European and North American scholars explore the political philosophy of Aristotle, with particular attention to questions arising from the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics.

Analyses the effectiveness of economic sanctions as instruments of statecraft.

Provides a multivariate analysis of presidential-congressional interaction.

Two decades after Harvey Molotch’s “city as a growth machine,” this book offers a unique, critical assessment of his thesis.

Reviews the judicial development of the free exercise of religion clause.

Analyzes factors that both drive and impede the establishment of transnational markets at the level of the nation state.

Offers a revised liberal political philosophy, arguing that group-based policies are discriminatory and proposing individual-oriented policies in their place.

Presents diverse views on the relationship between environmental politics and international security.

Offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the United States's continuing dilemma of race.

Explores in detail the degree to which private sector firms are beginning to replace governments in "governing" some areas of international relations.

Written by two of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the topic, this book provides a panoramic overview of black leadership in the United States.

Explores the political implications of Habermas's theory of discourse ethics through a resurrection of its radical potential when applied to participants in decision-making groups.

Locating power within the symbolic interactionist framework, this book permeates much of the mystique shrouding "power" and examines the ways in which notions of power, control, influence and the like are brought into human existence.

Examines the strategic impact of two European ecology parties on the recomposition of left-wing politics in their countries.

Addresses the altered states of political parties and politics in the post-Cold War era.

Presents some of the best work by political theorists on themes concerning citizenship, national identity, and the philosophical meaning of political membership.

Examines the implementation of the 1996 national welfare reform act and summarizes field-research findings.

Leading historians and Asian-specialists explore key aspects of United States-Korean relations.

Traces the rise and fall of organized labor's political power over the course of the twentieth century.

Examines claims to freedom of religion by minority, unorthodox faith groups and how these challenges to the state and the law have contributed to the development of civil rights discourse and practice.

Provides a critique and an extention of the "democratic peace" theory by focusing on the regional level and by offering alternative explanations for the maintenance of democratic and non-democratic "zones of peace. "

Examines the contemporary connections between liberal democracy and ethnography through the development of national case studies on the United States and Spain.

Argues that traditional political science is failing to identify and address fundamental political phenomena of our time and proposes an alternative value-based political science.

Examines the prospects for collective management of international conflict, identifying the international and domestic conditions under which it will and will not tend to work and exploring whether the end of the Cold War will make its success more or less likely than before.

Advocates a new existential and political coalition among critical and postmodern social theorists and among critical gender, race, and class theorists, in dissent from the New World Order, to raise specters of liberation and empower radical democratic change.