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Rethinking Decentralization: Mapping the Meaning of Subsidiarity in Federal Political Culture by Jacob Deem 9780228017363
RRP: €36.89€32.56Federal countries face innumerable challenges including public health crises, economic uncertainty, and widespread public distrust in governing institutions. They are also home to 40 per cent of the world's population. Rethinking Decentralization... -
Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy by Gi-Wook Shin 9780804754088
RRP: €28.55€24.80This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Belief in a racially distinct and ethnically homogeneous nation is widely shared on both sides of the Korean... -
Dictionary of British Politics by Bill Jones 9780719079405
RRP: €23.79€21.56From Diane Abbott to Hugo Young via Keynesianism and Thatcherism, from Major to Millbank and from New Labour to Norman Tebbitt, this book is the ultimate student reference guide to British politics. The 2nd edition has been fully updated to take account... -
Care Ethics and Political Theory by Daniel Engster 9780198716341
€138.05Care Ethics and Political Theory brings together new chapters on the nature of care ethics and its implications for politics from some of the most important philosophers working in the field today. Chapters take up long-standing questions about the... -
Power and Humility: The Future of Monitory Democracy by John Keane
RRP: €36.88€32.58Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century... -
Market in State: The Political Economy of Domination in China by Yongnian Zheng
RRP: €44.02€38.56Focusing on the evolving relations between the state and market in the post-Mao reform era, Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang present a theory of Chinese capitalism by identifying and analyzing three layers of the market system in the contemporary Chinese... -
Illusion of the Epoch: Marxism-Leninism as a Philosophical Creed by H. B. Acton 9780865973947
RRP: €10.65€9.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973947Author H B ActonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 498g -
Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences by Sanjay Seth
RRP: €52.94€39.58The knowledge disseminated by universities and mobilized by states to govern populations has been globally dominant for more than a century. It first emerged in the early modern period in Europe and subsequently became globalized through colonialism... -
Ready Said Rabbit by Marjoke Henrichs 9781912650798
RRP: €15.46€9.85Rabbit and his dad are going to the park, but will they ever be ready to leave the house? This everyday situation will speak to anyone who has planned a trip but got side-tracked while getting ready, finding last minute task to do, and unable to locate... -
Future of Democracy Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin) 9780745603094
RRP: €19.03€17.40Norberto Bobbio is the foremost political theorist in Italy today. Written with verve and passion as well as erudition, this important work will make a major contribution to current debates in social and political theory. It will be of great interest to... -
Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency by Associate Professor Alison L Gash
RRP: €27.95€23.76A sweeping and innovative study that places young people at the heart of pivotal conflicts, decisions and transformations in American politics. Even though the voting age is 18, children in the United States are both crucial subjects and actors in... -
Machiavelli's Virtue by Harvey C. Mansfield 9780226503691
RRP: €22.61€21.19Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how... -
Rape of the Constitution? by Keith Sutherland 9780907845706
€21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845706Author Keith SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold
RRP: €26.18€17.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568589947Author Vegas TenoldFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 154mm *... -
Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt by Carlos Lopes 9783030012908
RRP: €29.74€23.76"Lopes brings his rigour, insight, and experience to this timely new book, presenting a compelling rethink of traditional development models in Africa and the need to seize on transformational change to build a sustainable future for the continent."-Kofi... -
American Affective Polarization in Comparative Perspective by Noam Gidron
RRP: €20.23€17.52American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the... -
Servants of the Damned: How Giant Law Firms Deny Justice, Shield the Powerful, and Endanger Democracy by David Enrich
RRP: €38.68€19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063142176Author David EnrichFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Foucault and the Politics of Rights by Ben Golder
RRP: €26.17€23.19This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his... -
Golden Rule: Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson 9780226243177
RRP: €35.70€35.28"To discover who rules, follow the gold." This is the argument of this book, a history of modern American politics. Although the role big money plays in defining political outcomes has long been obvious to ordinary Americans, most pundits and scholars... -
The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It Dan Hind 9781844672530
RRP: €9.51€6.89Today, media commentators, intellectuals and politicians declare that western science and rationality are threatened by irrational enemies. Evangelicals, postmodernists, and Islamists are on the march, they say. The Rome that science built is under siege... -
