Without too much exaggeration it can be claimed that, ever since the Enlightenment,
autonomy has been the crown jewel of humanity. It is not without irony, therefore, that …

The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other
democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attempting to identify …

Albert Hirschman's rhetoric of reaction is a potentially powerful typology of the arguments
made by both proponents and opponents of reform (1991. The rhetoric of reaction …

Academic feminists have turned to feminist theory to develop ways of managing or solving
ethnic antagonisms, especially among feminists/women in Northern Ireland. This essay …

Political rhetoric is underpinned by its relationship to context. Scholars have struggled to
articulate this relationship by relying upon an ontological perspective of rhetoric and …

The social glue and the social fabric, as well as the suggestion that society can hang
together or drift apart, exemplify the central place of metaphorical illustrations for ordinary …

This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the
prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now …

What insights and advantages do rhetorical approaches offer over other methods of
exploring social and political discourse? This article aims to clarify the contribution of …

This paper examines workforce reform in early childhood education in England, specifically
the policy trajectory that led to implementation of the Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS) …

Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership seeks to gather some of the best work on political
leadership broadly defined, stretching from classic areas such as executive, legislative and …