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Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice: European Perspectives

Springer, 2014

The book explores police legitimacy and crime control, with a focus on the European region. Using comparative case studies, the contributions to this timely volume examine the effects of a transition to democracy on policing, public attitudes towards police legitimacy, and the ways in which perceptions of police legitimacy relate to...

God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Imagining the Americas)

Oxford University Press, 2011

When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United...

Socialism?The Tragedy of an Idea: Possible? Inevitable? Desirable?

Springer, 2020

This book explores the idea of socialism from three angles and raises the questions if socialism is possible, inevitable, and desirable. Socialism as an economic and societal system was possible based on the two most important pillars of Marxian political economy: State ownership in the means of production and mandatory central planning...

Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and analyze the future of the sector, including the imminent...

From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting

textpublishing, 2019

NOT MANY COUNTRIES compel their citizens to vote, but Australia is one. Voting is compulsory in nineteen of the world’s 166 electoral democracies and only nine strictly enforce it.

None of Europe’s most influential democracies has it, and none of the countries in the mainstream of Australia’s...

Political Theology: A Critical Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state.

In this intellectual tour-de-force, leading political theorist Saul Newman shows how political theology arose...

Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia: Building State and Citizenship (Routledge Studies in Latin American Development)

Routledge, 2019

This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six large peace processes and amnesties that took place in Colombia over this period were nation-led, providing an interesting case study for the wider DDR literature, which has historically...

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

Penguin Press, 2019

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.

Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago...

When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable? (The Political Economy of the Middle East)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future.

Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration...

Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization

Columbia University Press, 2021

Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he...

Bangladesh in Bondage: Tarique Rahman, SQC, LB, and Other Essays

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

This book brings together a collection of essays about the untenable political status quo in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina. Since democratization in the 1990s, Bangladeshi political life has been characterized by fierce battles over the role of religion in society, corruption, and the obstacles to constructing a society with freedom...

Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History

Lexington Books, 2021

Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws”...

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