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No Way To Pick A President
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 8.99A premier political reporter considers our presidential politics and how to improve them-an essential book as campaign 2000 gets under way. Jules Witcover, who has covered every presidential election since 1952, here combines unparalleled anecdotal knowledge about Presidential politics with scintillating wisdom about just what's wrong with those... more...
From the Active to the Enabling State
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00This book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making. Looking at these issues in comparative perspective, the contributors provide an insight into the causes and consequences of the changing role of officials. more...
From Postbox to Powerhouse
Allen & Unwin 2011; US$ 39.99The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is the heart of government in Australia. Its history reveals the growing sophistication in the way politics and government are managed, and provides fascinating glimpses of the day-to-day workings of the most i more...
Beyond Hanoi
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2004; US$ 67.50This is the first book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the countrys reunification in 1975. Beyond Hanoi addresses four questions: what local institutions and offices have authority to govern; who are the local officials and how do they get their positions; what do local governments do and whose interests... more...
Indonesia: The Challenge of Change
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2005; US$ 21.00This book contains the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia, on 16 February 2005.... more...
The American Congress
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 50.00The American Congress provides the most up-to-date treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. more...
Democracy in Europe
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableIf the European Union applied to become a member of the European Union it would be rejected as undemocratic. Can the European Union foster greater democracy in Europe, and so protect the dispersal of power, personal freedom and the rule of law? Willit improve our shared lives and increase sense of being useful citizens? Rejecting both nostalgia for... more...
Betrayal
Pantera Press 2011; Not AvailableA story that some in the Australian Labor Party would prefer to keep buried. But to others, including former Labor giants, it's a story that needs telling.BETRAYAL is a shocking, often crude, even hilarious war-story about politics, policy and petty personal ambition. More important, it's about the train wreck of the NSW Labor Party & the policy... more...
Betrayal
Pantera Press 2011; US$ 51.00Award-winning journalist Simon Benson exposes the betrayal by those at the very top of Australian politics in their brutal pursuit of power. Betrayal is no ordinary insiders' book on politics. A fast-paced ride through the treacherous terrain of Australia's political landscape, it is based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with key... more...
Fight the Right
Random House of Canada 2012; US$ 22.95Everywhere you look, these days, Conservatives are winning elections. No matter where you look, the story is the same: white, angry men on the Right are winning power. The Left, meanwhile, is divided and dispirited, and rapidly losing ground. Fight the Right is a handbook on how to survive the nasty, brutish and short-sighted era in which we find... more...









