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The Political Economy of Public Administration
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00Uses a transactions cost approach to explain key institutional characteristics across the public sector. more...
Executive Decree Authority
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 34.00This book offers a theory that predicts when executives should turn to decree and when legislatures should accept this method of policy-making. more...
French Kiss
Knopf Canada 2011; US$ 21.00Chantal Hébert?s first book is both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the last federal election, as well as a brilliant examination of our changing political future, one that involves living with Quebec rather than just wooing it. On that night, award-winning political writer and broadcaster Chantal... more...
The Naked Constitution
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 21.99?In this very entertaining and informative book, Freedman skewers those who have judicially rewritten the Constitution at the expense of our individual liberties. Well-researched and full of historical insight.? ?David Limbaugh, author of The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama?s War on the Republic Conservative legal scholar Adam Freedman has written... more...
Translating Agency Reform
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 100.00Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of talk about agency reform in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and identifies the national styles of speaking that mediated the agency idea. more...
The Incomplete Breakthrough in Greek-Turkish Relations
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 110.00This methodical analysis of Greece's strategy towards Turkey highlights important new findings about the role particular elements of a state's strategic culture play in explaining major and/or minor shifts in strategy. The book breaks new ground in exploring when and how states develop socialization strategies. more...
How Power Changes Hands
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and presents the latest empirical evidence from comparative political research. more...
Ruling by Statute
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 72.00This book investigates how the predictability of legislators' behavior and vote buying affect chief executives' ability to rule by statute. more...
African Parliamentary Reform
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00Some of the most far-reaching and innovative parliamentary reform is occurring in Africa. While these reforms are not yet widespread across the continent, parliaments in some African countries are asserting their independence as policymakers, as overseers of government and as the guardian of citizens? rights and needs. This book presents recent... more...
The Revival of British Liberalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 100.00An historical study of British Liberal thought in the post-1945 period. This book examines the development of Liberal ideas in the writings of Liberal politicians and thinkers, and in the policies of the Liberal party and the Liberal Democrats. The book draws on interviews with some of the leading protagonists in the debates explored. more...









