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AQA A2 Government & Politics Student Unit Guide: Unit 4A The Government of the USA
Hodder Education 2012; US$ 15.98Focused revision for your best possible grade. more...
Decentralized Authoritarianism in China
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00Landry examines how the Chinese Communist Party's management of local officials perpetuates a decentralized authoritarian regime. more...
Democratic Transition in the Middle East
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the first time. This edited volume seeks to unpack... more...
Chinas Economic Development
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Written by distinguished Chinese academics, this book provides a unique and rare insight into the development of the modern Chinese economy. The authors identify three major factors in the growth of the Chinese economy: economic decentralization and political centralization; the urban - rural divide; and relational society. These are explored in depth... more...
Hamas
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East. How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it? What is its future? This essential insight into Hamas answers these questions. Milton-Edwards and Farrell have between them spent decades researching... more...
Wage Inequality by Gender and Occupation
ILO Publications 2006; US$ 5.00Using Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) of the period 1990-2003, estimates earnings differences between men and women in selected developed and developing countries. Discusses the impact of globalization on wages and analyses trends in gender equity in pay within occupations and sectors. more...
Traditional Authorities in Africa
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 12.40This book is a distinguishing feature in the landscape of contemporary Africa and discusses how since the 1990s, African governments, international institutions and donor organisations have shown a renewed interest in. more...
Kingship in Early Medieval China
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th-7th centuries AD) and lays bare broader patterns of political and social action of Classical Chinese monarchy. It lays a basis for a framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia. more...
African Governance Report 2009
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 28.99The African Governance Report, which assesses and monitors the progress of governance in Africa, is the most comprehensive periodic report on governance on the continent. This second edition of the report covers 35 African countries. The main finding of the report is that Africa within the last five years recorded marginal progress on governance. The... more...
The Middle East
Zed Books 2009; US$ 29.95Amidst recent hype about events in the Middle East, there have been few attempts to get below the surface and develop a fuller understanding of what politics means there. The Middle East: The Politics of the Sacred and Secular redresses this balance and provides essential historical and theoretical context. more...









