In the early twenty-first century, it is now clear that religion is increasingly influential in the political realm in ways which call into question the…

This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community.…

This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives…

This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction…

The issue of policy dynamics is a key one in policy studies and one which is particularly amenable to comparative policy research. This edited volume…

This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields.

Using gender equality as…

Given the recent focus on the challenges to representative democracy, and the search for new institutions and procedures that can help to channel increasing participation,…

Delegation is an ubiquitous social phenomenon linked to the growing differentiation of modern societies. Delegation is one of several different modes of organisation that exist…

This is a major contribution to our understanding of European integration.

It analyzes for the first time, in a highly systematic fashion, European integration as transnational…