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  • It’s the Government, Stupid

    How Governments Blame Citizens for Their Own Policies

    by Keith Dowding ...
    Governments have developed a convenient habit of blaming social problems on their citizens, placing too much emphasis on personal responsibility and pursuing policies to ‘nudge’ their citizens to better behaviour.Keith Dowding shows that, in fact, responsibility for many of our biggest social crises – including homelessness, gun crime, obesity, drug addiction and problem gambling – should be laid ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rational Choice and Political Power

    by Keith Dowding ...
    Featuring a substantial new introduction and two new chapters in the Postscript, this new edition makes one of the most significant works on power available in paperback and online for the first time. The author extensively engages with a body of new literature to elucidate and expand upon the original work, using rational choice theory to provide:• An examination of how, due to the collective ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Economic Perspectives on Government

    by Keith Dowding, Brad R. Taylor ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “Dowding and Taylor offer student and scholar alike a clear and compelling perspective on the foundations of political economy. Their narrative coherently frames the scholarship of the last half century, and persuasively applies it to the recurring problems facing groups, markets, and whole societies.”—Kenneth A. Shepsle, Harvard University, USAThis book introduces and applies the economic way of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Exits, Voices and Social Investment

    Citizens’ Reaction to Public Services

    by Keith Dowding, Peter John ...
    Series series Theories of Institutional Design
    Over fifty years ago, Albert Hirschman argued that dissatisfied consumers could either voice complaint or exit when they were dissatisfied with goods or services. Loyal consumers would voice rather than exit. Hirschman argued that making exit easier from publicly provided services, such as health or education, would reduce voice, taking the richest and most articulate away and this would lead to ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Policy Agendas in Australia

    by Keith Dowding, Aaron Martin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches, legislation and parliamentary questions, and then mapping these on to media coverage and what ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Power, luck and freedom

    Collected essays

    by Keith Dowding, Mark Haugaard ...
    This book presents thirteen essays from a leading contemporary political scientist, with a substantial introduction bringing together the themes. The topics covered include political and social power, freedom, choice, rights, responsibility, the author's unique account of luck and systematic luck and the nature of leadership. There are also discussions of conceptual analysis, the structure-agency ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Accounting for Ministers

    Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945–2007

    by Samuel Berlinski, Torun Dewan, Keith Dowding ...
    Accounting for Ministers uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers. Utilising agency theory, it describes Cabinet government as a system of incentives for prime ministerial and parliamentary rule. The authors use a unique dataset of ministers from 1945 to 2007 to examine the structural and individual characteristics that ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • The Selection of Ministers around the World

    Edited by Keith Dowding, Patrick Dumont ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
    Governing cabinets are composed of ministers who come and go even as governments march on. They work for the chief executive, the prime minister or the president, for their parties and for the constituent groups from which they come. They are chosen for their role and dismissed from it for all sorts of reasons that vary across time and country.This book examines the process of selection, shuffling ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Power

    Edited by Keith Dowding ...
    Power is a central concept in many disciplines in the social sciences, including political science, sociology, social-psychology, organization studies, urban politics and planning. This encyclopedia provides a much needed authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the use of power in those different discourses, enabling the different language communities to learn from each other. It provides a ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Civil Service

    by Keith Dowding ...
    Series series Theory and Practice in British Politics
    Radical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral agencies concerned with policy implementation and a central core comcerned with policy-making. The radical reforms are described and assessed in terms of the public choice and public management theories which underpin them. Bureau-maximizing and bureau ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Selection of Ministers in Europe

    Hiring and Firing

    Edited by Keith Dowding, Patrick Dumont ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This volume discusses the formation of government cabinets within twenty European democracies, providing the institutional background to the selection and de-selection of ministers.Exploring the historical and constitutional context to cabinet formation, this volume proceeds to provide vital data on the strategic issues that affect the selection of ministers. Covering states from all over Europe, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Social Reproduction Theory

    Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

    Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
    This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship ... Read more

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