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Alexandra Cirone, Brenda van Coppenolle
Political Lotteries and Democracy

Across history, lotteries were used in political selection to combat corruption, ideological polarization, and inequity in access to governance. Today, democracy seems to be facing similar challenges - ar…

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Limor Yehuda
Collective Equality

In recent decades international and regional human rights norms have been increasingly applied to constitutional provisions, revealing significant tensions between primary political arrangements, such as …

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Kimberly A Yuracko
Sex and Sports

This book addresses one of the most controversial and polarizing topics of recent years: transgender girls' inclusion in girls' sports. The book explores legal precedent and medical science and explains w…

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James Frick
China in the World Bank, Imf, and Wipo

Previously one of the least connected states in the world, China is taking on a considerable role as a leading global power. It has participated and benefited from international organizations (IOs) while …

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Alexandra Cirone, Brenda van Coppenolle
Political Lotteries and Democracy

Across history, lotteries were used in political selection to combat corruption, ideological polarization, and inequity in access to governance. Today, democracy seems to be facing similar challenges - ar…

lieferbar ab 31.5.2026.

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Lucas Chancel, Ricardo Gomez-Carrera, Rowaida Moshrif, Thomas Piketty
World Inequality Report 2026

The World Inequality Report 2026 is the most authoritative and wide-ranging account available of global trends in inequality. Drawing on the work of more than 200 researchers worldwide, the report builds …

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Sebastián Ureta
Policy Experiments

This Element introduces a new conceptualization of policy experiments. Beyond their mainstream understanding as randomized trials, policy experiments are seen as speculative instances for testing innovati…

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Erica Marat, Aizada Arystanbek
Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia

A consequential shift is taking place in Central Asian studies today. What started as a slow rejection of the idea that the region benefited from Soviet control has turned into a decentralized, collective…

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Michelle Holder, Jeannette Wicks-Lim
The Political Economy of Racism

Why does racial inequality in America persist? In this important textbook, Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim answer this question by introducing readers to the innovative field of stratification eco…

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Sharon R. Krause
Politics of Liberty

Politics of Liberty: Essays on Montesquieu brings together a series of essays that shine new light on the meaning, conditions, and effects of freedom. Montesquieu's work embodies in a wholehearted way the…

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court

Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constit…

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Robert Wintemute
Transgender Rights Vs Women's Rights

"Trans rights are human rights!" "Women's rights are human rights!" Yes, but the human rights of two groups often conflict. The only way to resolve these conflicts is through calm, rat…

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Do-Gooders at the End of Aid

Scandinavian countries are routinely considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book highlights how the political culture of Sca…

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Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
The Republic of Innovation

We cling to a distorted idea of freedom. To be free, we commonly think, means to be unconstrained. This widespread belief makes our societies less fair, as it fails to confront that freedom to act can mea…

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Peter Garnsey
Rethinking Capital Punishment

The death penalty was accepted almost universally until the eighteenth century, when Giuseppe Pelli of Florence and Cesare Beccaria of Milan produced works calling for its abolition. Why was this form of …

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Michelle Holder, Jeannette Wicks-Lim
The Political Economy of Racism

Why does racial inequality in America persist? In this important textbook, Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim answer this question by introducing readers to the innovative field of stratification eco…

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Craig Vangrasstek
On Trade War

While today's global trade war may seem like a radical break from the established system of inter-state relations, history shows that states have been fighting trade wars as long as there have been states…

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Richard W. Waterman
Constitutional Ambiguity and the Interpretation of Presidential Power

Examines the role of constitutional ambiguity across the entire spectrum of American history and how it impacts our interpretation of presidential power. While the rise of autocratic presidential powers h…

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The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence

The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence offers a wide-ranging and accessible anthology of essays for understanding the Declaration's intellectual and social context, connection to the A…

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István Hont,
Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx

István Hont (1947-2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished materia…

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