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Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 27.00Explains why some contemporary Latin American labor-based parties adapted successfully to the challenges of neoliberalism. more...
Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 30.00Explores the reasons behind the many failed attempts to build stable democracies in Latin America. more...
Political Culture in Panama
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Twenty years have passed since the 1989 U.S. invasion that toppled Panama's military regime and initiated a period of democratization. This book represents the most comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis of the institutional and attitudinal factors that have shaped Panamanian politics since the invasion. Using quantitative and qualitative... more...
Taking It to the Hill
University of Ottawa Press 2005; US$ 16.99The standing committees of the House of Commons and Senate make it possible for practically any person or group to access the policy-making process and become a lobbyist. This handy and complete guide coaches prospective witnesses to do it right. Targeted primarily at those who have a stake in advancing a cause "on the hill," this guide reveals the... more...
Accountability Politics
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 119.99How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process. Campaigns for public accountability often win limited concessions at best, but they can leave cracks in the system that serve as handholds for subsequent efforts to open up the... more...
The Canadian Federal Election of 2011
Dundurn 2011; US$ 19.99The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties. more...
Political Struggles and the Forging of Autonomous Government Agencies
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Argues that autonomous agencies are not the result of a systematic design, but are produced by the interactions of political and bureaucratic forces. The case studies illustrate how political struggles between politicians and bureaucrats can create a muddle of agencies that lack coherence and are subject to conflicting levels of political control. more...
Neoliberalism and National Culture
BRILL 2011; US$ 136.00Canada and Québec are presented in historical comparative context as examples of how neoliberal states achieve global political economic integration while relying on cultural legitimation to maintain social policies working to mitigate social changes resulting from increased global integration. more...
Bürgerhaushalt im Kräftedreieck Politik-Verwaltung-Bürgerschaft
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Die Öffnung von Staat und Verwaltung gegenüber der Bürgerschaft kann zu mehr Transparenz, zu mehr Teilhabe, zu einer intensiveren Zusammenarbeit und zu einer Stärkung von gemeinschaftlichen Interessen beitragen. Viele Kommunen versuchen durch die Öffnung ein System kommunaler Selbstverwaltung zu schaffen. Dieses System soll mehr... more...
The Struggle for Mexico
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 55.00In the 1970s political and economic changes to the world order led to an emerging "globalization" credited with the ceding of state sovereignty to a "de facto world government" of transnational corporations and with the anti-globalism movement directed at countering it. Mexico, however, has maintained the salience of the national... more...









