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“tilo wesche”

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  • Transformations of Democracy

    Crisis, Protest and Legitimation

    Edited by Robin Celikates, Regina Kreide, Tilo Wesche ...
    Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe.Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this collection examines the multiple transformations which both the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics

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    How Jeremy Corbyn, the radical left candidate for the Labour leadership, won twice—and won bigIn the 2017 general election, Jeremy Corbyn pulled off an historic upset, attracting the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945. It was another reversal of expectations for the mainstream media and his ‘soft-left’ detractors. Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Corbyn had already seen off ... Read more

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  • Commons and Lords

    A Short Anthropology of Parliament

    by Emma Crewe ...
    Series series Haus Curiosities
    The British Parliament rewards close scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but also because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of British politics. Commons and Lords pulls back the curtain on both the upper House of Lords and the lower House of Commons to examine their unexpected inner workings.Based on fieldwork within both Houses, this volume in the Haus Curiosities ... Read more

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  • Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change

    Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation

    by Johan P. Olsen ...
    Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political leaders are required to explain and justify what they are doing, is one such phenomenon. Mainstream approaches to democratic ... Read more

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  • Swiss Politics for Complete Beginners - 2nd edition

    How things work in this strange country where you can happily survive without knowing the name of the president, but where you vote on everything

    by Pierre Cormon ...
    If you need to learn quickly and efficiently about Switzerland, this essay is made for youDo you want to understand why the Swiss seem to spend their time voting on every imaginable issue?Why the housing shortage is so acute?Why Switzerland may be the only democratic country that has no majority and opposition?Why shops close so early?And you don’t want it explained in a scholarly way, as you are ... Read more

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  • Redmond – A Life Undone

    The Definitive Biography of John Redmond, the Forgotten Hero of Irish Politics

    by Chris Dooley ...
    Dramatic and immersive, Redmond is a provocative reassessment of John Redmond, Home Rule campaigner and one of Ireland's most brilliant political minds.'A vivid portrayal of one of the great political campaigns in Irish history.' Stephen Collins, Political Editor, The Irish TimesRedmond brings to life seven pivotal years in Irish history, when the campaign for Home Rule seized the imagination of a ... Read more

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  • The End of British Party Politics?

    by Roger Awan-Scully ...
    Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has occurred, and why it matters.Electoral choices across Britain became increasingly differentiated ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Politics and the Territorial Question in Canada and the United Kingdom

    Federalism and Devolution Compared

    Edited by Michael Keating, Guy Laforest ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book compares the constitutional politics in Canada and the United Kingdom – two complex, multilevel, plurinational states. While the former is federal and the latter a devolved state, the logic of both systems is similar: to combine unity with diversity. Both are facing similar challenges in a world marked by spatial rescaling, international interdependence and economic and social change. ... Read more

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  • Engaging Enemies

    Hayek and the Left

    by Simon Griffiths ...
    Friedrich Hayek was a founding figure of the neo-liberalism that flourished in the 1980s. Yet, despite his antagonistic relationship with socialism, his work became a surprising source of inspiration for several influential thinkers on the left. This book explains the left’s unusual engagement with Hayek and reflects on its significance.Engaging Enemies uses the left’s late discovery of Hayek to ... Read more

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  • The Great Betrayal

    How the Government with the Largest Majority in the History of the Irish State Lost its People

    by John Drennan ...
    From penalty points to water charges, funding cuts to tax hikes, The Great Betrayal is a cutting assessment of the upheavals, egos and scraps that shaped the 31st Dáil by Ireland's most sagacious political pundit-turned-political operatorAs the curtain falls on this government's term in office, it has fallen drastically out of favour, something that is hard to believe if we cast our minds back ... Read more

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  • The EU in UN Politics

    Actors, Processes and Performances

    Edited by Spyros Blavoukos, Dimitrios Bourantonis ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book assesses the EU performance in the broader UN setting after the Lisbon Treaty. Distinguished scholars with expertise in EU-UN relations use a comprehensive analytical framework of performance to examine various aspects of the complex EU engagement in UN politics. Performance goes beyond the achievement of agreed-upon objectives and engulfs the underlying, intra-organizational, agreement ... Read more

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  • Presidential Activism and Veto Power in Central and Eastern Europe

    by Philipp Köker ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the use of presidential powers in Central and East Europe between 1990 and 2010. Focussing on presidential vetoes and the formation of governments, it maps patterns of presidential activism and its determinants across nine democracies. Thereby, it combines the analysis of original quantitative data on the use of presidential powers with in-depth case studies in an innovative ... Read more

    $89.09 USD