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Burdens of Freedom: Cultural Difference and American Power by Lawrence Mead 9781641770408
RRP: $38.98$27.22Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was... -
The Politics of Englishness Arthur Aughey 9780719068737
RRP: $38.98$28.31The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the... -
Why the Left Loses: The Decline of the Centre-Left in Comparative Perspective by Rob Manwaring 9781447332695
RRP: $54.58$42.06Social Democracy is on the back-foot, and increasingly centre-left political parties are struggling to win office. Bringing together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy, Why the left loses offers an... -
Rethinking Right-Wing Women: Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the Present by Clarisse Berthezene
RRP: $175.50$125.62Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to... -
Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism by Daniel Ziblatt 9780691136493
RRP: $68.25$54.09Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates. Often regarded as Europe's paradigmatic instances of failed modernization, the two countries form the basis of many of our most prized theories of social... -
Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril by Paul Aarts
RRP: $29.23$26.60The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be... -
Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies by Jennifer Bussell 9780190945404
RRP: $54.58$43.62Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in "patronage democracies" also provide substantial constituency service: non-contingent,... -
Good Government in the Tropics by Judith Tendler
$57.27In Good Government in the Tropics, Judith Tendler questions widely prevailing views about why governments so often perform poorly and about what causes them to improve. Drawing on a set of four cases involving public bureaucracies at work under the... -
Civil-Military Relations and Democracy by Larry Diamond
RRP: $46.80$41.30How will civil-military relations affect efforts to consolidate new democracies in developing and postcommunist countries? How should democratic governments go about establishing civilian control of the armed forces? This volume brings together ten... -
Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy by Larry Diamond 9781421405681
RRP: $48.75$42.96The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor's... -
Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America by Kenneth P. Miller
RRP: $74.08$63.51Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America. As the nation has polarized, its most populous and economically powerful states have taken charge of the opposing camps. These states now advance sharply contrasting political and policy... -
Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance by Theda Skocpol 9780190083533
RRP: $56.53$37.13The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and gained office backed by Congresses controlled by their own parties, their elections kick-started massive... -
Yemen's Road to War Saddam Abdulkarim Obaid 9781649799418
RRP: $29.23$22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649799418Author Saddam Abdulkarim ObaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC -
Understanding British and European Political Issues by Neil McNaughton
RRP: $38.98$26.23This new edition will be essential reading for all students studying politics at A2 level, as it covers the important issues as required by the main examining boards, and has been specifically tailored to the brand new Edexcel Route A specification... -
Regulating Lobbying: A Global Comparison, 2nd Edition by Raj Chari 9781526117250
RRP: $48.75$34.30Governments worldwide are developing sunshine policies that increase transparency in politics, where a key initiative is regulating lobbyists. Building on the pioneering first edition, this book updates its examination of all jurisdictions with... -
Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions by Dov H. Levin
RRP: $52.63$38.98Why do world powers sometimes try to determine who wins an election in another country? What effects does such meddling have on the targeted elections results? Great powers have attempted for centuries to intervene in elections occurring in other states... -
Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent by Deborah Brautigam 9780521716192
RRP: $60.43$55.15There is a widespread concern that, in some parts of the world, governments are unable to exercise effective authority. When governments fail, more sinister forces thrive: warlords, arms smugglers, narcotics enterprises, kidnap gangs, terrorist networks,... -
Habermas and European Integration: With a New Preface by Shivdeep Grewal
RRP: $48.75$42.96German philosopher Jurgen Habermas has written extensively on the European Union. This is the only in-depth account of his project. Published now in paperback to coincide with the celebration of his ninetieth birthday, a new preface considers Habermas's... -
Ireland and the European Union: Economic, Political and Social Crises by Michael Holmes
RRP: $48.75$34.94This book examines how Ireland's relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The financial crisis, the Brexit crisis and the migration crisis were not of equal significance on the... -
Blaming Europe?: Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union by Sara Binzer Hobolt 9780199665686
RRP: $214.50$193.85A key component of democratic accountability is that citizens understand 'who is to blame'. Nonetheless, little is known about how citizens attribute responsibility in the European Union or how those perceptions of responsibility matter. This book... -
Scottish Local Government by Allan McConnell 9780748620050
