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America's Inequality Trap by Nathan J Kelly
RRP: $36.12$35.33The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done little... -
Hijacking Environmentalism: Corporate Responses to Sustainable Development Richard Welford 9781853833991
RRP: $33.53$29.19This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and... -
Poaching Politics: Online Communication During the 2016 US Presidential Election by Paul Booth
RRP: $44.18$39.11The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Paul Booth, Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process. From viewing candidates as... -
The Disinformation Age by W. Lance Bennett
RRP: $122.55$97.42The intentional spread of falsehoods - and attendant attacks on minorities, press freedoms, and the rule of law - challenge the basic norms and values upon which institutional legitimacy and political stability depend. How did we get here? The... -
The Volatility Curse: Exogenous Shocks and Representation in Resource-Rich Democracies by Daniela Campello
RRP: $122.55$96.89The Volatility Curse examines the conditions under which economic voting can (and cannot) function as a mechanism of democratic accountability, challenging existing theories that are largely based on experiences in developed democracies. Drawing on... -
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States by Allan Colbern
RRP: $122.55$97.42The United States is entering a new era of progressive state citizenship, with California leading the way. A growing number of states are providing expanded rights to undocumented immigrants that challenge conventional understandings of citizenship as... -
Partisans, Antipartisans, and Nonpartisans: Voting Behavior in Brazil by David J. Samuels
RRP: $39.98$28.24Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil; what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This book shows that soon after redemocratization in the 1980s, over half... -
The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality by Douglas L. Kriner
RRP: $96.75$81.66As the holders of the only office elected by the entire nation, presidents have long claimed to be sole stewards of the interests of all Americans. Scholars have largely agreed, positing the president as an important counterbalance to the parochial... -
The Limits of Judicialization: From Progress to Backlash in Latin America by Sandra Botero
RRP: $116.10$105.04Latin America was one of the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of what has come to be known as the judicialization of politics - the use of law and legal institutions as tools of social contestation to curb the abuse of power in government, resolve... -
State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil by Jessica A. J. Rich
RRP: $39.98$29.48In State-Sponsored Activism, Rich explores AIDS policy in Brazil as a lens to offer new insight into state-society relations in democratic and post-neoliberal Latin America. In contrast to the dominant view that these dual transitions produced an... -
Deficits, Debt, and the New Politics of Tax Policy by Dennis S. Ippolito
RRP: $37.40$31.50The Constitution grants Congress the power 'to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises'. From the First Congress until today, conflicts over the size, role and taxing power of government have been at the heart of national politics. This book... -
Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia by Lahra Smith
RRP: $32.24$27.32Smith argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a powerful analytical tool to approach political life in contemporary Africa because the institutional and structural reforms... -
The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution by Karen Orren
RRP: $34.82$29.93This Companion provides a broad, historically informed introduction to the study of the US constitutional system. In place of the usual laundry lists of cases, doctrines, and theories, it presents a picture of the constitutional system in action, with... -
Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina: Plurality Cartels, Minority Presidents, and Lawmaking by Ernesto Calvo
RRP: $116.10$88.00Plurality-led congresses are among the most pervasive and least studied phenomena in presidential systems around the world. Often conflated with divided government, where an organized opposition controls a majority of seats in congress, plurality-led... -
Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Tanzania by Ronald J. Aminzade
RRP: $95.46$86.07Nationalism has generated violence, bloodshed, and genocide, as well as patriotic sentiments that encourage people to help fellow citizens and place public responsibilities above personal interests. This study explores the contradictory character of... -
The Political Economy of the American Frontier by Ilia Murtazashvili
RRP: $116.10$81.66This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its scope is interdisciplinary, integrating insights from political science, economics, law and... -
The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown by Florence Faucher-King
RRP: $107.07$93.02The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997-2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Gales argue that New Labour, in contrast... -
Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America by Hugh Heclo
RRP: $27.74$25.14Despite talk of a "naked public square," religion has never really lost its place in American public life. As the twenty-first century opened, it was re-emerging in unexpected and paradoxical ways. Religious institutions were considered for... -
The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany: Bringing Women to the Party by Sarah Elise Wiliarty
RRP: $116.10$101.97This book develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years. Otto Kirchheimer's classic study argues that when... -
Direct Democracy and the Courts by Kenneth P. Miller
RRP: $96.75$87.38Who should have the last word on fundamental policy issues? This book analyzes the rise of two contenders - the people, through direct democracy, and the courts. Now available in nearly half the states, direct democracy has surged in recent decades... -
Constituency Representation in Congress: The View from Capitol Hill by Kristina C. Miler
