Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village

Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village

Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks […]


Catastrophic Consequences: Civil Wars and American Interests

Catastrophic Consequences: Civil Wars and American Interests

Civil war and other types of radical domestic upheaval are replacing international war as the preeminent threat to American security and economic well being, according to Steven R. David. Catastrophic […]


Capitalism and Christianity, American Style

Capitalism and Christianity, American Style

Capitalism and Christianity, American Style is William E. Connolly’s stirring call for the democratic left to counter the conservative stranglehold over American religious and economic culture in order to put egalitarianism […]


Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics

Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics

Over the past 25 years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study […]


Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment

Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment

Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the […]


A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems

A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems

Political parties and elections are the mainsprings of modern democracy. In this classic volume, Richard S. Katz explores the problem of how a given electoral system affects the role of […]


The American Lie: Government By The People and Other Political Fables

The American Lie: Government By The People and Other Political Fables

Going all the way back to the time of George Washington, much of what we see and hear in the political world consists of lies and deceptions. Despite assurances to […]


Presidential Power: Unchecked & Unbalanced

Presidential Power: Unchecked & Unbalanced

Recent presidents have exploited the power of the American presidency more fully than their predecessors—and with greater consequence than the framers of the Constitution anticipated. This book, in the tradition […]


Political Institutions in the United States

Political Institutions in the United States

Political Institutions in the United States guides students through the different institutions of American government. It covers the electoral and party systems, the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, […]


Pluralism

Pluralism

Over the past two decades, the renowned political theorist William E. Connolly has developed a powerful theory of pluralism as the basis of a territorial politics. In this concise volume, […]