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Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Michael Beckley 9781324066101
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.21It 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... -
Property without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap by Michael Albertus
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.81Major land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these programs... -
The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong by Edmund W. Cheng 9789462984561
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $232.58This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland... -
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence by Ronald Inglehart
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $65.91This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a... -
Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin America by Cynthia McClintock 9780190879761
RRP: $85.78Booksplease Price: $64.35During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political arena to... -
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence by Ronald Inglehart 9780521846950
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $146.11This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a... -
Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink by John Campbell 9781442221574
Booksplease Price: $74.90Nigeria, the United States' most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the... -
Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink by John Campbell 9781442221567
Booksplease Price: $220.56Nigeria, the United States' most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the... -
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics by Gerardo L. Munck 9780801884634
Booksplease Price: $147.07In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the... -
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics by Gerardo L. Munck 9780801884641
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $55.65In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the... -
Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty by Ali Gheissari 9780195396966
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $40.37Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for... -
Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations: Global Perspective and the Eurasian Enigma by Anastassia V. Obydenkova 9780198839040
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $153.47The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and democratization has become a topic of intense debate. However, the main focus of the literature so far has been on IOs... -
How East Asians View Democracy by Yun-han Chu 9780231145350
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens... -
The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $46.33Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point... -
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $56.55Booksplease Price: $45.28Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that... -
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War by Steven Levitsky 9780521882521
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $184.10Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that...