RRP: $78.68$70.47Congressional representation requires that legislators be aware of the interests of constituents in their districts and behave in ways that reflect the wishes of their constituents. But of the many constituents in their districts, who do legislators in... -
Stare Indecisis: The Alteration of Precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946-1992 by Saul Brenner
RRP: $39.98$36.48The concept of precedent is basic to the operation of the legal system, and this book is a full-length empirical study of why US Supreme Court justices have chosen to alter precedent. It attempts to analyse those decisions of the Vison, Warren and Burger... -
Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States by Karen Orren
RRP: $32.24$25.90Traditional theories of American political development depict the American state as a thoroughly liberal state from its very inception. In this book, first published in 1992, Karen Orren challenges that account by arguing that a remnant of ancient... -
America's Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout, and Representation in City Politics by Zoltan L. Hajnal
RRP: $49.02$44.43Although there is a widespread belief that uneven voter turnout leads to biased outcomes in American democracy, existing empirical tests have found few effects. By offering a systematic account of how and where turnout matters in local politics, this... -
Party-Society Relations in the Republic of Cyprus: Political and Societal Strategies by Giorgos Charalambous
RRP: $51.59$45.23The Republic of Cyprus' social and political culture is deeply partitocratic, with a close relationship between state apparatus and the parties that influence the government's decisions. However, little is known about the social and political... -
Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society by Josh Pacewicz
RRP: $39.99$39.46There's no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in Partisans and Partners, Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic. Wheels-down in Iowa that most... -
Reason in Law: Ninth Edition by Lief H Carter
RRP: $39.99$38.95Over the nearly four decades it has been in print, Reason in Law has established itself as the place to start for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. This ninth edition brings the book's analyses and examples up to... -
Walls, Cages, and Family Separation: Immigration Policy in the Trump Era by Sophia Jordan Wallace
RRP: $21.93$18.99US immigration policy has deeply racist roots. From his rhetoric to his policies, President Donald Trump has continued this tradition, most notoriously through his border wall, migrant family separation, and child detention measures. But who exactly... -
Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy by Helmut K. Anheier
RRP: $174.15$151.29'What a welcome gift!' John Clark, Project Director, UN Secretary-General's Panel on UN-Civil Society Relations. 'This book truly breaks new ground in the field of civil society studies by introducing an innovative assessment tool which can be of use... -
Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa James Keeley 9781853839757
RRP: $56.75$49.59A critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It asks why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity... -
World in Transition 4: Fighting Poverty through Environmental Policy by German Advisory Council on Global Change
RRP: $174.15$151.81At the start of the 21st century, fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community. Environmental changes will jeopardize people's survival to an even greater extent in the future,... -
Environmental Victims by Christopher Williams
RRP: $49.01$43.06This study looks at environmental problems from the perspective of the victims. The bottom line consequences are often damaging to the health of individuals or communities and they raise a wide range of issues concerning justice, international and... -
Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes by Anne Meng
RRP: $122.55$103.75How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an effective role in promoting autocratic stability? To understand patterns of... -
The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables by Benjamin Ginsberg
RRP: $28.37$28.12Going all the way back to the time of George Washington, much of what we see and hear in the political world consists of lies and deceptions. Despite assurances to the contrary, politics is not about truth, justice, and principle. It is about money,... -
The Political Influence of Churches by Paul A. Djupe
RRP: $45.15$41.03Djupe and Gilbert investigate the political influence of church and how membership in organized religious bodies shapes the political life of members. Djupe and Gilbert's goal in this inquiry is to re-center scholarly attention on the voluntary... -
Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Undermines Democracy by Timothy J. Redmond
RRP: $28.37$23.18The democratic ideal demands that the citizenry think critically about matters of public import. Yet many Democrats and Republicans in the United States have fallen short of that standard because political tribalism motivates them to acquire, perceive... -
Immigration and the American Ethos by Morris Levy
RRP: $39.98$29.48What do Americans want from immigration policy and why? In the rise of a polarized and acrimonious immigration debate, leading accounts see racial anxieties and disputes over the meaning of American nationhood coming to a head. The resurgence of... -
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000-2005 by Doug McAdam
RRP: $32.24$27.32The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and 'movement-centric'. When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study,... -
The Power of American Governors: Winning on Budgets and Losing on Policy by Thad Kousser
RRP: $34.82$29.41With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives... -
The Europeanization of Workplace Pensions: Economic Interests, Social Protection, and Credible Signaling by Alexandra Hennessy
RRP: $59.33$53.48Alexandra Hennessy examines an area of Europeanization that has been largely ignored by political analysts: the development of an internal market for workplace pensions. This book offers an analysis of what is at stake in workplace pension reforms,...