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  • Facing the Challenge of Democracy

    Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation

    Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature.Paul Sniderman ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • How the Right Lost Its Mind

    "Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account of how the American conservative movement came to lose its ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ratf**ked

    Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

    by David Daley ...
    David Daley’s “extraordinarily timely” (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide.Lauded as a “compelling” (The New Yorker) and “eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see” (Washington Post), David Daley’s Ratf**ked documents the effort of Republican legislators and political operatives to ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • In America

    Tales from Trump Country

    As RTÉ's Washington correspondent, Caitríona Perry has earned a reputation as a reliable source of truth as the world tries to make sense of the maelstrom of shocking headlines emanating from Donald Trump's America. In her first book, she goes beyond the news reports and delves into the American heartland where she witnessed his rise at first hand, while others were blindsided by his victory. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divided America

    The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics

    Divided America tells the biggest story in American politics today. It's the story behind the emergence of a ferocious power struggle between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats that is tearing the country's politics apart.Drawing on extensive polling data and close analyses of presidential, senatorial, and congressional elections over the past fifty years, two eminent political ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Politics of Voter Suppression

    Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote

    by Tova Wang ...
    Series series A Century Foundation Book
    The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Babak Amini ...
    The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis, has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union, and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an unfortunate rise in far right and nationalist parties and movements. This collection brings together a group of European scholars and activists from ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

    Mexico's PRI

    When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources and without a strong national executive creates both opportunity and incentive for ambitious ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Why Democracy Deepens

    Political Information and Decentralization in India

    'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was marked by social hierarchies and economic vulnerabilities. Decades of socio-economic changes since ... Read more

    $103.39 USD

  • Party Competition

    An Agent-Based Model

    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Progressive Politics after the Crash

    Governing from the Left

    Series series Policy Network
    Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of states and the inability of elected governments to humanise and control global market capitalism. ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Redmond – A Life Undone

    The Definitive Biography of John Redmond, the Forgotten Hero of Irish Politics

    by Chris Dooley ...
    Dramatic and immersive, Redmond is a provocative reassessment of John Redmond, Home Rule campaigner and one of Ireland's most brilliant political minds.'A vivid portrayal of one of the great political campaigns in Irish history.' Stephen Collins, Political Editor, The Irish TimesRedmond brings to life seven pivotal years in Irish history, when the campaign for Home Rule seized the imagination of a ... Read more

    $13.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus