Politics, social theory, history of ideas

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Injustice and the Reproduction of History

Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress

Alasia Nuti | University of York

Should we care about the injustices of the past?

Does history matter when we think about current gender inequalities? Advancing the argument that we cannot ‘let bygones be bygones’, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the persistence of gender inequalities within our contemporary societies.

239pp 2 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781108412667 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Mar. 2019 9781108419949 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108325592

Interpreting Discrete Choice Models

Garrett Glasgow

In discrete choice models the relationships between the independent variables and the choice probabilities are nonlinear, depending on both the value of the particular independent variable being interpreted and the values of the other independent variables. This Element describes techniques for the interpretation of models.

Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

75pp

May. 2022 9781108819404 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108873000

Liberal Freedom

Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics

Eric MacGilvray | Ohio State University

Provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. An indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization.

238pp

Sep. 2022

9781108836951 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108873185

Machiavelli Then and Now

History, Politics, Literature

Sukanta Chaudhuri | Jadavpur University, Kolkata

The book explores Machiavelli’s central concerns: statecraft and order, liberty and citizenship, diplomacy and leadership, empire and history, set against ethical and behaviorial issues like force, suasion, ambition, corruption and vigilance in public affairs. It should interest historians, diplomats, students of public policy, literary critics.

348pp

Jun. 2022 9781316516720 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009030120

Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood

Liav Orgad | European University Institute, Florence

The last decade’s events are an alarming reminder of how conflicts over majority and minority relations can shake democracy to its foundations. This volume presents unique insights on how liberal states can balance conflicting interests of majority and minority groups, so that they can live together with mutual respect.

320pp 9 b/w illus. 2 tables

Oct. 2022 9781009233354 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Oct. 2022 9781009233347 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009233378

Montesquieu Let There Be Enlightenment

Catherine Volpilhac-Auger | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon

This book brings to light the way in which basic ideas of the Enlightenment were invented and how a French aristocrat discovered the foundations of modern democracies. A life devoted to the study of law, science, and the histories of all societies made it possible for Montesquieu to show how liberty was the thing most at stake in political thought.

262pp

Jan. 2023 9781009249096 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009249072

No Other Planet

Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World Mathias Thaler | University of Edinburgh

Analyzes various utopian visions of our climatechanged world. Engages with both theoretical positions and literary works by N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, with the objective to critically interrogate the role of hope and fear in the Anthropocene.

250pp

Sep. 2022 9781009015653 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Sep. 2022 9781316516478 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009030250

Political Science and the Problem of Social Order

Henrik Enroth

Offers a new interpretation of the historical evolution of political science and its key concepts, theories and normative preoccupations, centered on the problem of social order. Covers a broad range of influential thinkers and theories throughout the history of political science, from the early twentieth century onwards.

190pp

Mar. 2022 9781009096409 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Mar. 2022 9781316515150 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009092227

Prophetic Times

Visions of Emancipation in the History of Italy

Maurizio Viroli | Princeton University, New Jersey

Throughout history, prophetic voices have bolstered the struggle for social and political emancipation. Such voices have given meaning to suffering, spoken with pathos and anger to touch passions, and set into motion the moral imagination guiding efforts toward redemption. This book provides the visions of social emancipation we need.

300pp

Nov. 2022 9781009233187 Hardback GBP 30.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009233170

Rationalism in Politics

Peter J. Steinberger | Reed College, Oregon

Seeking to uncover and reaffirm the discourse of truth in public life, Peter Steinberger sets out a conception of politics that is rationalist, conceptualist, and cognitivist, defending the idea that we think before we act, and that political action and judgment should be analyzed in that context.

250pp

Aug. 2022 9781009204422 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009204446

Self-Control

Individual Differences and What They Mean for Personal Responsibility and Public Policy

W. L. Tiemeijer | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

All of us sometimes fail at self-control, yet this fact is almost entirely neglected in both academic study and the real world. This book shows how false but stubborn beliefs about self-control have led to political ideas and public policies that are unjust and ineffective.

368pp 28 b/w illus. 2 tables

Sep. 2022 9781009098564 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009089678

Survival Analysis

A New Guide for Social Scientists

Alejandro Quiroz Flores | University of Essex

Quantitative social scientists use survival analysis to understand the forces that determine the duration of events. This Element provides a guideline to new techniques and models in survival analysis, particularly in three areas: nonproportional covariate effects, competing risks, and multi-state models.

Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

75pp

May. 2022 9781009054508 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009053594

Text Analysis in Python for Social Scientists

Prediction and Classification

Dirk Hovy | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan

This Element provides the working social scientist with an overview of the most common methods for text classification, an intuition of their applicability, and Python code to execute them. It covers both the ethical foundations of such work as well as the emerging potential of neural network methods.

Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

75pp

Mar. 2022 9781108958509 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108960885

The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America

Richard Boyd | Georgetown University, Washington DC

This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for scholars, students, and general readers who want to better understand Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic work Democracy in America. Chapters by leading scholars highlight the relevance of this classic book for making sense of American democracy and pressing issues of our day.

250pp

Mar. 2022 9781316639436 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99

Mar. 2022 9781107189812 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316995761

The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics

Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding

Kody W. Cooper | University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Specialists and non-specialists alike continue to debate the key themes and importance of founding political thought. This book makes the case that the American founders were deeply indebted to the classical Christian natural-law tradition in their fundamental theological, moral, and political outlook.

225pp

Sep. 2022 9781009107846 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Sep. 2022 9781009098113 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106030

The Secular Imaginary

Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India

Sushmita Nath | Universität Leipzig

It is an intellectual history of ideas and intellectuals, which sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity – Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism, and Gandhi-Nehru tradition. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and historians who study secularism, nationalism, and social and political thought.

300pp

Sep. 2022 9781009180290 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180306

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The

Work of Politics

Making a Democratic Welfare State

Steven Klein | King’s College London

The book is necessary reading for political theorists and scholars interested in democracy and the welfare state, providing a new analysis of the relationship between social movements, welfare institutions, and theories of democracy and domination. It is also of interest to scholars working on 19th and 20th century European political philosophy.

220pp 2 tables

Feb. 2022 9781108745970 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Sep. 2020 9781108478625 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108778398

Tyranny and Revolution

Rousseau to Heidegger

Waller R. Newell | Carleton University, Ottawa

The theories of Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger, sometimes called the Philosophy of Freedom, launched a protest against modern liberalism individualism, feeding political catastrophes of tyranny, genocide and revolution. For readers interested in philosophy, political theory, revolution, tyranny, terrorism and extremism.

372pp

May. 2022 9781108424301 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108333856

Politics (general) Battleground

Asymmetric Communication Ecologies and the Erosion of Civil Society in Wisconsin

Lewis A. Friedland | University of Wisconsin, Madison

This Element looks into how politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawing from 10 years of interviews, news, and social media content, it combines qualitative and computational analysis with time-series and multi-level modeling to study this hybrid communication system.

Elements in Politics and Communication

75pp

Aug. 2022 9781108925068 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108946780

Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

Andreas Jungherr | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany

This Element lays out a new framework for the digitally mediated public arena by identifying structural changes and continuities with the predigital era. It examines three country cases – the United States, Germany, and China.

Elements in Politics and Communication

75pp

Jan. 2022 9781009065542 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009064484

Research methods in politics

Experimental Thinking

A Primer on Social Science Experiments

James N. Druckman | Northwestern University, Illinois

Experimental political science has changed. In two short decades, it evolved from an emergent method to an accepted method to a primary method. This book charts the transformation and provides cutting-edge guidance on new methods and applications across a range of social science topics.

200pp

May. 2022 9781108994064 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

May. 2022 9781108845939 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108991353

Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference

Rethinking Qualitative Research

Tasha Fairfield | London School of Economics and Political Science

Devises a rigorous, intuitive methodology for case-study research, helping social scientists and analysts make better inferences from qualitative evidence. Bayesianism provides guidance for rational reasoning under uncertainty, to make well-justified assessments about how strongly the information in hand supports one explanation over rivals.

Strategies for Social Inquiry

300pp

Aug. 2022 9781108433358 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Aug. 2022 9781108421645 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108377522

Russian, East European government, politics, policy

TEXTBOOK

Russian Politics Today

Stability and Fragility

Susanne A. Wengle | University of Notre Dame, Indiana

An accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework. This innovative textbook explores core themes as well as path-breaking insights into the politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment.

425pp

Oct. 2022 9781009165907 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Oct. 2022 9781009165914 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009165921

South Asian government, politics, policy

A Broken Record Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan

Atiyab Sultan

This book examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicise theories of institutional change and community development. It will be useful for readers interested in development studies, and South Asia, and in the long-lasting economic and institutional impacts of colonialism.

230pp

Sep. 2022 9781108832632 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108961868

An Uneasy Hegemony

Politics of State-building and Struggles for Justice in Sri Lanka

Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

It departs from the dominant liberally oriented scholarship produced on Sri Lanka in the past three decades. It re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci and draws attention to class and inter-ethnic class relations as useful variables in the contemporary political analysis.

South Asia in the Social Sciences

280pp

Sep. 2022 9781009199247 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009199230

Bureaucratic Archaeology

State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India

Ashish Avikunthak | University of Rhode Island

This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of Archaeological Survey of India to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge wielded in the making of political and religious identity by Indian state and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest Indian courts.

South Asia in the Social Sciences

358pp

Feb. 2022 9781316512395 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009067119

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India

Jan Breman | Universiteit van Amsterdam

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India’s changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country’s agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the dispossessed from mainstream society.

300pp 12 b/w illus.

Oct. 2022 9781108712279 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Aug. 2019 9781108482417 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108687485

Freedom in Captivity

Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir’s Frontier

Radhika Gupta | Leiden University, The Netherlands

N ethnography of postcolonial sectarian politics in South Asia along the frontiers of Kashmir, this book speaks to interdisciplinary audience from anthropology, sociology and political science. It is a transregional study that explores how politics in South Asia are informed by the travel of religiouscultural ideas from west Asia.

290pp

Nov. 2022 9781009201612 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009201629

Governing Thirdness

State, Society, and Non-Binary Identities in Pakistan

Muhammad Azfar Nisar | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Khawaja Sira of Pakistan are a heterogeneous group of gender nonconforming individuals who defy traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, this book provides important insights about the identity, marginalization and governance of the Khawaja Sira as they try to live an unlivable life.

238pp

Jun. 2022 9781316516713 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009030045

House of the People Parliament and the Making of Indian

Democracy

Ronojoy Sen | National University of Singapore

This book provides insights into Indian parliament and democracy. It seeks to answer two questions: Is the Indian Parliament working to articulate the diverse demands of the electorate and translate them into legislation and policy? To what extent has the Indian democracy transformed the institution of parliament and its functioning?

320pp

Oct. 2022 9781009180252 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180245

In the Shadow of the Mill

Workers’ Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s

Rukmini Barua | Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin

Follows the multiple histories of Ahmedabad’s labour landscapes from the times when the city acquired prominence as an important site of Gandhian political activity and as a key centre of the textile industry, through the decades of industrial collapse and periods of sectarian violence in the recent years.

300pp

Sep. 2022 9781108838115 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108937221

Saffron Republic

Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India

Thomas Blom Hansen | Stanford University, California

Examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or “new Hindutva” that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India.

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

330pp

Sep. 2022 9781009100489 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009118873

South Asian Borderlands Mobility, History, Affect

Farhana Ibrahim | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Goes beyond the importance of borderlands as territorial or geopolitical entities, providing new perspectives on their historical, temporal and affective dimensions and how they manifest in a range of historical and contemporary experiences. It will be of interest to students and researchers in history, anthropology, sociology and literature.

294pp

Feb. 2022 9781108844512 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108951500

The Dragon from the Mountains

The CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar Matthew McCartney | University of Oxford Chinese investment in Pakistan has generated a debate - economic saviour or economic takeover? This book utilises an in-depth understanding of economic change in contemporary China and Pakistan, and economic theory and studies of big infrastructure projects from the contemporary and historical world to make an original contribution to this debate.

290pp

Feb. 2022 9781108834155 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108991902

The Punjab Borderland Mobility, Materiality and Militancy, 1947–1987

Ilyas Chattha | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Studies how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was shaped and offers an alternative history, problematising current conceptions of the international boundary between India and Pakistan. Contraband, consumption, clan, caste, class, and state-building weave together in this evolving socio-economic history of the borderland.

334pp

Jun. 2022 9781316517956 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009049184