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Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media by Martha Joynt Kumar
RRP: £26.50£23.29The media have become principal actors on the American political scene. Politicians and their press secretaries release news items with one eye on the event and the other on the millions of voters who depend on the White House press corps to keep them... -
The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism by Yoav Fromer
£58.26In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white, working-class voters of Middle America. For answers about... -
The American Public Mind: The Issues Structure of Mass Politics in the Postwar United States by William J. M. Claggett
RRP: £46.00£41.47What is the real nature of substantive conflict in mass politics during the postwar years in the United States? How is it reflected in the American public mind? And how does this issue structure shape electoral conflict? William J. M. Claggett and Byron... -
Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise by Andrew Rich
RRP: £30.99£28.28While the number of think tanks active in American politics has more than quadrupled since the 1970s, their influence has not expanded proportionally. Instead, the known ideological proclivities of many, especially newer think tanks with their aggressive... -
Governing and Governance in France by Alistair Cole
RRP: £25.99£21.99As a leading European nation with a particular state tradition and historical legacy, France has long fascinated foreign observers. In recent decades, the 'orthodox model' of French politics and policy-making has been challenged by powerful forces of... -
Strategy on the United States Supreme Court by Saul Brenner
RRP: £37.00£33.56To what extent do the justices on the Supreme Court behave strategically? In Strategy on the United States Supreme Court, Saul Brenner and Joseph M. Whitmeyer investigate the answers to this question and reveal that justices are substantially less... -
Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 by Julie Greene
RRP: £58.00£52.41Scholarship on American labor politics has been dominated by the view that the American Federation of Labor, the dominant labor organization, rejected political action in favor of economic strategies. Based upon extensive research into labor and... -
News Frames and National Security: Covering Big Brother by Douglas M. McLeod
RRP: £23.99£20.37Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M... -
The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change by Joseph E. Luders
RRP: £47.00£42.35Social movements have wrought dramatic changes upon American society. This raises the question: Why do some movements succeed in their endeavors while others fail? Luders answers this question by introducing an analytical framework that begins with a... -
Discount Voting: Voter Registration Reforms and their Effects by Michael J. Hanmer
RRP: £61.00£55.04In the US, there is wide variation from state to state in the institutional arrangements - for example, registration laws - that structure the environment in which citizens decide whether to vote and parties decide whom to mobilize. This has important... -
The American Political System by Ken Kollman
£77.01Unlike texts that overwhelm with irrelevant details, Kollman gives students a simple framework, consistently applied: politics is about collective dilemmas and the institutions that solve them. How can 535 members of Congress get anything done? The... -
Transformative Law and Public Policy by Sony Pellissery
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the convergence of law and public policy. Drawing on case studies from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, it examines how judicial and political institutions are closely linked to the socio-economic concerns of the citizens... -
Civil Society and the Aid Industry by Alison Van Rooy
RRP: £135.00£117.28'This book is valuable for and beyond the international development industry. It deftly leads a non-specialist through the maze of ideas and arguments plaguing the concept of civil society, and critically examines how and what happens, when the... -
Securing American Elections: How Data-Driven Election Monitoring Can Improve Our Democracy by R. Michael Alvarez
RRP: £17.00£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108744928Author R. Michael AlvarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action by John D. Clark
RRP: £135.00£117.28'Informative and useful.' Development and Change Until recently, most civil society organizations (CSOs) operated at national or local levels. However, new global organizations and networks are increasingly emerging. This book examines what CSOs can... -
Multi-stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability: Beyond Deadlock and Conflict by Minu Hemmati
RRP: £41.99£36.75Governments, business, international bodies and local groups are turning to multi-stakeholder processes to find practical ways forward. This book explains how MSPs can be organized to deliver their potential for successful resolution of complex issues... -
World Directory of Environmental Organizations by Thaddeus C. Trzyna
RRP: £120.00£104.01A reference and sourcebook to the organizations involved in environmental and resource conservation in all parts of the world and to their activities. It describes over 2000 organizations and programmes in over 200 countries, providing access to sources... -
Globalism, Localism and Identity: New Perspectives on the Transition of Sustainability by Tim O'Riordan
RRP: £86.99£75.54Global economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere. However, their influence is shaped by local communities' interpretation of these forces and responses to them. Social identities provide a guide; they are the product of history,... -
Managing the Planet: The politics of the new millennium by Norman Moss
RRP: £86.99£75.54We are at a watershed of history. The human race is now so numerous and its technological power so great that we are having an unprecedented impact on the biosphere, the entire planet. The need to control this impact is giving rise to a new kind of... -
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice: Shaping Institutions for Learning by Mans Nilsson
RRP: £43.99£38.44Environmental values and concerns are meant to be reflected through environmental policy, which is then integrated into mainstream economic and social policy that serves to govern society and the economy in different sectors. Yet effective environmental... -
Politics and the Environment: Risk and the Role of Government and Industry by Michael Howes
RRP: £37.99£33.38'An evenhanded, realistic and thoughtful approach to identifying environmental problems and management goals' Stephen Zavestoski, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco '...a theoretically advanced yet... -
Resolving Environmental Disputes: From Conflict to Consensus by Roger Sidaway
RRP: £135.00£117.68Resolving Environmental Disputes presents detailed case studies from the key contemporary themes in resource management and environmental protection, such as: access to the countryside for recreation, sustainable forestry, pollution and risks to health,... -
Dear America by Graham Allen
RRP: £25.00£14.35Graham Allen, a U.S. Army veteran and a rising star in the conservative movement, makes the case that the United States should look to the country as it was on September 12th, 2001 for lessons about our future. On the day after the World Trade Center was... -
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
RRP: £19.00£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Goldsmiths Book Prize 2019. Short-listed for Lionel Gelber Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781524762940Author Steven LevitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War by Nathan P. Kalmoe
RRP: £95.00£75.11What happens when partisanship is pushed to its extreme? In With Ballots and Bullets, Nathan P. Kalmoe combines historical and political science approaches to provide new insight into the American Civil War and deepen contemporary understandings of mass... -
Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil by Matthew M. Taylor
RRP: £36.99£25.45Brazil features regularly in global comparisons of large developing economies. Yet since the 1980s, the country has been caught in a low-level equilibrium, marked by lackluster growth and destructive inequality. One cause is the country's enduring... -
The United States in Crisis: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State by Edward J. Erler
RRP: £19.99£11.67The United States in Crisis: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State argues that to preserve our freedom Americans must mount a defense of the nation state against the progressive forces who advocate for global government. The Founders of America... -
The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America by Gustavo A. Flores-Macias
RRP: £30.99£22.85Paying taxes is one of the least popular activities worldwide. Latin America in particular is notorious for having low direct taxes, weak compliance and enforcement, and high levels of inequality. Although fiscal extraction has gained renewed interest... -
Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress by Patrick Sellers
RRP: £22.99£20.66How do politicians try to shape their news coverage? Sellers examines strategic communication campaigns in the U.S. Congress. He argues that these campaigns create cycles of spin: leaders create messages, rank-and-file legislators decide whether to... -
Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't) by Charles R. Shipan
RRP: £17.00£14.72Building on a deep theoretical foundation and drawing on numerous examples, we examine how policies spread across the American states. We argue that for good policies to spread while bad policies are pushed aside, states must learn from one another. The... -
The Post-Partisans: Anti-Partisans, Anti-Establishment Identifiers, and Apartisans in Latin America by Carlos Melendez
RRP: £17.00£14.72Where party identification is in decay or in flux, alternative political identifications have gained centrality. In this Element, the author develops a typology of post-partisan political identities: alternative ways in which rejection of or the absence... -
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania by Kathy Dodworth
RRP: £75.00£67.74Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In this book, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial... -
Cycles and Social Choice: The True and Unabridged Story of a Most Protean Paradox by Thomas Schwartz
RRP: £90.00£79.05The centuries-old paradox of voting is that majorities sometimes prefer x to y, y to z, and z to x - a cycle. The discovery of the sources and consequences of such cycles, under majority rule and countless other regimes, constitutes much of the... -
Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics by Patrick J. Egan
RRP: £75.00£61.57Americans consistently name Republicans as the party better at handling issues like national security and crime, while they trust Democrats on issues like education and the environment - a phenomenon called 'issue ownership'. Partisan Priorities... -
Courts in Latin America by Gretchen Helmke
RRP: £105.00£82.41To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil,... -
Vanishing Borders: Protecting the planet in the age of globalization by Hilary French
RRP: £32.99£29.16The world is shrinking faster than ever. Goods, money, microbes, pollution, people and ideas are crossing boundaries ever more frequently. The implications for our future and for the health of the planet are profound. Vanishing Borders outlines the... -
The President's Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Clinton by Paul Light
RRP: £24.00£21.18In this third edition of THE PRESIDENT'S AGENDA, Paul Light brings his acclaimed study up to date by weighing the successes and failures of the Bush and Clinton presidencies in setting a legislative agenda of domestic issues for Congress. The most... -
The Transformation of the U.S. Senate by Barbara Sinclair
RRP: £25.50£22.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801841101Author Barbara SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)... -
The American Presidency by Clinton Lawrence Rossiter
RRP: £27.50£24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801835452Author Clinton Lawrence RossiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University... -
States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World by Colin H. Kahl
RRP: £35.00£27.74Over the past several decades, civil and ethnic wars have undermined prospects for economic and political development, destabilized entire regions of the globe, and left millions dead. States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World argues...