A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.

Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.

A study of attitudes towards tragedy in both democratic and nondemocractic political theory.

Makes the surprising claim that identity politics can facilitate rather than undermine worker solidarity.

Argues in favor of a different model of voting behavior.

Argues for the contemporary importance of Thucydides and Plato for both democratic political theory and democratic citizens.

Recounts the shift towards conservatism in New York’s Republican Party in the 1960s and 1970s.

Explores the significance of Dewey’s thought on democracy for the contemporary world.

Leading scholars challenge and reinvigorate the pragmatic method of John Dewey.

An insider’s account of the UN Security Council in the years immediately after the end of the Cold War.

Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.

Explores how Enlightenment values have been transformed in a technological civilization.

Engaging case studies on the impact of state sovereign immunity on both plaintiffs and states.

Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.

Essays on Montesquieu and the influence of his thought from the eighteenth century to today.

Documents the ever-larger sums donated by incumbent members of Congress to their parties and other candidates, and discusses the consequences.

Analyzes educational reform in the second half of the twentieth century through the political career of Jimmy Carter and his influence on educational policy.

A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.

Examines state cooperation over increasingly scarce water resources.

The first sustained look at the relationship between deliberative democratic theory and the topic of freedom.

Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.

Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.

Groundbreaking empirical study of voting by resident aliens in established democracies.

Examines the domestic constraints negotiators operate under when nations seek to cooperate.

Reveals the powerful influence of financial elites on New York City’s mayors.