliga politiska svar
Ulrich Becks bok Vad innebär globaliseringen? är en klargörande introduktion till globaliseringsdiskussionen och reder ut dess snårigheter,...
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The English Levellers
The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be...
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The Politics of Postmodernity
In his study Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman contrasts the hopes and expectations of the modernising world of the nineteenth century with...
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The Theory of Institutional Design
Problems of institutional design and redesign, structuring and restructuring, acquired particular poignancy through recent developments from eastern...
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Justice and Power in Sociolegal Studies - Fundamental Issues in Law and Society
The fundamental concepts of justice and power provide points of departure for leading scholars to explore the various domains of sociolegal research....
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Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases
Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live every day, and how law responds to disruptions and...
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Evaluation and Optimization of Electoral Systems
This monograph offers a systematic quantitative approach to the analysis, evaluation, and design of electoral systems. Today, electoral reform is of...
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