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Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations by Hans Slomp 9780275956080
£65.53This text provides an overview and concise introduction to labor relations in Europe. The author seeks to transcend nationalism in labor relations by focusing his discussion and analysis on the continent as a whole and on groups of countries. The... -
European Politics into the Twenty-First Century: Integration and Division by Hans Slomp 9780275968007
£83.24This short and simple introduction to European politics, which includes Western and Eastern Europe as well as Russia, demonstrates how European nations have attempted to cope with division within Europe and in international politics. Highlighting... -
Stability and Change in German Elections: How Electorates Merge, Converge, or Collide by Christopher J. Anderson 9780275962548
£83.64Anderson, Zelle, and their contributors provide in-depth analyses of electoral trends in Germany-the one country in which an electorate that had maintained stable democracy after World War II was enlarged by compatriots who had experienced decades of... -
Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society, 5th Edition by Riordan Roett 9780275958992
£83.24Brazil, occupying nearly 50 percent of the South American continent, has the largest economy and is a major political power in Latin America. In this updated and expanded fifth edition of his text, Roett provides a thorough introduction to the dynamics... -
Angola, Mozambique, and the West by Helen Kitchen 9780275928803
£30.71Helen Kitchen has drawn on the expertise of a trio of respected U.S., British, and West German analysts to assist in what she does best--explaining the diversity and complexity of African political dynamics. As this book ably demonstrates, U.S. policy... -
The Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo 9780275960872
£65.53Lumumba-Kasongo examines those forces that contributed to the fate of multiparty democracy in Africa. The forces include the state, political parties, ethnicity, nationalism, religion, underdevelopment, and the global market. Multipartyism in Africa is... -
The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe by Andrew A. Michta 9780275944063
£83.64This timely book surveys political change in postcommunist Europe. It concentrates on the western periphery of the former Soviet empire and covers the countries of four regions: East Central Europe (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary); the... -
The Gatekeepers: Comparative Immigration Policy by Michael C. LeMay 9780275930790
£83.24The Gatekeepers examines the politics and policy of immigration in six countries: the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, and Venezuela. Each chapter is authored by a noted specialist who analyzes his or her country's experience by... -
Democracy, Ethnic Diversity, and Security in Post-Communist Europe by Anita Inder Singh 9780275972585
£83.24Inder Singh examines why international organizations including the UN, OSCE, and Council of Europe advocated democratic governance, based on the rule of law and respect for human and minority rights, as the method by which states should try to... -
Democracy at Work: A Comparative Sociology of Environmental Regulation in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States by Richard Munch 9780275968403
£83.64Munch and his colleagues examine how democracy works in the practice of political regulation. Based on empirical research on the politics of clean air in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States, they provide a comparative sociological... -
Canada and the Crisis in Central America by Jonathan Lemco 9780275937188
£83.24Written from the balanced perspective of a Canadian scholar living and working in the United States, this book presents the first scholarly investigation of Canadian policy interests in Central America. Jonathan Lemco examines Canada's sizable interest... -
Cuba and the Future by Donald E. Schultz 9780313287848
£83.24In Cuba and the Future, nine leading Cubanologists analyze the causes, nature, and scope of the Cuban crisis and assess the prospects for the future. They suggest that in spite of the severity of the crisis--which Castro himself calls the worst in the... -
The Collapse of East German Communism: The Year the Wall Came Down, 1989 by David M. Keithly 9780275942618
£83.24This book focuses on a key aspect of the German question--the problem of German national identity and communist ideology in their historical perspective since 1945 and their immediate clash in the downfall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989... -
Hubris: A Brief Political History of the Nigerian Army by Akintunde a Akinkunmi 9780998479644
RRP: £31.95£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998479644Author Akintunde a AkinkunmiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Amv Publishing ServicesPublisher Amv Publishing ServicesWeight(grams) 152g -
The Joys of Psychopathocracy: Why Criminality Is Essential To Effective Modern Government, Our Rebirth In The Wake of Their Destruction of Our World by Greg Caton 9780939955015
RRP: £11.75£10.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939955015Author Greg CatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Herbologics, Ltd.Publisher Herbologics, Ltd.Weight(grams) 544g -
Democracy: A Reader by Larry Diamond 9780801893780
£31.23Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A Reader brings together the seminal works that have... -
Palestinians Between Israel and Jordan: Squaring the Triangle by Raphael Israeli 9780275939380
£83.24Positing that the Palestinians are a unit mainly triangled between Israel, the Territories, and Jordan, and that the territory in dispute encompasses the whole of British Mandate Palestine, Raphael Israeli gives an overview of the roots and historical... -
Whiteness In Puerto Rico: Translation at a Loss by Guillermo Rebollo Gil 9780755635504
RRP: £85.00£84.96Using autoethnography to examine the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico. Guillermo Rebollo Gil draws from artistic, activist and popular culture registers to examine the multifarious yet often subtle ways race privilege shapes and informs... -
The Brazilian Legislature and Political System by Abdo I. Baaklini 9780313284502
£83.24The Brazilian experience is a pace setter in the transition from an authoritarian regime to the establishment of stable and democratically responsible political institutions. This insightful analysis, based on decades of field work, is the very first of... -
Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post-War Philippines by Mina Roces 9780275960063
£83.64Politics in the Philippines is not male-dominated, but gendered. This book examines how women hold power unofficially through their kinship ties with male politicians. Examining the perspectives of local concepts of power, the author explores gender and... -
