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The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World Richard Rose (University of Aberdeen) 9780745627304
RRP: £18.99£16.87In the days when Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee faced each other in the House of Commons, there was disagreement about whose hands should be on the Mace, the symbol of power at Westminster. Everyone assumed that the hands on the Mace would be... -
New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism by Michael E. Brown 9780853458524
RRP: £18.99£15.65This pathbreaking collection of essays recasts the prevailing conceptions of the historical roots and role of the U.S. Communist Party and its social setting. The contributors focus on the movement that formed around the party and the popular culture it... -
What's Wrong with Labour? by Paul Allender 9780850364972
RRP: £12.95£11.93This book is a critique of the Labour Party from the independent left. It draws upon academic analysis and extensive practical experience of the labour movement, to provide a characterization that intends to account for the party's ineffectiveness during... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780872204942
RRP: £14.99£12.59This new abridged translation of Democracy in America reflects the rich Tocqueville scholarship of the past forty years, and restores chapters central to Tocqueville's analysis absent from previous abridgments-including his discussions of enlightened... -
War of Visions: Conflicts of Identities in the Sudan by Francis Deng 9780815717935
RRP: £25.00£22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815717935Author Francis M. DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 916gDimensions(mm)... -
Rise & Resist: How to Change the World by Clare Press 9780522873733
RRP: £35.95£17.34Rise & Resist takes a wild trip through the new activism sweeping the world. The political march is back in a big way, as communities rally to build movements for environmental and social justice. But today's context calls for increasingly creative... -
Populism's Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America by Laura Grattan
RRP: £29.99£27.59Uprisings such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street signal a resurgence of populist politics in America, pitting the people against the establishment in a struggle over control of democracy. In the wake of its conservative capture during the Nixon and... -
Electable: Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet by Ali Vitali
RRP: £20.00£16.93A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from former MSNBC "Road Warrior" and now NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali, who covered the campaign trail every step of the way-investigating the gendered double standards placed on women presidential... -
The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 by Kari Frederickson 9780807849101
RRP: £37.95£35.28The movement that forged the way for the rise of the Republican Party in the South In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the ""Dixiecrats,"" and chose Strom Thurmond as their... -
Engagement Organizing: The Old Art and New Science of Winning Campaigns by Matt Price
RRP: £17.99£15.90At any given moment, there are hundreds of campaigns under way that seek to persuade citizens or decision makers to think, act, or vote in a certain way. But what separates campaigns that win from those that don't?This book shows how to combine... -
Scotland's Future: The Economics of Constitutional Change by Andrew Goudie 9781845861629
RRP: £90.00£81.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861629Author Andrew GoudieFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press LtdDimensions(mm) 147mm * 218mm * 30mm -
The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics by Robert Faulkner 9780300209730
£21.31The Case for Greatness is a spirited look at political ambition, good and bad, with particular attention to honorable ambition. Robert Faulkner contends that too many modern accounts of leadership slight such things as determination to excel, good... -
The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election - Updated Edition by John Sides
RRP: £16.99£13.65"Game changer." We heard it so many times during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. But what actually made a difference in the contest--and what was just hype? In this groundbreaking book, John Sides and Lynn Vavreck tell the dramatic story of the... -
Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth Anam Kuraishi 9781032434308
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book reconceptualises the idea of ‘post-truth’. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. Drawing on examples such as Trump, War on Terror, anti-vaccination, climate change denial, denial of scientific... -
In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation from 1945 to the Present by Gerrassimos Moschonas 9781859843468
RRP: £23.99£18.84Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siecle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears... -
The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party by Hunter Walker 9781324020387
RRP: £22.99£19.78Even before the cataclysmic 2016 US election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself-yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump administration, Democrats forged an unlikely but... -
Michelle Obama in her Own Words by Lisa Rogak
£10.18The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention,... -
The Politics of Europeanization by Kevin Featherstone
£51.27This text looks at the political aspects of European integration from the point of view of domestic politics. In doing so, it goes beyond the classic analysis of "how policies are made in Brussels" and raises instead the question "what is the power of... -
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change by Edward J. Lopez
RRP: £20.99£18.37Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers presents a simple, economic framework for understanding the systematic causes of political change. Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez take up three interrelated questions: Why do democracies generate... -
Governing London by Ben Pimlott 9780199244928
£52.12This timely book is the first to take a close historical look at Ken Livingstone s London. It examines the development of London governance from the demise of the Greater London Council to the establishment of the Greater London Authority. The authors... -
Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity by Martin Halliwell
RRP: £28.99£26.91The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy; gay rights, women's rights and civil rights; the Black Panthers and the Vietnam War; the New Left and the New Right: 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics. 50 years on, 'Reframing 1968'... -
Political Choice in Britain by Harold D. Clarke 9780199266548
£53.69Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all? What do they think about elections and democracy? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the explanatory power of rival sociological and "individual rationality" models. Data... -
Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide by Joy-Ann Reid 9780062305268
RRP: £19.99£14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062305268Author Joy-Ann ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics by Rafaela M. Dancygier 9780691172606
RRP: £30.00£23.29As Europe's Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas. In vote-rich enclaves, Muslim views on religion, tradition, and gender roles can deviate sharply from those of the... -
The Memo: Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First by Rich Higgins 9780999705957
£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999705957Author Rich HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Calamo PressPublisher Calamo PressWeight(grams) 140g -
The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State by Stephan Leibfried 9780198808923
£41.09This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist... -
To Keep or To Change First Past The Post?: The Politics of Electoral Reform by Andre Blais 9780199539390
£46.26First past the post is one of the oldest and simplest electoral systems. The logic is simple: the candidate with the most votes wins. It is the system in place in some of the oldest democracies, most especially the United States and the United Kingdom,... -
German Social Democracy by Bertrand Russell 9780851245713
RRP: £12.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245713Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
The Political Cartoons of Derso and Kelen: Years of Hope and Despair by Stefan Slater
RRP: £39.95£31.98Alois Derso (1888-1964) and Emery Kelen (1896-1978) were remarkable cartoonists who became internationally renowned, particularly for their depictions in the 1920s of efforts to build a better world following the establishment of the League of Nations;... -
Trump Talking: The Donald, in his own words by Al Cimino
RRP: £6.99£2.91'Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich'But that's just part of it. His fingers, too, are 'long and beautiful'. Improbably coiffed, perma-tanned and bronze-tongued, the Donald has increasingly impinged on the world's consciousness through a... -
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement by Wendy L Rouse
RRP: £54.00£27.40Honorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize 2023 Judy Grahn Award-Publishing Triangle Finalist Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women's right to vote The women's suffrage... -
Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky by Noam Chomsky 9781565847033
RRP: £16.99£16.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565847033Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 609g -
Revival and Change: The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections by John C. Courtney
RRP: £21.99£19.19Revival and Change is a compelling account of the elections, accomplishments, challenges, failures, and ultimate end of the Diefenbaker era.The Liberals had been in office for two decades when the 1957 election was called and were widely expected to win... -
Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior by Joshua N. Zingher 9780197630693
RRP: £83.00£75.34What 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... -
Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews by Meir Kahane 9781715882020
RRP: £21.98£14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715882020Author Meir KahaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater by Benjamin Ginsberg 9780393977639
RRP: £24.00£19.12In a far-reaching shift of the political landscape, contenders now seek to discredit or take hostage their opponents rather than to expand the electorate or otherwise compete for votes. In this new edition, which includes a full chapter on the politics... -
Building Free Life: Dialogues with oecalan by International Initiative 9781629637044
RRP: £18.99£11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637044Author International InitiativeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party by Lainey Newman 9780231208826
RRP: £22.00£17.36In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions were embedded in tight-knit communities, touching nearly every aspect of the lives of members-mostly men-and their families and neighbors. They... -
Researching Internet Governance by Laura DeNardis
RRP: £33.00£28.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539753Author Laura DeNardisFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting by E.J. Dionne
RRP: £17.99£12.30A timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political expert and Washington Post journalist Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids...