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The Politics of Child Support in America by Jocelyn Elise Crowley
RRP: €30.93€26.17Political observers have long since struggled with understanding how new ideas are placed on the public agenda. In their studies, most social scientists have relied on biographical sketches and intensive case studies to explore the intricacies of... -
Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century by Stephen J. Rockwell
RRP: €124.95€98.07The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of an individualized, pioneering expansion across an open... -
The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State by Lee Ann Banaszak
RRP: €27.36€23.28The 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... -
Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution by Gary W. Cox
RRP: €29.74€25.20The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary redistricting in the mid-1960s. Both state legislative and congressional... -
Public Policy and Governance in Bangladesh: Forty Years of Experience Nizam Ahmed (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh) 9780367877743
RRP: €47.59€41.72Good policies are an important prerequisite of good governance, and any effort to change one is likely to affect the other. In emerging democracies, such as Bangladesh, a redefinition of roles and responsibilities of different actors in the policy and... -
Racial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics by Christopher D Desante
RRP: €33.32€32.59Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to hope that the younger generation, which many believe manifests less racism and more acceptance of a... -
White-collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making by Nicholas Carnes
RRP: €61.88€59.15Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. The figure is above fifty percent among current Supreme Court justices, all nine of whom graduated from either Harvard or Yale. Millionaires also control Congress, where a... -
Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity by Efren O Perez
RRP: €32.13€31.50For decades now, pundits and political scientists have been pointing to a major demographic change that's underway in the United States. Demographers project that whites will become a minority of the US population and that minority groups will jointly... -
Scotland: A Suitable Case for Treatment by Tom Brown
RRP: €11.89€8.65Symptoms: the initial signs of a problem. Diagnosis: analysis of the problem.Treatment: suggested solutions. Henry McLeish, former First Minister of Scotland and Tom Brown, one of Scotland's leading political commentators, are joined by eminent... -
Worlds Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization by John Clark
RRP: €45.21€39.72Globalization is one of the most politically charged issues of our time. This book aims to bridge the divide between its advocates and its critics, but, rather than trying to find middle ground, the author looks at globalization through the lens of poor... -
The Plain Language Guide to the World Summit on Sustainable Development by Jan McHarry
RRP: €23.79€21.05The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates who mapped out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of... -
Future Generations and International Law Emmanuel Agius 9781853835032
RRP: €45.21€39.72Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustainable lifestyles gathers momentum, the rights of future generations and our responsibility for their... -
Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq by Greg Muttitt
RRP: €34.45€23.50The departure of the last U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 left a broken country and a host of unanswered questions. What was the war really about? Why and how did the occupation drag on for nearly nine years, while most Iraqis, Britons, and... -
The Unelected: How an Unaccountable Elite is Governing America James R. Copland 9781641771207
RRP: €24.98€16.89America is highly polarized around elections, but unelected actors make many of the decisions that affect our lives. In this lucid history, James R. Copland explains how unaccountable agents have taken over much of the U.S. government apparatus.Congress... -
Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil by Kristin N. Wylie
RRP: €36.88€32.61Brazil's quality of democracy remains limited by enduring obstacles including the weakness of parties and underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil theorizes the connections... -
Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American Local Politics by Brian F. Schaffner
RRP: €35.69€30.87Local governments play a central role in American democracy, providing essential services such as policing, water, and sanitation. Moreover, Americans express great confidence in their municipal governments. But is this confidence warranted? Using big... -
The Long War over Party Structure: Democratic Representation and Policy Responsiveness in American Politics by Byron E. Shafer
RRP: €36.88€27.19A long-standing debate in American politics is about the proper structure for political parties and the relative power that should be afforded to party professionals versus issue activists. In this book, Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner draw... -
Activist Origins of Political Ambition: Opposition Candidacy in Africa's Electoral Authoritarian Regimes by Keith Weghorst
RRP: €107.10€96.90Why do people run for office with opposition parties in electoral authoritarian regimes, where the risks of running are high, and the chances of victory are bleak? In Activist Origins of Political Ambition, Keith Weghorst offers a theory that candidacy... -
Budgetary Politics in American Governments by James J. Gosling
RRP: €73.77€63.80This comprehensive book describes and analyzes the substance and politics of public budgeting at the national, state, and local levels of government. In doing so, it takes a comparative approach, illustrating the distinctiveness of budgeting at each... -
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries by Hanspeter Kriesi
RRP: €95.19€86.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108835114Author Hanspeter KriesiFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics by James A. Stimson
RRP: €27.36€23.28Politics is a trial in which those in government - and those who aspire to serve - make proposals, debate alternatives, and pass laws. Then the jury of public opinion decides. It likes the proposals or actions or it does not. It trusts the actors or it... -
European Public Spheres: Politics Is Back by Thomas Risse
RRP: €29.74€25.20The Euro crisis has led to an unprecedented Europeanization and politicization of public spheres across the continent. In this volume, leading scholars make two claims. First, they suggest that transnational crossborder communication in Europe has been... -
Europe's Common Security and Defence Policy: Capacity-Building, Experiential Learning, and Institutional Change by Michael E. Smith
RRP: €94.00€85.17The EU's emergence as an international security provider, under the first Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) operations in the Balkans in 2003, is a critical development in European integration. In this book, which relies on extensive interviews... -
The 2004 Prune Book: Top Management Challenges for Presidential Appointees by John H. Trattner
RRP: €23.79€20.96The 2004 Prune Book serves as a valuable resource for presidential appointees who manage the federal government on a daily basis. Introduced in 1988, Prune Books describe the positions appointees hold and the challenges they face. The books are... -
The New Politics of Public Policy by Marc Karnis Landy
RRP: €29.75€28.49In The New Politics of Public Policy, Marc Landy and Martin Levin bring together a group of leading experts to challenge the view of the Bush-Reagan era as one characterised by policy gridlock. They demonstrate that there were a surprising number of... -
A Union of Diversity: Language, Identity and Polity-Building in Europe by Peter A. Kraus
RRP: €107.10€83.53The European Union's motto 'United in Diversity' contrasts with the cultural standardization entailed in the formation of nation-states and the forging of political identities in Europe. So what does being 'united in diversity' mean? Focusing on language... -
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Donald Alexander Downs
RRP: €95.20€62.82This book addresses a major problem in contemporary American higher education: deprivations of free speech, due process, and other basic civil liberties in the name of favored political causes. Downs begins by analyzing the nature and evolution of the... -
Partisan Bonds: Political Reputations and Legislative Accountability by Jeffrey D. Grynaviski
RRP: €61.88€55.62Political scientists have long painted American voters' dependence on partisan cues at the ballot box as a discouraging consequence of their overall ignorance about politics. Taking on this conventional wisdom, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski advances the... -
Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to Be Done to Get It Right Richard L. Russell 9780521702379
RRP: €29.74€25.20This book critically examines the weaknesses of American intelligence led by the Central Intelligence Agency in informing presidential decision making on issues of war and peace. It evaluates the CIA's strategic intelligence performance during the Cold... -
Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit by Reuel R. Rogers
RRP: €36.88€31.45This book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City to answer a familiar, but nagging question about American democracy. Does racism still complicate or limit the political integration patterns of racial minorities in... -
Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism by Thad Kousser
RRP: €30.93€26.17The wisdom of term limits and professional politics has been debated since the time of Aristotle, spurring 'reforms' of legislatures in Athens, Rome, Venice, and in the US under the Articles of Confederation. This book examines recent trends in American... -
The British Electorate, 1963-1992: A Compendium of Data from the British Election Studies by Ivor Crewe
RRP: €49.97€46.34Over the past thirty years a wealth of statistical information about British voters and British elections has been collected by the British Election Studies research teams. The British Electorate, 1963-1992 makes these data available in a standard,... -
The Worlds of European Constitutionalism by Grainne De Burca
RRP: €59.50€54.00The idea of the EU as a constitutional order has recently taken on renewed life, as the Court of Justice declared the primacy of EU law not just over national constitutions but also over the international legal order, including the UN Charter. This book... -
The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880-1896 by Daniel Klinghard
RRP: €72.59€65.02This book investigates the creation of the first truly nationalized party organizations in the United States in the late nineteenth century, an innovation that reversed the parties' traditional privileging of state and local interests in nominating... -
The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism by Gary L. McDowell
RRP: €36.88€31.93For much of its history, the interpretation of the United States Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed by Chief Justice John Marshall to be 'the most sacred... -
The Limits of Judicial Independence by Tom S. Clark
RRP: €32.12€27.19This book investigates the causes and consequences of congressional attacks on the US Supreme Court, arguing that the extent of public support for judicial independence constitutes the practical limit of judicial independence. First, the book presents a... -
Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection by Mallory E Sorelle
RRP: €33.32€32.59As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, "It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five... -
The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders by Michael Mason
RRP: €44.02€39.72The growth of pollution that crosses national borders represents a significant threat to human health and ecological sustainability. Various international agreements exist between countries to reduce risks to their populations, however there is often a... -
Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback by Newt Gingrich
RRP: €16.65€12.08No one understands the "Make America Great Again" effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America Great Again" in 1980. He authored the Contract with... -
Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America by Steven Levitsky
RRP: €55.92€34.25Nearly four decades since the onset of the third wave, political parties remain weak in Latin America: parties have collapsed in much of the region, and most new party-building efforts have failed. Why do some new parties succeed while most fail? This...