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This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Le...

China is home to a fifth of the world�s inhabitants. For the last several decades, this huge population has been in flux: fertility has fallen shar...

China is home to a fifth of the world�s inhabitants. For the last several decades, this huge population has been in flux: fertility has fallen shar...

Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe lead...

Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe lead...

Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a devia...

Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a devia...

They say everybody uses porn. They’re wrong. People don’t use pornography: it uses us. And you don’t have to watch it to be one of its victims.In t...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

This is the first major group study of the lives and work of Edna Clarke Hall, Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Gwen Smith whose work constitutes a pr...

Winner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe...

Winner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe...

Our societies are in transition, spurred on by a pandemic that disrupted many aspects of the social world we once took for granted. We’ve left behi...

Our societies are in transition, spurred on by a pandemic that disrupted many aspects of the social world we once took for granted. We’ve left behi...

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking an...

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking an...

In this new book, Leslie Holmes provides the first comprehensive single-authored analysis of post-communism. He highlights and explains both the po...

Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and econo...

Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and econo...

In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the façade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being ...

In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the façade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being ...

The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such ...

The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such ...