Publications
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Divination
(2025)
This Element adopts a naturalistic, cognitive perspective to understand divination, examining belief, plausibility, and the socio-cultural factors influencing the perception and persistence of divination practices across ...
Kant on Citizenship and Poverty
(2026)
According to Immanuel Kant, citizenship amounts to freedom, equality, and civil self-sufficiency. This Element provides a unifying interpretation of Kant's theory of citizenship. It argues that Kant affirms the idea of ...
Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss
(2025)
This Element explores the gendered dimensions of the ways language used to describe, define, and diagnose pregnancy loss impacts experiences of receiving and delivering healthcare in UK. Itanalyses focus group transcripts ...
Killing Machines
(2025)
A gripping account of Donald Trump's defiance of the law of war revealing the fragility of military conduct norms. This highly topical analysis challenges the assumption that Western leaders always publicly respect ...
Killing the Messenger
(2025)
This book provides readers interested in public policy with an explanation and critique of the sharp attacks against social media coming from across the political spectrum. It analyses numerous regulatory proposals directed ...
Land Rights Now
(2025)
Accessible to a broad audience interested in land justice for Indigenous Peoples, this multidisciplinary book synthesises and presents the challenges and opportunities for advancing land rights, making it useful to academics, ...
Justice for Some
(2025)
Explains why in the United States and China, the wrongfully convicted must prove their innocence while elsewhere there is more concern with reasonable doubts about guilt. Examines the causes of miscarriages of justice ...
Law and Morality in Kant
(2025)
A comprehensive treatment of law and morality in Kant which sheds new light on Kant's practical philosophy more broadly. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working on Kant's moral and legal philosophy.
Kant Incorporated
(2025)
This Element argues that Kant's practical philosophy offers a systematic basis for understanding corporations. It shows their promise and dangers. Corporations bridge the central distinctions of his practical philosophy: ...
Law and Constitutional Change
(2025)
Examines the role that law plays when countries experience a major constitutional upheaval and the interaction of law and politics in history across different legal jurisdictions with different legal traditions. This title ...
Satellite Radar Interferometry
(2025)
This book provides the basic physical principles of the Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) theory and its applications for mapping surface deformation. It is intended for students and researchers in the physical ...
Securing Democracies
(2025)
This book assembles a diverse, global set of scholars and practitioners who focus on securing election infrastructure as well as the overriding problem of managing misinformation, disinformation, and deep fakes. Our main ...
Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Gravity
(2015)
Providing a comprehensive, pedagogical introduction to scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers. It offers a smooth transition from basic quantum field ...
Reckoning with Law in Excess
(2025)
Reckoning with Law in Excess offers a ground-breaking approach to understanding the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world. Case studies from around the world ...
Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly
(2025)
Facing an access-to-justice crisis and an onslaught of new legal technologies, the legal profession is on the cusp of a revolution. This volume examines the civil justice status quo and sketches how reformers can create a ...
Regulating a Thousand Cuts
(2025)
Applying findings from interdisciplinary research, this book offers an optimistic, solution-oriented resource for researchers, policymakers and advocates working to improve our laws for the environment. Laws can help us ...
Remote Work and Labor Institutions
(2025)
This book is focused on how remote work is reshaping the entire institutional framework for regulating employment of all types. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Science and Humanism
(2025)
Addressing approaches to integrating humanism with science, and cases in which science has failed, succeeded, and could do more to promote our collective welfare, this book articulates a conception of the sciences for our ...
Seeking Global Climate Justice
(2026)
This book is for students, researchers, and practitioners engaged with climate justice. It offers critical insights across disciplines such as law, political science, anthropology, and development studies, making it valuable ...
The Rise of Authoritarian Middle-Powers and What It Means for World Politics
(2026)
In recent decades, a group of influential authoritarian states has emerged. These authoritarian middle-powers have considerable impact on international relations. This Element represents one of the first attempts to ...
The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature
(2024)
Beyond merely examining debt in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman shows how medieval literature, particularly Chaucer and Langland, engenders capitalism, a system rooted in penitential theology. This title is part of ...
Transition Imaginaries
(2026)
The idea that the world needs to transition to a more sustainable future is omnipresent today. This Element employs a political theory approach, draws on empirical developments to explore this shift and maps five transition ...
Thriving Sustainably on Planet Earth
(2026)
From diverse disciplinary fields, academics provide compelling visions for education that disrupt but also open up and inspire new opportunities. Responding to these visions, practitioners offer practical reflections, ...
Transformative Novel Technologies and Global Environmental Governance
(2023)
Transformative Novel Technologies are potential gamechangers for confronting climate change, biodiversity loss, and other global environmental crises, but effective governance is essential. This title is part of the Flip ...
The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
(2025)
In this first history of the University of Cambridge's involvement in slavery and abolition, Nicolas Bell-Romero uncovers the extent to which the problem of slavery was an inextricable feature of social, economic, cultural, ...
Trade in Tasks
(2025)
This Element synthesizes a decade of research on who is doing what and where in global value chains. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
The Question of Solidarity in Law and Politics
(2025)
What is the problem that solidarity is invoked as a solution to? How are solidarity schemes narrated? In this book, leading authorities in law, philosophy and political sciences respond to the solidarity question, drawing ...
The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking
(2025)
Evolutionary theory has found its way into a diversity of fields outside biological sciences. This Element examines how crossovers of evolutionary theory from biology into other fields occur, and how such fields can be ...
Governing Failure
(2014)
Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority ...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
(2025)
This handbook establishes a scholarly field focusing on financial infrastructures, bridging political economy and STS. It explores key questions about infrastructural functions, digitalization impacts, inclusivity, and ...
Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance
(2025)
This book explores a discord within climate change policy and politics, using a range of cases to analyze how different political systems and power inequalities shape climate action. It will be of interest to researchers ...
Testimony and Historical Knowledge
(2025)
This Element explores the relation between historiography and testimony about what it means to know and understand the past historically. The distinctiveness of history is elucidated by placing historical theory in dialogue ...
The Care Dividend
(2025)
Everyone has an older friend or relative who has needed long-term care and found a system woefully unprepared. In this book, experts from around the world consider the state of the art of long-term care systems and demonstrate ...
Shifting Landscapes
(2025)
A multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, this volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more ...
The Birth of Democracy in South America
(2025)
Explores how democracy first emerged in South America and explains why it arose in some countries and not others. It shows that the first countries to democratize in the region continue to have the strongest democracies ...
Social Ontology
(2025)
This Element aims to provide an overview of this burgeoning field, and also to map the questions that theories in social ontology address. It is structured by distinguishing theories of social construction from theories ...
Selling Sexual Knowledge
(2025)
This innovative work is the first study of how medical publications on sexual matters were made, promoted, and sold in Victorian Britain. Bull demonstrates how arguments about obscenity were embraced by publishers and ...
Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
(2025)
This Element discusses the creation and analysis of a 1.5 million-word corpus of UK national press articles on Islam and Muslims from Dec. 2022–Nov. 2023, including AI-tagged images. It evaluates text, images, and interactions, ...
Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations
(2025)
This Element addresses a range of pressing challenges and crises by introducing readers to the Maya struggle for land and self-determination in Belize, a former British colony situated in the Caribbean and Central America. ...
Climate Change on Trial
(2025)
Based on an original database of the totality of RCC lawsuits around the world as well as interviews with leading actors and participant observation in the field, this Element explains the rise and global diffusion of RCC ...
Family Matters
(2025)
This Element studies how career support from romantic partners affects career patterns and costs in politics. It argues that less career support from romantic partners leads to a lower likelihood for political promotion, ...
Elitism versus Populism
(2025)
This Element discusses the experiments with local politicians, state legislators, and the public to understand a self-serving majoritarianism. It also insists on the need for shifting focus from undemocratic attitudes to ...
A Theology of Home in a Time of Homelessness
(2025)
Homelessness abounds today in various forms of displacement and as a pervasive condition of unbelonging. This Element argues that for theology to play its part in ending homelessness, it must better understand its own ...
Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change
(2025)
Reviews the evidence base for using audit and feedback to support improvement, summarising historical origins, guiding theories, and supporting evidence. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Becoming Nations Again
(2025)
Tribes operated sovereign governments since time immemorial. Colonialism forced tribes onto reservations and stripped them of sovereign powers. Federal paternalism continues to undermine tribal self-governance; thus, tribes ...
Quantum Algorithms
(2025)
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of quantum algorithms and how they connect to practical, concrete applications of quantum computing. Its modular, encyclopedic structure facilitates usage as a reference ...
Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
(2025)
This Element provides a global look at a set of behaviors the authors call 'rebel environmental governance' (REG+). The Element brings rebel organizations into the conversation on climate change, highlighting their role ...
From Crisis to Action
(2025)
This book provides compelling climate change stories of people's lived experiences and includes actionable solutions from climate-vulnerable countries. It offers valuable insight for anyone interested in climate change, ...
Handbook of Compassion in Healthcare
(2025)
This book covers the fundamentals of compassion in healthcare and provides a practical approach to implementing it, combining evidence with helpful strategies for deepening compassion in clinical settings. This book will ...
Psychodrama
(2025)
This Element presents an integrated account of psychodrama theory, practice, and research. It provides an overview of psychodrama practice, including session structure, core techniques, and an intervention program. It ...
Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures
(2025)
Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures attempts to discern the future trajectory and endpoint of Sino-Middle Eastern relations. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Logic and Science
(2025)
This Element delves into the relationship between logic and the sciences, a topic brought to prominence by Quine, who regarded logic as methodologically and epistemologically akin to the sciences. It hopes to foster our ...
Poverty in Latin America
(2025)
This Element derives subjective poverty lines for seven Latin American countries based on a Minimum Income Question included in household expenditure surveys. It then compares poverty incidence under the subjective and ...
Pattern, Construction, System
(2025)
Written by a highly esteemed scholar, this book is essential reading for researchers in Construction Grammar, Systemic Grammar and Corpus Linguistics. It is the first to bring these three specialised areas together, finding ...
The Political Economy of China's Imperial Examination System
(2025)
This Element argues that the Imperial Examination System (Keju) contributed to political stability in China with consequences initially unanticipated by its contemporaries. It documents the emergence of Keju using evidence ...
The Marginal Cost of Public Funds
(2025)
This Element introduces the concept of the marginal cost of public funds (MCPF), sketches its history, and discusses a number of applications. It does this by undertaking economic evaluations of public sector projects ...
Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy
(2025)
This Element aims to bring the intellectual history of Zoroastrianism into conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. It discusses the contributions it can make to the problems of evil and suffering and a ...
Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
(2025)
This Element advances the epistemic labour view about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. It shows how the theoretical virtues can resolve ...
The Metaphysics of Color
(2025)
This Element discusses philosophical issues surrounding color metaphysics, arguing that colors are objective features of our world, independent of our experiences. It challenges, that perceptual variation makes objectivism ...
The Organism
(2025)
This Element discusses long-standing challenges to base biological reasoning and practice on the concept of organism. Currently, after many decades dominated by the paradigm of the gene, the organism is making a comeback ...
Data Management for Social Scientists
(2023)
The 'data revolution' offers many new opportunities for research in the social sciences. Increasingly, social and political interactions can be recorded digitally, leading to vast amounts of new data available for research. ...