Publications
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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. ...