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Women and Power in Africa
(2021)
This book examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives. Part I evaluates women’s efforts to become party candidates in ...
Chapter 2 The Hohfeldian Analysis of Legal and Moral Relationships
(2024)
This chapter provides a lengthy exposition of the analysis of legal and moral positions that was propounded by Wesley Hohfeld somewhat over a century ago. It rigorously explores every aspect of Hohfeld’s analytical matrix, ...
Rights and Right-Holding
(2024)
Rights and Right-Holding presents a rigorous philosophical investigation of the two phenomena mentioned in its title. With a lengthy exposition of the analysis of legal and moral positions that was propounded in the early ...
Writing from Invention to Decipherment
(2024)
This book corrals global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline ...
Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance
(2024)
After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology and politics of the Nile Basin. The GERD is the culmination of a ...
The Meaning of If
(2022)
Conditional sentences remain a puzzling source of philosophical speculation in large part because there seems to be nothing they could possibly mean that would vindicate the roles they play in language and thought. Bringing ...
The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism
(2025)
The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism is about policies that try to stop people damaging their own health. From the point of view of public health advocates, if people did not smoke, or drank less alcohol, or kept off ...
Developments in Attachment Research
(2025)
Developments in Attachment Research explores the contributions of several research groups in developmental science that have shaped the study of attachment and caregiving in recent decades, each with a different image of ...
When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day
(2024)
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding ...
From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
(2024)
The Syrian regime unleashed unprecedented violence to suppress large-scale non-violent protests amid the Arab uprisings. Hundreds of armed groups formed throughout the country to defend the protesters and fight back. ...
Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America
(2024)
The key to sustained and equitable development in Latin America is high quality education for all. However, coalitions favoring quality reforms in education are usually weak because parents are dispersed, business is not ...
Space, Time, and Memory
(2025)
This volume reflects the outcome of a workshop on “Space, Time and Memory” held at the University of Arizona (UA) in November of 2022. Contributors from three different disciplines – philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience ...
A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics/Beyond Cooperation and Competition
(2025)
How do nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) create the spaces in which they act, despite all the odds against them? How do NGOs seem to meet the requirements of the moment, often being in the right place at the right time? ...
The Meanings of Voting for Citizens
(2025)
On Election Day, citizens typically place a mark beside a party or candidate on a ballot paper. The possibility to cast this mark has been a historic conquest and today, voting is among the most frequent political acts for ...
Core Assumptions in Business Theory
(2025)
The modern market-based economy generates great wealth, but it lags on well-being; it has mastered efficiency, but struggles with equity; it boasts size, but falls short on sustainability. In other words, our economy ...
How States Respond to Crisis
(2025)
We expect the state to matter in times of crisis, and for more ‘capable’ or ‘stronger’ states to better provide for and protect their populations. But how is it, precisely, that the quality of the state matters? This volume ...
Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse
(2025)
This volume explores the long-held assumption that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. Cyclic change has recently attracted renewed interest, notably with respect to the evolution of negation (viz. the famous ...
Equality's Guardians
(2025)
Equality’s Guardians: How Courts Conceptualize Equal Protection and Non-discrimination Guarantees offers an unparalleled comparative analysis of constitutional equality case law from apex courts across 18 jurisdictions ...
The Digital Double Bind
(2024)
The Middle East’s digital turn has renewed hopes of socioeconomic development and political change across the region. It has also engendered stark contradictions and accentuated existing tensions. The resulting disjunctures ...
Populist Radical Right Parties in Action
(2025)
This book investigates why and how several contemporary populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe adopt the supposedly outdated mass party organizational model. While the first half of the twentieth century ...