Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation.

Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.

Discusses the many facets of globalization and its feasible reform in easy-to-understand language.

In-depth study of the recall, the most important popular device allowing voters to remove unresponsive elected officials from office.

Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss's thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy.

A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading post–civil rights era African American political theorist and strategist.

Examines the political significance of ideas about happiness through the work of utilitarian philosophers William Thompson and Jeremy Bentham.

An insider’s account of how the Washington Post broke the Watergate story, depicting the tensions, challenges, and personal conflicts that were overcome as it laid bare the criminal wrongdoings of the Nixon administration.

Reveals a remarkable woman’s life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.

Offers a striking new reading of Agamben’s political thought and its implications for political action in the present.

Applies complexity science to the study of international politics.

Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.

Compelling account of Strauss's mature Maimonidean writings.

Newly updated comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns.

Comprehensive study of the diplomat and the diplomatic mission in Western civilization.

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.

Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.

Offers a new perspective on the political significance of the Hegelian dialectical legacy.

Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.

Updated second edition examining how the real estate industry and federal housing policy have facilitated the development of racial residential segregation.

Exposes how ex-gay and post-abortion ministries operate on a shared system of thought and analyzes their social implications.

Offers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.

Explores how indigenous nationhood has emerged and been maintained in the face of aggressive efforts to assimilate Native peoples.

A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.

Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.