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Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality by Jeff Spinner-Halev 9780226831732
Booksplease Price: €23.80A deep examination of why respect is in short supply in politics today and why it matters. Respect is in trouble in the United States. Many Americans believe respecting others is a necessary virtue, yet many struggle to respect opposing partisans... -
Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition by Thomas Sowell
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €19.79This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters... -
Democracy: A User's Guide by Joss Sheldon 9781716792069
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716792069Author Joss SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm -
Civic Engagement in American Democracy by Theda Skocpol
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815728092Author Theda SkocpolFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm)... -
Polling UnPacked: The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls by Mark Pack 9781789145670
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.20Opinion polls dominate media coverage of politics, especially elections. But how do the polls work? How do you tell the good from the bad? And in light of recent polling disasters, can we trust them at all? Polling UnPacked gives you the full story,... -
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John R. Zaller
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €28.54In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to... -
Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880-1960 by John M. MacKenzie 9780719018695
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prejudice: Its Social Psychology Rupert Brown (University of Sussex, UK) 9781405113076
RRP: €36.83Booksplease Price: €33.49This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments. Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individual... -
Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics Susan Herbst 9780226327433
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €33.06Quantifying the American mood through opinion polls appear to be an unbiased means for finding out what people want. But in this study the author demonstrates that the way public opinion is measured affects the use that voters, legislators, and... -
New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 by John Kuo Wei Tchen
Booksplease Price: €35.03From George Washington's desire (in the heat of the Revolutionary War) for a proper set of Chinese porcelains for afternoon tea, to the lives of Chinese-Irish couples in the 1830s, to the commercial success of Chang and Eng (the "Siamese Twins"), to... -
How We Vote: The Factors that Influence Voters by Surjit S. Bhalla 9789353458430
Booksplease Price: €18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353458430Author Surjit S. BhallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut Publication -
Beat the Incumbent: The Strategies and Tactics to Win Elections Louis Perron 9781635768404
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €17.37Incumbents 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... -
What Next: How to get the best from Brexit by Daniel Hannan 9781786691934
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.67On 23 June 2016, against all forecasts, Britain voted to leave the EU. Drawing on his experiences at the heart of the campaign, Daniel Hannan dissects the result and our reaction. He outlines why Vote Leave won, exploring what people were voting for and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology by Leonie Huddy 9780197541302
Booksplease Price: €51.91Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political... -
Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by G. Elliott Morris
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.19After the 2016 and 2020 elections, harsh critiques of polling were blasted everywhere: in news headlines, on social media and among colleagues and friends. But this rush to declare polling irrelevant is misguided-and dangerous. In Strength in Numbers,... -
Justice by Means of Democracy by Danielle Allen
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €21.12From leading thinker Danielle Allen, a bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism. At a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of the leading democracies question the ability of their... -
Democracy: A User's Guide by Joss Sheldon 9781716792045
Booksplease Price: €23.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716792045Author Joss SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 1098gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 42mm -
The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language Professor John Lurz 9780226839974
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €104.55This study of the writing of Roland Barthes breaks down the divide between lived experience and the language of a literary work. In The Barthes Fantastic, John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life-and confronts some habits of... -
The Politics of Skin Tone: African American Experiences, Identity, and Attitudes Nicole D. Yadon 9780226840338
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €104.55A nuanced examination of the salience of skin tone within African American politics. Research shows that skin tone is associated with significant differences in life experiences. On average, African Americans with darker skin earn lower wages, suffer... -
India Inked: Elections in the World's Largest Democracy Poonam Agarwal 9789361315664
Booksplease Price: €38.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361315664Author Poonam AgarwalFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
Proximity Politics: How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors Jeronimo Cortina 9780231205320
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €85.61Republicans who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are less likely to support constructing a wall than those who live farther away. After a mass shooting, gun sales and permit applications skyrocket in nearby communities. Experiencing an extreme... -
