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Defiant Publics
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95Social activism and dissent have become global phenomena for our times. Ordinary people across the world are fighting back. This newly potent political force has defeated governments in India and Spain, and has brought down the EU draft constitution. Disaffected by the triumph of markets, public goods, public interest and public spaces are regaining... more...
POLITICS ONLINE: BLOGS CHATROOMS AND DISCUSSION GROUPS IN AMERI
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95Despite the growth of various forms of online discussion, their impact on American political life is only beginning to be examined systematically. In Politics Online Richard Davis provides a thorough analysis detailing the political attitudes, behavior, and demographic nature of the electronic discussion community contrasting that community with... more...
Obama's Four Horsemen
Regnery Publishing 2013; US$ 27.95Conquest, Famine, War, Death ? the four horsemen are coming, in the form of the national debt, widespread dependence on government, turmoil in the Middle East, and the expansion of the bureaucratic state. In Obama?s Four Horsemen , syndicated columnist David Harsanyi takes a provocative look at how the Obama Administration allowed four big problems... more...
The Race for the White House from Reagan to Clinton
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00The Race for the White House from Reagan to Clinton provides a foundation for how the presidential nomination process and the presidential election process have changed over the past three decades by addressing a number of important questions about the nomination and electoral processes. more...
Follow the Leader?
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 27.50In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters consider candidates’ policy positions... more...
Fixing Elections
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.95Fixing Elections shows our whole 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures. Steven Hill argues our geographic-based, Winner Take All political system is at the root of many of our worst political problems, including poor minority and majority representation, low voter turnout, expensive mudslinging campaigns,... more...
Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with campaign managers to provide a comprehensive analysis of direct-democratic campaigning. more...
Leading Men
Interlink Publishing 2012; US$ 16.00Why Americans always elect men as presidents? It?s no secret that there is a wide?and growing?gender gap in American presidential politics. Over the past thirty years, Democrats have made major gains with women, while Republicans have been doing far better with men ?especially white working class men. The question is why? In Leading Men , Jackson... more...
Institutional Reforms in Public Sector
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 144.95What does it take to build and sustain effective government institutions? What have we learnt about the attempts to design and redesign public sector institutions in different countries? What works and what doesn't, and why? This book intends to answer these questions and presents analytical tools essential in planning for institutional reform. more...
Electoral Dysfunction
New Press, The 2012; US$ 17.95Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You?re living in it. If the consequences weren?t so serious, it would be funny. An eye-opening, fact-filled companion to the forthcoming... more...









