2024 is een belangrijk verkiezingsjaar in Vlaanderen. Op 9 juni kiezen we de Vlaamse, Brusselse, Belgische en Europese parlementsleden, op 13 oktober zijn er gemeenteraads- en provincieraadsverkiezingen. Die verkiezingen zijn tegenwoordig onderhevig aan de ‘paradox van de democratie’. Volgens die paradox heeft de politiek er in de loop van de tijden alles aan gedaan om zoveel mogelijk burgers te laten participeren: vrouwen zijn toegelaten in 1948, EU-burgers en migranten mogen stemmen, en...

Politiek, het is net een bordspel. Partijen rivaliseren met elkaar om de overheidsinstellingen te koloniseren. En ze bedienen zichzelf rijkelijk met belastinggeld. Om de vijf jaar laten de kiezers de dobbelstenen rollen. Daarmee verdelen ze de grondstoffen over de partijen. Maar wat doen die daarmee? Sommige spelers bouwen een sterk partijapparaat uit. Er zijn er die pretparken afhuren om leden te lokken. Anderen investeren in vastgoed of spenderen miljoenen aan Facebook-advertenties. Wat bez...

Fifty years ago, people in leafy North London and people in working-class Northern towns could vote for a Labour party that broadly encompassed all of their interests. Today their priorities are poles apart. In this groundbreaking and timely book, Goodhart shows us how people have come to be divided into two camps: the 'Anywheres', who have 'achieved' identities, derived from their careers and education, and 'Somewheres', who get their identity from a sense of place and from the people around...

Encompassing everything from great power politics to everyday objects such as smart phones, geopolitics affects citizens, governments, and international bodies, and is far more than simply the impact of geographical features on political developments. This book considers both geopolitics' intellectual historical origins and its current concerns.

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has been recognised as the single most accurate and...

This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how,and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others,exploring importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art analysis on the fourth wave of far-right politics in Germany by leading scholars in the field.

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates: Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in ti...

Focusing on the continued terrorist threat by jihadist groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, and homegrown violent far-right and far-left extremists in the West, Terrorism and Counterterrorism investigates this form of political violence in a historical and contemporary context. In this comprehensive and highly readable text, renowned expert Brigitte Nacos clearly defines terrorism’s diverse causes, actors, and strategies; outlines anti- and counterterrorist responses; and highlights terr...

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership attempts to explore the core psychodynamics that appear to characterize Vladimir Putin’s presidency.