Comparative Politics
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African Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAfrica is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuations and themes seem to be reflected across… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198806574
- Language: English
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Democracy: Eleven Writers and Leaders on What It Is – And Why It Matters
$15.00 Add to cartIn collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders.
This is an exceptional moment for democracy.
In the year
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1805223712
- Language: English
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Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide
$24.99 Add to cartA citizen’s guide to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting
There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare–and few issues more politically vexing. Every single America… [more below]- Author: El-Sayed, Abdul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190056622
- Language: English
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Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy
$33.99 Add to cartIn this new edition of Matt Qvortrup’s acclaimed book, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so.… [more below]
- Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval #1
- Author: Qvortrup, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3111327795
- Language: English
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Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence
$56.67 Add to cartSome rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources fo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Weinstein, Jeremy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: October 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0521677971
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$24.00 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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What Is Populism?
$24.95 Add to cartDonald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chç–±ez–populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be call
- Author: Muller, Jan-Werner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0812248988
- Language: English
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Political Science for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartExpand your political science knowledge with a book that explains concepts in a way anyone can understand
The global political climate is dynamic, at times even volatile. To understand this evolvi
- Author: Stadelmann, Marcus A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1119674840
- Language: English
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The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWelfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Garland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199672660
- Language: English
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
$19.95 Add to cartEighteen prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.
- Author: Jacobs, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1608465187
- Language: English
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British Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAt a time when politics in Britain is experiencing unprecedented turmoil, this Very Short Introduction examines the past, present, and possible future of British politics. Tony Wright puts current eve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wright, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198827326
- Language: English
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Thatcher versus Douglas: The CCF, the Liberals, and the Mossbank Debate of 1957
$16.99 Add to cartOn May 20, 1957, the small farming community of Mossbank, Saskatchewan was the venue for a face-to-face showdown between two politicians: Saskatchewan Premier T.C. Douglas and federal Liberal candidat
- Author: Bucholtz, M. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1990863345
- Language: English
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Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?
$21.99 Add to cartThe preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe, including our own, in search of whose is best–and how we can b
- Author: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541797752
- Language: English
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How Politics Works
$27.99 Add to cartDiscover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments all around the globe!
Combining clear, jargon-free language and bold, eye-catching grap- Series: How Things Work
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0744056306
- Language: English
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
$16.95 Read moreThe world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. Is there some thread tying t
- Author: Chayes, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352285
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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Finish What We Started: The Maga Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy
$30.00 Add to cart“Entertaining, enlightening and disturbing.” – Ira Glass
The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the- Author: Arnsdorf, Isaac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0316497517
- Language: English
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Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
$21.95 Add to cartIn this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, or “Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppr… [more below]
- Author: Koehler, John O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0813337445
- Language: English
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C?mo Funciona La Pol?tica (How Politics Works): Gu?a Gr?fica de la Gesti?n de Lo P?blico
$25.00 Read more– Una gu?a visual ?nica que hace de la pol?tica un tema m?s f?cil de entender con un enfoque in?dito
– Complet?simo: cubre los aspectos clave de la filosof?a, teor?a e historia pol?tica
– Presenta los … [more below]- Series: How Things Work
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0744088984
- Language: Spanish
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Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
$19.95 Add to cartProspect Top 50 Thinker of 2021
“Provocative, elegantly written.”
British Academy Book Prize Finalist
PROSE Award Finalist
–Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books “Demonstrates how a broad rethinking- Author: Mamdani, Mahmood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278607
- Language: English
