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Histories of Postmodernism by Mark Bevir
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth... -
Governance Stories by Mark Bevir
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation.Over the last twenty years... -
The Making of British Socialism by Mark Bevir
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.00The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding... -
Interpreting British Governance by Mark Bevir
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain?This book develops the argument that we can... -
New Labour: A Critique by Mark Bevir
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18New Labour is the most innovative and powerful political movement in Britain today. However, New Labour: A Critique argues that its apparent pragmatism disguises an ideological commitment to... -
Democratic Governance by Mark Bevir 9780691145396
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually... -
Governance Stories by Mark Bevir 9780415459778
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation.Over the last twenty years... -
Interpreting Global Security by Mark Bevir 9781138289451
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This edited collection explores the fruitfulness of applying an interpretive approach to the study of global security. The interpretive approach concentrates on unpacking the meanings and beliefs of... -
The Making of British Socialism by Mark Bevir 9780691150833
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37"The Making of British Socialism" provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding... -
The Logic of the History of Ideas by Mark Bevir 9780521016841
Booksplease Price: £35.47Human cultures generate meanings, and the history of ideas, broadly conceived, is the study of these meanings. An adequate theory of culture must therefore rest on a suitable philosophical enquiry... -
The State as Cultural Practice by Mark Bevir 9780199604487
Booksplease Price: £42.59The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most... -
Governance: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Bevir
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global... -
A History of Political Science by Mark Bevir 9781009044295
Booksplease Price: £19.72This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline itself. The history of political science is less... -
Decentring European Governance by Mark Bevir 9780367661069
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Conforming neither to the hierarchical and bureaucratic organization of the European nation-state nor the anarchical structure of international organizations, the European Union (EU) and its... -
Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain by Mark Bevir
Booksplease Price: £35.47Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain explores the rise and nature of historicist thinking about such varied topics as life, race, character, literature, language, economics,... -
Interpreting Brexit: Reimagining Political Traditions by Mark Bevir 9783031172809
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume examines the impact of Brexit on political traditions such as nationalism, liberalism and conservatism, cosmopolitanism and decentralization. Bringing together scholars of British... -
Interpreting Brexit: Reimagining Political Traditions by Mark Bevir 9783031172830
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume examines the impact of Brexit on political traditions such as nationalism, liberalism and conservatism, cosmopolitanism and decentralization. Bringing together scholars of British... -
Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science Mark Bevir 9781138498884
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the... -
Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach by Mark Bevir 9780198832959
Booksplease Price: £40.19In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major... -
Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach by Mark Bevir 9780198832942
Booksplease Price: £73.17In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major... -
Modern Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates since 1880 by Mark Bevir
Booksplease Price: £35.47Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. Liberal pluralism helped reinforce and promote greater separation of political and religious spheres. Socialist pluralism... -
Decentring Urban Governance: Narratives, Resistance and Contestation by Mark Bevir 9780367885199
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy... -
Decentring Security: Policing Communities at Home and Abroad by Mark Bevir 9780367891794
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Contemporary security governance often relies on markets and networks to link public agencies to non-governmental actors. This book explores the rise, nature, and future of these new forms of... -
Governmentality after Neoliberalism Mark Bevir (University of California, Berkeley, USA.) 9781138488212
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Neoliberalism has had a major impact on public policy but it has also perhaps obscured the equally dramatic spread of other policy tools based on significantly different forms of social science.This... -
Governance, Consumers and Citizens: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics by Mark Bevir 9780230517288
Booksplease Price: £92.27This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as... -
Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World by Mark Bevir 9780521044516
Booksplease Price: £43.34Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of... -
Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World by Mark Bevir 9780521833554
Booksplease Price: £99.73Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of... -
Modern Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates since 1880 by Mark Bevir 9781107017672
Booksplease Price: £66.96Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. Liberal pluralism helped reinforce and promote greater separation of political and religious spheres. Socialist pluralism... -
Governance, Consumers and Citizens: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics by Mark Bevir 9781349355037
Booksplease Price: £91.99This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as... -
Decentering Health and Care Networks: Reshaping the Organization and Delivery of Healthcare by Mark Bevir 9783030408886
Booksplease Price: £112.12Networks have become a prominent template for public service governance. Often seen as an alternative to hierarchies and contract, networks cross institutionalized organizational or sectoral... -
Decentring Health and Care Networks: Reshaping the Organization and Delivery of Healthcare by Mark Bevir 9783030408916
Booksplease Price: £112.12Networks have become a prominent template for public service governance. Often seen as an alternative to hierarchies and contracts, networks cross institutionalized organizational or sectoral... -
Rethinking Governance: Ruling, rationalities and resistance Mark Bevir (University of California, Berkeley, USA.) 9781138487369
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpretive ideas. It conceives governance as the... -
Decentring Health Policy: Learning from British Experiences in Healthcare Governance by Mark Bevir 9780367885298
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Taking a 'decentred' approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which reforms are located, the influence of dominant or... -
Modernism and the Social Sciences: Anglo-American Exchanges, c.1918-1980 by Mark Bevir 9781316626306
Booksplease Price: £35.47This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading international scholars, Modernism and the Social... -
Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day by Mark Bevir 9780333980811
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its... -
Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day by Mark Bevir 9781349430192
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its... -
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography by Tor Egil Forland
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and... -
Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn by Gabrielle M. Spiegel 9780415341080
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with... -
Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought by Martyn P. Thompson
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakeshott's analysis of the logic of... -
The New History Alun Munslow 9780582472822
Booksplease Price: £62.59The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world's...