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  • Central Debates in British Politics

    by John Benyon, David Denver, Justin Fisher ...
    Central Debates in British Politics focuses on British politics in a changing social, economic and institutional context. The book explores issues and debates using a variety of approaches and techniques. It is written and edited by a team of leading experts who analyse key issues in a highly structured and thematic manner. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • What Is Populism?

    by Jan-Werner Müller, Jan-Werner Muller ...
    Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway ... Read more

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  • The Age of Austerity

    How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

    by Thomas Byrne Edsall ...
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  • Can Russia Modernise?

    Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance

    by Alena V. Ledeneva ...
    In this original, bottom-up account of the evolution of contemporary Russia, Alena Ledeneva seeks to reveal how informal power operates. Concentrating on Vladimir Putin's system of governance - referred to as sistema - she identifies four key types of networks: his inner circle, useful friends, core contacts and more diffuse ties and connections. These networks serve sistema but also serve ... Read more

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  • Taking Our Country Back

    The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama

    by Daniel Kreiss ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade. Drawing on interviews with more than sixty political staffers, fieldwork during the 2008 primaries and general election, and archival research, Daniel Kreiss shows how a group of young, technically-skilled Internet staffers came together on the Howard ... Read more

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  • The Activists' Handbook

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    by Aidan Ricketts ...
    A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond.Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign and extensively discussing legal and ethical issues, this book empowers its readers to ... Read more

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  • The mexican enigma

    The Mexico of organized society, de facto powers and Enrique Peña Nieto

    by Sergio Aguayo Quezada ...
    "The country´s future depends on what a conscious and organized society does, or fail to do".The mexican enigma is an informative analysis of the situation of political, social and economic crisis that Mexico is going through from the review of three key areas: the political elites —mainly figures like Enrique Peña Nieto, whom the author studies in a bibliographical manner as well as reviews his ... Read more

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  • Volunteer Tourism in the Global South

    Giving Back in Neoliberal Times

    by Wanda Vrasti ...
    Series series Interventions
    This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental rationalities and socio-economic conditions that valorise it as a noble and necessary cultural practice.Combining theoretical research with primary data gathered during volunteering programs in Guatemala and Ghana, the author argues that although ... Read more

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  • Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile States

    Theory and Practice in Aid Agencies

    by Jesper Johnsøn ...
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  • Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and Geo-Politics

    Pathways to Influence

    Edited by Stephen Brooks, Xin Hua, Donald E. Abelson ...
    Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting knowledge, and the dramatic increase in the volume of information and ideas clamoring for the attention of policy-makers are changing the ... Read more

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  • Dublin Easter 1916 The French Connection

    The French Connection

    by Bill Mc Cormack ...
    All revolutionary movements since 1789 have looked instinctively to the French model. In this book, Bill Mc Cormack demonstrates that the French influence in Ireland was indeed profound, especially in the years leading up to the Easter Rising. However, it was not the traditions of the Tennis Court Oath or Bastille Day that motivated the Irish rebels, but a new French Catholic nationalism which ... Read more

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