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Youth and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 58.00This comprehensive reference examines the history and importance of youth participation in politics, suggests reasons for their disengagement, and discusses efforts to increase the interest of young voters in the political process?a process in which they could be a controlling factor. more...
Housing Law and Policy
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 54.00An innovative textbook on housing law that integrates the disciplines of law and public policy. more...
The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 22.00Provides a general, non-technical introduction to core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy. more...
Reforming the Public Sector
Brookings Institution Press 2012; US$ 32.95Many countries are still struggling to adapt to the broad and unexpected effects of modernization initiatives. As changes take shape, governments are challenged to explore new reforms. The public sector is now characterized by profound transformation across the globe, with ramifications that are yet to be interpreted. To convert this transformation... more...
Party Organization and Activism in the American South
University of Alabama Press 2013; US$ 34.95These new essays map the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South. As Tocqueville noted more than 100 years ago, "No countries need associations more . . . than those with a democratic social state." Although some contemporary observers see a decline... more...
Women's Suffrage Movement
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 105.00This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement. Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries... more...
Politics in an Era of Divided Government
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95This book describes, explains, and reflects upon the 1996 presidential and congressional elections, devoting equal coverage to three phases of the political process: the major party nominations, the general election, and the subsequent government organization. In doing so, this study links elections and governance. more...
Who Speaks for the Poor
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95This book addresses the central question of how the interests of the poor gain representation in the political process by examining the interest group system. more...
Words Kill
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state required effectivly managing significant opposition to the... more...
You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 10.99And Kinky Said Unto the People: Why the Hell Not? So the good people of Texas weren't able to get the Kinkster into the Governor's Mansion in 2006. It was a solid race, and he fought the good fight. Getting on the ballot as an independent -- a feat that had not been achieved in over a century -- was a victory in itself. And with ideas like... more...









