Political Process

In 2016, Donald Trump broke almost all the rules of politics to win the Republican nomination and, even more improbably, to edge out heavily favored Hillary Clinton in one of the great upsets in presidential campaign history. In Trumped: The 2016...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929194735Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Clearbridge PublishingPublisher Clearbridge PublishingWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467928Author Terry AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School...

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of...

Alexander Schuessler has done what many deemed impossible: he has wedded rational choice theory and the concerns of social theory and anthropology to explain why people vote. The "paradox of participation"--why individuals cast ballots when they have...

The sixth general election since the arrival of democracy occurs at a critical moment in South Africa's history. The immediate question this book poses is will the ANC manage to manufacture a sixth electoral victory despite its disastrous record in...

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 2010 election has transformed the British political landscape, ushering in a coalition government for the first time since the Second World War, and breaking up the UK's traditional pattern of two-party dominance. This book analyses the implications...

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,...

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...

Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to knock them down. Studying the US's Barack...

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 9780988672819Author Andrew KreigFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Eagle View BooksPublisher Eagle View BooksWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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 pioneering analysis uses the results from the first ever Irish election study to provide a comprehensive survey of the motives, outlook and behaviour of voters in the Republic of Ireland. Building on the foundations laid down by previous work on...

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...

Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention...

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...

Why do some militaries support and others thwart transitions to democracy? After the Arab Spring revolutions, why did Egypt's military stage a coup to end the transition? Conversely, why did Tunisia's military initially support the transition, only to...

In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats turned to a familiar figure to right the ship: Donna Brazile. Known to millions from her frequent TV...

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...

*A Guardian Book of the Day* The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benn's famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.' For...

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...

An eye-opening analysis of collegiate activism and its effects on the divisions in contemporary American politics. The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including...

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...

An illuminating introduction to how the Lander function not only within the country itself but also within the wider context of European political affairs. Looks at the Lander in the constitutional order of the country, and the political and...

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