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Werner Hamacher, one of the most important and original theorists working in literary criticism and continental philosophy, explores topics at the intersection of philosophy, literary studies and politics.

Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together scholars from a range of fields, it explores a wide range of examples of, and contexts for, songs and their performance that have been deployed as part of local, regional and global social protest movements, both in historical and contemporary times. Topics covered include:AestheticsAuthenticityAfrican American MusicAnti-capitalismCommunity & Collective MovementsCounter-hegemonic Discourses Critical PedagogyFolk MusicIdentityMemoryPerformancePopular CultureBy placing historical approaches alongside cutting-edge ethnography, philosophical excursions alongside socio-political and economic perspectives, and cultural context alongside detailed, musicological, textual, and performance analysis, Songs of Social Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students exploring song and singing as a form of protest.

Makes accessible in one coherent package a set of original and substantially revised writings on an approach that has been pivotal in reviving critical work on representation.

This collection reflects on the origins and development of European political science and provide a critical assessment of the achievements and challenges lying ahead.

Spence develops and applies a normative model based on rationalist and virtue ethics as well as stoic philosophy to assess the impact of technology on wellbeing. Through developing this model, Spence offers a novel and important examination of the benefit of technology to our society as a whole.

This book is an in-depth reflection and analysis on why and how unsettling empathy is a crucial component in reconciliatory processes.

This book provides an introduction to the major findings, challenges and debates regarding disgust as a moral emotion, and brings together scholarship from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, anthropology and law.

Provides a comprehensive examination of some of the major questions in the study of European Union politics, regional integration and multilevel governance .

Issue ownership theory is a tale of two actors. On the one hand, it theorizes how parties compete with each other in their struggle for votes. On the other hand, issue ownership isabout the citizen. It claims that voters are more likely to support a party if they think it is competent to handle issues they care about.This book provides unique insights into the undertheorized and understudied links betweenparty competence and the vote. It argues that issue ownership voting (or competence-based voting) consists of three assumptions: First, voters are primarily interested in havingissues handled by a competent party. Unlike in other issue voting models this impliesthat voters are reluctant (or unable) to deal with the specificities of the exact solutionto a political problem. Though positional considerations feed into evaluations of partycompetence, other factors are important, too. This is reflected by the second assumption,following which issue handling competence is a subjective preference with various sources.Third, competence is more decisive in the decision-making process if the voter cares deeplyabout the issue. These three assumptions yield the key formula of issue ownership voting:Voters support the most competent party on the most important issue.

Against this background, Matching Voters With Parties and Candidates aims first at a comprehensive overview of the VAA phenomenon in a truly comparative perspective.

This book's original theoretical framework and comparative approach offer a new understanding of the complex interactions between the formulation of a state identity and the aspirations of those who do not fit in the proclaimed core nation.

This volume undertakes the first international comparative analysis of metropolitan political behaviour.

Focusing on intra-party competition, this book presents an original explanation of why some politicians and parties engage more extensively in such practices than others.

This volume undertakes the first international comparative analysis of metropolitan political behaviour.

This book presents up-to-date empirical research on crucial questions of political socialisation.

Based on a mixed methods design it first quantitatively tests the relationships for the OECD countries in cross-sectional as well as panel designs.

This book explores how these new forms of interactive governance are working in practice and analyses their role and impact on public policy making in different policy areas and in different countries.

Cutting-edge empirical research on political trust as a relational concept.

This volume provides a thorough empirical examination of how an internationalising context drives parliamentarians to engage in inter-parliamentary coordination; how it affects their power positions vis-a-vis executive actors; among themselves; and in society in general.

This book studies different voting procedures and formulas for personal representation, their origins and consequences, their compatibility with party representation and the strategies and normative criteria for electoral system choice.

The book throws a unique light on the development of comparative studies after World War II as seen through the eyes of an active participant.

Why Aren't They There? is a comprehensive study of political representation in a cross-national format. It examines the representation of women, ethnic groups, and policy positions in a cross-country comparison. The book includes an analysis of the representation of women over time, and presents a critical view of the effectiveness of quotas. Using new data on ethnic groups in legislatures, the book is a significant step forward in the analysis of political representation. The representation of issue positions is examined in eight policy domains. The systematic approach of the book allows a ground-breaking examination of how different forms of representation - women, ethnic groups, issue positions - are interlinked. It examines aspects that are unattainable in studies focusing on only a single form of representation. This results in a comprehensive understanding of political representation, and leads to important and policy-relevant insights for electoral engineering.

This book studies different voting procedures and formulas for personal representation, their origins and consequences, their compatibility with party representation and the strategies and normative criteria for electoral system choice.

The Wit and Humour of Political Science is the serendipitous product of two senior scholars working across the world from one another and who independently collected funny and satirical articles on political science over the years with the intent of someday publishing them for a wider audience.

This book develops and applies an inventive theoretical approach to the comparative study of the neglected aspect of the real (or "de facto") independence of regulatory agencies.

This book provides a multi-faceted innovative analysis of the European Parliament by studying it comprehensively from a gender perspective, addressing changes and continuities.

This book argues that we need to explore how human beings can best coordinate and collaborate with robots in responsible ways. It investigates ethically important differences between human agency and robot agency to work towards an ethics of responsible human-robot interaction.

Sex robots are already a reality: in this provocative text, Maurizio Balistreri explores the fascinating world of future sex, exploring the ethical questions raised by the existence of a sex robot industry.

This book critically analyses the role of behavioural sciences in public policy and challenges the belief that they provide sufficient evidence to build policy from. Through highlighting the ethical, political legal questions around nudges, the author examines the impact of their influence on our society.

Produces a clear and original edited volume on the strategies of secession and counter-secession.