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Liberal Parties in Western Europe by Emil J. Kirchner 9780521102490
RRP: €49.97€38.89This book is a comparative study of liberal parties in Western Europe, examining the role and development of liberal parties within individual countries; their internal party structure and organization; electoral audience; coalitions and government... -
Executive Privilege by Raoul Berger 9780674733749
€65.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674733749Author Raoul BergerFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 798g -
Great Experiments in American Economic Policy: From Kennedy to Reagan by Thomas Karier 9780275965570
€46.99During the 1980s, dramatic changes in the federal budget, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury initiated the most comprehensive series of economic experiments since the 1930s. This book describes the nature of those experiments and compares them to... -
Party Influence in Congress by Steven S. Smith 9780521878883
RRP: €89.25€63.99Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of political parties in the US Congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must reflect policy, electoral, and collective party goals. These goals call for... -
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy by Diana C. Mutz 9780521847506
RRP: €89.25€53.51'Religion and politics', as the old saying goes, 'should never be discussed in mixed company.'And yet fostering discussions that cross lines of political difference has long been a central concern of political theorists. More recently, it has also become... -
Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections by Markus Prior 9780521858724
RRP: €89.25€62.13The media environment is changing. Today in the United States, the average viewer can choose from hundreds of channels, including several twenty-four hour news channels. News is on cell phones, on iPods, and online; it has become a ubiquitous and... -
Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism, and the Transformation of Politics by Suzanne Berger 9780521270625
RRP: €44.02€34.25The chapters in this volume reconsider fundamental premises about state and society in advanced capitalist countries. That social scientists in different disciplines of varying methodological and political persuasions should have found it useful to... -
Black Politics and Urban Crisis in Britain by Brian D. Jacobs 9780521125529
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book, first published in 1986, examines the race and immigration issues by considering the nature of the black 'constituency' and its political responses to issues related to the crisis of Britain's inner cities. It centrally examines black access... -
The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity by Patrick R Ireland 9780674498822
€65.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498822Author Patrick R IrelandFormat HardbackPage Count 341Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 658g -
Local Government in England by E.L. Hasluck 9780521143912
RRP: €44.02€33.77First published in 1936, this book by E. L. Hasluck provides a contemporary account of how local government functioned in England before the Second World War. Hasluck outlines the main features of the local government system and discusses some of the... -
Congress: Structure and Policy by Matthew D. McCubbins 9780521337502
RRP: €55.92€35.40First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research from an institutional perspective. The selections blend theoretical material found in the fields of discussion theory, political economy, social choice and game... -
The Presidents and Civil Disorder by Bennett Milton Rich 9780313222993
€66.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313222993Author Bennett Milton RichFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Capital Punishment and the American Agenda by Franklin E. Zimring 9780521378635
RRP: €36.88€28.32The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular social, legal, and moral problem in the Western world over the past two hundred years. Capital punishment is disappearing from every nation in the West except... -
The Europeanisation of National Administrations: Patterns of Institutional Change and Persistence by Christoph Knill 9780521000925
RRP: €36.88€27.19Christoph Knill's book analyses the impact of European policies on national administrations. Under which conditions can we expect domestic change, particularly the convergence of administrative styles and structures? How can we explain national patterns... -
Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation by Michael H. Belzer 9780195128864
RRP: €52.35€36.68In 1977 the US government began to loosen regulations on the tightly controlled trucking industry, expecting that increased competition would drive down companies' shipping costs. In this provocative new book Michael H. Belzer takes a close look at... -
This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government by Will Butts 9780991117505
€12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991117505Author Will ButtsFormat PaperbackImprint Liberty's Lamp BooksPublisher Liberty's Lamp BooksWeight(grams) 159g -
Minority Representation and the Quest for Voting Equality by Bernard Grofman 9780521477642
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book provides an up-to-date analysis of American voting rights law and the numerous controversies surrounding minority representation. Written by authors with first-hand experience in the case law, the book details the evolution of the law and... -
Limits and Loopholes: The Quest for Money, Free Speech, and Fair Elections by Victoria A. Farrar-Myers 9780872893290
RRP: €64.26€56.14From the authors of Legislative Labyrinth: Congress and Campaign Finance Reform.Elections, the basic mechanism of representative democracy, should be untainted by corruption and provide a platform for free speech. But running for office takes money a lot... -
Steal This Book, Not My Vote by Barbara Lee With 9780966137828
RRP: €13.09€11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966137828Author Barbara Lee WithFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Synergy AlliancePublisher Synergy AllianceWeight(grams) 188g -
Documents on Contemporary British Government: Volume 1, British government and constitutional change by Martin Minogue 9780521291484
RRP: €44.02€34.25Originally published in 1977, this selection of documents is carefully arranged and edited to illustrate the main characteristics of the British system of government during a period of extensive constitutional and administrative change. The intention is... -
Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction by Pamela Brandwein 9780521887717
