This book deals with how rights and their limits are dealt with in theories as well as in hypothetical and practical cases. It begins by…
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors…
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The…
On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century.…
As nations careen from one crisis to the next, there is a growing cry for fresh leadership. Those in charge have repeatedly fallen short,…
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding,…
Leadership doesn't look like it used to. Expanding on the lessons learned from Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein's best-selling Nudge…
The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONWhat are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions…