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Afghanistan-Pakistan Shared Waters: State of the Basins by Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah 9781800622357
RRP: £126.80Booksplease Price: £114.88There is currently no water cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of the nine rivers that flow across the border, none possess a formal agreement or mechanism to manage shared water resources... -
The Case for Community Wealth Building Joe Guinan 9781509539024
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? Joe Guinan and Martin... -
Corporate Governance and Complexity Theory by Marc Goergen 9781849801041
Booksplease Price: £99.17This multidisciplinary book takes an innovative approach to corporate governance by linking governance and complexity theory. It provides important new insights into why governance systems are... -
The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking by Philip G. Joyce 9781589017573
RRP: £29.50Booksplease Price: £27.80Created in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. A critical component of our system of checks and balances, the CBO... -
Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia by Tomila V. Lankina 9780742530225
Booksplease Price: £40.79Governing the Locals demonstrates that with the exception of a brief period in 1990-92 when the local soviets fostered mass mobilization, local governments in post-Soviet Russia have actively... -
Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia by Matthew R. Auer 9780742529168
Booksplease Price: £51.70Among the most costly and complicated chapters in the former Eastern bloc countries' transitions to democracy is the clean up and restoration of the environment. Even as Communist-era environmental... -
Political Determinants of Corporate Governance: Political Context, Corporate Impact by Mark J. Roe 9780199205301
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £47.39Before a nation can produce, it must achieve social peace. That social peace has been reached in different nations by differing means, some of which have then been embedded in business firms, in... -
Toward the National Security State: Civil-Military Relations during World War II by Brian Waddell 9780275984083
Booksplease Price: £51.71American involvement in World War II greatly transformed U.S. civil-military relations by propelling the U.S. military into a prominent position within the national government. The war established... -
Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability by Valerie Sperling 9780521541817
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Is globalization good for democracy? Or has it made our governing institutions less accountable to citizens? Located at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, this book... -
Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan by Jennifer Murtazashvili
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those in the... -
Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy by S. Sara Monoson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken... -
Public Administration in Ethiopia: Case Studies and Lessons for Sustainable Development by Bacha Kebede Debela
Booksplease Price: £45.20Building an effective, inclusive, and accountable public administration has become a major point of attention for policymakers and academics in Ethiopia who want to realise sustainable development... -
Integrated Evaluation of Disability by Ramar Sabapathi Vinayagam
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04There are overwhelming demands for health and rehabilitation services due to rise in the number of disabled people. The existing literature on disability evaluation has only focused on impairment or... -
Achieving Human Rights Richard Falk 9780415990165
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11... -
Public Sector Technology Transfer by Albert N. Link 9781035310524
Booksplease Price: £88.08In this insightful book, Albert N. Link offers a perceptive explanation as to why the U.S. public sector is involved in technology transfer, and how the institutions that support technology transfer... -
41: Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush by Michael Nelson 9780801479274
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of... -
The European Union: Politics and Policies by Jonathan Olsen 9780813349848
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £37.18Covering the history, governing institutions, and policies of the European Union, Jonathan Olsen and John McCormick present the EU as one of the world's economic and political superpowers, which has... -
Entrepreneurs and Democracy: A Political Theory of Corporate Governance by Harry Korine 9780521169608
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44What legitimizes power within a corporation? This question is of concern to the millions of citizens whose lives depend upon the fate of business corporations. The rules, institutions and practices... -
Global Governance in a World of Change by Michael N. Barnett 9781108843232
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.41Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions... -
Security and Conflict in East Asia by Andrew T. H. Tan 9781857439779
Booksplease Price: £52.79Security and Conflict in East Asia provides a timely and thorough analysis of the sources and implications of conflict on the Korean peninsula, China and Japan, the three biggest economies in the... -
Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback: Essential strategies and secure practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE transformations by Marc Hornbeek 9781835462249
Booksplease Price: £33.49A step-by-step guide to developing high-quality, secure, and agile software using continuous testing and feedback strategies and tools Key Features Gain insights from real-world use cases and... -
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos: Perspective for Today's World by Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world's most brutal forms of poverty and violence, this book examines the power of traditional and... -
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media by Marc Owen Jones
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48You are being lied to by people who don't even exist. Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots... -
Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap by Christian Adam
Booksplease Price: £32.12The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy. On the... -
China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh 9780199860142
RRP: £25.49Booksplease Price: £22.05Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on... -
South Asia Migration Report 2024: Remittances, Resilience and Rehabilitation S Irudaya Rajan 9781032860794
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14South Asia Migration Report 2024 documents key themes of remittances, resilience, and rehabilitation from the region.This volume: * Includes dedicated fieldwork to map migration within and outside... -
Regulating the Visible Hand?: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism by Benjamin L. Liebman 9780190250256
Booksplease Price: £110.12The economic and geopolitical implications of China's rise have been the subject of vast commentary. However, the institutional implications of China's transformative development under state... -
SeaCities: Aquatic Urbanism by Joerg Baumeister 9789819924806
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22... -
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RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.19**CHRISTINA DALCHER'S GRIPPING NEW THRILLER THE SENTENCE IS AVAILABLE NOW!** 'Terrifyingly plausible' Louise Candlish 'Devastating and brilliant'... -
Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government? by Vicki C. Jackson
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.49Nations around the world are facing various crises of ineffective government. Basic governmental functions-protecting rights, preventing violence, and promoting material well-being-are compromised,... -
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets: Barriers and Innovation by Glenn Yago 9780387728568
Booksplease Price: £92.14An often-overlooked aspect of entrepreneurship in American is its role in emerging domestic markets (EDM). These markets - low-to-moderate income communities, ethnic- and women-owned businesses,... -
A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government by Sean McCann
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is... -
A Research Agenda for Public Administration Andrew Massey 9781800375260
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.70Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of... -
Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes 9781009373630
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.40Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? This book demonstrates that a major part of the answer lies in the... -
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China: A Comparative Analysis Michael Loewe 9781350445123
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.53Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled one-half of the earth's population in... -
Facilitating Transition by Internationalization: Outward Direct Investment from Central European Economies in Transition by Matija Rojec
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68FDI has proved to be the most dynamic defensive and offensive response to globalization. This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the rationale as well as theoretical and empirical explanations... -
Officially Indian: Symbols that Define the United States by Cecile Ganteaume 9781517903305
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32From maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Management and Administration by Christopher Pollitt 9781784712310
Booksplease Price: £99.17Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible... -
For All The People: Redeeming the Broken Promises of Modern Media and Reclaiming Our Civic Life by Deval Patrick 9781633310513
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.05A leader in digital communication and grassroots political campaigns explains how the internet and modern media have undermined America and how we can reclaim our voices for the good of civic life... -
Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay by Charmain Levy 9783031258824
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Paraguay is an under-examined, but remarkably fascinating country, where war, dictatorship, and elite capture have produced cycles of popular mobilization and repression. Yet, its social movements...