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Just Democracy: The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme by Philippe van Parijs
RRP: €49.98€46.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907301148Author Philippe Van ParijsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint ECPR PressPublisher ECPR PressWeight(grams) 141g -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: €9.51€6.89Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ... -
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
RRP: €13.08€9.25*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as... -
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev
RRP: €13.08€9.25*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the... -
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller by Robert Peston
RRP: €23.80€3.84'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial TimesAs with his previous bestsellers, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? and... -
The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 by Murray Armstrong
RRP: €20.22€13.73Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a... -
To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debasish Roy Chowdhury
RRP: €25.57€18.18India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief... -
The Keys to Democracy: Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power by Maurice Pope
RRP: €29.75€27.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360975Author Maurice PopeFormat HardbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 14mm -
Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate by Ronald Dworkin 9780691138725
RRP: €26.18€20.22Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the... -
The New World Disorder: how the West is destroying itself by Peter Neumann 9781915590145
RRP: €23.80€16.02'A far-sighted analysis of the world order, and an urgent warning of what the future may hold in store.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Excellent ... In the face of countries such as China and Russia challenging the US-led international... -
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy Peters
RRP: €28.56€20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576587Author Jeremy W. PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy--And What We Can Do about It by Tobias Rose-Stockwell 9780306923326
RRP: €34.51€24.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306923326Author Tobias Rose-StockwellFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Legacy LitPublisher Legacy LitWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm *... -
Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: €20.22€19.83In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the... -
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.' - GRETA THUNBERG Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for democracy.INTRODUCTION BY AI WEIWEI, FOREWORD BY CHRIS... -
Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it by Matthew d'Ancona
RRP: €23.80€15.89'D'Ancona makes his case well... The book is well written and thoughtful' -- The Times'A heartfelt attempt to renew liberal ideals for the coming decades... How sorely our public debate needs others to express themselves similarly.' -- Henry Mance,... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
RRP: €13.08€9.25Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our... -
The Mystical as Political by Aristotle Papanikolaou 9780268206628
RRP: €107.10€91.33Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy,... -
The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift 9781906523305
RRP: €9.51€6.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906523305Author Richard SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot
RRP: €26.18€20.22A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Bourgeoisie, State and Democracy: Russia, Britain, France, Germany, and the USA by Graeme Gill 9780199544684
€141.49One of the key questions in social science is the role of the bourgeoisie in creating a democracy. An important issue in contemporary international politics is the trajectory of the current Russian political system. This book brings these questions... -
Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future by Raoul Martinez
RRP: €13.08€8.71We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated... -
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Jane Addams on Inequality and Political Friendship by Wynne Walker Moskop 9781138303355
RRP: €42.83€37.71In this book, Wynne Walker Moskop addresses the practical and theoretical problem of how unequal political friendships evolve toward arrangements the parties consider reciprocal and just, a problem neglected by scholars of democracy who associate... -
The Race between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin
RRP: €24.93€20.13This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but... -
Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh
RRP: €16.65€11.60Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts... -
Models of Democracy by David Held 9780745631479
RRP: €23.79€21.53The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: €15.46€10.27As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
Overruled: The Trampling of Our Citizenship in 9 Cases by Sam Fowles
RRP: €20.22€14.61'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those we voted into government have nothing but contempt for... -
How to Rig an Election by Nic Cheeseman
RRP: €14.27€12.08An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than... -
Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Expanded Edition by Amartya Sen
RRP: €17.84€13.51Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition'Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as a whole, in a way... -
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy by Lee McIntyre 9780262546300
RRP: €16.65€10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546300Author Lee McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop by Kevin O'Rourke
RRP: €11.89€8.94'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish TimesA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin... -
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century: Updated and Revised Edition by James P. Brennan
RRP: €45.16€39.92A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the... -
For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: €11.89€9.72We are seeing the rise of a populist moment around the world on both the left and the right. Movements like Bernie Sander, Jeremy Corbyn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have emerged in the midst of the neoliberal crisis. In this book, leading political... -
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €13.08€9.25The United States asserts the right to use military force against `failed states' around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger... -
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide by Chris Bickerton
RRP: €13.08€9.25'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial TimesFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the... -
The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond by George Friedman
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101911785Author George FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Brook Manville
RRP: €29.75€22.82A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is... -
The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist by Dani Rodrik
RRP: €14.27€10.51For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are... -
Introduction to Marxist Theory by Ernest Mandel 9780902869653
RRP: €17.85€17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869653Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books