Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics "is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline s most distinguished scholars, its purpose is to provide its readers with fresh critical insights about what informs these political concepts, as well as a method by which readers and especially students can unpack and reconstruct them on their own.
International in scope, "Hyperpolitics" draws upon a global vocabulary in order to turn complex ideas...

Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics "is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline s most distinguished scholars, its purpose is to provide its readers with fresh critical insights about what informs these political concepts, as well as a method by which readers and especially students can unpack and reconstruct them on their own.
International in scope, "Hyperpolitics" draws upon a global vocabulary in order to turn complex ideas...

No area of public policymaking is more hotly debated than the use of government authority to enforce certain standards of behavior in areas of moral controversy. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this collection examines a variety of such policy areas - ranging from abortion and affirmative action to gay rights - including two new chapters on animal rights and hate crimes. In discussing each policy area the book examines relevant issues and arguments, as well as policy shifts over time. It considers the roles of key political and institutional actors in policymaking - including lobbies...