Political Process

Primary elections have been used for the past century for most U.S. elective offices and their popularity is growing in other nations as well. In some circumstances, primaries ensure that citizens have a say in elections and test the skills of candidates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905379750Author Mary MinihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Maverick HousePublisher Maverick HouseWeight(grams) 417g

Based on a wealth of new primary data, this book offers the first account of the internal regime factors that ultimately caused the fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's long dictatorship in Tunisia during the Arab Uprisings. Anne Wolf's account challenges...

The one percent has been providing an ever larger share of campaign funds since the 1980s. Well over half of the money contributed to the presidential race in 2015 came from only about 350 families. One-fourth of it came from just seventy-eight donors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593138595Author Andrew WeissmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic...

Media pundits and students of Canadian politics alike have strived to interpret the relevance of the 2021 federal election, held in the midst of a global pandemic and reinforcing the existing parliamentary balance of power. This timely volume explains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170632Author David BellFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world.The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780260846Author Amy LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

How is critical thinking taught? How will the next generation cope with an ever-changing and increasingly complex world? These are questions that the Grand Strategy program at Yale seeks to address. The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy seeks to...

This edited collection builds directly upon the recently published book by Harmel, Svasand, and Mjelde (Institutionalisation (and De-Institutionalisation) of Right-Wing Protest Parties: The Progress Parties in Denmark and Norway) and applies their...

If you paid even a moment's attention during high-school history class, you probably know that 1910 brought about the Union of South Africa, that the 1948 general election ushered in apartheid, and that the Rainbow Nation was born when Madiba triumphed...

This book is about the politics of Myanmar under the reformist president Thein Sein. After taking office in March 2011, Thein Sein initiated the bloodless Myanmar Spring. He was able to transform Myanmar into a more transparent and dynamic society, bring...

Rage revenue-addicted news companies are plagued by shoddy reporting, sensationalism, groupthink, and brain-dead partisan tribalism. Newsrooms rely on emotion-driven blabber to entrance conflict-addled super users.In Broken News, Chris Stirewalt,...

In 1899, Carrie Chapman Catt, who succeeded Susan B. Anthony as head of the National American Women Suffrage Association, argued that it was the "duty" of U.S. women to help lift the inhabitants of its new island possessions up from "barbarism" to...

Congressional debates are increasingly defined by gridlock and stalemate, with partisan showdowns that lead to government shutdowns. Compromise in Congress seems hard to reach, but do politicians deserve all the blame? Legislators who refuse to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807057674Author Mary Frances BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political arena to new parties, and assuring the public that the president...

The term 'nation-building' has experienced a remarkable renaissance since the early 1990s. It has been used to describe and to justify the military interventions in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Linked to the idea of 'failed' or 'failing' states, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307385888Author Robert G. KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm)...

This is a study of popular political behaviour both before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832, the impact of which has long divided historians, some heralding it as the dawn of a new age, others dismissing it as an irrelevance. Professor Phillips...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912568048Author Stephen TuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

"This penetrating study asks whether the actual evidence concerning alleged Russian interference in the US elections of 2016 justifies the enormous hue and cry it has elicited ... A highly instructive inquiry into our current malaise." - Noam ChomskyCold...