Edited by Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, Christine Unrau
‘This exciting collection combines sharp theoretical analysis with a rich array of illuminating case studies to show the powerful role played by creative human imagination in shaping transformative processes of global cooperation. In dep...
‘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
‘Ian McAllister is one of the most distinguished political scientists today, who has devoted his academic life to researching and writing on elections and voting behaviour. This Advanced Introduction draws together his considerable exper...
‘In recent years, the concept of social capital has become a widely cited but often misused black box deployed willy-nilly to explain any number of societal outcomes. Karen Cook’s masterful Advanced Introduction to Social Capital fills i...
‘Much of the literature on PPPs examines project-level partnerships involving the procurement of specific long-term public infrastructure, along with critical success factors. As the title of the book indicates, Mhamed Biygautane takes a...
‘Recent years have witnessed the “Return of the State” after decades of spreading neo-liberalism and market ideology. Bent Greve’s book is a very well written text able to capture the old and new roles of the public sector in contemporar...
‘In the dense landscape of reference works, this is the real thing. It brings together great scholars, offers a fascinating tour of the classics, and connects with today’s problems. It shows how far the field of public management has pro...
‘David Feldman has done it again. With his latest book, The Governance of Water Innovations, he reminds us of the limits of technology in governing water. In a time when we are searching for solutions to solve our water woes, Feldman app...
‘Zhu Qian provides an incredibly thorough treatment of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal...
‘In her pioneering research Gabriela Pleschova investigates a complex international relationship. Chinese migrants have found their way for better life in Hungary, the country which has hosted the largest Chinese community in Central Eur...
‘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...
‘The chapters in this impressive Research Handbook range from deeper dives into particular trade spats to higher-altitude analyses of their causes and consequences. Scholars especially interested in the US-China trade war will find a wea...
