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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “benjamin moffitt”
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  • Populism

    by Benjamin Moffitt ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Political Theory
    Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe leaders, parties and movements across the globe who disrupt the status quo and speak in the name of ‘the people’ against ‘the elite’. Yet the term remains something of a puzzle: poorly understood, vaguely defined and, more often than not, used as a term of ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Political Meritocracy and Populism

    Cure or Curse?

    by Mark Chou, Benjamin Moffitt, Octavia Bryant ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Democratic Crisis
    Offering the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between populism and political meritocracy, this book asks why states with meritocratic systems such as Singapore and China have not faced the populist challenge to the extent that liberal-democratic states have. Is political meritocracy immune to populism? Or does it fan its flames?Exploring this puzzle, the authors argue that political ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Populism in Global Perspective

    A Performative and Discursive Approach

    Edited by Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza, Benjamin Moffitt ...
    Series series Conceptualising Comparative Politics
    Pathbreaking theoretically and innovative in treatment, Populism in Global Perspective is a seminal addition to the literature on arguably the most controversial and fervently discussed topic in political science today.The book brings together established and rising stars in the field of populism studies, in an integrated set of theoretical and empirical studies centered on a discursive ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Global Rise of Populism

    Performance, Political Style, and Representation

    by Benjamin Moffitt ...
    Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, others hail it as the fix for broken democracies. Not surprisingly, questions about populism abound. Does it really threaten democracy? Why the sudden rise in populism? And what are we talking about when we talk about "populism"?The Global ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • Comparing Media Systems

    Three Models of Media and Politics

    by Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Populism

    Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul A. Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Pierre Ostiguy ...
    Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art research and scholarship on populism, and lays out, not only the cumulated knowledge on populism, but ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies

    by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    The foundational text for democratization studies for over 25 years.Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government. The most important of the four books is without a doubt ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Bringing the State Back In

    Edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol ...
    Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political processes. The contributors ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • An Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine

    by Julie Jenkins ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Thinking about Democracy

    Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Digital, Political, Radical

    by Natalie Fenton ...
    Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies.Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Policy Worlds

    Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

    Edited by Susan Wright, Davide Però, Cris Shore ...
    Series Book 14 - EASA Series
    There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This ... Read more

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