6 Save up to 20% at e-elgar.com I For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com Handbook on Institutions and Complexity Edited by Eric Alston, University of Colorado Boulder, Lee J. Alston, NBER, USA and Bernardo Mueller, University of Brasília, Brazil ‘The Handbook on Institutions and Complexity is a vital resource for any practitioner of modern political economy and social theory. Young scholars will have a hard time envisioning a time when the social sciences strove to develop an “institutionally antiseptic” theory of society. In response to this sterile vision of the social sciences, New Institutional Economics was developed and the powerful framework of analysis provided had wide acceptance in economics, politics and history. But translating the insights into the scientific strategy of modern social science often had the result for tractability of reasons of flattening the notion of institutions matter to its most simplistic rendering. The Handbook challenges that rendering and insists on the essential complexity of both the world we are trying to study and the theoretical framework we use to study that complex reality. The chapters inside this book represent foundational contributions to that effort.’ – Peter Boettke, George Mason University, USA May 2025 c 420 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 0971 9 £175.00 / $245.00 eBook • Elgaronline Handbook on Gender and Security Edited by Jutta Joachim, Radboud University, the Netherlands, Annica Kronsell, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Natalia Dalmer, Leibniz University Germany ‘This welcome Handbook surveys the breadth of feminist security studies in light of critiques of coloniality, debates on method, questionings of feminist foreign policy, and a context of war, climate change and pandemic. Including leading scholars, it enlarges our field of vision to see emerging and cutting-edge research agendas. An invaluable resource for getting up-to-date quickly!’ – Elisabeth Prügl, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland May 2025 452 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 835 7 £220.00 / $310.00 International Handbooks on Gender series eBook • Elgaronline OPEN ACCESS Governing Differences Social Diversity, Polycentric Political Economy and Modus Vivendi Edited by Paul Dragos Aligica, George Mason University and Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh, USA ‘This book on governing differences by Paul Dragos Aligica and Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is of utmost relevance to the present day, when we are faced with an urgent need to respond positively to deep cleavages and value heterogeneity straining existing institutions and regimes. I know of no other books in comparative politics that address the issues so well.’ – Filippo Sabetti, McGill University, Montreal, Canada May 2025 c 220 pp Hardback 978 1 0353 4857 2 c £90.00 / c $130.00 New Thinking in Political Economy series eBook • Elgaronline OPEN ACCESS Reflexive Urban Governance Critically Engaging with Urban Policies Edited by Jurian Edelenbos and Beitske Boonstra, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands This innovative book sets out the concept and potential of reflexive urban governance. It argues that combining the practices of urban governance with continuous reflexivity on the assumptions underlying urban policies allows stakeholders to develop collaborative problem-solving capacity and to learn from the successes, failures and outcomes of policy interventions. May 2025 c 258 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 733 6 £105.00 / $150.00 eBook • Elgaronline Robust Public Governance in a Turbulent Era Theoretical Framework and Empirical Experiences Edited by Christopher Ansell, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing, Roskilde University, Denmark and Jarle Trondal, University of Oslo and University of Agder, Norway ‘Over the past two decades a series of minor and mega-crises, from climate change to global pandemics and financial crises, have challenged governments around the world, bringing the concept of policy robustness to the forefront of considerations of policy and governance. Rather than think of such events as ‘one-off’, in this book Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing and Jarle Trondal have brought a set of authors to bear on thinking about how governments and policies can be made stronger and better prepared for the next crisis. With the negative experiences many countries encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic still ringing in our ears, this task is of the utmost importance.’ – Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser University, Canada May 2025 192 pp Hardback 978 1 80392 879 1 £95.00 / $130.00 In a Turbulent Era series eBook • Elgaronline POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY NEW TITLES, APRIL – JUNE 2025
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