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The Right to Development in the African Human Rights System by Serges Djoyou Kamga 9780367593193
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The right to development (RTD) seeks to address global inequities hidden in world politics and global institutions through the game of influences played by powerful actors. The negative impacts of... -
Independence and Politics – Crossroads in the Shaping of Israel`s Political System by M Chazan 9780253068682
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Independence and Politics delves deeply into the political landscape of Israel during the years 1947–1949. Weaving together a wealth of original sources and emphasizing domestic politics, Meir Chazan... -
NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism by Tamara Kay 9780521762878
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.39When NAFTA went into effect in 1994, many feared it would intensify animosity among North American unions, lead to the scapegoating of Mexican workers and immigrants, and eclipse any possibility for... -
Global Monitoring: The Challenges of Access to Data by Ray Harris
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39This highly technical work is at the leading edge of spatial analysis. It covers the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative in the international context of access to... -
American Politics and Society Today by Robert Singh
Booksplease Price: £19.71From the attempt to impeach Bill Clinton to the 2000 elections and George W. Busha s presidency, American politics has been marked by controversy. American Politics and Society Today analyses these... -
The Making of China's Foreign Policy in the 21st century: Historical Sources, Institutions/Players, and Perceptions of Power Relations Suisheng Zhao (University of Denver, Colorado, USA) 9781138393059
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93This book is a study of the making of foreign policy of China, a rising power in the 21st century. It examines three sets of driving forces behind China's foreign policy making. One is historical... -
Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy by Laura Jensen 9780521818834
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy offers a pathbreaking account of the pivotal role played by entitlement policies during the first hundred years of the United States'... -
Assessments by River Forest 9780359294367
RRP: £54.98Booksplease Price: £49.36Small Business Needs have been met adequately through this book for Assessments. Everything about Assessments. It is a detailed manual. Exercises that can help professional assessors, practicing... -
Bentham and Bureaucracy by L. J. Hume 9780521526067
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.14Most accounts of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) deal with him as a prophet of either utilitarianism or of liberal democracy. This book discusses a less familiar but very important aspect of his political... -
The State and the Arts: Articulating Power and Subversion Judith Kapferer 9781845455781
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and cultural settings. The authors critique the... -
Empowering Women in Bangladesh: Gender and the Politics of Reserved Seats by Shajeda Aktar 9780367503925
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book investigates the deep linkages between gender and grassroots politics. It studies how women candidates in Bangladesh are elected in reserved seats in the local government bodies and... -
Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government by Fred Paxton 9781009379083
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £80.83The entry of populist radical right parties into positions of power has generated anxious debate regarding the potential consequences for liberal democracy. Their activities in local government,... -
Diversity, Violence, and Recognition by Elisabeth King 9780197509463
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £28.01When considering strategies to address violent conflict, scholars and policymakers debate the wisdom of recognizing versus avoiding reference to ethnic identities in government institutions. In... -
Public Procurement in Chinese Law and Practice by Xiang Xiansheng 9789819910465
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.42This book aims to present an overview of government procurement of public services in China. It introduces three types of government procurement of public service and analyzes the legal boundaries,... -
Politics East and West: A Comparison of Japanese and British Political Culture: A Comparison of Japanese and British Political Culture by Curtis H. Martin 9781138896451
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79This title was first published in 1992: This book compares stability and change in the political culture of the relatively new Asian democracy Japan and the much older Western democracy Britain... -
Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy by Laura Jensen 9780521524261
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy offers a pathbreaking account of the pivotal role played by entitlement policies during the first hundred years of the United States'... -
Can Governance be Intelligent?: An Interdisciplinary Approach and Evolutionary Modelling for Intelligent Governance in the Digital Age by Eran Vigoda-Gadot 9781009475884
Booksplease Price: £56.13Intelligence is a concept that occurs in multiple contexts and has various meanings. It refers to the ability of human beings and other entities to think and understand the world around us. It... -
Contemporary Yemen: Politics and Historical Background by B. R. Pridham
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89First published in 1984, this volume examines the then-two Yemens, North and South, and their strategic importance in the Middle East. South Yemen, formerly Aden, was a Marxist country controlling... -
Quality of Government and Corruption from a European Perspective: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions by Nicholas Charron 9781782545439
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.47In this book the authors tackle the concept of 'quality of government' (QoG) both conceptually and empirically and apply their focus to EU countries and regions. In a pioneering empirical effort,... -
Building Global Democracy?: Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance by Jan Aart Scholte 9780521192194
RRP: £84.99Booksplease Price: £81.13The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems... -
Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka by Dian A. H. Shah 9781316634752
Booksplease Price: £32.12As religious polarisation in society deepens, political actors and policy-makers have begun to struggle with questions on the role of the dominant religion and how religion influences constitutional... -
Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development: Ghana's Experiences for Policy and Practice in Developing Countries by Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei 9783031123801
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic... -
The Politics of Religious Tourism Dr Dino Bozonelos (California State University) 9781800621718
RRP: £99.75Booksplease Price: £92.98Addressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism. Existing work shows awareness that politics is... -
Global Markets and Financial Crises in Asia: Towards a Theory for the 21st Century by Haider A. Khan 9780333760765
Booksplease Price: £90.56Khan presents a theory of financial crises in the age of globalization from an evolutionary perspective and suggests policies that may be necessary for averting or managing new financial crises... -
Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre: Intellectuals, Amateurs, and Cultural Entrepreneurs, 1910s-1940s Man He 9780472057559
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.64Modern Chinese theatre once entailed a variety of forms, but now it primarily refers to spoken drama, or huaju. Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre looks beyond scripts to examine visuality,... -
Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination Dan Greenwood 9783031303821
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £29.69This book provides a conceptual and methodological approach for researchers evaluating governance and policy in the face of complexity, and demonstrates the application of this approach across... -
The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada, Eighth Edition Patrick Malcolmson 9781487556167
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £34.08Using a historical-institutional approach, The Canadian Regime introduces students to the idea of the “regime” as a lens through which they can understand how institutions interact with the basic... -
Entrepreneurs and Democracy: A Political Theory of Corporate Governance by Harry Korine 9780521856386
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.11What 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... -
Italy: From the 1st to the 2nd Republic Stephen P. Koff 9780415196642
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This textbook has been designed to provide students with an up-to-date and accessible introduction to the complexities of Italian politics during the 1990s. It will equip students with a sound... -
Understanding Cybersecurity Technologies: A Guide to Selecting the Right Cybersecurity Tools by Abbas Moallem 9780367457457
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Cyberattacks on enterprises, government institutions, and individuals are exponentially growing. At the same time, the number of companies, both small and large, offering all types of solutions has... -
Italy: From the 1st to the 2nd Republic by Sondra Z. Koff 9780415196635
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67This textbook has been designed to provide students with an up-to-date and accessible introduction to the complexities of Italian politics during the 1990s. It will equip students with a sound... -
Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre: Intellectuals, Amateurs, and Cultural Entrepreneurs, 1910s-1940s Man He 9780472077557
Booksplease Price: £109.09Modern Chinese theatre once entailed a variety of forms, but now it primarily refers to spoken drama, or huaju. Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre looks beyond scripts to examine visuality,... -
Multilevel Environmental Governance: Managing Water and Climate Change in Europe and North America by Inger Weibust 9781783472840
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23The literature on Multi-level governance (MLG), an approach that explicitly looks at the system of the many interacting authority structures at work in the global political economy, has grown... -
The Many Faces of Public Management Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region by Clay Wescott 9781849506397
Booksplease Price: £117.13During the past decade, globalization and democratization have been the major forces that helped transform the structures, functions, and processes of Asian public sectors. Nevertheless, these... -
The Politics of Prostitution: Women's Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce by Joyce Outshoorn 9780521833196
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99The most effective way to deal with prostitution has always been hotly debated by governments and women's movements alike. Feminists want it abolished or regulated as sex work; governments have to... -
Chinese Government Leaders in Manchukuo, 1931-1937: Intertwined National Ideals Jianda Yuan 9781032413716
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchukuo puppet state from the angle of notable Chinese... -
Frankish History: Studies in the Construction of Power by Paul Fouracre 9781409451594
Booksplease Price: £48.05The volume consists of sixteen papers on the history of Francia between the seventh and eleventh centuries. Originally published between 1979 and 2009, the papers are arranged around three... -
Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka by Dian A. H. Shah 9781107183346
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09As religious polarisation in society deepens, political actors and policy-makers have begun to struggle with questions on the role of the dominant religion and how religion influences constitutional... -
Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons by Brett M. Frischmann 9781108837170
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.41The rise of 'smart' – or technologically advanced – cities has been well documented, while governance of such technology has remained unresolved. Integrating surveillance, AI, automation, and smart... -
Female Ambition: How to Reconcile Work and Family by Nuria Chinchilla 9781349543267
Booksplease Price: £90.56Female Ambition traces the development of women in the workplace, and focuses on a host of critical issues such as current governmental legislation and the family unit, family-responsible companies,...