Political Process

China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523157Author Frank BongiornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Bert Ramelson (1910-1994) was a remarkable man who lived through remarkable times. Born into a Jewish ghetto in pre-1917 Ukraine, he went on to become Britain's foremost communist during the turbulent years of industrial strife in Britain in the 1960s...

Sinn Fein is a growing force in Irish politics. Now the country's third largest party, Sinn Fein have been one of the central architects of the peace process and are increasingly setting the terms of political debate in Ireland north and south. Despite...

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges-from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, only...

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen-by entirely legal means "Their new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248714Author Edd MustillFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

In recent years hundreds of high-profile 'free speech' incidents have rocked US college campuses. Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable protest, with many being disinvited from speaking. These...

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old...

External Mission is the Winner of the Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction awarded by Media24 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated, and their rights abused. They are...

Charles James Fox and William Pitt the Younger were the two political giants of their day - the greatest of orators, and the fiercest of rivals. But did the two men have anything in common? Each was a younger son of distinguished fathers, who themselves...

In twelve entertaining stories from history and current events, a noted political scientist and game theorist shows us how some of our heroes we as well as ordinary folk have manipulated their opponents in order to win political advantage. The stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815721840Author Candice J. NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

As America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divide In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061945991Author John HeilemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view. These movements emerge out of distinct contexts and yield different outcomes, but tend to...

Do you really want to change the world? If the answer is YES, then this book shows you how. Ethical consumerism is now big business. But leading a sustainable and truly radical life encompasses a whole variety of things that challenge the mainstream...

Jeremy Corbyn proved to be one of Labour's most popular and yet one of its most divisive leaders amongst the membership. From his surprise election in 2015, he was characterized as both hero and villain. A conviction politician, determined to do things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124214Author Mike LofgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210567Author Greg PalastFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

What is data-driven campaigning? According to prevailing accounts, this idea describes the rise of increasingly sophisticated, highly targeted, and often invasive uses of data deployed to suppress votes, manipulate voter preferences, or boost a...

Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness of the deep structural barriers to the ballot,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192007Author Lindsey GermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 855g

Benedict Anderson was one of the most respected thinkers on the history of nationalism. His acclaimed Imagined Communities is one of the most cited works in social science.In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world...

The New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera-hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808267Author Tony PecinovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

A 2022 Best Comedy Book, VultureA rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts...

In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU's 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel's occupation of Palestinian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402020Author Paul CairneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356995888Author Sudhanshu KaushikFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808365Author Upton SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 908Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639546Author Martin ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Workers LibertyPublisher Phoenix PressWeight(grams) 148g

Faith in the UK's political system has reached new lows. Politicians and commentators are lining up to offer answers, but what if the problem goes beyond left and right, trust and bureaucracy? What if the system puts too much power in the hands of...

What motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate best matches their own positions? Or do people look at politics as something more akin to a team...

An Irish epic, The Maximalist documents in unflinching detail and with great subtlety the meteoric rise and slow unravelling of an Irish icon. 'Biography of the Year.' The Sunday Times 'Biography of the Year.' Sunday Business Post ...

As seen on CBS 60 Minutes "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Did you know that these twenty-six words are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273650Author Cornelia SollfrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia

Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539913Author Whitney PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd