Political Process

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984878090Author Edward-Isaac DovereFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint G.P.Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers'Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Violence in election campaigns is common across the African continent and beyond. According to some estimations, most African elections contain some degree of violence and most of this violence happens before elections, during the campaign. While...

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...

"Fiery, but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting.""It's Not, Generally Speaking, Unruly."CHOP was an Important Experiment in Democracy."In the summer of 2020, America was under siege by radical ANTIFA actors across the country. But if you were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541768253Author Samuel WoolleyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm *...

For more than a decade Mikhail Gorbachev has been engaged in working to protect the earth and its inhabitants via the organization he founded in 1992, Green Cross International. In an age when ecological crises, poverty and military conflicts are...

From the editor in chief of Breitbart News, the New York Times bestselling "must-read" (Sean Hannity) investigation into how the establishment media became weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters on behalf of the political left.In this timely...

Celebrated leadership expert and political scientist Gautam Mukunda provides a comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan method for answering the most important question in the world: is someone up to the job of president of the United States? In...

"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an...

Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested...

From data-rich infographics to 140 character tweets and activist cell phone photos taken at political protests, 21st century journalism is awash in new ways to report, display, and distribute the news. Computational journalism, in particular, has been...

Richard Falk has dedicated much of his life to the study of the Israel/Palestine conflict. In Palestine's Horizon, he brings his experiences to bear on one of the most controversial issues of our times. After enduring years of violent occupation, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245652Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 948Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital media as...

Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has...

Women, Equality, Power is a celebration of an outstanding leader who continues to strive and work for change, and it's a rallying call for other women leaders, whether they are in positions of political, economic or social power.Helen Clark has been a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116781Author Eitan HerschFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book Company

Referendums are ubiquitous; from Brexit in the United Kingdom in 2016 to same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017 Why are referendums held at all? And when they are held, why are they won or lost? Moreover, what are the consequences of having referendums?...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in...

This will be the first volume to discuss the development of Plaid Cymru's political ideology from the early days to the party's present position as the chief opposition party in the National Assembly for Wales. The book will give authoritative answers to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638362Author Rebecca SubarFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

This book provides an integrated account of French political experience, explaining three key features: the role of political ideas, the nature of political movements, and the significance of history in creating and sustaining divisions among political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062439000Author Steve KornackiFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In recent decades, women's political empowerment has become an important foreign policy and assistance objective. Every year, donor governments and multilateral organizations partner with hundreds of civil society groups around the world to train women...

Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an...

Toxic leaders, both political, like Slobodan Milosevic, and corporate, like Enron's Ken Lay, have always been with us, and many books have been written to explain what makes them tick. Here leadership scholar Jean Lipman-Blumen explains what makes the...

Over the past 25 years, Jurgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key...

On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli delivered a dramatic rant against Obama administration programs to shore up the plunging housing market. Invoking the Founding Fathers and ridiculing "losers" who could not pay their mortgages,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633569Author Simon Holmes a CourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a vibrant society, culture and economy, they did so at a...

This is an introduction to the study of political parties and party systems. It focuses primarily on liberal deocracies and the approach is a comparative one. The book's aim is to explain to students of politics how and why parties and party systems...

Gives students confidence with their controlled assessment tasksBook InformationISBN 9781846906459Author Angela LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Edexcel LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 219mm *...

With Trump's four years in the White House now in the rearview, an unprecedented period in American political history is concluded. The transition, however, has set off a mad scramble for control of a Republican Party that for so long has reflected the...

It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the first time the truth behind the Kremlin's attempt to put Trump in the White House, how they...

Who belongs to the Labour Party and why? What are their opinions about politics and society, or about the 'new model' party of Neil Kinnock? After the electoral debacle of 1983 the Labour leadership embarked on a strategy of modernization in order to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903689455Author WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Piquant EditionsPublisher Piquant EditionsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Why are we badly governed? Why has a system of government - the envy of the world as recently as the 1970s - developed so many defects? Why is there such a gulf between political classes, who seem to believe the position satisfactory or inevitable, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526890Author Peter WeibelFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of...

Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to Power examines the effect of online social media on...