A Dream Deferred: Guyanese Identity and the Shadow of Colonialism by Stephen Spencer 9781870518772
RRP: €9.51€6.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518772Author Stephen SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 173g -
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics by Monica Duffy Toft 9780393932737
€31.12Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it:... -
Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity by Francesca Antonini
RRP: €35.70€23.66In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci's thought. Building on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, she investigates his usage of the concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism, both... -
Case Against the Democratic State: An Essay in Cultural Criticism by Gordon Graham 9780907845386
€13.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845386Author Gordon GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by Michael Albertus
RRP: €29.74€25.20This book argues that - in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege, and the lived experiences of citizens - democracy often does not restart the political game after displacing authoritarianism. Democratic institutions are... -
The Impact of Legislatures: A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies by Philip Norton 9780367524586
RRP: €47.59€42.20The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern... -
Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration by Kent E. Calder
RRP: €29.74€25.79A Eurasian transformation is underway, and it flows from China. With a geopolitically central location, the country's domestic and international policies are poised to change the face of global affairs. The Belt and Road Initiative has called attention... -
Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech by Cyrus Farivar 9781612196466
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196466Author Cyrus FarivarFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Todd Sandler
RRP: €13.08€9.76The causes and consequences of terrorism are matters of considerable debate and great interest. Spectacular events are recognized by their dates, including the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington and the 7/7 London bombings. Many other attacks,... -
The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture Marion Demossier 9781032176505
RRP: €52.35€46.10The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture provides a detailed survey of the highly differentiated field of research on French politics, society and culture across the social sciences and humanities. The handbook includes contributions from... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Politics by David Robertson
RRP: €27.36€23.99This dictionary is the essential guide to politics, its terminologies, ideologies and institutions. Providing authoritative and up-to-date information that is invaluable to both students and general readers, it includes:well over 500 extensive... -
Silk and Insight Yukio Mishima 9780765603005
RRP: €39.26€34.97This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the... -
Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War by Megan A. Stewart
RRP: €36.88€31.86Prevailing views suggest rebels govern to enhance their organizational capacity, but this book demonstrates that some rebels undertake costly governance projects that can imperil their cadres during war. The origins for this choice began with the Chinese... -
The Communist Road To Power In Vietnam: Second Edition William J Duiker 9780813385877
RRP: €59.49€52.65In this new edition of his widely acclaimed study, William Duiker has revised and updated his analysis of the Communist movement in Vietnam from its formation in 1930 to the dilemmas facing its leadership in the post?Cold War era. Making use of newly... -
Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide -- A History by Joseph Yacoub
RRP: €29.75€26.22The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia -- now Turkey, Iran... -
The Brexit Effect: What Leaving the EU Means for British Politics by Gianfranco Baldini
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly changed political and constitutional landscape. Starting with the 2015 general election and covering key... -
The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace by Monika Krause
RRP: €33.31€28.73The essays in this book, written by people involved either involved in the strike (graduate students, faculty, organizers) or who are nationally recognized writers on academic labor, offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the current role of... -
Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law by Geoffrey Swenson
RRP: €83.30€75.85In most countries, it is the norm for state courts to operate alongside powerful non-state justice systems, whose roots lie in custom, religion, or tradition. Indeed, non-state justice is frequently the dominant form of legal order. In the developing... -
Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia by Valerie Sperling 9780199324354
RRP: €45.21€34.39Sex, Politics, and Putin investigates how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in contemporary Russia. Despite their enmity, regime allies and detractors alike have wielded traditional concepts of... -
The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation by Mary F. Scudder 9780197623893
RRP: €22.60€19.42The democratic imagination is facing significant challenges. These challenges involve not only philosophical questions about the core values of democratic life, but also pressing practical issues related to how we should understand and confront current...