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Fleeing Sanctuary by Danielle Carpenter 9781639889358
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639889358Author Danielle CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Atmosphere PressPublisher... -
Hunting by the River by Daniel Carpenter 9781913038885
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913038885Author Daniel CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Black Shuck BooksPublisher... -
Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870 by Daniel Carpenter
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £38.04Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book AwardWinner of the J. David Greenstone Book PrizeWinner of the S. M. Lipset Best Book AwardThis pioneering work of political history recovers the central and... -
Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA by Daniel Carpenter
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £45.05The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and... -
Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it by Daniel Carpenter 9781107036086
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £64.30When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the... -
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928 by Daniel Carpenter
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics. In this pioneering book,... -
Digital Magazine Design: With Case Studies by Daniel P. Carpenter 9781841500867
Booksplease Price: £24.74Publishers of contemporary highstreet magazines invest more and more money in developing innovative design for an increasingly designliterate reader. Innovation, however, must always be grounded in... -
Weird Horror Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26With stories from modern writers, and the founding fathers of horror fiction, weird or cosmic horror combines the dark brooding shadows of the night with the presence of elder gods at the edges of... -
Statebuilding from the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal by Carol Nackenoff 9780812245714
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69The period between the Civil War and the New Deal was particularly rich and formative for political development. Beyond the sweeping changes and national reforms for which the era is known,... -
The Founding of Modern States by Richard Franklin Bensel 9781009247214
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.91The Founding of Modern States is a bold comparative work that examines the rise of the modern state through six case studies of state formation. The book opens with an analysis of three foundings... -
Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy by Maraam A. Dwidar 9780226840369
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55A vital examination of how social and economic justice organizations overcome resource disadvantages and build political power. Why do some coalitions triumph while others fall short? In Power to the... -
In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage by Sara Chatfield 9780231199674
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Co-Winner, 2024 V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science AssociationLong before American women had the right to vote, states dramatically transformed their status as economic citizens. In the early... -
Agents of Empire: English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions by Sean Gailmard 9781009316927
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.58To understand the foundations of American political institutions, it's necessary to understand the rationale for British colonial institutions that survived the empire. Political institutions in... -
National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics: The Democratic and Republican National Committees, 1912-2016 by Boris Heersink 9780197695104
Booksplease Price: £74.78A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have long debated the role and importance... -
National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics: The Democratic and Republican National Committees, 1912-2016 by Boris Heersink 9780197695111
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.40A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have long debated the role and importance... -
Regulating Risk: How Private Information Shapes Global Safety Standards by Rebecca L. Perlman 9781009291934
Booksplease Price: £23.27When governments impose stringent regulations that impede domestic competition and international trade, should we conclude that this is a deliberate attempt to protect industry or an honest effort to... -
Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid by Miriam J Laugesen 9780674545168
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage... -
The Abolitionist Imagination by Andrew Delbanco 9780674064447
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and... -
Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work by Dan Honig 9780197506394
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £26.35Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. In Navigation by Judgment,... -
Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work by Dan Honig 9780190672454
RRP: £47.49Booksplease Price: £43.51Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. When should foreign aid... -
Obama and America's Political Future by Theda Skocpol 9780674065970
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26Barack Obama's galvanizing victory in 2008, coming amid the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s, opened the door to major reforms. But the president quickly faced skepticism from supporters and... -
No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment by Sarah Staszak 9780199399048
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £31.89We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups,... -
Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide Cheryl Krasnick Warsh 9780197632543
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.56The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomide In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became one of the most celebrated women in America... -
No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment by Sarah Staszak 9780199399031
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £109.33We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups,... -
Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories by Associate Professor of Law Gregory Ablavsky
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £37.97Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The... -
Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards by Henry E. Brady 9781442203440
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £44.42With innovative new chapters on process tracing, regression analysis, and natural experiments, the second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry further extends the reach of this path-breaking book... -
Making Policy Public: Participatory Bureaucracy in American Democracy by Susan L. Moffitt 9781107065222
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.43This book challenges the conventional wisdom that government bureaucrats inevitably seek secrecy and demonstrates how and when participatory bureaucracy manages the enduring tension between... -
The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom Sarah L. H. Gronningsater 9781512826319
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in... -
The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom Professor Sarah L H Gronningsater 9781512829709
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northernersThe Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the... -
The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities by Clayton Nall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system... -
Making Policy Public: Participatory Bureaucracy in American Democracy by Susan L. Moffitt
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.60This book challenges the conventional wisdom that government bureaucrats inevitably seek secrecy and demonstrates how and when participatory bureaucracy manages the enduring tension between... -
Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation by John A Dearborn 9780226797830
Booksplease Price: £31.37The emergence of the modern presidency in the first half of the twentieth century transformed the American government. But surprisingly, presidents were not the primary driving force of this... -
Structured to Fail?: Regulatory Performance under Competing Mandates by Christopher Carrigan 9781316632802
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.96In the search for explanations for three of the most pressing crises of the early twenty-first century (the housing meltdown and financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill, and the nuclear disaster at... -
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli 9781783780822
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin... -
Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation by John A Dearborn
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.90The emergence of the modern presidency in the first half of the twentieth century transformed the American government. But surprisingly, presidents were not the primary driving force of this... -
First Love Gwendoline Riley 9781803513560
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' Observer SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an... -
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander Keyssar
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.06A New Statesman Book of the Year"America's greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy-the electoral college...A... -
Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West by Cameron Blevins
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.39A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants...