The power of institutions

political architecture and governance

La République des avocats

Democracy in Latin America

surviving conflict and crisis?

Governing as governance

The concept of 'governance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In Governing and Governance, Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field to map and demonstrate the utility of a sociopolitical perspective to our understanding of contemporary ...

Understandig Democratic Politics

An introduction.

This textbook is designed for first-time students of politics. It provides an ideal introduction and survey to the key themes and issues central to the study of democratic politics today. The text is structured around three major parts: concepts, institutions and political behaviour; and ideologies ...

The moral foundations of politics

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? In this investigation of this most enduring of political dilemmas, Ian Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract ...

Il presidente della Repubblica

Hacia una sociedad civil global

desde la sociedad mundo

Tne nation-state in question

Introducción al análisis político

L'essentiel des droits politiques, économiques et sociaux

La théorie de l'État de Carré de Malberg

L'oeuvre de Raymond Carré de Malberg (1861-1935) est aujourd'hui reconnue en France, comme l'une des contributions majeures à la théorie du droit constitutionnel et à la théorie de l'Etat. Cet ouvrage s'attache à restituer la trame des principes et des ...

Classical utilitarianism from Hume to Mill

This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from Hume to J.S. Mill. Discussion of utility in writers such as Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham are ...

Institutions politiques et administratives de la France

Stati, nazioni e nazionalismi in Europa

La République décentralisée

Giustizia e politica

i nodi della Seconda Repubblica

Policing post-communist societies

police-public violence, democratic policing and Human Rights

La démocratie représentative

Federalismo e regionalismo in Italia e in Europa

centro periferie a confronto.Vol. I: principi e modelli