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Polity

Status	Active
Founded	1984
Founder	Anthony Giddens David Held John Thompson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	Cambridge
Distribution	John Wiley and Sons
Publication types	Books
Official website	politybooks.com

Polity is anacademic publisher in thesocial sciences andhumanities.^[1] It was established in 1984 in Cambridge byAnthony Giddens,David Held andJohn Thompson at theUniversity of Cambridge.^[2] Giddens later reported: "We didn't have any publishing experience or money".^[2] Polity remains a private limited company, with the sociologistJohn Thompson atJesus College, Cambridge listed as director. Giddens resigned as director in 2008, and Held died in 2019. Assets were audited at over £4m in 2022.^[3] The company now has offices inCambridge andOxford in theUnited Kingdom, andNew York City andBoston in the United States.^[1]

The company specializes in the areas ofsociology,politics,philosophy,history,media,political economy and related fields, aiming to publish textbooks and course books for students and scholars as well as academic texts in these fields. It also publishes trade books for a general readership. Its books are distributed worldwide by Wiley.

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