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Comparative Politics
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and... more...
Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 48.95Building on the strengths of the second edition, this highly regarded textbook continues to provide the best introduction to the strategies of comparative research in political science. Divided into three parts, the book begins by examining different methods, applying these methods to dominant issues in comparative politics using a wealth of... more...
Democracy and Interest Groups
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 110.00Democracy and Interest Groups assesses the contribution that interest groups make to the democratic involvement of citizens and the generation of social capital. The authors draw on new surveys of groups and members and more unusually with non-participants. It also makes use of in-depth interviews with campaign group leaders and organizers. more...
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It also presents a special assessment of the... more...
The Foreign Policy Disconnect
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50With world affairs so troubled, what kind of foreign policy should the United States pursue? Benjamin Page and Marshall Bouton look for answers in a surprising place: among the American people. Drawing on a series of national surveys conducted between 1974 and 2004, Page and Bouton reveal that—contrary to conventional wisdom—Americans... more...
The Handbook of National Legislatures
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 48.00Contains survey-based data on the powers of national legislatures worldwide. more...
The Everything Robert's Rules Book
F+W Media 2004; US$ 10.95Get your meeting attendees to play by the rules! Have you ever been to a meeting that dissolved into utter chaos? Or attended a meeting that seemed unfocused and unproductive? Robert's Rules of Order have been the standard of parliamentary procedure for business and civic organizations since 1876. The Everything Robert's Rules Book fully explains... more...
Democracy, Ethnic Diversity, and Security in Post-Communist Europe
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 140.00Inder Singh examines why international organizations including the UN, OSCE, and Council of Europe advocated democratic governance, based on the rule of law and respect for human and minority rights, as the method by which states should try to accommodate their ethnically mixed populations. She discusses how realistic this advice has been, given the... more...
Climate Action
University of NSW Press 2009; US$ 31.95In the USA, social movements succeeded in stopping 59 proposals to build new conventional (dirty) coal-fired power stations. In the UK, there was an extended campaign to stop the expansion of Heathrow airport, primarily on the grounds of the greenhouse gas emissions from increased flights. Responding to this global epidemic, Climate Action is a campaign... more...
Democratic Commitments
Princeton University Press 2000; US$ 37.50From the refusal of the U.S. Congress to approve fast-track trade authority and certain foreign aid packages to the obstacles placed by Western European parliaments in the path of economic integration, legislatures often interfere with national leaders' efforts to reach and implement predictable international agreements. This seems to give an advantage... more...









