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Beyond parliamentarism: How do citizens want to decide on divisive policies?
Europeans, on average, are distrustful toward representative institutions. In recent decades, to restore confidence in political institutions,...
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Subjectivity and Social Order: What Can Big Brother Naija Teach Us About the (Rule of) Law?
Beyond its contested ethical and appraised entertainment values, Big Brother Naija Reality TV Show offers insight into the cohesive function of law...
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Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa
Hannah Arendt famously argued that acts of violence are corrosive to a free and plural politics. However, the broader implications of her critique of...
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Public data primacy: the changing landscape of public service delivery as big data gets bigger
The growth and expansion of “Big Data” is fundamentally changing public service delivery. Big Data is getting “bigger,” and public organizations will...
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Ideological Seduction and Intellectuals in Putin's Russia
This book examines the interplay between key rulers and intellectuals in creating and sustaining popular discourses that often help keep rulers in...
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Social Media: A Big Brother in Nigeria’s Electoral Space?
The conclusion of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria indicated quite clearly that there is yet no end in sight to rancour, conflict and underhand...
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A hundred-years legacy of Turkish Democracy: the impact of democracy by rationalism in politics under Atatürk and Erdoğan
The present study aims to trace the political theory of Michael Oakeshott, one of the leading critics of rationalism in politics in the 20th century,...
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Beyond liberal governance? Resilience as a field of transition
According to governmentality studies, resilience, like any other neoliberal policy framework, reproduces a paternalising dichotomy between capable...
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(Un)Masking the Reign of Terror in Nigeria: Armed Banditry and State Complacency
Nigeria is not the only country challenged by dire national security threats. However, the attitude of the Nigerian state towards the prevailing...
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The Confines of Power in the Contemporary World: Holistic Theoretical Proposition
This chapter delineates how the normative imperatives of human society evolved over time and how it has poised the States of the contemporary world...
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Roles, Responsibilities and Boundary Riding
This chapter addresses: How do Departmental Secretaries construct or perceive their roles and responsibilities in the context of continuing reforms?...
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Decoding ‘Sovereign Strategic Networks’ in the Indo-Pacific: Contesting China’s ‘Ascendant-Rise’
The Indo-Pacific, for all its geographical amorphousness, is a geo-strategically spatial concept marked as much by the shifting centre of gravity,...
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Power and Issue Framing in the Context of Climate Negotiations
In the global village today, the political issues that concern preserving the collective commons of and develo** public goods for the humanity at...
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Identification and Humanizing and Dehumanizing Rhetoric
A central theme that emerged in the analysis of this study was the use of humanizing rhetoric, and the fundamental rhetorical concept underlying...
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A Brilliant Failure: Hegel and Marx Assess the Enlightenment
Hegel and MarxMarx, Karl both understand enlightenment as a failed project at liberation. For Hegel, the failure lies in the form of consciousness...
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Civil–Military Relations: A Panacea to Conflicts
The importance of civil–military relations in resolving issues like state fragility, governance crises, insurgent assaults, and threats to public...
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Mechanism Design: Governance Structure and Rules of AIIB
The Board of Governors is the highest authority and decision-making body of AIIB and enjoys all powers of the Bank. Aside from admitting new members...
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The Politics of “Physics Envy” and the Coloniality of Policymaking in Ghana
The ontological and epistemological outlook of Ghana’s economic policy architects is defined by Keynesian economic theorems structured with...