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After Brexit and Other Essays Andrew Gamble (Politics Department, University of Sheffield) 9781529217100
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €24.26'Being more like America again and less like Europe is the heart of the UK model of capitalism ... [but] there are many respects in which Britain remains unlike America despite its strong appeal to the British political class ...' In 'After Brexit'... -
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor 9780061708763
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061708763Author Richard McGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy by Loch K. Johnson
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.61Loch Johnson's new book explores the subject of covert action, often referred to as a "Third Option" between America's use of diplomacy and warfare---a shadowy approach to international affairs based on the controversial use of secret propaganda,... -
Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool?: Success, decline, and irrelevance since 1945 by David Jeffery
Booksplease Price: €49.96An Open Access edition of this book, supported by the LUP OA author fund, is available on the Liverpool University Press website, the OAPEN library and our Digital Collaboration Hub. In the 1968 local elections the Liverpool Conservatives won 62 percent... -
The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It by Julia Cage
RRP: €38.02Booksplease Price: €31.62Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it.One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power... -
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism by Steffen Hertog 9781009045575
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009045575Author Steffen HertogFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics by 9781009219846
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €25.48Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on... -
China Horizon, The: Glory And Dream Of A Civilizational State by Weiwei Zhang
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.13This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best-known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's 'China Trilogy', which is a best-seller in China, with over one million copies sold. The book in itself is a... -
Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach by Beth Reingold 9780197759325
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.01It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office... -
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World by Larry Diamond 9780805089134
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805089134Author Larry DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 335g -
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power, and the State of the Country that Voted for Him by Ben Fountain
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.40As Ben Fountain sees it, the United States is facing its third existential crisis. The first was the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War. The second was the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the... -
Political Psychology: A Social Psychological Approach Christopher J. Hewer 9781118929339
RRP: €45.16Booksplease Price: €40.46A research-based guide to political psychology that is filled with critical arguments from noted experts Political Psychology is solidly grounded in empirical research and critical arguments. The text puts the emphasis on alternative approaches to... -
The State, Bureaucracy, and Revolution in Modern Iran: Agrarian Reforms and Regime Politics by Ali Farazmand 9780275928551
Booksplease Price: €99.44Farazmand, a former bureaucrat in the Pahlavi state administration, argues that the latter functioned more to maintain the state and to control society than to provide its population with services and with help for development. In the long run, such a... -
The Woking Dead: How Society's Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture by A.J. Rice
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.55The Woking Dead are everywhere. An army of undead ghouls turning millions into mindless, ravenous devourers of all things good and American.Donald J. Trump was the vaccine America needed. He fought for America against the Deep State and the woke maniacs... -
Analysing Corruption by Dan Hough 9781911116554
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €31.12Repeated corruption scandals and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists and political scientists to confront corruption as a subject for serious academic research... -
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War by Iain Boal 9781844670314
Booksplease Price: €25.69Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the presentits lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. The world careers backward into forms of ideological and... -
Nation of Devils: Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience by Stein Ringen 9780300193190
Booksplease Price: €62.50Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, from... -
Fascism: Essays on Europe and India by Jairus Banaji (Editor) 9789383968121
RRP: €11.48Booksplease Price: €10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383968121Author Jairus Banaji (Editor)Format PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Three Essays CollectivePublisher Three Essays CollectiveWeight(grams)... -
Theories of Political Economy by James A. Caporaso 9780521425780
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €28.42'Political economy' has been the term used for the past 300 years to express the interrelationship between the political and economic affairs of the state. In Theories of Political Economy, first published in 1992, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine... -
Making Sense of the Central African Republic Tatiana Carayannis 9781783603794
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.16Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion... -
Essentials of Comparative Politics by Patrick H. O'Neil 9781324062004
Booksplease Price: €63.82The most accessible and flexible conceptual text Essentials of Comparative Politics is the best-selling book for the course because it provides clear, concise, and contemporary coverage of core concepts in flexible, affordable formats. The Eighth... -
