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  • Crowdsourced Politics

    The Rise of Online Petitions & Micro-Donations

    by Ariadne Vromen, Darren Halpin, Michael Vaughan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation. In doing do, the book argues that crowdsourced participation has become normalised and institutionalised into the everyday repertoires of citizens and their organisations. Within the digitally-enabled shift in individual ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Organization of Political Interest Groups

    Designing advocacy

    by Darren Halpin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Interest groups form an important part of the development of political and social systems. This book goes beyond current literature in examining the survival and ‘careers’ of such groups beyond their formation.The author introduces the concept of organizational form and develops a framework to describe and evaluate organisations, and uncover how they adapt to survive. Using example case studies ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Groups, representation and democracy

    Between promise and practice

    by Darren Halpin ...
    Series series Perspectives on Democratic Practice
    Whether called pressure groups, NGOs, social movement organisations or organised civil society, the value of ‘groups’ to the policy process, to economic growth, to governance, to political representation and to democracy has always been contested. However, there seems to be a contemporary resurgence in this debate largely centred on their democratising potential: can groups effectively link ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Surviving Global Change?

    Agricultural Interest Groups in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Darren Halpin ...
    This engaging volume investigates the fate of national industry associations amidst global change through analysis of interest group organizations representing farmers and agricultural producers. It asks how these groups have fared during a period of global change and examines the challenges inherent in their operation in the 21st century. Case studies from North America, Europe and Australasia ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities

    Assessment and Agenda

    Edited by Darren Halpin, David Lowery, Virginia Gray ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and outlines an agenda for future research. Multiple authors from different countries and from different perspectives contribute their analysis of this research program. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Media, Political Participation and Empowerment

    Edited by Richard Scullion, Roman Gerodimos, Daniel Jackson, Darren Lilleker ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    Technological, cultural and economic forces are transforming political communication, posing challenges and opportunities for politicians and media organisations, while at the same time many governments and civil society express concerns about the extent and nature of political empowerment and civic engagement.This book offers an international perspective on current thinking and practice about ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Canadian Copyright

    A Citizen’s Guide

    by Laura J. Murray, Samuel E. Trosow ...
    In the age of easily downloadable culture, messages about copyright are ubiquitous. If you’re an artist, consumer, or teacher, copyright is likely a part of your everyday life. Completely updated, this revised edition of Canadian Copyright parses the Copyright Act and explains current Canadian copyright law to ordinary Canadians in accessible language, using recent examples and legal cases. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Great African Society

    A Plan for a Nation Gone Astray

    by Hlumelo Biko ...
    Only a dramatic, imaginatively crafted intervention - a massive redistribution programme managed by the private sector, far-reaching policy changes in schooling, housing and health, and better, disciplined governance - will deliver the genuine liberation South Africa's still-poor millions expected from the 1994 settlement. Without it, without the real promise of a free, meritocratic society, South ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democratic Innovations

    Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation

    by Graham Smith ...
    Series series Theories of Institutional Design
    Can we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision making process? At a time when there is growing disillusionment with the institutions of advanced industrial democracies, there is also increasing interest in new ways of involving citizens in the political decisions that affect their lives. This book draws together evidence from a variety of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

    by David Hulme ...
    Series series Global Futures
    In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world’s neediest communities is both the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Digital Republic

    On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

    by Jamie Susskind ...
    From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?A Financial Times “Book to Read” in 2022Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD