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How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa by Yonatan L. Morse
RRP: £36.99£22.85Most autocrats now hold unfair elections, yet how they compete in them and manipulate them differs greatly. How Autocrats Compete advances a theory that explains variation in electoral authoritarian competition. Using case studies of Tanzania, Cameroon,... -
The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation by Roy D. King
RRP: £39.99£35.06Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the... -
Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence by Tom Long
RRP: £24.99£20.94Latin America Confronts the United States offers a new perspective on US-Latin America relations. Drawing on research in six countries, the book examines how Latin American leaders are able to overcome power asymmetries to influence US foreign policy... -
All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins
RRP: £20.99£19.44Who rules America? All the Presidents' Bankers is a ground-breaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.Culled from original presidential... -
Trump's Unfinished Business: 10 Prophecies to Save America by Steve Cioccolanti 9781922273130
RRP: £21.95£19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922273130Author Steve CioccolantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Discover MediaPublisher Discover MediaWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream by Yuval Levin
RRP: £22.99£15.17Americans are living through a social crisis. Populist firebrands - on left and right alike - propose to address the crisis through acts of tearing down. They describe themselves as destroying oppressive establishments, clearing weeds, draining swamps... -
Salafism and Political Order in Africa by Sebastian Elischer
RRP: £30.99£22.85Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent... -
Good Enough for Government Work: The Public Reputation Crisis in America (and What We Can Do to Fix It) by Amy E. Lerman
RRP: £24.00£23.03American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens--Republicans and Democrats alike--hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job... -
Come On, Man!: The Truth About Joe Biden's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Presidency by Joe Concha
RRP: £22.00£14.58NATIONAL BESTSELLEROpen borders, record inflation, and skyrocketing crime-Joe Biden's first term is one of the most craptastic in American history. But on Planet Brandon, it's all going according to plan . . .He received 81 million votes. His party... -
By God and Granite by Kristi Noem
RRP: £30.00£19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm -
Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden by Michael Cox
RRP: £24.99£19.39The defeat of Donald Trump in November 2020 followed by the attack on the US Congress on 6th January 2021 represented a tipping point moment in the history of the American republic. Divided at home and facing a world sceptical of American claims to be... -
Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism since the New Deal by Johnathan O'Neill
RRP: £54.00£47.11An intellectual history of American conservativism since the New Deal.The New Deal fundamentally changed the institutions of American constitutional government and, in turn, the relationship of Americans to their government. Johnathan O'Neill's... -
The Walter Lippmann Reader: A Preface to Politics, Liberty and the News, Public Opinion, The Phantom Public by Walter Lippmann 9781515449560
£23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515449560Author Walter LippmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm)... -
Networks of Champions: Leadership, Access, and Advocacy in the U.S. House of Representatives by Christine A. DeGregorio 9780472086146
£32.46Media accounts of Congress emphasize conflict and the failure of Congress to enact legislation. Rarely do we see accounts of the successful efforts of members of Congress and outside advocacy groups to pass legislation dealing with important and... -
Transhuman Citizen: Zoltan Istvan's Hunt for Immortality Ben Murnane 9781803415284
RRP: £16.99£14.61This is the story of America’s zaniest presidential candidate - who wants to turn the whole population into cyborgs. It's a true story… stranger than fiction. “Don’t stand there!” Zoltan almost stepped on a landmine. He was in Vietnam, reporting for... -
The Accidental Candidate: The Rise and Fall of Alvin Greene by Corey Hutchins 9780786474295
RRP: £10.99£8.94In 2010 a 32-year-old, socially awkward, unemployed African-American Army Veteran, who had been kicked out of the service and was living with his father in the South Carolina countryside while facing federal pornography charges, spent a significant... -
The First American Declaration of Independence?: The Disputed History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775 by Scott Syfert 9780786475599
RRP: £21.99£17.97This is a comprehensive history of one of the greatest historical mysteries in American history--did Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, declare independence from Great Britain more than a year before anyone else? According to local legend, on May 20,... -
Home Front by Rick Anderson 9780932863416
RRP: £10.99£9.59For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill, and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? in crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed... -
The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics by Daniel Schlozman 9780691248554
RRP: £30.00£21.42A major history of America's political parties from the Founding to our embittered presentAmerica’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow... -
Political Science: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide by Jeffrey Morton 9781423238775
RRP: £6.00£4.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423238775Author Jeffrey MortonPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, Inc -
Bring Back the Bureaucrats: Why More Federal Workers Will Lead to Better (and Smaller!) Government by John DiIulio 9781599474670
RRP: £13.99£10.30In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, John J. DiIulio Jr., one of America’s most respected political scientists and an adviser to presidents in both parties, summons the facts and statistics to show us how America’s big government works and why reforms that... -