Presidents of Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and Hispaniola: Conversations and Correspondence by Robert J. Alexander 9780275952785
£83.24This book consists of notes of conversations by one of America's leading Latin Americanists, as well as his correspondence with more than two dozen presidents of the Central American republics, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. In some... -
Securing the Covenant: United States-Israel Relations After the Cold War by Bernard Reich 9780275951214
£30.71Since its independence in 1948, Israel has enjoyed a special relationship with the United States, as successive administrations have reaffirmed America's unshakable commitment to Israel's security. This study reexamines this relationship now that the... -
The CMEA in Crisis: Toward a New European Order? by Vlad Sobell 9780275937300
£65.53This book identifies the essential features of the Soviet bloc's economic nexus: the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), and Gorbachev's reforms. It describes the impact of reforms on the CMEA and speculates on this organization's future. The... -
Political Forces in Argentina, 3rd Edition by Luigi Manzetti 9780275933845
£83.24This is a revised and updated edition of Snow's classic study of Argentine politics. The work is a description and analysis of the role played by Argentina's major political actors: the political parties, the armed forces, labor unions, the Catholic... -
The Deadly Sin of Terrorism: Its Effect on Democracy and Civil Liberty in Six Countries by David A. Charters 9780313289644
£83.64This comparative study of terrorism and counter-measures and their effect upon democratic practices and traditions is published under the auspices of the University of New Brunswick Centre for Conflict Studies in Canada. David A. Charters, Editor, has... -
Index to International Public Opinion, 1989-1990 by Elizabeth Hann Hastings 9780313275838
£85.64This twelfth volume in a distinguished series represents a selection of the more significant data from the thousands of public opinion surveys conducted annually worldwide. The assembled data deal with a global range of current and continuing issues and... -
Out of Russian Orbit; Hungary Gravitates to the West by Andrew Felkay 9780313296024
£65.53Freed from over forty years of Soviet domination, Hungary finally was given a chance to determine its own destiny in the last decade of the twentieth century. This book takes the reader through the complex period of Hungary's transformation from a Soviet... -
Conflicts in and Around Russia: Nation-Building in Difficult Times by Victor Kremenyuk 9780313289439
£65.53In this important work, Russian scholar Kremenyuk examines the state of political affairs in the former Soviet Union. As Russia moves fitfully toward democracy and away from its totalitarian past, sharp divisions--contemporary and historical--have... -
The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism: Politics, Labor, and Culture by Gerald Meyer 9780275978914
£83.64Radicalism had a powerful but largely unacknowledged influence in the Italian-American community. This study brings together 16 selections that restore to Italian-American history the radical experience that has long remained suppressed, but that... -
Securing the Covenant: United States-Israel Relations After the Cold War by Bernard Reich 9780313295409
£65.53Since its independence in 1948, Israel has enjoyed a special relationship with the United States, as successive administrations have reaffirmed America's unshakable commitment to Israel's security. This study reexamines this relationship now that the... -
The ABC Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile by Robert J. Alexander 9780275941109
£83.64Robert Alexander, a long-time observer of Latin American politics and economics, has been an active correspondent with the key figures of the region for decades. In this volume, he provides interview transcripts and letters from nearly a score of the... -
The New Argentine Democracy: The Search for a Successful Formula by Edward C. Epstein 9780275939199
£83.64This volume brings together ten experts on Latin America to evaluate Argentina's newly restored democracy. Specifically, they examine the success of economic and political programs implemented since the end of 1983 by the freely elected Alfonsin and... -
The West and Eastern Europe: Economic Statecraft and Political Change by Thomas A. Baylis 9780275946760
£83.64An expert on East European politics and economics analyzes and evaluates Western policies toward the new East European democracies as they struggle to build stable political orders and functioning market economies. He argues that the West must give... -
Hungarian Foreign Policy: The Experience of a New Democracy by Joseph C. Kun 9780275945565
£65.53This concise volume outlines developments in Hungarian foreign policy since the end of the Communist regime and the formation of the country's democratic coalition. After briefly reviewing Hungary's foreign relations between the wars, the Stalinist... -
Perestroika: A Comparative Perspective by Avraham Shama 9780275940386
£65.53The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have begun an unprecedented process of rapid change in their political, economic, and social characters. Using a unique comparative perspective, this volume brings together leading scholars from the United... -
Czechoslovakia: Charter 77's Decade of Dissent by Janusz Bugajski 9780275927691
£65.93This work by Janusz Bugajski should be considered mandatory reading for any student of Eastern Europe. The anatomy of the dissident movement of Czechoslovakia--its scope activities, affiliations at home and abroad--has been well documented and presented... -
Democracy in Latin America: Visions and Realities by Susanne Jonas 9780897891646
£39.49Recent events throughout Latin America have placed issues of democracy on centerstage. Collected here for the first time are articles that evaluate different models of democracy, challenging the realities and myths of the practice of democracy in various... -
Changing Rules of Delegation: A Contest for Power in Comitology by Adrienne Heritier 9780199653621
RRP: £100.00£71.06With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out all aspects of this decision in... -
Regulating the Risk of Unemployment: National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe by Jochen Clasen 9780199592296
RRP: £112.50£80.32Regulating 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... -
Varieties of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages by Jie Lu 9780199378746
RRP: £92.00£73.68It is well understood that "good institutions" are essential for good governance. But even institutions that follow similar designs vary significantly with regard to performance across countries and even across regions within the same country...