Scholars have been slow to test welfare state theories on the extensive subnational variation in the United States during the recent period of retrenchment. We assess institutional politics theories, literature on race and social policy, and public opinion arguments relative to levels of support in states' Aid to Families Dependent Children programs from 1982 until its elimination in 1996. Pool...

Mapping is inherently a subjective and exclusionary practice as the cartographer decides which elements of the world are included and which can safely be ignored. Similarly, when an international relations theorist describes a new theory it is necessary to define the elements which are essential to understanding the complexities of an international political system, explain why other elements h...

The rise of nationalist populism, its challenge to representative democracy and the populist impact on liberal international order have emerged as one most significant phenomena in politics recent years. This special issue brings together a group researchers from wide range theoretical, disciplinary epistemological backgrounds, including political science, populism studies, foreign policy analy...

This paper explores the institutional and cultural aspects of parliamentary politics in the Melanesian states Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji, and in so doing seeks to provide a baseline of information about Melanesian parliamentary politics.1 The paper argues that executive dominance has become entrenched and normalised because of the interplay between parliamentary institu...

The global moral appeal of human rights and democratic governance appears to be in severe crisis. In both the Global North South, many countries have witnessed rise racist, sexist, illiberal politicians into highest positions government. As one Asia's oldest electoral democracies, Philippines is not an exception this pattern decline civil liberties governance. Considering case Philippines, arti...

This article briefly charts the debates surrounding afterlife of a heritage space political violence, Târgu Jiu camp in Western Romania, and locates ensuing narratives current contestations liberal democratic consensus Central Eastern Europe. The was an important Holocaust site equally relevant for early communist movement. Contrary to similar sites where competing interpretations these histori...

This essay analyzes the use of fire on Upland Island Wilderness Area (UIW) to examine how postindustrial wilderness sites rework operative notions nature, wildness, and preservation within U.S. environmental thinking politics. Postindustrial areas complicate conceptualizations nature as pristine, unspoiled, or even beautiful, challenging us address biodiversity ecosystem function in ways that a...

In this paper, I will explain why the lack of debate between political theory and comparative politics has led to an inadequate understanding traditional Islamic scholars Islamists in American science. first section, analyze impact text-based approach theory; second, liberal frameworks politics; third, a promising new development: interdisciplinary field legal studies, which potential bridge di...

The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconic...