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Chomsky on Anarchism
AK Press 2005; US$ 12.95One of the world's leading radical intellectuals moves beyond criticism. Chomsky's vision of an anarchist future. more...
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume Two
University of California Press 2004; US$ 65.00Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years redefines the historical memory of Emma Goldman and illuminates a forgotten yet influential facet in the history of American and European radicalism. This definitive multivolume work, which differs significantly from Goldman's autobiography, presents original texts?a significant group of which... more...
Democracy in Divided Societies
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 36.00Reilly analyses the design of electoral systems for divided societies, examining various divided societies which utilise 'vote-pooling' systems - including Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland and Fiji. Political institutions which encourage broad-based, aggregative political parties can, under certain conditions, encourage moderate, accommodatory political... more...
Democratic Devices and Desires
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 37.00This book offers a novel approach to the analysis of democracy, and an application of that approach to a variety of democratic institutions, including elections, representation, parties and the separation of powers. They develop standard economic approaches to politics by assuming individuals are moral, as well as rational and self-interested. more...
Environmental Dilemmas and Policy Design
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 37.00It has been assumed that mere awareness of the causes of environmental degradation will not motivate citizens to reduce pollution. Here the authors counter-argue that most citizens are willing to contribute voluntarily towards safeguarding the environment, but that their willingness depends on the social context of the problem they face. more...
Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 26.00Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe examines the European Union and its policy-making processes, asking how an institution which is so riddled with veto points manages to produce policy. Héritier argues that the existence of creative informal strategies and policy-making patterns (termed by the author 'subterfuge') prevent political impasses and... more...
Putting Trust in the US Budget
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00In the United States many important programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are paid from trust funds. This book provides the first comprehensive study of this significant yet little-studied feature of the American welfare state, and also raises a fundamental question of democratic politics: can current officeholders bind their successors? more...
Post-Communist Democratization
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 37.00This book examines the way democracy and democratization are thought about and lived by people in China, Russia and eleven other countries in the post-communist world. It shows how democratic politics work in these countries, and generates insights into the prospects for different kinds of political development. more...
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00Bo Rothstein explores how social capital and social trust are generated and what governments can do about it. He argues that it is the existence of universal and impartial political institutions together with public policies which enhance social and economic equality that creates social capital. more...
Deliberative Policy Analysis
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00Traditionally, policy analysis has been state-centred. Today, however, policy-making is often carried out in loosely organized networks of public authorities, citizen associations and private enterprises. Providing examples from around the world, the contributors argue that democratic governance now calls for a new deliberatively-oriented policy analysis. more...









