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On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.48Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how... -
A Preface to Democratic Theory by Robert A. Dahl
Booksplease Price: $42.88Robert Dahl's Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to the field. Exploring problems that had... -
The Democracy Sourcebook by Robert A. Dahl 9780262541473
Booksplease Price: $106.49The Democracy Sourcebook offers a collection of classic writings and contemporary scholarship on democracy, creating a book that can be used by undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety... -
Politics, Economics, and Welfare by Robert A. Dahl
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.56For most of this century, the habit of thinking about politics and economics in terms of grand and simple alternatives has exerted a powerful influence over the minds of those concerned with economic... -
Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition by Robert A. Dahl
Booksplease Price: $41.05"A tightly woven explanation of the conditions under which cultures that do not tolerate political opposition may be transformed into societies that do."-Foreign Affairs "[Dahl's] analysis is lucid,... -
Democracy and Its Critics by Robert A. Dahl 9780300049381
Booksplease Price: $46.22In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the most basic... -
Congress and Foreign Policy by Robert A. Dahl 9780313237881
Booksplease Price: $149.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313237881Author Robert A. DahlFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher... -
Robert A. Dahl: an unended quest by David Baldwin 9781138502505
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31This book is devoted to the work of Robert A. Dahl, who passed away in 2014. Dahl was one of the most important American political scientists and normative democratic theorists of the post-war era,... -
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? by Robert A. Dahl 9780300095241
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.26A Washington Post Book World Best Seller "Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talking about. And he thinks that the Constitution has... -
Political Oppositions in Western Democracies by Robert Alan Dahl 9780300094787
Booksplease Price: $85.96The idea that the opposition has a right to organize and to appeal for votes against the government in elections and in parliament is one of the most important milestones in the development of... -
Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control by Robert A. Dahl
Booksplease Price: $53.98"Continuing his career-long exploration of modern democracy, Dahl addresses a question that has long vexed students of political theory: the place of independent organizations, associations, or... -
Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City by Robert A. Dahl 9780300103922
Booksplease Price: $46.14In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities... -
An Analysis of Robert A. Dahl's Democracy and its Critics Astrid Noren Nilsson 9781912127344
Booksplease Price: $13.03There are few better examples of analysis - the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built - than Robert Dahl's Democracy and its Critics. In this work, the American political... -
An Analysis of Robert A. Dahl's Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City Astrid Noren Nilsson 9781912128006
Booksplease Price: $13.03American political theorist Robert Dahl's 1961 work of political theory exhibits deep levels of creative thinking. When Dahl wrote, the American system of liberal democracy was generally considered... -
Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge: Robert A. Dahl and his Critics on Modern Politics by Hans Blokland 9781138268746
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.21The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their... -
Fundamentals of Weed Science by Robert L. Zimdahl 9780128111437
RRP: $132.58Booksplease Price: $131.29Fundamentals of Weed Science, Fifth Edition, provides the latest information on this constantly advancing area of study. Placing weed management in the largest context of weed research and science,... -
Agriculture's Ethical Horizon by Robert L. Zimdahl 9780124160439
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $73.36The second edition of Agriculture's Ethical Horizon is a carefully considered application of philosophical concepts, such as utilitarianism and positivism, to the practice of agricultural science... -
A Shaker Musical Legacy by Robert C. Opdahl 9781584653608
Booksplease Price: $56.26This fascinating book brings more than one hundred previously unpublished Shaker songs to the attention of scholars, performers, and aficionados of folk music. A Shaker Musical Legacy introduces... -
Fundamentals of Weed Science by Robert L. Zimdahl 9780123944269
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $118.91This book addresses herbicides and their use as an important aspect of modern weed management and strives to place them in an ecological framework. Many weed scientists believe agriculture is a... -
Fundamentals of Weed Science by Robert L Zimdahl 9780443157233
RRP: $187.10Booksplease Price: $176.98Fundamentals of Weed Science, Sixth Edition, places weed management in the context of weed research and science, presenting the latest advances in the role, control, and potential uses of weed plants... -
Agriculture's Ethical Horizon by Robert L Zimdahl 9780128236673
RRP: $126.65Booksplease Price: $115.67Agriculture's Ethical Horizon: Third Edition covers the changing environment in which practitioners of agriculture are challenged to produce food for the world. Fully revised and updated, the book... -
Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture by Robert L. Zimdahl 9780128005613
RRP: $85.78Booksplease Price: $79.66Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture is a scientific look at how the chemicals used in today's food production were developed, evaluated, and came to be in wide-spread use. From fertilizers to pest... -
Weed Science - A Plea for Thought - Revisited by Robert L. Zimdahl 9789400720879
Booksplease Price: $90.25Weed scientists are confident of increasing production through agricultural technology, including herbicides, but do not must ask if the moral obligation to feed people is sufficient justification... -
The Politics of the Prussian Nobility: The Development of a Conservative Ideology, 1770-1848 by Robert M. Berdahl 9780691602882
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $86.39Measured by its capacity to endure, the Prussian nobility was the most successful in the modern history of continental Europe. Throughout the long vicissitudes of its history, this class--the... -
James Madison by Terence Ball 9781138358225
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $61.41James Madison (1751-1836) - 'the Father of the American Constitution' - was a legal and political thinker of great originality and range. The essays by eminent scholars reprinted in this volume... -
John Stuart Mill and Representative Government by Dennis Frank Thompson 9780691637556
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $153.31Although Mill regarded Considerations on Representative Government as a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat it less seriously than most of his other major works... -
Democracy, Bureaucracy, And The Study Of Administration by Camilla Stivers
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $115.52This anthology addresses several of the most central ideas in the field of public administration. These ideas are as relevant to public budgeting as they are to performance measurement or human... -
Social Context Reform: A Pedagogy of Equity and Opportunity by Paul Thomas 9781138788619
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $170.22Currently, both the status quo of public education and the "No Excuses" Reform policies are identical. The reform offers a popular and compelling narrative based on the meritocracy and rugged... -
Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.48In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security... -
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries by Arend Lijphart
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.13In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies... -
Power and Pluralism in American Cities: Researching the Urban Laboratory by Robert J. Waste 9780313250163
Booksplease Price: $149.19This work may prove a starting point for a broader discussion concerning polyarchies that will lead to additional substantial contributions in this very important area of scholarship. This succinct... -
Conceptions of and Corrections to Majoritarian Tyranny by Donald L. Beahm 9780739106594
Booksplease Price: $75.66The fundamental tenet of democracy is that the majority rules. Yet as James Madison wrote, 'Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.' In this focused new work,... -
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Grethe B. Peterson 9780521176385
Booksplease Price: $62.63The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is the annual publication of lectures given at Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Brasenose College, Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale University; the... -
Discipline and History: Political Science in the United States by James Farr 9780472065127
RRP: $72.05Booksplease Price: $68.13James Farr and Raymond Seidelman bring new historical reflection to the "state of the discipline" debate in political science. This anthology offers a panorama of views about the state of the... -
Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political by Seyla Benhabib
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $82.08The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the... -
Congress: The Electoral Connection by David R. Mayhew 9780300105872
Booksplease Price: $43.33"Any short list of major analyses of Congress must of necessity include David Mayhew's Congress: The Electoral Connection." -Fred Greenstein In this second edition to a book that has achieved... -
Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia by Aram Hur 9781501766213
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $32.12In Narratives of Civic Duty, Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why do some citizens feel a responsibility to vote, pay taxes, or take up arms in defense... -
Populism What Everyone Needs to Know Paul D. Kenny 9780197758335
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Why do populists come to power? Are they a threat to democracy? Has the rise of global populism reached its peak, or is it just beginning? This book provides answers to these questions and many more,... -
Populism: What Everyone Needs to Know Paul D. Kenny 9780197758328
Booksplease Price: $98.67Why do populists come to power? Are they a threat to democracy? Has the rise of global populism reached its peak, or is it just beginning? This book provides answers to these questions and many more,... -
After the End of History: The Curious Fate of American Materialism by Robert E. Lane 9780472069156
Booksplease Price: $65.40"Robert E. Lane is one of the most prominent and distinguished critics of both the human impact of market economies and economic theory, arguing from much research that happiness is more likely to...