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Africa: Dilemmas Of Development And Change Peter Lewis 9780813327556
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94In the decades since independence, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have faced three central dilemmas of development. The first has been the challenge of state building. In the wake of colonial... -
Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Lessons for the Next Half-century: Lessons for the Next Half-century by Louis A. Picard
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future... -
America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition by Tony Smith 9780691154923
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.99America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of... -
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century by G. John Ikenberry 9780691150048
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this... -
Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy by Diego Abente Brun 9781421412290
Booksplease Price: £36.92What happens when vote-buying becomes a means of social policy? Although one could cynically ask this question just as easily about the United States' mature democracy, Diego Abente Brun and Larry... -
Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy by Diego Abente Brun 9781421412283
Booksplease Price: £65.74What happens when vote-buying becomes a means of social policy? Although one could cynically ask this question just as easily about the United States' mature democracy, Diego Abente Brun and Larry... -
Will China Democratize? by Andrew J. Nathan 9781421412436
Booksplease Price: £33.75While China has achieved extraordinary economic success as it has moved toward open markets and international trade, its leadership maintains an authoritarian grip, repressing political movements,... -
Does Democracy Matter?: The United States and Global Democracy Support by Adrian Basora 9781538101841
Booksplease Price: £113.11Confidence in the future of democracy has been shaken by the authoritarian resurgence of the past decade, and some now argue that it is not realistic for the US to continue to champion democracy... -
Producing Cultural Change in Political Communities: The Impact of Populism and Extremism on the International Security Environment by Holger Mölder 9783031434396
Booksplease Price: £112.42In light of many crises in the last two decades, including democratic recession, climate change, economic crises, and massive waves of migration affecting perceptions of security around the world,... -
The Troubling State of India's Democracy Dinsha Mistree 9780472077014
Booksplease Price: £71.25As India's power and prominence rise on the international stage, its longstanding tradition of democracy is under threat. Since establishing a secular and democratic constitution in 1950, India has... -
Power and Change in Iran: Politics of Contention and Conciliation by Daniel Brumberg 9780253020765
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This volume provides an unparalleled and timely look at political, social, economic, and ideological dynamics in contemporary Iran. Through chapters on social welfare and privatization, university... -
Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice Arend Lijphart (University of California, San Diego, USA) 9780415772686
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.Thinking about Democracy... -
The State of India's Democracy by Sumit Ganguly 9780801887901
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £29.11The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy series examines the state of India's democracy. As India marks its sixtieth year of independence, it has become an ever more important object... -
Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime by Harukata Takenaka 9780804763417
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan presents a compelling case study on change in political regimes through its exploration of Japan's transition to democracy. Within a broad-ranging examination... -
Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria by Peter M. Lewis 9780472099801
Booksplease Price: £93.31"Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the most natural... -
Democracy in Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering for Conflict Management by Benjamin Reilly 9780521797306
Booksplease Price: £35.47Democracy is inherently difficult in societies divided along deep ethnic cleavages. Elections in such societies will often encourage 'centrifugal' politics which reward extremist ethnic appeals,... -
New Ideas on Development after the Financial Crisis by Nancy Birdsall 9780801899751
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.28The global financial crisis of 2008-9 has changed the way people around the world think about development. The market-friendly, lightly regulated model of capitalism promoted by the United States is... -
New Ideas on Development after the Financial Crisis by Nancy Birdsall 9780801899768
Booksplease Price: £37.88The global financial crisis of 2008-9 has changed the way people around the world think about development. The market-friendly, lightly regulated model of capitalism promoted by the United States is... -
Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia by Muthiah Alagappa 9780804742276
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £24.20This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-military relations in sixteen Asian countries. It provides... -
Democratization by Elections: A New Mode of Transition Staffan I. Lindberg (Director, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg) 9780801893193
Booksplease Price: £36.05Contested, multiparty elections are conventionally viewed as either an indicator of the start of democracy or a measure of its quality. In practice, the role that elections play in the transition... -
