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  • Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance

    Impact and Practice

    by Alasdair Blair, Paweł Swianiewicz, Christine Cheyne, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Colin Copus, Petr Jüptner, Adam Gendzwill, Paul Burton, James Svara, Nasrul Ismail, Paul Hepburn, Nicola Headlam, Howard Elcock, Thom Oliver, Robin Hambleton ...
    Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates around this model of leadership, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it.The book draws on examples from Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • Hitler and Churchill

    Secrets of Leadership

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARDAdolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the way in which they seemed to lead. Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts examines their different styles of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Despot's Apprentice

    Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

    by Brian Klaas ...
    ”[A] primer on the threat to democracy posed by—and I can’t believe I’m saying this—the current president of the United States.”—David Litt, New York Times bestselling authorDonald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot’s Apprentice, an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including:Attacking the pressThreatening rule of law by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Rules for Patriots

    How Conservatives Can Win Again

    by Steve Deace ...
    Time is running out on American exceptionalism. The light of liberty is flickering. At no point since we still had the Redcoats on our shores has freedom been more imperiled. This time it's not an invading foreign power that threatens us, but our own government gone wild— unhinged from its Constitutional limits. Many great books have been written about what we should believe and why, or why the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Pact

    Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation

    by Steven M. Gillon ...
    Most Americans saw President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich as staunch foes--"the polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue." But as Steven Gillon reveals in The Pact, these powerful adversaries formed a secret alliance in 1997, a pact that would have rocked the political landscape, had it not foundered in the wake of the Lewinsky scandal. A fascinating look at politics American-style, The ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • How Leaders Mobilize Workers

    Social Democracy, Revolution, and Moderate Syndicalism

    by Konstantin Vössing ...
    This book explains why leaders choose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while others have made ill-fitting choices. Vössing explains not only why leaders make certain choices, but also how their choices affect the success of interest mobilization and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Why Democracy Deepens

    Political Information and Decentralization in India

    by Anoop Sadanandan ...
    '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

  • Political Leadership in Morphogenetic Perspective

    by Filip Pierzchalski ...
    Series Book 10 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal and structural domain. In morphogenesis, the subjective matrix of leadership keeps the division into ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Moral Heart of Public Service

    by William Hague, Mary McAleese, John Hall, Vernon White, Rowan Williams, Andrew Tremlett, Peter Hennessy, Stephen Lamport ...
    Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster Abbey Institute gathers a series of essays and lectures by herself and others, exploring the meaning of 'moral code' in today's public service, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Governing in a Polarized Age

    Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America

    Edited by Alan S. Gerber, Eric Schickler ...
    Many political observers have expressed doubts as to whether America's leaders are up to the task of addressing major policy challenges. Yet much of the critical commentary lacks grounding in the systematic analysis of the core institutions of the American political system including elections, representation, and the law-making process. Governing in a Polarized Age brings together more than a ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • War Powers

    The Politics of Constitutional Authority

    by Mariah Zeisberg ...
    Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its structure and values indicate a vision of a well ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • America's Political Inventors

    The Lost Art of Legislation

    by George W. Liebmann ...
    Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regime based on discretionary allocation of funds and powers to interest groups that has developed since the creation of emergency institutions after America's entry into World War I. This book demonstrates the effectiveness in American history of measures ... Read more

    $38.89 USD