What is 'authoritarian rule' and is it best studied? Using the Dominican Republic, this book investigates new methods of analysis, arguing that it... Læs mere
This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant shifts in US federalism in relation to social and socioeconomic issues.
This book is a review of the analytical methods required in most of the quantitative courses taught at MBA programs. Students... Læs mere
This edited volume highlights the interplay between the evolving institutions and the growing economic dynamism of the Indian economy. The... Læs mere
In this edited volume, distinguished scholars and policy analysts explore how China's rise has brought great opportunities for cooperation as well as great challenges for geo-political competition between the United States and China.
An accessible and original look into the education policy of Australia that considers how it came about, how it was steered to the political right, how some educators struggled to implement or resist it in their schools and how it applies to other systems.
The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape is the third volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed... Læs mere
This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct... Læs mere
Contextualising the emergence of literary and aesthetic modernism and cultural nationalism within the popularity of the Renaissance, this volume offers new insights into high and low culture, as well as historical periodization.
The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents... Læs mere
Offers a historical, multidisciplinary perspective on African political systems and institutions, ranging from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush and Axum) to the... Læs mere
Post-conflict reconstruction stretches the capacities of international institutions and they turn to NGOs to... Læs mere