The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change by Andrew Monaghan
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.22From the conflict in Syria to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia continues to dominate the headlines. Yet the political realities of contemporary Russia are poorly understood by Western observers and policy-makers. In this highly engaging book, Andrew... -
Rebels in Government: Is Sinn Fein Ready for Power? by Agnes Maillot
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.40The February 2020 general election in the Republic of Ireland sent shockwaves through the country's political system. Sinn Fein, ahead of all other parties in terms of first preference votes, secured its place as a potential coalition partner, a role it... -
What's Wrong with the British Constitution? by Iain McLean 9780199656455
Booksplease Price: €67.28In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they ought to behave... -
Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order by Daniel Deudney
RRP: €26.76Booksplease Price: €23.99By the last decade of the twentieth century, the great questions of modernity seemed to be answered. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, the liberal democratic capitalist project seemed to be the only one left standing, and in the... -
The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship by Diana T. Kudaibergen 9781009454261
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.92How can a de-institutionalised protest movement disrupt a solidified, repressive and extremely resilient authoritarian regime? Using the context of the Kazakh Spring protests (2019-ongoing), Diana T. Kudaibergen focuses on how the interplay between a... -
Politics in China: An Introduction, 4th Edition William A. Joseph 9780197683217
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €35.22A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to China's political history, contemporary political system, and key policy areas, such as the environment, population management, and public health. Politics in China is an authoritative introduction to... -
Class, State, and Democracy in Jamaica. by Carl Stone 9780275920135
RRP: €78.54Booksplease Price: €74.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275920135Format HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 510g -
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness by Wole Soyinka 9780195134285
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €15.80When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory. Where Open Sore offered a... -
Business and Politics in India by Christophe Jaffrelot
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €28.45Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to... -
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia Dan Slater 9780691231082
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €20.60Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer-and why others haven'tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization-a spectacular record of development... -
The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies by Shane Martin 9780198778493
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €41.80Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social scientists with numerous intriguing puzzles, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of political institutions. Why, and how, have these... -
Dictators and Dictatorships: Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders by Erica Frantz 9781441173966
Booksplease Price: €48.84Dictators and Dictatorships is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian regimes. It argues that political outcomes in dictatorships are largely a product of leader-elite relations. Differences in the internal structure of dictatorships... -
Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies by Alfred Stepan 9780801897238
Booksplease Price: €68.34Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the... -
The Preventative State: The Challenge of Predicting and Preventing Cataclysmic Harms without Granting Too much Power to Government by Alan Dershowitz 9781641774406
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €20.73"You shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book."-Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme CourtIf reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terrorist attack and indicated likely suspects,what... -
The Regime Question: Foundations of Democratic Governance in Europe and the United States by Amel Ahmed 9780691269405
Booksplease Price: €112.00Ongoing struggles over core principles of democratic governanceThe regime question-often boiled down to "democracy or autocracy?"-has been central to democratic politics from the start. This has entailed not only fights over the extent of the franchise... -
Line on Fire: Ceasefire Violations and India-Pakistan Escalation Dynamics by Happymon Jacob 9780199489893
Booksplease Price: €70.19India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed repeated ceasefire violations over the past decade. Indeed, with the new low in the relations between India and Pakistan, ceasefire violations have gone up exponentially. These have the potential... -
Money, Parties, and Democracy: Political Finance Between Fat Cats and Big Government by Matteo Bonotti 9780192857590
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €90.81Democratic politics is expensive. In United States (US) presidential elections, for instance, total spending, including funding by the candidate-supporting political action committees, now exceeds $6.5 billion. Who should bear these costs? Should the... -
The Future of Democracy: Lessons from the Past and Present to Guide Us on Our Path Forward by Steve Zolno 9781587903717
RRP: €18.45Booksplease Price: €13.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587903717Author Steve ZolnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Regent PressPublisher Regent PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Intra-State Conflicts in Southern Africa by Fako Johnson Likoti 9783838344553
Booksplease Price: €78.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838344553Author Fako Johnson LikotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...