RRP: $60.45$55.95This book fills an important gap in our understanding of Scottish local government in the dynamic new context of the Scottish Parliament. It provides academics, students, practitioners, journalists and others with a broad-ranging yet detailed account,... -
The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten
RRP: $52.65$51.62The politics of inclusion is about more than hate, exclusion, and discrimination. It is a window into the moral character of contemporary liberal democracies. The Struggle for Inclusion introduces a new method to the study of public opinion: to probe,... -
Debt Games: Strategic Interaction in International Debt Rescheduling by Vinod K. Aggarwal 9780521555524
RRP: $85.78$74.00International debt rescheduling, both in earlier epochs and our present one, has been marked by a flurry of bargaining. In this process, significant variation has emerged over time and across cases in the extent to which debtors have undertaken economic... -
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Southern Europe Guillermo O'Donnell 9780801831904
RRP: $53.63$52.51An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in southern Europe and Latin America. They provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to... -
Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin 9780226323343
RRP: $62.40$60.66In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of 'Islamic law.' She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law... -
The Spirit of Roman Law by Alan Watson 9780820330617
$60.12This book is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, says Alan Watson, but about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those who made the law. The scope of Watson's concerns encompasses the period from the Twelve Tables, around 451 B... -
Regulating the Risk of Unemployment: National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe by Jochen Clasen 9780199676934
RRP: $89.68$72.42Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in... -
Topologies of Power: Beyond territory and networks by John Allen
RRP: $85.78$74.96Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that power and space have been understood. It calls into question the very idea that power is simply extended across a given territory or network, and argues that power today has a new found... -
Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis by Takis S. Pappas 9780198837886
$200.62Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical regions: Europe, Latin America and the United States. Based on the detailed... -
British Politics Today: Essentials Bill Jones 9780719079399
RRP: $58.50$41.55Short, yet comprehensive. Completely up to date. Great value for money textbook by two established scholars .About the AuthorBill Jones is Research Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester. Dennis Kavanagh is Professor of... -
What Happened to the Vital Center?: Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America by Nicholas Jacobs
RRP: $47.76$40.52Taking the reader through a long view of American history, What Happened to the Vital Center? offers a novel and important contribution to the ongoing scholarly and popular discussion of how America fell apart and what might be done to end the Cold Civil... -
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland by Paul Carmichael 9780719073885
RRP: $175.50$154.46This edited book, written by a collection of scholars with an interest in Northern Ireland, tracks its uneasy experience with devolution following the optimistic political period associated with the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. The volume brings... -
Politics Latin America Gavin O'Toole 9781138245020
RRP: $134.53$131.20Politics Latin America examines the role of Latin America in the world and its importance to the study of politics with particular emphasis on the institutions and processes that exist to guarantee democracy and the forces that threaten to compromise it... -
Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History by Andrew Wolpert 9780872209275
RRP: $35.08$29.07"[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, are new for this volume. . . . "Each of the introductions to the individual speeches is accompanied by... -
Irish Nationalism and European Integration: The Official Redefinition of the Island of Ireland by Katy Hayward 9780719072796
RRP: $38.98$34.75How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland?... -
Contentious Compliance: Dissent and Repression under International Human Rights Law by Courtenay R. Conrad 9780190910983
$61.87Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations and violating rights? In Contentious Compliance, Courtenay R. Conrad and Emily Hencken Ritter present a new theory of human rights treaty effects founded on... -
How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America by Nina M. Yancy
RRP: $47.76$40.52In 2019, a group of Louisianans voted to create a new city in part of the Baton Rouge area. The effort drew attention not only because the decision would create a disproportionately White and wealthy city, but also because it would leave the area's... -
Envy in Politics by Gwyneth H. McClendon 9780691204116
RRP: $42.90$33.85How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to... -
Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance: A Comparative and Global Approach by Alec Stone Sweet 9780198841401
RRP: $65.31$58.79In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their... -
The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Six Democracies by J. Christopher Soper 9781442250437
RRP: $72.15$66.83In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and...