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Repealing National Prohibition: Second edition

by David E. Kyvig

In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E....


Exploring European Social Policy

by Robert R. Geyer

With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important. This exciting new textbook provides...


Grave injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions

by Richard A. Stack

On September 21, 2011, the controversial execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who spent twenty years on death row for a crime he most likely did not commit, revealed the complexity of death penalty trials,...


Welfare

by Mary Daly

Welfare is an important concept in the social sciences. It is also challenged and contested not only by alternative concepts but also as a political goal in itself. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this...


Bribery and Corruption: How to Be an Impeccable and Profitable Corporate Citizen

by Michael J. Comer & Timothy E. Stephens

Bribery and Corruption is written by the world's leading practitioners in the fields of fraud prevention, detection and investigation; they have massive practical experience in commercial and governmental sectors....


From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover

by Athan Theoharis

Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups. "A grimly fascinating-and profoundly...


The European Union after Lisbon: Polity, Politics, Policy

by Søren Dosenrode

A few years have passed since the Lisbon Treaty came into force but the question still remains of what the Lisbon Treaty has actually brought about. Was it just 'relatively insignificant' as some scholars have...


Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices and Contexts

by GOH Bee Chen & Baden Offord

Using a diverse cross-section of case studies, Activating Human Rights and Peace argues that we need to appreciate that cultivating a human rights and peace consciousness is choice-less. There is a moral imperative...


Migrants and Health: Political and Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity in Health Systems

by Christiane Falge & Carlo Ruzza

This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health...


Roads to Regionalism: Genesis, Design, and Effects of Regional Organizations

by Tanja A. Börzel & Lukas Goltermann

Many publications focus on a narrow set of regional organizations or display a strong bias towards the European Union as the supposedly most sophisticated integration scheme. This book, in contrast, goes beyond...


Relational Political Marketing in Party-Centred Democracies: Because We Deserve It

by Helene P.M. Johansen

This book offers a critical study of the way in which traditional market logic - derived from mainstream economics and managerial marketing - is commonly applied to democratic politics, within both political...


Comparative Civic Culture: The Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making

by Laura A. Reese & Raymond A. Rosenfeld

While it seems that culture 'matters' in local policy making, how to measure culture in a valid and replicable fashion presents a significant challenge. The authors of this book address this challenge, presenting...


The EU's Lisbon Treaty: Institutional Choices and Implementation

by Finn Laursen

This book gathers leading international scholars to examine the institutional choices and innovations of the Lisbon Treaty and discuss the likely effects of the changes that it set out to accomplish. Will the...


Civil-Military Relations in Perspective: Strategy, Structure and Policy

by Stephen J. Cimbala

Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations; the role perceptions of military professionals across generations;...


Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture

by John Downey & Sabina Mihelj

An international line up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars methodically examine the different economic, political, cultural, and transnational factors affecting developments in media systems across...


Threat Talk: The Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction

by Mary Manjikian

'Threat Talk' exposes how US and Chinese scientists and policy-makers have understood and responded to the problem of internet addiction in their societies. Mary Manjikian's culturalist approach claims that...


Networks and National Security: Dynamics, Effectiveness and Organisation

by Chad Whelan

This analysis presents a highly innovative, qualitative study of networks in the field of national security. Developing our understanding of 'organisational networks' in organisational theory, management and...


Real Green: Sustainability after the End of Nature

by Manuel Arias-Maldonado

It is generally accepted that we must advance towards a sustainable society to survive. By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of Green Politics,...


Transformative Policy for Poor Women: A New Feminist Framework

by Bina Fernandez

In this book, Bina Fernandez successfully presents a new feminist framework for policy analysis that can account for failures in policy processes to benefit poor women. Recognising that policy is a multiply...


EU Energy Security in the Gas Sector: Evolving Dynamics, Policy Dilemmas and Prospects

by Filippos Proedrou

This book fills an important gap in the literature on energy security in the gas sector in the European Union, shedding light on the state of EU energy security in the gas sector, its interdependence with external...