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An enduring question for most nations has been how to best represent their citizens and their needs. This is a complex issue as there is no universally accepted definition of good representation. Representation and Institutional Design addresses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498022392Author Victor CoffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 413g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469161051Author Malcolm RamseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 152g

What makes a candidate viable in the eyes of the voters? What makes someone qualified to run for office? Why do voters tend to opt for certain types of people and not others? How much are such tendencies rooted in broad characteristics-racial or ethnic...

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Toward a Civil Discourse examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly with one another. Because America is dominated by two powerful discourses--liberalism and Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439237823Author Bert AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436366595Author Philip EphraimFormat PaperbackImprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 103g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436366588Author Philip EphraimFormat PaperbackImprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 97g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781396318054Author Frank J GoodnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258999643Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 127g

Paul Sigmund, who has studied Chile for more than a decade, and lived and taught there, offers an exhaustive, balanced analysis of the overthrow of Salvador Allende, and why it occurred. Sigmund examines the Allende government, the Frei government that...

Following the popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world beginning in 2010, armed forces remained pivotal actors in politics throughout the region. As demonstrators started to challenge entrenched autocratic rulers in Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a, and...

Explores the impact of capital, state and the environment on contract-farming and also the impacts of banana production on the peasant workers. Grossman's work emphasizes the importance of ""environmental rootedness"" of agriculture in studies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803936522Author J. KincaidFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint SAGE Publications IncPublisher SAGE Publications Ltd

The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not proved so straightforward. This book takes stock of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464803277Author Mitchell O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Richard Hart's constant quest for political autonomy, decolonisation and regional unity has earned him a space in the annals of history as one of Jamaica's leading nationalist figures and as a vital contributor to the Caribbean integration movement. As a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999639559Author Stephanie C FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint QueenbeeeditPublisher QueenbeeeditWeight(grams) 109g

Examining the Marcos and Aquino administrations in the Philippines, and a number of cases in Latin Amarica, Casper discusses the legacies of authoritarianism and shows how difficult it is for popularly elected leaders to ensure that democracy will...

The author traces the history of public school prayer in America and the legal debates since the 1962 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed the practice. The book thus makes available the historical and legal information from which readers can draw their...

Malaysia pulled itself back from the brink on 9 May 2018. That day the majority of its voting population decided to topple the Barisan Nasional government that had been in power for over 60 years and that had come to be seen as corrupt beyond redemption,...

In this book, the author marshals evidence to support an arena-specific approach towards viewing Vietnam's state-society relations. In practice, the Vietnamese party-state's relations with society vary from the hard and uncompromising state, with the...

The Watergate scandal of 1973 claimed many casualties, political and otherwise. Along with many personal reputations and careers, President Richard Nixon's bold attempt to achieve a sweeping reorganization of the domestic portion of the executive branch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555878412Author Celestin MongaFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers IncPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789812308177Author Joan M. NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 353Imprint ISEASPublisher ISEASWeight(grams) 678gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233520Author Stanley M DavidsFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit-the act of leaving-is often thought...

The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls. So argues Tom Eamon in his probing narrative of the state's political path since the 1940s. He charts the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780522874051Author Shaun CroweFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Melbourne University PressPublisher Melbourne University PressWeight(grams)...

Since its inception 30 years ago, Southeast Asian Affairs (SEAA) has been an indispensable annual reference for generations of policy-makers, scholars, analysts, journalists, and others. Succinctly written by regional and international experts, SEAA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600218323Author Sunil AhujaFormat HardbackPage Count 145Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998883526Author Michael N MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Silver Sands BooksPublisher Silver Sands BooksWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813910826Author CropseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875805801Author Ken GladdishFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Mitchell believes that the history of the French Third Republic remains incomplete until one understands the German impact on France after the Franco-Prossian War. As the French groped unsteadily toward a redefinition of their national identity, they...

The euphoria evidenced in the aftermath of the collapse of communist regimes in the late 1980s and early 1990s sometimes conveyed the impression that the process of democratization would be achieved without difficulty or tribulation. This book sets out...

How can we account for the lack of large-scale policy change in West Germany despite changes in the partisan make-up of the federal government? This formulation of "the German Question" differs from the one commonly posed by students of German politics,...

Malaysia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world today, and this book reflects current debates about the future directions of the national economy, polity and society in light of the late 1990s watershed period of financial crisis, the...