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In an age when men have come to believe that their destinies can be determined by human actions rather than by fate, the question looms large of what a leader can do to fulfill the aspirations of those looking for guidance. Since the political arena is...

Ukraine is a misfit among post-communist states, being neither a respectable, stable democracy nor an autocracy. Nor does it sit well as a patronal political system, like other post-Soviet regimes, since the Euromaidan Revolution. This study examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorHarvey Lazar is fellow, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, and senior research associate, Centre for Global Studies, University of...

When Congress and the presidency are controlled by opposing parties, the potential for conflict between the two branches is often emphasized. And yet both conflict and cooperation between the president and Congress are an essential and ongoing part of...

Theodore Roosevelt began explicitly using public address as what he termed a "bully pulpit" during his presidency. Public address provided him the opportunity to talk to the people-and thereby put pressure on reluctant public figures to effect policy. In...

Until approximately two decades ago, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) struggled to make inroads in Johor due to: (1) the unique historical developments in the state, which benefited its primary opponent Barisan Nasional (BN), and (2) the decentralized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538110928Author Erik JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560852728Author Rod DeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Signature BooksPublisher Signature BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. Editors Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger bring together prominent...

Election campaigns ought to be serious occasions in the life of a democratic polity. For citizens of a democracy, an election is a time to take stock-to reexamine our beliefs; to review our understanding of our own interests; to ponder the place of those...

People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their online political activity into the offline world of activism? In...

Major party Senators are highly partisan actors, their strong partisanship is partly a result of their backgrounds in central office work in their political parties, and also a product of their election by means of a de facto list system of proportional...

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...

Across Asia, 'populist' leaders emerged on an unprecedented scale around the start of the 21st century. ""Populism in Asia"" is the first book to examine this phenomenon. The 1997 Asian financial crisis undermined established political leaders and...

There are few better examples of analysis - the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built - than Robert Dahl's Democracy and its Critics. In this work, the American political theorist closely analyzes the democratic political...

Political leadership is a concept central to understanding political processes and outcomes, yet its definition is elusive. Many disciplines have contributed to the study of leadership, including political theory, history, psychology and management...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219759Author Ademola AraoyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 582g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592216352Author Kelechi A KaluFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 656g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592216697Author Kasahun WoldemariamFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 545g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215218Author Tatah MentanFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 489g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214242Author Julius Omozuanvbo IhonvbereFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569023907Author Addis Alem BalemaFormat HardbackPage Count 438Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 809g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569023365Author Randall FegleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 647g

Originally published in 2000, the book investigates the European Parliament's stance vis-a-vis two major events of the 1990s: the Gulf and the Yugoslav crises. In unveiling the parliamentary multi-faceted view of these events, reference has been made to...

This book examines the shifting, non-linear relationship between religion, nationalism and politics in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. In the wake of the revocation of Article 370, the state's plural and relatively harmonious society has come...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865437753Author Ode OgedeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 243g

Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland. The study deals with two...

With this translation, one of the classics of German historical literature becomes available in English. In Weltburgertum und Nationalstaat the eminent historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the transition in Germany from eighteenth-century...

Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley, former train driver and Prime Minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949, lived through two economic depressions and two world wars. This, combined with his rural background and commitment to the labour movement, played a...

Untangling the logical, lexical, and semantic patterns of the multiple official speeches of Indian prime ministers, Speaking the Nation gauges how the Indian state has been projected by different governments in different times, in the face of challenges...

American democracy is in a period of striking tumult. The clash of a rapidly changing socio-technological environment and the traditional presidency has led to an upheaval in the scope and standards of executive leadership. Yet research on the...

Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex marriage and relations between same-sex, consenting adults. However, support for transgender individuals...

Examines the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy in contemporary Venezuela.In a global historical moment of growing mobilizations against inequality, corruption, and exclusion, Only the People Can Save the People...

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...

First published in 1999, Andrew Chadwick provides an important new interpretation of British radical, suffrage-feminist and socialist movements during the first quarter of the twentieth century, based on analysis of their visions of democratic...

This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel,...

First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan. There is an enormous amount of information about Japanese local government that has not yet appeared in English. With the author's local familiarity, elected local...

Despite the existence of a large literature on themes relating to trust and distrust in politics, there has been no sustained research that directly engages with the primary objects of trust: politicians. This is an intriguing blind spot in political...

This book offers a systematic exploration of the role of religion and religiosity in electoral politics in Catholic, Protestant, and religiously mixed countries across Western Europe and in the United States. The chapters approach the relationship...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. How does governing work today? How...