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Democracy despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy by Benjamin A. Schupmann 9780192873026
Booksplease Price: £97.91Recent developments, including anti-democratic moves by governments in Hungary, India, and Turkey and the rise of populist leaders, demonstrate the threat posed to democratic values by legal... -
Twenty Years After Communism by Michael H. Bernhard 9780199375141
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.60While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West, the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy. In post-communist... -
Twenty Years After Communism by Michael H. Bernhard 9780199375134
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £117.70While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West, the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy. In post-communist... -
Europe's Functional Constitution: A Theory of Constitutionalism Beyond the State by Turkuler Isiksel 9780198844341
Booksplease Price: £37.55Constitutionalism has become a byword for legitimate government, but is it fated to lose its relevance as constitutional states relinquish power to international institutions? This book evaluates the... -
The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy by Samuel Ely Bagg 9780192848826
Booksplease Price: £105.04The Dispersion of Power is an urgent call to rethink centuries of conventional wisdom about what democracy is, why it matters, and how to make it better. Drawing from history, social science,... -
The New Politics of Poland: A Case of Post-Traumatic Sovereignty by Jaroslaw Kuisz 9781526155870
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.27The election of populist far-right party Law and Justice in 2015 marked a shocking break in Polish politics. A period of stability was brutally interrupted as Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his allies took... -
Anti-Constitutional Populism by Martin Krygier
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75Around the world, populist parties have sprung up in formerly and formally liberal-democratic polities, challenging their existing political parties and leaders, and frequently overwhelming them... -
Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy by Nadia Urbinati
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy.Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this... -
The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It by Julia Cage
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.45Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it.One person, one... -
Riding the Populist Wave: Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis by Tim Bale 9781316518762
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.41In spite of the fact that Conservative, Christian democratic and Liberal parties continue to play a crucial role in the democratic politics and governance of every Western European country, they are... -
Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU Tom Theuns 9781805266020
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37The future of Europe as a community of democratic states is deeply uncertain. The European Union, founded to promote 'ever closer' integration, aims nominally for peaceful, prosperous cooperation... -
Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics by Christopher J. Bickerton
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £100.10Technocratic appeals to expertise and populist invocations of 'the people' have become mainstays of political competition in established democracies. This development is best understood as the... -
Riding the Populist Wave: Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis by Tim Bale
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45In spite of the fact that Conservative, Christian democratic and Liberal parties continue to play a crucial role in the democratic politics and governance of every Western European country, they are... -
Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church by James Chappel
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.70In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French... -
Orban: Europe's New Strongman by Paul Lendvai 9781787382206
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73A no-holds-barred biography of Viktor Orban, the most successful--and arguably most dangerous--politician in Hungarian history. Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism,... -
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.85Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it... -
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate...