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The Routledge Handbook to Referendums and Direct Democracy by Laurence Morel
RRP: £43.99£38.44Over the last 30 years referendums have played an increasingly important role in determining government policy. Recent high profile referendums in Scotland, Catalonia and Ukraine have continued the movement towards independence referendums following... -
The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality by Justin Gest 9780190632557
RRP: £32.49£23.44It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United... -
Dramas at Westminster: Select Committees and the Quest for Accountability by Marc Geddes 9781526160423
RRP: £25.00£21.79Drawing on three months of research in Westminster, and over forty-five interviews, this book focuses on the everyday practices of Members of Parliament and officials to reveal how parliamentarians perform their scrutiny roles. Some MPs become... -
Remaking Global Order: The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and its Implications for East Asia and the United States by Nicola Casarini 9780199560073
RRP: £98.00£82.13Relations between the European Union and China have grown at a sustained pace across the board in recent times, transforming the relationship from one of previous neglect into a matter of global strategic significance. This book offers an examination of... -
Power in Service: An Introduction to Christian Political Thought by Willem J Ouweneel 9780888152602
RRP: £19.99£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888152602Author Willem J OuweneelFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Paideia PressPublisher Paideia PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Delegated Governance and the British State: Walking without Order by Matthew Flinders 9780199271603
RRP: £137.50£118.90The delegation of functions and responsibilities to quasi-autonomous bodies operating with a significant degree of autonomy arguably empowers governments to address a wide range of social issues simultaneously without having to be involved with the... -
Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe by Peter Baldwin
RRP: £22.99£19.96COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons... -
Intifada: Palestine at the Crossroads by Roger Heacock 9780275934118
£83.64The theme is the struggle for Palestinian national liberation from `colonial' rule, of which the uprising since December 1987 is seen as the latest and most powerful phase. Most of the contributors are professionals in the occupied territories (in... -
The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen 9780190908867
RRP: £20.99£17.94More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies. In The Power of Platforms, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah... -
Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations by Nina Hachigian 9780199973880
RRP: £33.99£21.89America and China are the two most powerful players in global affairs, and no relationship is more consequential. How they choose to cooperate and compete affects billions of lives. But U.S.-China relations are complex and often delicate, featuring a... -
The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy 9780312293130
RRP: £59.99£39.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312293130Author Peter HennessyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm)... -
Strategic Taxation: Fiscal Capacity and Accountability in African States by Lucy E. S. Martin
RRP: £19.99£17.13Across the developing world, governments still lack the fiscal capacity to fund critical public goods, alleviate poverty, and invest in economic development. Yet, we know little about how to effectively build strong states in these settings. This book... -
Humanitarian Extractivism: The Digital Transformation of Aid by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik 9781526173355
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians.Digital initiatives aimed towards 'fixing'... -
Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool?: Success, decline, and irrelevance since 1945 by David Jeffery
£113.23An 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... -
Qatar: The Practice of Rented Power by Diana Galeeva 9781032215822
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explains the parameters of Qatar's political growth by developing an alternative theory of power - 'rented' power.The author demonstrates how Qatar's emergence as a regional power can be solely explained by its capacity as a gas-rich rentier... -
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism by Steffen Hertog 9781009045575
RRP: £17.00£14.72Apologies 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 -
Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds by Jack Corbett
RRP: £96.00£77.71Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand the history of this form of regime: why it has thrives and fails. But,... -
Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups Among the Smaller European Nations by Miroslav Hroch
RRP: £25.00£19.59This classic work on nationalism, originally published thirty years ago and now reissued with a new preface by the author, provides excellent historical and political background to the profusion of recent nationalist movements in Eastern Europe. Miroslav... -
The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics by Nic Cheeseman
£44.62Kenya is one of the most politically dynamic and influential countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, it is known in equal measure as a country that has experienced great highs and tragic lows. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kenya was seen as a ''success story"... -
Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy: Organization, Resilience, and Reform Prof Thomas Poguntke 9780198888734
RRP: £130.00£118.19Democracy is in decline and the share of world's population living in freedom under democratic government has decreased considerably as authoritarian practices proliferate. Surprisingly, most of the analyses that study these developments give little... -
After Brexit and Other Essays Andrew Gamble (Politics Department, University of Sheffield) 9781529217100
RRP: £24.99£19.39'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'... -
Willing to Pay?: A Reasonable Choice Approach by Sven H. Steinmo 9780198796824
RRP: £83.00£75.34Why do people in some societies tend to follow rules and obey the laws more than those in other societies? Is the difference institutional, or is 'culture' a better explanation? These are the central questions confronted in this book. This study... -
Berlin: From Symbol of Confrontation to Keystone of Stability by David Klein 9780275932596
£83.64This book meticulously follows the volatile and frequently threatening relationship between the Western powers and the Soviet Union with regard to Berlin. The authors begin their study at that point when the State Department first considered the fate of... -
English Nationalism, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Wider Still and Wider by Ben Wellings 9781526117731
RRP: £25.00£17.61This is the first book to examine the relationship between English nationalism, Brexit and 'the Anglosphere' - a politically-contested term used to denote English-speaking countries sharing cultural and historical roots with the UK. In the aftermath of... -
Making Sense of the Central African Republic Tatiana Carayannis 9781783603794
RRP: £23.99£20.94Lying 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... -
Political Psychology: A Social Psychological Approach Christopher J. Hewer 9781118929339
RRP: £37.95£33.76A 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... -
Tantric State: A Buddhist Approach to Democracy and Development in Bhutan by William J. Long 9780190843397
£70.14Today, the majority of sovereign states can be described as "democracies" because they possess elected political leadership and some measure of commitment to the protection and promotion of individual rights and equality under law. In the... -
Essential Readings in Comparative Politics by Patrick H O'Neil 9780393938982
RRP: £76.50£56.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393938982Author Patrick H O'NeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 593Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 798g -
Political Parties and Political Systems: The Concept of Linkage Revisited by Andrea Rommele 9780275981051
£83.24Since its release in 1980, Kay Lawson's Political Parties and Linkage: A Comparative Perspective has become a classic text in the field of political science. In her groundbreaking work Lawson approaches linkage from an angle left unexplored by her... -
The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand Vicente Valentim 9780198926719
RRP: £90.00£81.58Radical-right behavior is increasing across Western democracies, often very quickly. Previous research has shown, however, that political attitudes and preferences do not change as quickly. Vicente Valentim argues that the role of social norms as drivers... -
Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World by Daniel Drewski 9780198904724
RRP: £90.00£81.58This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Across the world, the number of... -
Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade Aishwarya Pandit 9789360454968
£28.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360454968Author Aishwarya PanditFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited -
Making Punches Count: The Individual Logic of Legislative Brawls Nathan F. Batto 9780197744437
RRP: £19.99£18.21In Making Punches Count, the first comprehensive account of legislative floor violence and its consequences, Nathan Batto and Emily Beaulieu focus on recent episodes from a wide variety of countries, including Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine,... -
Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures and Futures Hanneke Stuit 9781350298064
RRP: £85.00£84.96We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread. Carceral Worlds offers a necessary and timely contribution to understanding these carceral realities of the globalized present.The... -
Patriarchy in Practice: Ethnographies of Everyday Masculinities Nikki van der Gaag 9780755640089
£29.35This collection covers a diverse and multi-disciplinary range of topics on how masculinities might be re-imagined outside of patriarchal power structures. Crucially, the book highlights the lived complexity of both patriarchies and masculinities as... -
Politics and Society in the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917 - 1921) and Contemporary Ukraine (2013 - 2022): A Comparative Analysis by Iaroslav Petik 9783838218175
£32.62This monograph explores the recent political history of Ukraine from a novel diachronic and comparative point of view. A largely unknown period of history for non-Ukrainians, the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR), which emerged at the end of World War I,... -
East Germany: A New German Nation Under Socialism? by Arthur W. McCardle 9780819139986
RRP: £63.00£54.86'With the translations of these articles, original GDR essays are made available to the English-speaking public. The editors achieved their aim to present material 'essential for an understanding of the German Democratic Republic.' The introductions to... -
The Soviet War in Afghanistan: Patterns of Russian Imperialism by Milan Hauner 9780819182012
RRP: £52.00£45.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Enemy Brothers: Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain by W. Rand Smith 9781442218994
RRP: £42.00£36.93Since the 1920s, Socialist and Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere have engaged in episodes of both rivalry and cooperation, with each seeking to dominate the European Left. Enemy Brothers analyzes how this relationship has developed over the past... -
Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe's Role in the World by Federiga Bindi 9780815722526
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815722526Author Federiga BindiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm)...