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AQA A2 Government & Politics Student Unit Guide: Unit 3A The Politics of the USA
Hodder Education 2012; US$ 15.98Focused revision for your best possible grade. more...
Racial Paranoia
Basic Books 2010; US$ 15.95A provocative new paradigm of race relations in the twenty-first century, in which the overt racism of the past has been replaced by subconscious suspicions and whispered conspiracy theories more...
Rule and Ruin
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.99As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mount primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appear to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation... more...
US Politics Today
Manchester University Press 2004; US$ 95.00US politics today offers a concise introduction to contemporary US government and politics. The book considers core institutions and issues. The second edition has been rewritten to incorporate coverage of events since 1999. more...
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...
Political Parties and the State
Princeton University Press 1993; US$ 52.50This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What influences the character of parties--in particular, their reliance on patronage? In what circumstances will the parties that formerly dominated politics in a... more...
Building a Democratic Political Order
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 44.00David Plotke explores the dramatic changes in American politics that occurred during the 1930s and 1940s. more...
Public Sector Shock
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00After a first series of policy responses to the 2008 - 09 crisis aimed at sustaining domestic demand through expansionary anti-crisis packages, most European governments - starting with Greece, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania, and followed by many others - have since put in place a series of restrictive budgetary policies aimed at reducing their budget... more...
Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly. James Gilligan has discovered a devastating truth that has been "hiding in plain sight" for the past century - namely, that when America's conservative party, the Republicans, have gained the presidency, the country has repeatedly suffered from epidemics... more...
Democracy in America
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 6.95Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique) is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s, showing a primarily favorable view by Tocqueville as he compares it to his native France. Considered to be an important account of the U.S. democratic system, it has become a classic work in the fields... more...









