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In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who's who of public address scholars to illustrate the...

"A very well-crafted, important book. I recommend it highly." -Howard Winant, author of The New Politics of Race In 1994, California voters flocked to the polls in record numbers because of a ballot measure-Proposition 187-that was designed to deny...

An innovative look at the convergence of global trends and local struggles in this out-of-the-way place.On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Clayoquot Sound might seem to be situated at the periphery of contemporary power...

Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of actually existing democracy are intense and strident. In...

At a time when presidential campaigns are shaped to appeal to women voters, when masculinity constructs impinge on wartime leaders, and when the United States appears to move towards the possibility of a woman president, it is vital that communication...

Nine contributors analyze state-society relations in India. A new epilogue covers the Rajiv Gandhi period, leading up to the important elections of December 1989. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis--dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy...

In this comprehensive picture of Belgian colonialism in the Congo, Lewis Gann and Peter Duignan trace the formation of the colonial state that became Zaire, considering it in the light of colonial experience in other African territories. Whereas most...

Imagining Politics critically examines two interpretations of government. The first comes from pop culture fictions about politics, the second from academic political science. Stephen Benedict Dyson argues that televised political fictions and political...

"White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences."---Richard Wirthlin, former pollster for Ronald Reagan"This delightfully written and accessible book is the best...

Governing Europe is intended to be the leading advanced survey of politics in Western Europe. It examines in detail all aspects of political life in Western Europe, from public protest to core executives, social policy to Europe's place in the world. It...

This constitutional and institutional development of the European Community, and federalism in particular, are widely and intensely debated. The issue of federalism has proved to be divisive and misunderstood. This book provides a critical reappraisal of...

The power of political blogs in American politics is now evident to anyone who follows it. In Typing Politics, Richard Davis provides a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the growing role played by political blogs and their relationship with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170168Author Maria PowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Donald Trump's election as President of the United States confounded the pundits and crowned a year of political surprises. In Hopes And Fears, Lord Ashcroft sets out in compelling detail why America sent Trump to the White House. With the rigorous...

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...