Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
Morality and Nationalism
1st Edition
By Catherine Frost
August 20, 2010
This book takes a unique approach to explore the moral foundations of nationalism. Drawing on nationalist writings and examining almost 200 years of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, the author develops a theory of nationalism based on its role in representation. The study of nationalism has ...
Citizens and the State: Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Takashi Inoguchi, Jean Blondel
August 10, 2010
This book is about the relationship between citizens and the state. Their relationship has tended to be argued from a top down perspective without systematically examining empirical data about their association. In contrast, Citizens and the State, analyses the relationship from a primarily bottom ...
Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy
1st Edition
By David van Mill
August 10, 2010
Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic politics and decision-making. Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy addresses the dispute between these competing schools of ...
National-Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ephraim Nimni
December 10, 2009
In his seminal essay 'Staat und Nation' ('State and Nation') Karl Renner presents his model for national-cultural autonomy, with a two-tier system of government that devolves considerable non-territorial autonomy to national communities, while sustaining the administrative unity of the Multination ...
European Integration and the Nationalities Question
1st Edition
Edited
By John McGarry, Michael Keating
June 29, 2009
A highly topical examination of the effect of European integration on relations between states and minority nations. This new collection brings together the leading specialists in the field, and covers a wide range of cases, from Northern Ireland in the West, to Estonia and Latvia in the ...
Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Kaufman
February 27, 2009
The capabilities approach to equality, developed by Amartyr Sen and Martha Nussbaum, seeks to answer the question: what is a proper measure of a person's condition for the purposes of determining what we owe each other, as a matter of justice? While the capabilities theory has avoided many of the ...
Political Reconciliation
1st Edition
By Andrew Schaap
February 27, 2009
Since the end of the Cold War, the concept of reconciliation has emerged as a central term of political discourse within societies divided by a history of political violence. Reconciliation has been promoted as a way of reckoning with the legacy of past wrongs while opening the way for community in...
Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political
1st Edition
By Saul Newman
February 27, 2009
This book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on problems and issues central to politics today. Drawing on the theoretical concerns brought to light by the ‘poststructuralist’ thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and Max Stirner, Newman ...
Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
1st Edition
By Jason Glynos, David Howarth
August 19, 2008
The Social Science Wars have precipitated a renewed interest in the character, purpose and methods of social science. Positivists and naturalists are criticized by interpretivists and critical theorists, while quantitative researchers are challenged by those who favour qualitative and ethnographic ...
In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World
1st Edition
By Ari Kohen
June 10, 2008
The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to the furthering of the human rights agenda. This book establishes an equally compelling non-religious foundation for the ...
The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Louiza Odysseos, Fabio Petito
March 28, 2008
Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that have risen from the collapse of the ‘Westphalian’ international order. There is an emerging recognition in political theory circles that core ...
Citizenship and Identity: Towards a New Republic
1st Edition
By John Schwarzmantel
October 22, 2007
Citizenship and Identity offers an analysis of contemporary politics and of the scepticism and apathy which characterise the political life of modern democracies. Starting from exploration of liberal-democracy and a critique of the fragmentation of contemporary politics, this book develops a ...