Democratization by Elections: A New Mode of Transition by Staffan I. Lindberg 9780801893186
Booksplease Price: £64.73Contested, multiparty elections are conventionally viewed as either an indicator of the start of democracy or a measure of its quality. In practice, the role that elections play in the transition... -
Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia by Muthiah Alagappa
RRP: £160.00Booksplease Price: £78.58This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-military relations in sixteen Asian countries. It provides... -
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy by Francis Fukuyama 9781421405704
Booksplease Price: £32.39The rise of populism in new democracies, especially in Latin America, has brought renewed urgency to the question of how liberal democracy deals with issues of poverty and inequality. Citizens who... -
International Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy by Peter F. Nardulli
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Democracy enjoys unparalleled prestige at the beginning of the twenty-first century as a form of government. Some of the world's most prosperous nations are democracies, and an array of nations in... -
Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas by Tom Farer 9780801851667
Booksplease Price: £32.29How can external actors-governments, regional organizations, the United Nations, financial institutions, nongovernmental organizations-affect the process of democratic transition and consolidation?... -
Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism by Lina Khatib 9781421413129
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Taking to the Streets critically examines the conventional wisdom that the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings happened spontaneously and were directed by tech-savvy young revolutionaries. Pairing first-hand... -
When Democracy Trumps Populism: European and Latin American Lessons for the United States by Kurt Weyland 9781108728829
Booksplease Price: £26.61The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Because no populist leader had occupied the White... -
When Democracy Trumps Populism: European and Latin American Lessons for the United States by Kurt Weyland 9781108483544
Booksplease Price: £88.60The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Because no populist leader had occupied the White... -
Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq by Francis Fukuyama 9780801883354
Booksplease Price: £31.72Bestselling author Francis Fukuyama brings together esteemed academics, political analysts, and practitioners to reflect on the U.S. experience with nation-building, from its historical underpinnings... -
The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union by Carolyn Warner 9780801445552
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £27.88As the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers assumed that the changes would reduce corruption. Aspects of the stronger EU promised to... -
Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief by Erin Baggott Carter 9781009271233
Booksplease Price: £30.85A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly believe otherwise, a dictator's power is anything... -
Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations by Wale Adebanwi 9781137280763
Booksplease Price: £46.28Richard Joseph's seminal 1987 book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria represented a watershed moment in the understanding of the political dynamics of Nigeria. This groundbreaking collection... -
Democratic Crossroads: Transformations in Twenty First-Century Politics Richard Youngs 9780197762424
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.18After more than a decade of democratic regression, three major crises have acted to reshape global politics in recent years: climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic legacy, and... -
Democratic Crossroads: Transformations in Twenty First-Century Politics by Richard Youngs 9780197762417
Booksplease Price: £70.76After more than a decade of democratic regression, three major crises have acted to reshape global politics in recent years: climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic legacy, and... -
Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Mike Beckley
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.99It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the... -
Democracy and its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies by Richard Rose 9780745619279
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89The collapse of communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and the Black seas. But the alternatives - dictatorship or totalitarian rule - are more in... -
Countries at the Crossroads 2011: An Analysis of Democratic Governance by Freedom House 9781442212619
Booksplease Price: £113.91Countries at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Democratic Governance evaluates government performance in seventy strategically important countries from across the globe, including emerging market... -
China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization Emeka Umejei 9781350532564
Booksplease Price: £85.65This book provides unique, on-the-ground insights into the expansion of Chinese media engagement and influence-building across the length and breadth of Africa.Does the PRC's multimodal engagement... -
Does Democracy Matter?: The United States and Global Democracy Support by Adrian Basora 9781538101858
Booksplease Price: £40.79Confidence in the future of democracy has been shaken by the authoritarian resurgence of the past decade, and some now argue that it is not realistic for the US to continue to champion democracy... -
Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Michael Beckley 9781324066101
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.44It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the...