Political Process

'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary SupplementIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642935677Author Laura LoomerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 164mm...

A New York Times Bestseller"Compelling... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book ReviewCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on-and took flak...

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This book reveals the Conservative Party's relationship with the extreme right between 1945 and 1975. For the first time, this book shows how the Conservative Party, realising that its well known pre-Second World War connections with the extreme right...

Governing America is an innovative edited textbook, designed for first-time students of American politics. Written by an international team of experts, this volume offers an accessible and comprehensive examination of American politics both before and...

Political leadership has made a comeback. It was studied intensively not only by political scientists but also by political sociologists and psychologists, Sovietologists, political anthropologists, and by scholars in comparative and development studies...

"Jeremy Corbyn has re-packaged socialism into something progressive and essential, something that isn't archaic as we've been told it is for so long. Striving for justice and fairness isn't a sign of our weakness but the sign of our great strength...

Leadership: The Ultimate Guide Few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years -- from Nixon to Clinton and Watergate to Whitewater -- than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four...

In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities. For this new edition, Robert A. Dahl has written a new...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Surveillance permeates every aspect of our lives today. Once a more limited and often remote aspect of social life, today surveillance is central to political, economic, and everyday life. Every...

The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780029212509Author Robert MichelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 306g

In 1807, 23,007 voters travelled to York to cast their votes for two county members in the general election. This study illustrates the working of the political process, with an account of what it meant to mobilise, convey, feed, lodge and deploy vast...

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One hundred years after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition, after 30 years of Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit, the debate on Irish unity has intensified. But what could a united Ireland look like, and what would it mean for those both...

This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats. Beginning with Jo Grimond's rise to the leadership in 1956, it follows the Liberal resurgence in the second half of the...

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

This volume showcases new approaches to studying public health in traditional and emerging media, suggesting that we need more analyses that focus on the production of media and on power dynamics, as well as studies of audience reception of media...

Mathew Whiting explores Irish republicanism's transformation from violence to political power. He examines their electoral participation and engagement in democratic bargaining, the role of Irish-America and British government policy to argue that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914143052Author Chinedu ChukwudinmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications

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The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910461532Author Denis MacShaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Claret PressPublisher Claret PressDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 73mm

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Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a...

The most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls these get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference between winning and losing office. With the first three editions of Get Out the Vote, Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber...

An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy "Hasen puts forth a number of solid recommendations on how to combat disinformation."-Richard Stengel, New York...

The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and...

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and its spread to new territories and states. Today, under the sway of Donald Trump, it is hardly recognizable as the party of Lincoln or even the party of Eisenhower. How and why has the...

Rules to live by from Roger Stone, master of political dark arts, advisor to Donald Trump, and subject of the award-winning documentary Get Me Roger StoneHere are the lessons of a lifetime of work helping influence America's politics and culture, learned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584772415Author Yang ShangFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against...

"A powerful story, skillfully told." -Booklist A new portrait of Robert Kennedy, a politician who, for all his faults, had the uncommon courage to stand up to a president from his own party and shine a light on America's shortcomings In early 1968,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009. Short-listed for New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism 2010.Book...

John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don't exist...

Donald Trump's election as President of the United States confounded the pundits and crowned a year of political surprises. In Hopes And Fears, Lord Ashcroft sets out in compelling detail why America sent Trump to the White House. With the rigorous...

The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Rogue regimes--governments and groups that eschew diplomatic normality, sponsor terrorism, and proliferate nuclear weapons--threaten the United States around the globe. Because sanctions and military...