Proximity Politics: How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors Jeronimo Cortina 9780231205337
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €20.60Republicans who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are less likely to support constructing a wall than those who live farther away. After a mass shooting, gun sales and permit applications skyrocket in nearby communities. Experiencing an extreme... -
The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science Alex Mintz 9780190634131
Booksplease Price: €130.41The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science sketches the landscape of a new approach to political science: Behavioral Political Science (BPS). The work in the volume shows that ideas from different fields help to explain many of the phenomena... -
The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America Nicholas F. Jacobs 9780231218573
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.85The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by... -
Polls, Pollsters, and Public Opinion: A Guide for Decision-Makers Clifford Young 9781108479554
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €86.01A vast literature exists on theories of public opinion - how to measure, analyze, predict, and influence it; however, there is no synthesis of best practices for interpreting public opinion: existing knowledge is disparate and spread across many... -
The Voter's Guide to Election Polls by Michael W. Traugott 9781538187395
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.61Everything you need to know about election polls can be found in this compact, conversational, and current volume. When it comes to tapping the public's opinion on candidates and issues at the ballot box, the stakes are high. Acclaimed scholars Michael W... -
The Voter's Guide to Election Polls by Michael W. Traugott 9781538187388
RRP: €86.87Booksplease Price: €78.06Everything you need to know about election polls can be found in this compact, conversational, and current volume. When it comes to tapping the public's opinion on candidates and issues at the ballot box, the stakes are high. Acclaimed scholars Michael W... -
The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America by Nicholas F. Jacobs 9780231211581
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €30.77The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by... -
Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It by Justin Lewis 9780231117678
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €27.18Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance... -
Polls, Pollsters, and Public Opinion: A Guide for Decision-Makers Clifford Young 9781108790000
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.42A vast literature exists on theories of public opinion - how to measure, analyze, predict, and influence it; however, there is no synthesis of best practices for interpreting public opinion: existing knowledge is disparate and spread across many... -
The Public Opinion Process: How the People Speak Irving Crespi 9780805826654
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.19What is public opinion? How can we best study it? This work presents a "process model" that answers these questions by defining public opinion in a way that also identifies an approach to studying it. The model serves as a framework into which the... -
Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere: How Extraction Replaced Opinion and Why it Matters by Slavko Splichal 9781839984501
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €91.12The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the Enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which the public reflexively... -
India's Experiment with Democracy: The Life of a Nation Through Its Elections by S.Y. Quraishi 9789356993648
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356993648Author S.Y. QuraishiFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 40mm -
Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by G. Elliott Morris 9781324052074
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.95Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely... -
BJP Unboxed: The Story of India's Political Powerhouse by Ankush Vig 9798224477227
RRP: €7.72Booksplease Price: €7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224477227Author Ankush VigFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Ankush VigPublisher Ankush VigWeight(grams) 109g -
Trump In His Own Words by The Contemporary Policy Institute 9798823003582
Booksplease Price: €14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823003582Author The Contemporary Policy InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 109g -
The Greatest Treachery in Human History Daniel Harran 9781638295549
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638295549Author Daniel HarranFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)... -
Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections by W. Joseph Campbell 9780520397781
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €21.46This update of a lively, first-of-its-kind study of polling misfires and fiascoes in U.S. presidential campaigns takes up pollsters' failure over the decades to offer accurate assessments of the most important of American elections. "W. Joseph Campbell's... -
American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content, and Impact by Robert S. Erikson 9781032354279
RRP: €160.65Booksplease Price: €142.05Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, including its origins in political socialization, its role in the electoral process, and the impact of the media, American Public Opinion goes beyond a simple presentation of data to include a critical... -
American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content, and Impact by Robert S. Erikson 9781032354255
RRP: €92.81Booksplease Price: €82.90Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, including its origins in political socialization, its role in the electoral process, and the impact of the media, American Public Opinion goes beyond a simple presentation of data to include a critical...