Political Science

Owen E. Hughes investigates governance across sectors including corporate, international and political governance, arguing that governance, as a general concept and an operational system, is in crisis. Hughes reasons that the crisis is in governance in...

This 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...

Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countries-including China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela-have developed new tools and strategies to contain the...

How the executive branch-not the president alone-formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act unilaterallyThe president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power...

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps...

Serbia is still widely thought of as an unfinished state, whose people struggle to establish a compelling identity narrative in answer to the question 'who are we?'. While existing literature has over-analyzed Serbian nationalism, the Serbian public...

Criminal extortion is an understudied, but widespread and severe problem in Latin America. In states that cannot or choose not to uphold the rule of law, victims are often seen as helpless in the face of powerful criminals. However, even under such...

By the last decade of the twentieth century, the great questions of modernity seemed to be answered. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, the liberal democratic capitalist project seemed to be the only one left standing, and in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914143700Author Mark L. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications

Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world--the political sphere dominated by men--and to denigrate the private world--the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547750415Author Mark HertsgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272g

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423650973Author Mary WollstonecraftFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036692Author Vicky OsterweilFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century's most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism has been an inspiration to today's decolonization and anti-racism movements. As the author of essential...

The second edition of this pathbreaking, highly innovative comparative study in state-building by a major political scientist is a fully updated examination of the problems of making democratic government work. Sartori begins by assessing electoral...

The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' community for over three years. During that time she resided as a squatter in four different houses, worked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860573Author Paul GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 189g

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of...

Thoroughly revised, the seventh edition of this accessible and highly respected text provides a rigorous yet digestible introduction to the European Union. Additionally, it authoritatively explains developments that continue to bring challenges to this...

After the 2016 and 2020 elections, harsh critiques of polling were blasted everywhere: in news headlines, on social media and among colleagues and friends. But this rush to declare polling irrelevant is misguided-and dangerous. In Strength in Numbers,...

When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176542Author Agustin GuillamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706912Author Jedediah PurdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This volume provides a practical introduction to the method of maximum likelihood as used in social science research. Ward and Ahlquist focus on applied computation in R and use real social science data from actual, published research. Unique among books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800313408Author Andrew WearFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups Boko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in...

MSNBC counterterrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Nance was the first person to blow the whistle on Russia's hacking of the 2016 election and to reveal Vladmir Putin's masterplan.Now, in THE PLOT TO BETRAY AMERICA, Nance...

NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by...

In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceless residents of Addis Ababa...

How did the British Government and Civil Service shape the Northern Ireland peace process? What kind of tensions and debates were being played out between the two governments and the various parties in Northern Ireland? Addressing texts, negotiations,...

The struggle between the defenders of America as an exceptional nation and the forces of anti-Americanism is reaching a fever pitch. These forces have grown so large, so well-financed, so entrenched and aggressive that they must be studied closely and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501172519Author Martha C NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

'The genius of Graciela Chichilnisky is recognized by economists and with this book she has focused that talent to the dire problem facing mankind. To survive we must do more than stave off a further rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. We need to reverse it...

The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises. The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of devastating inter-state and inter-communal conflicts, including civil wars. The second is an economic crisis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064169Author Andy PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Compass PressPublisher Communalism PressDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 16mm

Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The...

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863321Author David McNallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 207g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302931322Author Jim StarlinFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics