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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alberto simpser”
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  • Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections

    Theory, Practice, and Implications

    by Alberto Simpser ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Alberto Simpser shows that, in many instances, elections are about more than winning. Electoral manipulation is not only a tool used to gain votes, but also a means of transmitting or distorting ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes

    Edited by Tom Ginsburg, Alberto Simpser ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    Constitutions in authoritarian regimes are often denigrated as meaningless exercises in political theater. Yet the burgeoning literature on authoritarian regimes more broadly has produced a wealth of insights into particular institutions such as legislatures, courts and elections; into regime practices such as co-optation and repression; and into non-democratic sources of accountability. In this ... Read more

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    by Saul Cornell ...
    Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading ... Read more

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  • Brexit

    Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

    by Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, Paul Whiteley ...
    In June 2016, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. As this book reveals, the historic vote for Brexit marked the culmination of trends in domestic politics and in the UK's relationship with the EU that have been building over many years. Drawing on a wealth of survey evidence collected over more than ten years, this book explains why most people decided to ... Read more

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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Public Law

    Edited by Mark Elliott, David Feldman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    The Cambridge Companion to Public Law examines key themes, debates and issues in contemporary public law. The book identifies and draws out five key themes: the notions of government and the state; the place of the state and public law in the world at large; relationships between institutions and officials within the state; the legitimacy of institutions; and the identity and value of public law ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • UKIP

    Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of British Politics

    by Matthew Goodwin, Caitlin Milazzo ...
    The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is the most significant new force in British politics for a generation. Under the leadership of Nigel Farage, the party has enjoyed a remarkable rise, winning the 2014 European Parliament elections as well as two parliamentary by-elections, and attracting mainstream defectors to achieve major party status. By the time of the 2015 general election, Farage and Ukip ... Read more

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  • American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations

    Edited by Eric D. Lemont ...
    Since 1975, when the U.S. government adopted a policy of self-determination for American Indian nations, a large number of the 562 federally recognized nations have seized the opportunity to govern themselves and determine their own economic, political, and cultural futures. As a first and crucial step in this process, many nations are revising constitutions originally developed by the U.S. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Brexit, No Exit

    Why (in the End) Britain Won't Leave Europe

    by Denis MacShane ...
    The UK's Brexit vote in 2016 and the inconclusive general election just 12months later have unleashed a wave of chaos and uncertainty - on the eveof formal negotiations with the EU.Denis MacShane - former MP and Europe minister under Tony Blair - hasa unique insider perspective on the events that led to the Brexit vote andultimately to Theresa May's ill-fated election gamble of June 2017.He argues ... Read more

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  • The Wheel of Law

    India's Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context

    by Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn ...
    How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life? In The Wheel of Law, Gary Jacobsohn addresses this dilemma by examining the constitutional development of secularism in India within an unprecedented cross-national framework that includes Israel and the United States. He argues that a country's particular constitutional theory and practice must be ... Read more

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  • The 2016 Contenders: Marco Rubio

    by Mary Jordan, The Washington Post ...
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories.Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign.Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is a man in a hurry, ... Read more

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  • The New Politics of Class

    The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class

    by Geoffrey Evans, James Tilley ...
    This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three stages. The first is to show that there has been enormous social continuity in class divisions. The authors demonstrate ... Read more

    $36.99 USD