Bøger af Colin Hay

The concept of the political legacy, despite its importance for institutionalist and historically-minded political analysts more generally, remains both elusive and undeveloped theoretically.

Written by a team of leading scholars, this new text focuses on a range of key challenges posed by developments in 21st century politics to provide a state-of-the-art assessment of current thinking and future directions in Political Science and International Relations.

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society.

Introduces all the competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state as well as key contested issues in relation to globalization, forms of governance, the changing public/private boundary, changes in the powers and capacities of states, and the differences between advanced liberal democratic and other states.

* An original and illuminating analysis of current trends in contemporary politics. * A brilliantly written text which is likely to become a minor classic in the field. * Examines and explains current levels of disengagement and apathy towards politics and politicians. * Genuinely international and comparative in focus.

A comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to British Politics since 1945 and to the development of the British state. Essential reading for scholars concerned with questions of social, political and economic change, especially future change after an era of Conservative domination.

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade.

This volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing in particular on the relationships between his social theory and political sociology.

The Political Economy of New Labour provides one of thefirst systematic assessments and accessible evaluations of the modernization ofthe British Labour Party in the light of its landslide electoral victory in1997. -- .