Polity

“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legisl...

For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defence Industry. These ‘a...

For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defence Industry. These ‘a...

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000. In the th...

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000. In the th...

Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the welln...

Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the welln...

This provocative new book argues that the rise of the West to world domination has brought widespread social, cultural and material destruction in ...

Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people. Populist movements use the idea to challenge elected representativ...

Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people. Populist movements use the idea to challenge elected representativ...

This is a major contribution to feminist theory and debate, addressing issues such as sexual violence, social violence and hatred of foreigners in ...

This is a timely re-appraisal of feminist political thinkers and their male contemporaries, providing a re-evaluation of feminist humanism. Acknow...

In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from i...

In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from i...

What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answeri...

This book examines the organization of domestic life in the context of recent economic change. Lydia Morris argues that relationships within the ho...

What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's w...

What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's w...

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi...

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi...

GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the ...

GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the ...

Branko Milanovic is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating...

Public health erupted into the world’s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What ...