By Juan Carlos Calleros-Alarcón

This book examines the political evolution of the judiciary – a usually overlooked political actor -- and its capacity to contribute to the process of...

Published August 28th 2008 by Routledge.

Internet Governance

The new frontier of global institutions

By John Mathiason

The expansion of the Internet has been called the most revolutionary development in the history of human communications. It is ubiquitous and is changing politics,...

Published July 30th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Mark Robinson

This book examines the factors that give rise to successful governance reforms in developing countries, focusing on the importance of political commitment, supportive institutions, and...

Published July 28th 2008 by Routledge.

Playing the Identity Card

Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective

Edited by Colin J. Bennett, David Lyon

National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features...

Published July 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

Processes and contests in local China

Edited by Linda Chelan Li

One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People’s Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that...

Published July 8th 2008 by Routledge.

Management in Networks

On multi-actor decision making

By Hans de Bruijn, Ernst ten Heuvelhof

Getting what you want – even if you are the boss – isn’t always easy. Almost every organization, big or small, works among a network...

Published May 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice

Edited by Barry K. Gills

This book brings together a set of distinguished academics and activists to analyze, critique, and debate the global politics of poverty and justice and the...

Published April 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments

The Initial Decade

Edited by Philip Norton, David M. Olsen

This is a new assessment of the new parliaments that emerged as communism collapsed.

The sudden fall of the Soviet bloc stimulated both the rapid emergence...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

Democratization in the Muslim World

Changing Patterns of Authority and Power

Edited by Frederic Volpi, Francesco Cavatorta

This book examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective...

Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

Previously published as a special issue of Social Semiotics, this book grapples with such questions as: What does it mean to be a citizen in...

Published November 23rd 2007 by Routledge.