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The electoral imagination

literature, legitimacy, and other rigged systems

What happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all elections are rigged? Moving between intellectual history, literary ...

The China questions. 2

critical insights into US-China relations

Following the success of The China Questions, a new volume of insights from top China specialists explains key issues shaping today's US-China relationship. For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does ...

Democracy at work

contract, status and post -industrial justice

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond? Ruth Dukes and ...

Unworking

the reinvention of the modern office

As we look toward a future of hybrid or virtual offices, a timely call to rethink the very nature and design of the workplace. Over the past one hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the ...

Disgrace

global reflections on sexual violence

Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence-what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women ...

I want to break free

a practical guide to making a new country

Are you fed up with the divided and unequal society or suffocating laws and regulations of the country where you live? Ever dreamed of starting your own country or just want to understand how that happens? In this refreshing new book, Matt Qvortrup provides a ...

Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts

the inside history of the Treasury since 1976

The Treasury is one of Britain's oldest, most powerful and secretive institutions, one that has played a central role in shaping the country's economic system. But all too often it has escaped public scrutiny when it comes to investigating the ups and downs ...

Atlas of AI

power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence

What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the ...

Worse than nothing

the dangerous fallacy of originalism

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a ...

The economic consequences of U.S. mobilization for the Second World War

Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that ...

Profits and power

navigating the politics and geopolitics of oil

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system. Yet, its production and use continue to draw negative criticism, and an increasing number of people want to reduce or eliminate its use altogether. Profits and Power sheds light on how the ...

Justice in Lyon

Klaus Barbie and France's first trial for crimes against humanity

The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the "Butcher of Lyon" during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews ...

Getting to diversity

what works and what doesn't

In an authoritative, data-driven account, two of the world's leading management experts challenge dominant approaches to increasing workplace diversity and provide a comprehensive account of what really works. Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has ...

Law and Leviathan

redeeming the administrative state

Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? America has long been divided over these questions, but the debate has recently taken on more urgency and spilled into the streets. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed so ...

China's good war

how World War II is shaping a new nationalism

For most of its history, China frowned on public discussion of the war against Japan. But as the country has grown more powerful, a wide-ranging reassessment of the war years has been central to new confidence abroad and mounting nationalism at home. Encouraged by reforms ...

Neither settler nor native

the making and unmaking of permanent minorities

In case after case around the globe-from Israel to Sudan-the colonial state and the nation-state have been constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in America, where genocide and internment on ...

Géopolitique des mafias

Entre expansion économique et conquête territoriale

S’appuyant d’abord sur le contrôle d’un territoire puis sur une extension tentaculaire à l’échelle de la planète, les mafias dessinent une géographie singulière avec ses lieux et ses ancrages. Elles s’affranchissent des frontières réelles ou symboliques, entre légal et illégal ...

Droit administratif

Cet ouvrage présente, ramenés à l’essentiel mais avec des développements originaux spécifiques sur plusieurs éléments d’actualité qui le méritent, les différents chapitres du droit administratif général les plus souvent enseignés dans les facultés de droit et instituts en deuxième et troisième année de ...

El derecho frente a la exclusión

los límites del derecho antidiscriminatorio

En una línea que comenzó con Diversidad de situaciones y universalidad de los derechos y continuó con Condición humana y derechos humanos, el objetivo de esta investigación es indagar sobre el modo en el que el Derecho se convierte en cómplice de los sistemas de ...

Dimensión jurídica de la actuación de la Iglesia hoy

La actuación jurídica de la Iglesia Católica, tanto hacia el interior de la propia organización y fieles, como en su interacción con la sociedad y el ordenamiento jurídico español, suscita no pocas cuestiones de interés y actualidad. El presente volumen, que recoge las aportaciones de ...