Using cutting-edge methodologies, this book evaluates California's measures to protect the public from dangerous criminals.

Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.

Explores the contexts of judges' decision making in juvenile courts that incarcerate disproportionately more minorities than whites.

Explores Americans' increasing attraction to alternative medicine by looking at two alternative health networks, one "New Age," the other conservative Christian.

Uses Norway to test the claim that elites are central to the politicization of linguistic conflict.

Challenges conventional assumptions about the family and the modern Middle East.

Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.

Documents how even progressive foundations serve to reinforce the political status quo.

A highly accessible history of Republican tax policy.

Applies the concept of space to international relations to arrive at novel interpretations.

A provocative exploration of a wide range of controversies in mental health law, this book argues that the criminal justice system punishes citizens for being mentally ill.

Explores the interaction between the presidency and the U. S. Supreme Court.

A critical examination of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Israel in cases relating to the Occupied Territories.

Considers the impact of the 1999 Israeli elections.

A multi-level insider's look at the changes transforming contemporary Iran.

Argues the state and not markets should be the center of analysis when attempting to explain international cooperation.

Examines how information technologies may be shifting power and authority away from the state.

Suffering and politics in the thought of Luther, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche.

Collection of essays adapted from an undergraduate honors conference held at Binghamton University which address contemporary issues in political philosophy.

Shows how a rural group used civil disobedience to defy the nuclear industry and governmental authority, preventing the building of a nuclear dump in western New York.

Examines the growth of obstacles to legislative success since the 1960s in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Essays on the need for a more dynamic public philosophy in American politics.

Examines how rising economic integration with Europe impacts Tunisia and Morocco.

Explores how Transylvania figures in the Hungarian imagination and how this border region functions in the creation of national identity.

A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.