Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan B. Slapin, the authors of The Politics of Parliamentary Debate, compare the systems of debate that keep governments from the US to Germany to New Zealand considering different points of view.
At the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting this month, we got to sit down with six Cambridge authors to discuss their latest studies in philosophy. You can hear about everything...
I found the panchayat, or Indian village council, by accident and by luck. Trained as a historian of Britain, I had been working on a study of British trade unions and arbitration during the nineteenth...
This opens up a whole new world of opportunities for subtle cross-technology flirting. But cyberbullying is real, people… Though when that ends badly at least you can spend your 21st century...
With Earth Day almost upon us, Prasenjit Duara, the author of The Crisis of Global Modernity, explains why we need a new vision of the world to prevent ourselves from destroying it.
On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox, putting an end to the bloodiest war in American history. Now, 150 years after Lee's surrender, five historians and authors lead the conversation about the Civil War's enduring legacy.
I would like to loudly applaud Nevada and Georgia for declining to drink the RFRA Kool-Aid this year. Smart. All RFRAs are a bundle of negative unintended consequences and bad public policy, as I explain...
To celebrate publication of Discovering the Deep, a sumptuously illustrated guide to the seafloor and ocean crust, we are inviting you to share your best photographs of marine geologic features, hot springs, and marine life for our Photography Competition.
Daniel J. Henderson and Christopher F. Parmeter, the co-authors of Applied Nonparametric Econometrics, discuss their new book and how their new approaches to nonparametric methods will benefit students...
To wrap up their weekly series on Emotive Language in Argumentation, authors Douglas Walton and Fabrizio Macagno address the way carefully constructed argumentative language influences the debate over abortion.
In this adaptation of Ciraj Rassool's chapter "Human Remains, the Disciplines of the Dead, and the South African Memorial Complex" from The Politics of Heritage in Africa, go behind the scenes of anthropological work in Southern Africa.
Andrew Sturdy discusses his recent book Management as Consultancy, and explains why managers within organizations are becoming more like management consultants. Read More ?