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Contemporary State Building: Elite Taxation and Public Safety in Latin America by Gustavo A. Flores-Macías 9781009095983
RRP: £18.99£17.23If economic elites are notorious for circumventing tax obligations, how can institutionally weak governments get the wealthy to shoulder a greater tax burden? This book studies the factors behind the adoption of elite taxes for public safety purposes... -
Land Politics: How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal by Lauren Honig 9781009125772
RRP: £22.99£20.66Land Politics examines the struggle to control land in Africa through the lens of land titling in Zambia and Senegal. Contrary to standard wisdom portraying titling as an inevitable product of economic development, Lauren Honig traces its distinctly... -
The Cost of Doing Politics: How Partisanship and Public Opinion Shape Corporate Influence by Jane L. Sumner 9781009124584
RRP: £25.99£23.23Using quantitative and qualitative evidence, Sumner shows how consumer boycotts can work to dissuade companies from donating money to politicians, but may also encourage companies to attempt influence by largely invisible means. Boycotts do not work as... -
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 2 by Agustin E. Ferraro 9781316639511
RRP: £26.99£24.08In 1960, Latin America and Spain had the same level of economic and social development, but, in just twenty years, Spain raced ahead. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the design and implementation of developmental state policies in both regions... -
Means, Motives, and Opportunities: How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy by Christian Breunig 9781009428606
RRP: £25.99£21.99Means, Motives, and Opportunities illuminates how states spend public money through the lens of governmental structure, executive power, and interest group competition. Christian Breunig and Chris Koski argue that policymaking is a function of not only... -
Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis by Hanspeter Kriesi 9781009456524
RRP: £29.99£26.34The refugee crisis which hit the European Union and its member states during 2015–16 was just one in a series of recent crises, but perhaps the most critical for the EU's resilience. This book shows how policymakers in the EU polity have tried to come to... -
Theorizing in Comparative Politics: Democratization in Africa by Goran Hyden 9781009429498
RRP: £25.99£21.99This book addresses a pertinent issue in comparative politics: how can the discipline do analytical justice to regions of the world that differ historically from the Western experience? For decades the West has served as a baseline against which all... -
American Foreign Policy and Process by James M. McCormick 9781009278546
RRP: £39.99£36.21This comprehensive text provides a thorough analysis of the values and beliefs that have shaped American foreign policy, exploring how they have evolved over time. Through exploration of presidential administrations from the end of World War II to the... -
The Collaborative Congress: Reaching Common Ground in a Polarized House by Alison W. Craig 9781009338264
RRP: £85.00£76.60The Collaborative Congress is an in-depth study of how members work together to create policy in a polarized legislature. While the modern Congress is characterized by partisanship and conflict, members frequently look for opportunities to find common... -
When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice by Ewa Atanassow 9781009263788
RRP: £75.00£68.14In recent decades, popular sovereignty has come under increasing pressure. The rise of populism, often illiberal or authoritarian, has undermined minority rights, individual autonomy, and rule of law. The expansion of international institutions and... -
Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism by Abimbola A. Adelakun 9781009281744
RRP: £22.99£20.66For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. Performing Power in Nigeria explores how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power within a social milieu... -
Working Class Inclusion: Evaluations of Democratic Institutions in Latin America by Tiffany D. Barnes 9781009349819
RRP: £85.00£76.60Latin American legislators, like legislators worldwide, are drawn from a narrow set of elites who are largely out of touch with average citizens. Despite comprising the vast majority of the labor force, working-class people represent a small slice of the... -
Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy: Citizens, Processes and Outcomes by Jean-François Daoust 9781009124287
RRP: £17.00£14.72Satisfaction with democracy is a vastly studied research topic. In this Element, the authors aim to make sense of this context by showing that elections (electoral processes and outcomes) influence citizens' satisfaction with democracy in different ways... -
Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study by Ruth Dassonneville 9781009069120
RRP: £17.00£14.72A burgeoning literature studies compulsory voting and its effects on turnout, but we know very little about how compulsory voting works in practice. In this Element, the authors fill this gap by providing an in-depth discussion of compulsory voting rules... -
The Social Origins of Electoral Participation in Emerging Democracies by Danielle F. Jung 9781009114264
RRP: £17.00£14.72Given the enormous challenges they face, why do so many citizens in developing countries routinely turn out to vote? This Element explores a new explanation grounded in the social origins of electoral participation in emerging democracies, where... -
Which Lives Matter?: Factors Shaping Public Attention to and Protest of Officer-Involved Killings by Traci Burch 9781108987295
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element explores the factors that lead the public to pay attention to and mobilize in support of victims of officer-involved killings. The author argues that race is the most important factor shaping both attention and mobilization. Black victims... -
Africa's Urban Youth: Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship by Amy S. Patterson 9781009235174
RRP: £80.00£72.17Making up 65 percent of Africa's population, young people between the ages of 18 and 35 play a key role in politics, yet they live in an environment of rapid urbanization, high unemployment rates and poor state services. Drawing from extensive fieldwork... -
Counter Realignment: Political Change in the Northeastern United States by Howard L. Reiter 9780521186810
RRP: £24.99£21.18In Counter Realignment, Howard L. Reiter and Jeffrey M. Stonecash analyze data from the early 1900s to the early 2000s to explain how the Republican Party lost the northeastern United States as a region of electoral support. Although the story of how the... -
Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse by Alexander F. Gazmararian 9781009405294
RRP: £70.00£63.71Why is the world not moving fast enough to solve the climate crisis? Politics stand in the way, but experts hope that green investments, compensation, and retraining could unlock the impasse. However, these measures often lack credibility. Not only do... -
Africa's Urban Youth: Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship by Amy S. Patterson 9781009235143
RRP: £25.99£21.99Making up 65 percent of Africa's population, young people between the ages of 18 and 35 play a key role in politics, yet they live in an environment of rapid urbanization, high unemployment rates and poor state services. Drawing from extensive fieldwork... -
The Full Armor of God: The Mobilization of Christian Nationalism in American Politics by Paul A. Djupe 9781009234061
RRP: £17.00£14.72Academic research on Christian nationalism has revealed a considerable amount about the scope of its relationships to public policy views in the US. However, work thus far has not addressed an essential question: why now? Research by the authors of this... -
The Full Armor of God: The Mobilization of Christian Nationalism in American Politics by Paul A. Djupe 9781009423922
RRP: £49.99£44.97Academic research on Christian nationalism has revealed a considerable amount about the scope of its relationships to public policy views in the US. However, work thus far has not addressed an essential question: why now? Research by the authors of this... -
Conservatives against the Tide: The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective by Gabriel Vommaro 9781009418249
RRP: £17.00£14.72This volume in the Elements series addresses the success of conservative parties in non-authoritarian contexts in contemporary Latin America. It places the core case of Argentina's Republican Proposal (PRO) party in comparative perspective with... -
In Defense of Ideology: Reexamining the Role of Ideology in the American Electorate by Elizabeth N. Simas 9781009228176
RRP: £17.00£15.12Years of collective political science research has fueled the stereotype of the uninformed or illogical American voter who ardently supports parties or candidates but lacks any cohesive ideological reasons for doing so. Prior works, however, do not tell... -
Issue Publics: How Electoral Constituencies Hide in Plain Sight by Timothy J. Ryan 9781009242417
RRP: £17.00£14.72An often-forgotten passage of Philip Converse's classic essay on mass belief systems introduced the concept of an issue public – a segment of voters that has crystallized attitudes about a particular topic. Some people deeply care about particular... -
Party Pursuits and The Presidential-House Election Connection, 1900-2008 by Jeffrey M. Stonecash 9781107616752
RRP: £23.99£20.37This study proposes and assesses an alternative explanation of the changes in the relationship between presidential and House of Representatives election results during the last century. Jeffrey M. Stonecash argues that the separation of presidential and... -
Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa by John R. Heilbrunn 9781107049819
RRP: £52.99£47.61Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa presents an optimistic analysis of the continent's oil-producing states. With attention to the complex histories, the interactions of key industry actors and policy makers, and the goals of diverse groups in... -
Presidential Saber Rattling: Causes and Consequences by B. Dan Wood 9781107021273
£120.00The founders of the American republic believed presidents should be wise and virtuous statesmen consistently advocating community interests when conducting American foreign policy. Yet the most common theoretical model used today for explaining the... -
The Politics of Budgets: Getting a Piece of the Pie by Christine S. Lipsmeyer 9781107179318
RRP: £80.00£72.17While governments prefer to alter budgets to fit their ideological stances, the domestic and international contexts can facilitate or constrain behavior. The Politics of Budgets demonstrates when governments do and do not make preferred budgetary changes... -
When Politicians Attack: Party Cohesion in the Media by Tim J. Groeling 9780521842099
£120.00Fostering a positive brand name is the chief benefit parties provide for their members. They do this both by coordinating their activities in the legislative process and by communicating with voters. Whereas political scientists have generally focused on... -
Brazil since 1980 by Francisco Vidal Luna 9780521820448
RRP: £75.00£67.74This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic,... -
The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State by Lee Ann Banaszak 9780521115100
RRP: £75.00£67.74The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State argues that the mobilization and success of the U.S. women's movement cannot be fully understood without recognizing the presence of feminist activist networks inside the federal government. Utilizing... -
Curbing the Court: Why the Public Constrains Judicial Independence by Brandon L. Bartels 9781316638507
RRP: £29.99£25.94What motivates political actors with diverging interests to respect the Supreme Court's authority? A popular answer is that the public serves as the guardian of judicial independence by punishing elected officials who undermine the justices. Curbing the... -
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 by Boris Heersink 9781316610923
RRP: £30.99£27.17In Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, Heersink and Jenkins examine how National Convention politics allowed the South to remain important to the Republican Party after Reconstruction, and trace how Republican organizations in... -
Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution by Landry Signé 9781009200042
RRP: £69.99£63.30With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile... -
Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution by Landry Signé 9781009200011
RRP: £22.99£19.56With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile... -
The Politics of Budgets: Getting a Piece of the Pie by Christine S. Lipsmeyer 9781316631287
RRP: £26.99£22.80While governments prefer to alter budgets to fit their ideological stances, the domestic and international contexts can facilitate or constrain behavior. The Politics of Budgets demonstrates when governments do and do not make preferred budgetary changes... -
The Indigenous Right to Self-Determination in Extractivist Economies by Marcela Torres-Wong 9781009410908
RRP: £17.00£14.72International norms widely recognize the Indigenous right to self-determination by which Indigenous peoples define and purse their collective aspirations. Nevertheless, as progressive as legal frameworks might appear, in reality, few Indigenous... -
American Politicians Confront the Court: Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power by Stephen M. Engel 9780521192958
RRP: £53.00£48.02Politicians have long questioned, or even been openly hostile to, the legitimacy of judicial authority, but that authority seems to have become more secure over time. What explains the recurrence of hostilities and yet the security of judicial power?... -
Prosecutors, Voters and The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato by Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos 9781009329842
RRP: £95.00£85.85Lava Jato, a transnational bribery case that started in Brazil and spread throughout Latin America, upended elections and collapsed governments. Why did the investigation gain momentum in some countries but not others? The book traces reforms that...