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What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.30'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall... -
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Lively. . . This is one of those rare books about a pressing subject that reads less like a forced march than an inviting stroll . . . A book that encourages thinking, observation and discernment'... -
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Muller 9781250849175
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250849175Author Jan-Werner M llerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher... -
Constitutional Patriotism by Jan-Werner Muller 9780691118598
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and... -
Isaiah Berlin's Cold War Liberalism by Jan-Werner Muller 9789811327926
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12This book offers a succinct re-examination of Berlin's Cold War liberalism, at a time when many observers worry about the emergence of a new Cold War. Two chapters look closely at Berlin's liberalism... -
Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.99In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built... -
A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.66Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and disturbing critics of liberalism. He was also one of the most important intellectuals to offer his services to the... -
Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity by Jan-Werner Muller 9780300190731
Booksplease Price: £34.12How did German intellectuals react to unification and how have they conceived the country's national identity and its new international position? This important book not only examines changing... -
Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past by Jan-Werner Muller 9780521000703
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.67How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics after the Second World War and after 1989 in particular? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how... -
Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past by Jan-Werner Muller 9780521806107
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics after the Second World War and after 1989 in particular? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how... -
German Ideologies Since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic by Jan-Werner Muller 9780312295790
Booksplease Price: £46.28The contributors of this volume seek to answer such questions as: 'How did the Germans overcome 'Germanic Ideology', or did they?' 'Why is there no libertarianism in Germany?' 'What do German... -
German Ideologies Since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic by Jan-Werner Muller 9781349388172
Booksplease Price: £46.28The contributors of this volume seek to answer such questions as: 'How did the Germans overcome 'Germanic Ideology', or did they?' 'Why is there no libertarianism in Germany?' 'What do German... -
Street, Palace, Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces by Jan-Werner Müller 9780241382035
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Building requires power and resources – then, once created, our environment structures how we relate to each other. But what would a distinctly democratic built environment look like? Should we... -
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Mueller 9780812248982
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.77Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chavez-populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be... -
Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours by Paul Starr 9780231203661
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major... -
Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato - Revised and Expanded Edition by Mitchell Cohen 9780691159973
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and... -
Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy by Peter Mair
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void. The major parties have become so disconnected from society that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its... -
Migration and Identity in a Post-National World by Katherine Tonkiss 9781349456284
Booksplease Price: £46.28Katherine Tonkiss offers a succinct account of constitutional patriotism theory, specifically arguing that it involves a commitment to free migration. She draws on qualitative research to explore the... -
Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas by John P. McCormick 9780822327882
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62With a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to German political and social theory, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology provides fresh insight into the thought of many of the... -
Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989 by Peter C. Caldwell
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £78.40Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume... -
History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck by Niklas Olsen 9780857452955
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46This is the first intellectual biography, in any language, on post-war Germany's greatest theorist of history, Reinhart Koselleck. It not only illuminates Koselleck's role in founding conceptual... -
Christian Human Rights by Samuel Moyn
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in... -
Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for Dark Times by Veena Das
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from... -
Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered by Sarah Shortall
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £79.06This is the first global examination of the historical relationship between Christianity and human rights in the twentieth century. Leading historians, anthropologists, political theorists, legal... -
Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours by Paul Starr
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major... -
Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered by Sarah Shortall 9781108440851
Booksplease Price: £24.15This is the first global examination of the historical relationship between Christianity and human rights in the twentieth century. Leading historians, anthropologists, political theorists, legal... -
Good Government: Democracy beyond Elections by Pierre Rosanvallon
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £33.59Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state... -
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... -
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...