A Government as Good as Its People by Jimmy Carter 9781557283986
RRP: £28.95£17.51A Government as Good as Its People presents sixty-two of the best and most notable public statements made by Jimmy Carter on his way to becoming president of the United States. Carter’s public pronouncements address all the major concerns of our time and... -
Understanding American Politics by Stephen Brooks 9781487542559
£67.07Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing the study of American politics within a broader context of other western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea... -
The Case for Decentralized Federalism by Ruth Hubbard 9780776607450
RRP: £11.99£9.70The Case for Decentralized Federalism and its sister volume The Case for Centralized Federalism are the outcome of the Federalism Redux Project, created to stimulate a serious and useful conversation on federalism in Canada. They provide the vocabulary... -
The Case for Centralized Federalism by Gordon DiGiacomo 9780776607443
RRP: £11.99£9.70The Case for Centralized Federalism and its sister volume The Case for Decentralized Federalism are the outcome of the Federalism Redux Project, created to stimulate a serious and useful conversation on federalism in Canada. They provide the vocabulary... -
Gomery's Blinders and Canadian Federalism by Ruth Hubbard 9780776606415
RRP: £10.99£8.94In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively small investment of taxpayers' money to try to convince Quebeckers of the benefits of Canadian federalism... -
Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems: Sub-national Perspectives by Michael Burgess 9780773539549
RRP: £91.00£71.12Providing a comprehensive view of the constitutional architecture of federations, contributors address change and development in federal states from the standpoint of constitutional revision and reform. Oftentimes change comes from the constituent units... -
The Politics of Millennials: Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences of America's Most Diverse Generation by Stella M. Rouse 9780472131075
RRP: £69.00£56.18Today the Millennial generation, the cohort born from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, is the largest generation in the United States. It exceeds one-quarter of the population and is the most diverse generation in U.S. history. Millennials grew up... -
The Political Consequences of Motherhood by Jill S. Greenlee 9780472119295
RRP: £77.00£62.88From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as "mothers" to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor laws to the general call to arms of "mama grizzlies" issued by Sarah Palin in... -
School Choice and the Future of American Democracy by Scott Franklin Abernathy 9780472099016
RRP: £77.00£62.88Exposes deep contradictions in the polities of American educational reform Much of the debate over school choice has focused on how voucher systems and charter schools affect the quality of public education. But should American education really be... -
School Choice and the Future of American Democracy by Scott Franklin Abernathy 9780472069019
RRP: £26.95£21.81Exposes deep contradictions in the polities of American educational reform Much of the debate over school choice has focused on how voucher systems and charter schools affect the quality of public education. But should American education really be... -
The Unsustainable American State by Lawrence Jacobs 9780195392135
£57.09The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, the evolution of the American state has not proceeded apace. The crisis exposed the system's manifold... -
The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography by Jr. Gatewood 9781557283313
RRP: £51.00£44.78Updated to include a biography of the three latest governors, one of whom is United States president Bill Clinton, this new edition includes fascinating individual profiles of the state's forty-three consecutive leaders since 1836. From Conway to Tucker,... -
The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America by Michael J. Graetz 9780691225548
RRP: £25.00£19.10How the antitax fringe went mainstream—and now threatens America’s futureThe postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards—and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared... -
Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change it? by Richard B. Bernstein 9780700607150
RRP: £32.95£27.19Even as we marvel at the grandeur of our constitutional system, we can't resist tinkering with it. Amending America tells the dramatic story of how, over the past 206 years, the American people have reshaped the Constitution to meet the country's... -
Leadership in American Politics by Jeffery A. Jenkins 9780700625147
RRP: £59.00£48.25In the polarized governing environment of American politics today, the problem of leadership becomes ever more pressing and ever more vexed. What defines leadership, what determines its importance and effectiveness, and how does it differ from one sphere... -
Whatever Happened to Party Government?: Controversies in American Political Science by Mark Wickham-Jones 9780472130887
RRP: £81.00£66.48In 1950, the Committee on Political Parties of the American Political Science Association (APSA) published its much-anticipated report, Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System. Highly critical of the existing state of affairs, the report became... -
Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes by Pete Hegseth 9780063046542
RRP: £25.00£19.25A New York Times bestseller.From FOX & Friends Weekend cohost Pete Hegseth comes a collection of inspiring stories from fifteen of America's greatest heroes-highly decorated Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, marines, Purple Heart recipients, combat pilots, a... -
Bushwomen: How They Won the White House for Their Man by Laura Flanders 9781844675302
RRP: £10.00£6.65The Right has been using culture wars to divide and conquer for years, but in 2004, that strategy was given a new twist. In an election where women's votes were key, the Bush team used highly placed female appointees to run cover for the most reactionary... -
Narratives of Justice: Legislators' Beliefs About Distributive Fairness by Grant Reeher 9780472066209
£40.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472066209Author Grant ReeherFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press