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Despot's Apprentice Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9781849049436, Hurst Publishers, December 2017
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like a despot's apprentice. Whether it's attacking the press, threatening the rule of law, or staffing the White House with family members and cronies, Trump is borrowi...
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£9,99
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Democratic Faith Essays on Democratic Citizenship
ISBN: HB: 9780300197099, Yale University Press, November 2017
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Modern political science has concentrated on cataloguing voters' failings – their lack of knowledge, tolerance, or consistency in political thinking. While it would be a mistake to think this portrait of citizens is simply wrong, it is a deeper mista...
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£25,00
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Progressives' Century Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State
ISBN: PB: 9780300230499, Yale University Press, November 2017
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government....
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£30,00
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Question of Intervention John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
ISBN: PB: 9780300230604, Yale University Press, October 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill's famous 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" as his starting point, in...
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£25,00
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Moral Economy Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens
ISBN: PB: 9780300230512, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no". Policies that follow from t...
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£16,99
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Argument Open to All Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300230666, ISBN: HB: 9780300199598, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In "An Argument Open to All", renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America's most famous political tract. Rather than concern himself with the authors as historical figures, or how The Federalist helps us...
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£20,00
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£30,00
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Less You Know, Better You Sleep Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin
ISBN: PB: 9780300230727, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long". Satter is known in Russi...
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£14,99
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Europe Didn't Work Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit
ISBN: PB: 9780300228793, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failed – and what will happen when the European Union completely unravels.
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£10,99
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Digital World War Islamists, Extremists, and the Fight for Cyber Supremacy
ISBN: HB: 9780300231106, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Social media has dominated the discourse surrounding recent events in the Muslim world – from the seismic events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath, to ISIS's slick online recruitment and digitally documented campaign of terror, to the ongoing civi...
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£18,99
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Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru
ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables
Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...
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£28,00
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£84,50
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