‘China’s new Silk Road, or Belt and Road Initiative, is massive in scope, with implications reaching beyond the future of China and humanity, and into space. And this book, also huge in scope, is everywhere far-sighted, thoughtful, perce...
‘Taking seriously the task of rethinking economics, Richard Wagner has gone to the centre of it. We are spirited beings capable of hoping, hating, learning, and doing, not flesh-covered robots enslaved to our programming. Our liberty of ...
‘The Politics of the Public Encounter unpacks an evolving and increasingly complex, sometimes confronting interaction between citizens and their governments. This book helps to understand how changing communication processes, transformin...
‘The book shoulders the work of a specialised Encyclopedia, but also refreshes the field by providing a diverse set of contributions to subject matters both established and emerging.’
– Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, the Nether...
‘This commendable collection is notable for a comprehensive exploration of most significant dimensions of politics and public administration. The dual focus of public administration in politics and the politics of public administration p...
‘A Research Agenda for Civil Society provides a much needed synopsis of the antecedents, internal contradictions, and promises of civil society within a comparative African-Global Southern Context. At a time of pervasive political and ep...
‘Rethinking Public Choice is an elegantly written book of thoughtful and deep insights that present a powerful vision of economics as a social science. Wagner's modern framework of entangled political economy unifies public choice theory...
Edited by Bart van Klink, Marta Soniewicka, Leon van den Broeke
‘Stimulating and provocative, this interesting collection tackles utopia from diverse disciplinary, theoretical, and political angles. Drawing on secular and religious traditions, contributors demonstrate utopian thinking’s enduring vita...
‘This book is exceptionally impressive in its breadth – contemporary and historical, Western and non-Western, analytical and critical/continental. This is the future of political theory.’
– Adrian Blau, King's College London, UK
‘In the face of widespread polarisation, democracies in retreat, and crises of global proportions, a need has arisen to explore the individual and societal causes, interactions, and implications of these profound developments. This impre...
‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of tho...
Magnus Hagevi, Sofie Blombäck, Marie Demker, Jonas Hinnfors, Karl Loxbo
‘An innovative study of the changing forces reshaping party competition in Western Europe, the authors argue that electoral realignment, combined with globalization’s constraints on national politics, provide new challenges for political...
