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How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Goldsmiths Book Prize 2019. Short-listed for Lionel Gelber Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN... -
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky 9781984825773
Booksplease Price: $9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Goldsmiths Book Prize 2019. Short-listed for Lionel Gelber Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN... -
Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Levitsky 9780593443095
Booksplease Price: $12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443095Author Steven LevitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group,... -
Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $61.25Nearly four decades since the onset of the third wave, political parties remain weak in Latin America: parties have collapsed in much of the region, and most new party-building efforts have failed... -
The Resurgence of the Latin American Left by Steven Levitsky 9781421401096
Booksplease Price: $50.80Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the... -
Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness by Steven Levitsky
Booksplease Price: $48.23During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, however, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis... -
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $29.95Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that... -
Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America by Steven Levitsky 9781107145948
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $71.03Nearly four decades since the onset of the third wave, political parties remain weak in Latin America: parties have collapsed in much of the region, and most new party-building efforts have failed... -
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War by Steven Levitsky 9780521882521
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $121.79Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Steven Levitsky 9780691223582
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.19Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the... -
Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $96.27Why did some Latin American labor-based parties adapt successfully to the contemporary challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline while others did not? Drawing on a detailed study of the... -
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All Steven Levitsky 9780241996584
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election'Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides... -
Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective by Steven Levitsky 9780521016971
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.13Why did some Latin American labor-based parties adapt successfully to the contemporary challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline while others did not? Drawing on a detailed study of the... -
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'The most important book of the Trump era' The EconomistHow does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like... -
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106910Author Christopher CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon &... -
How Books Can Save Democracy by Michael Fischer 9781595343215
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60How Books Can Save Democracy argues that American democracy is in crisis as healthy disagreement has pivoted into negative, winner-take-all contests. Michael Fischer proposes that literature is an... -
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $13.87From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and... -
Abundance: What Progress Takes by Ezra Klein 9781668023488
Booksplease Price: $23.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668023488Author Ezra KleinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Avid Reader PressPublisher Simon &... -
Putin's United Russia Party by S. P. Roberts 9780415728300
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03From its inception in 2001, the United Russia Party has rapidly developed into a hugely successful, organisationally-complex political party and key component of power. This book provides a much... -
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline Darrell Bricker 9781472142979
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a... -
Routledge Handbook of Global Populism by Carlos de la Torre 9780367659776
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.05This volume illustrates the diversity of populism globally. When seeking power, populists politicize issues, and point to problems that need to be addressed such as inequalities, the loss of national... -
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg
Booksplease Price: $12.14How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our... -
Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America by Gretchen Helmke 9780801883514
Booksplease Price: $91.47This volume analyzes the function of informal institutions in Latin America and how they support or weaken democratic governance. Drawing from a wide range of examples-including the Mexican dedazo,... -
Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America by Gretchen Helmke 9780801883521
Booksplease Price: $43.65This volume analyzes the function of informal institutions in Latin America and how they support or weaken democratic governance. Drawing from a wide range of examples-including the Mexican dedazo,... -
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Sunday Times Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 * New York Times Bestseller* WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD * BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times, Esquire, Prospect'When one... -
Democratisation in the Maghreb by J.N.C. Hill
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.55Compares the political development of four Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and MauritaniaThe past few years have been a period of unprecedented political upheaval for the Maghreb. A... -
Democratic Contestation on the Margins: Regimes in Small African Countries by Claire Metelits 9780739193433
Booksplease Price: $117.89This edited volume focuses on the democratic performance of regimes in some of the least populous countries on the African continent. Using a framework developed by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way,... -
Democracy in Decline? by Larry Diamond 9781421421216
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.00For almost a decade, Freedom House's annual survey has highlighted a decline in democracy in most regions of the globe. While some analysts draw upon this evidence to argue that the world has entered... -
Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico by Brian Palmer-Rubin 9780472055449
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $42.74Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? Brian Palmer-Rubin contends that we may lay the... -
Democracy in Decline? by Larry Diamond
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $26.73For almost a decade, Freedom House's annual survey has highlighted a decline in democracy in most regions of the globe. While some analysts draw upon this evidence to argue that the world has entered... -
Democracy: A Reader by Larry Diamond 9780801893780
Booksplease Price: $39.80Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A... -
Democracy: A Reader by Larry Diamond 9780801893773
Booksplease Price: $80.46Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A... -
Courts in Latin America by Gretchen Helmke 9781107627550
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $48.30To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial... -
Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires Javier Auyero 9781478028291
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $83.71In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofia Servian detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina's urban poor rely on to survive. Blending three years of... -
Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy by Justin Gest 9781009726917
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.54Democratic Drain links two of the most compelling topics of our time: immigration and democracy. With a blend of in-depth interviews and data analysis across 149 countries, Justin Gest explores how... -
Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy by Laura Gamboa
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $33.89In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free... -
Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires Javier Auyero 9781478031505
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofia Servian detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina's urban poor rely on to survive. Blending three years of... -
Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction James Loxton 9780192872692
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35Authoritarianism is one of the buzzwords of our age. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the world of authoritarian regimes, including military,... -
Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity by June Carolyn Erlick
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities and the...