RRP: €107.10€73.27American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional... -
Politics and Land Use Planning: The London Experience by Stephen L. Elkin 9780521134538
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book was originally published in 1974. At the time of publication, studies of the politics of planning generally emphasized the difficulties planning agencies face and the way in which political patterns impede planning efforts. This view... -
City Politics and the Press: Journalists and the Governing of Merseyside by Harvey G. Cox 9780521134491
RRP: €36.88€28.32Concern about the relationship between government and the people is often popularly expressed in calls for greater public participation in decision making. However, although the press is clearly central to this relationship, the debate on the role and... -
Character and Style in English Politics by J.H. Grainger 9780521133883
RRP: €36.88€28.32A study of leading English politicians from the Tudor period to the time of original publication in 1969. In his introductory chapter Mr Grainger discusses the general nature of the politician's work, the importance of imagination, common-sense and... -
Intelligence for an Age of Terror by Gregory F. Treverton 9780521518451
RRP: €95.20€25.41During the Cold War, U.S. intelligence was concerned primarily with states; non-state actors like terrorists were secondary. Now the priorities are reversed and the challenge is enormous. States had an address, and they were hierarchical and bureaucratic... -
The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality: Interests and Influence in Governmental Regulation of Occupational Safety by Gregory A. Huber 9780521872799
RRP: €107.10€73.26Are political understandings of bureaucracy incompatible with Weberian features of administrative neutrality? In examining the question of whether interest groups and elected officials are able to influence how government agencies implement the law, this... -
White House Daze: The Unmaming Domestic Policy in the Bush Years by Charles Kolb 9780684863887
RRP: €20.22€19.44Throughout his presidency, George Bush was accused by both Republicans and Democrats of having an administration utterly without a domestic policy agenda. Kolb, who served as the President's Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy, tried to push the Bush... -
Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court by Harold J. Spaeth 9780521805711
RRP: €36.88€22.66This book, first published in 1999, examines the influence of precedent on the behavior of US Supreme Court justices throughout the Court's history. Under the assumption that for precedent to be an influence on the behavior of justices it must lead to a... -
The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited by Jeffrey Allan Segal 9780521783514
RRP: €113.05€80.50This book, authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making. In the process, it critiques the two... -
The Politics of Policy in Local Government: The Making and Maintenance of Public Policy in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea by John Dearlove 9780521134507
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book was originally published in 1973, at a time when most writers on local government saw local authorities as agents of central government. The few studies which recognised local authorities as policy-shaping bodies explained their activity by... -
Happy Days and Wonder Years: The Fifties and the Sixties in Contemporary Politics by Daniel Marcus 9780813533919
RRP: €36.89€27.14In the 21st century, why do we keep talking about the fifties and sixties? The stark contrast between these decades, their concurrence with the childhood and youth of the baby boomers, and the emergence of television and rock and roll help to explain... -
The Economic Realities of Political Reform: Elections and the US Senate by James L. Regens 9780521023511
RRP: €36.88€28.32A central political issue in American politics during the 1990s is the need for political campaign reform. The authors examine US Senate elections to determine the role money plays in Senate elections; their analysis indicates that the system of campaign... -
Blacks and the American Political System by Huey Perry 9780813013732
€30.88"A strong and well-informed set of reviews of efforts and achievements of African Americans and their political allies across the broadest spectrum of arenas of government." --Rufus P. Browning, San Francisco State University "Useful for... -
The Return of the State? by Erhard Eppler 9780955497575
RRP: €17.84€13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955497575Author Erhard EpplerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint ForumpressPublisher ForumpressWeight(grams) 274g -
The Vice President as Policy Maker: Rockefeller in the Ford White House by Michael J. Turner 9780313232299
€99.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313232299Author Michael J. TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Political Process and Foreign Policy: The Making of the Japanese Peace Settlement by Bernard C. Cohen 9780313227158
€99.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313227158Author Bernard C. CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 293Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment by Eric M. Patashnik 9780521771740
RRP: €107.10€80.03In the United States many important programs are paid from trust funds. At a time when major social insurance funds are facing insolvency, this book provided the first comprehensive study of this significant yet little-studied feature of the American... -
Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information by Gregory F. Treverton 9780521580960
RRP: €89.25€57.48The world of intelligence has been completely transformed by the end of the Cold War and the onset of an age of information. Prior to the 1990s, US government intelligence had one principal target, the Soviet Union; a narrow set of 'customers', the... -
Crisis in the Making: The Political Economy of New York State since 1945 by Peter D. McClelland 9780521105538
RRP: €49.97€34.25This book examines in detail the fiscal and more general economic crisis of New York State and City. The authors show that the crisis was as much the fruit of political manoeuvering as it was the outcome of long-term economic trends and fiscal ineptitude... -
You Say You Want a Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics by Reed E. Hundt 9780300181937
€25.36This book is a unique account of the way politics has shaped the information age in America. Reed E. Hundt, chairman from 1993 to 1997 of the Federal Communications Commission, the nation's chief regulatory agency for media and communications industries,...