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Emmeline Pankhurstby June Purvis
Routledge 2003; US$ 32.95An absorbing biography, the first for seventy years, of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. more...
Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville; Joseph Epstein
Bantam Books 2004; US$ 4.99From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America --first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable productions of our time." Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was "possibly without rival." For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the "almost royal prerogatives" of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are... more...
Crony Capitalismby David C. Kang; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 29.00This book addresses the issue of money politics in Korea. It asks whether we can reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999. more...
Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994by Fredrick C. Harris; Valeria Sinclair-Chapman; Brian D. McKenzie
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 18.00This first-ever study assessing black civic participation after the civil rights movement demonstrates that the changes in black activism since the civil rights movement are characterized by a tug-of-war between black political power on one side and economic conditions in black communities on the other, which creates countervailing forces. more...
Syndromes of Corruptionby Michael Johnston
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00Analysing the ways people pursue, use and exchange wealth and power, Michael Johnston examines four kinds of corruption problems in twelve countries and argues that these different syndromes of corruption require differing reforms. more...
Beyond Right and Leftby David McKnight
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 29.99Maps the death of politics based on the traditional opposition between Left and Right, and offers a provocative argument for the emergence of a new values-based politics in Australia. more...
Full Disclosureby Archon Fung; Mary Graham; David Weil
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 16.00Full Disclosure is the first analysis of national and international transparency policies. more...
The Australian Policy Handbookby Catherine Althaus; Peter Bridgman; Glyn Davis
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 40.90A thoroughly revised new edition of the authoritative guide to the process of policy making in government. more...
A Government Out of Sightby Brian Balogh
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 21.00A Government Out of Sight revises our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to the national government throughout the nineteenth century. more...
Big Girls Don't Cryby Rebecca Traister
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 9.99REBECCA TRAISTER, whose coverage of the 2008 presidential election for Salon confirmed her to be a gifted cultural observer, offers a startling appraisal of what the campaign meant for all of us. Though the election didn’t give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don’t Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative in ways that no one anticipated.It was all as unpredictable as it was riveting: Hillary Clinton’s improbable rise, her fall and her insistence (to... more...









