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Democratization and Development
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00Exploring the political economy of development and democracy in the Middle East, this book provides new insight into the effects of external initiatives for the support of good governance in Arab states, the impact of transnational Islamist networks on democratization in the Middle East, and the role of new satellite broadcasting in the Arab world. more...
Electoral Politics in South Africa
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00A look at South Africa's electoral process more...
African Parliaments
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 95.00An analysis of parliaments in sub-Saharan Africa in the post-independence period. more...
Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006
University of NSW Press 2007; US$ 42.95Offers a comprehensive study of the development of the central institution of government over the first century of its life. Based on the author's research and 30 years' experience writing about central government in Australia, this book provides an understanding of both the history and the working of the institution. more...
Power Without Responsibility
University of NSW Press 2007; US$ 29.95A raft of recent political scandals in Australia has generated widespread media and public interest in the role and accountability of ministerial staffers, and their impact on relations between ministers and their public service advisers. Such scandals include the notorious Children overboard? affair and the more recent AWB imbroglio. more...
China's Elite Politics
World Scientific Publishing Company 2007; US$ 97.50Chinas Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents... more...
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 28.00Follows the rise and fall of the Iraqi Communist Party through original records. more...
The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95As the Chinese Communist Party continues to move away from socialism, it faces a growing number of challenges to the claim that it represents the sole legitimate governing body in China. In order to reaffirm itself as the most effective force for keeping the country together, the CCP has adapted to contemporary political conundrums in a variety of... more...
When Things Fell Apart
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 18.00Robert H. Bates addresses the origins of state failure in late twentieth-century Africa. more...
China's Opening Society
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 49.95Despite its recent rapid economic growth, China?s political system has remained resolutely authoritarian. However, an increasingly open economy is creating the infrastructure for an open society, with the rise of a non-state sector in which a private economy, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and different forms of social forces are playing an... more...









