Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy

Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy

Knowledge Power introduces the interconnected roles of intellectual property, information, and privacy and explores the evolution of the domestic and international rules that govern them. What roles are played by […]


Untimely Politics

Untimely Politics

The standard, linear view of history is founded on the belief that political outcomes are predetermined by what has gone before. This book challenges this view, arguing for what Samuel […]


The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan

The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan

A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of […]


Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater

Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater

As scandals increasingly dominate the political agenda, Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter argue in this illuminating book, the United States is entering an era of postelectoral politics, with media revelations, […]


Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed

Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed

Why would a political theorist venture into the nexus between neuroscience and film? According to William Connolly-whose new book is itself an eloquent answer-the combination exposes the ubiquitous role that […]


Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to ‘the Wild,’ a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of […]


The Enchantment of Modern Life

The Enchantment of Modern Life

It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted–that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She […]


Why I Am Not a Secularist

Why I Am Not a Secularist

Religion’s influence in American politics is obvious in recent debates about school prayer, abortion, and homosexuality, as well as in the success of grassroots religious organizations in mobilizing voters. Many […]


Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics

Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics

Since the end of the Cold War, the relationship between international security and the environment has been subject to intensive policy concern, scholarly debate and research. Contested Grounds brings together […]


Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government (Parliaments and Legislatures Series)

Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government (Parliaments and Legislatures Series)

Parliamentary government is generally taken to mean party government. Party cohesion and discipline are usually seen as central to the maintenance of parliamentary democracy. This overlap, between disciplined parties on […]